Hio-44 passing a FP-7
A couple of freight cars
Extra 6177, F7 slowly pulls its freight train past the Burbank depot.
Some more picts of our N-scale Alameda switching layout, showing the added ground cover and some photo buildings, flats and fence:
Thanks for looking.
West bound GP7’s passing through Stoney Creek. DJ.
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I like the way everything is in focus from the foreground to the background. I know from being there that is a distance of over 4 feet between the closest tree and the back wall. Did you use photo stacking?
It’s a single shot. No stacking.
Mcfunkeymonkey,
Looks great. May I ask what you used to create the great looking flat tall background buildings? thanks.
Tarhawk
Thanks.
The “Bella Fonte Cannery” (based on the Del Monte cannery in Alameda) is made up of two Gripp’s Luggage kits bashed together with some photo flats behind it to take up the rest of the 3 1/2" backdrop space, while the yellowish building with lots of windows (behind the chain-link fence) is a photo of a real building in Alameda I scaled down, printed on card stock, and affixed to the masonite backdrop with spray adheasive. A two-story DMP brick building flat with styrene spacer behind it covers the right side.
Everything has to be less than 3/4" off the wall at that point to allow the backdrops of the middle 3" spacer and the right 1’x3’ (1/2" and 1" shorter, respecively, than the 12" left section) to fold inward when I close the layout into a 1’x3’ box for portablility.
You can check out the construction of it on this thread.
Here’s the finished crossing.
Now comes the next turnout, cod 55, #8, dual.
Wolfgang
Nice looking trackwork Wolfgang! I don’t know how you guys do that, but some day I may try it.
The Ski Train at Denver Union Station at night.
Hows it going guys? Its been a long time since i have posted on the forum, had a lot of stuff going on. Im really glad to be back though, ive switched to N-Scale to get away with a little more in the space i have. Here is a picture of my layout, with of course BN power.
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-Kade
Just finished modified an old Athearn chemical car by removing the single dome and adding new dome castings to make this wine tank car. Finished weathering it today.
Gosh I wish some manufacture would make one!
Thanks for taking time to give me such a complete answer!
Tarhawk
It has been quite a while since I have photographed anything on my layout. Figured I’d take another image to keep my hand in the use of the camera and stacking software.
Crandell
Thank you, you can do it, simple, step by step.
Wolfgang
A good beginning guys. Some great photos here this week.
Here’s one from the BRVRR:
CR SD40-2 #6520 rounds the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout at the head of a short freight. I dug this old Athearn BB SD40-2 out of storage and ran it on the layout just for fun. The CONRAIL blue looks pretty good but the loco has suffered a little hangar rash in storage. Some touch-ups are probably in order.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
A different angle on Sir Madog’s favorite scene on my layout. Ezra Johnson’s gas station, garage and home.
