Gday all, Since we are ahead of time down under I’ll kick WPF off early. Went to the LHS after work yesterday (thursday.) Got a few things. [:D] When the original Fox Valley ES44AC’s came out a couple of months ago, I missed out on getting one. Well the LHS had one (a couple actually.) And after watching run on the test track, I couldn’t resist buying one! The orange is a little darker on the Fox Valley model compared to the Kato or Athearn BNSF locos, but it’s not a big issue. 
Also found a couple of Roundhouse well cars there cheap so snapped them up. The containers are new too. 
And finally Bought three structure kits to go on my layout. Micro Engineerings Murphy Manufacturing, Doyle Distribution and Walthers ADM Grain elevator kit. The Doyle building will become a produce packing shed, Murphys kit will become a hardware distributor and the ADM kit is self explanatory. 
Have a good weekend!
Great gear, James!
I’m downunder too, so here’s mine - Atlas Guilford C424 on the run-down line to the Newlywed Bakery
Mike
I’ll weigh in from downunder as well. Small world, given that the first two posters are in Brissie and I’m in South-East QLD. I’ve been at home all week, working on my new HOn3 scale layout:
The track is code 70 Micro-Engineering, and the turnouts are Shinohara.
Mike, your trackwork and scenery look awesome. Have you been published at all?
Where abouts are you in SEQ tbdanny?
Reading your previous three “Aussie” post’s using an Australian accent makes it much more interesting [:)]
BLI Paragon 2 NYC J1e Hudson excursion train chugging through Bettendorf, Iowa.
How I do love the Watertown Industrial Track!
I live about 2 or 3 miles away from there and remember Guilford running there in the early 2000s back when they still used the B&M transfer cabooses!
Hi tbdanny - to answer your question: nothing major.
Alex - I’m having a ball modelling that line - and the mud pit is under construction.
Mike
Mike - I’m familiar with the area and you nailed the look of the track work. Question is do your loco’s get stuck there too? [(-D]
Mike,
another great shot from down under. Can you advise what camera you are using and what lighting you used? Turned out sharp and clear.
Bob
[:)] Bruce amazingly the locos go through very easily. The line has a couple of serious dips near the mud pit, and some couplings lose contact when they go out of alignment vertically, but nothing derails at all I’ll post more pics as it gets done.
Bob my camera is a 4MP Olympus C750UZ . The camera has on-board sharpening which works a treat. I light the layout with several short overhead fluoros, but the best lighting comes from twin portable 500watt halogen floodlights, although only one flood was on for that shot.
Mike
Great early start this week.
K4s heading the local, crossing Hammer Creek.DJ.
Glad to see things are underway on this popular weekly thread!
Southern’s RS-3 2131 moves a train down grade behind the roundhouse and car shop.
Jarrell
Wow! Great start to the weekend already.
I have been putting together a Erie B3 Steam Shovel kit by Jordan. It will be used in the limestone quarry at the top of Bare Mountain on the SLOW when I get around to building it… For now it is sitting near the team track at Hopewell junction.
Very nice weathering job on the steam shovel. I was wondering is that Silflor grass tufts? And did you buy a couple of different colors or just one color and then dye the other’s?
What a great way to start the Weekend Photo Fun with all of that down under modeling! … Aussies, y’all come back … yah hear!
Driline … Hudson looks great.
DJ … K4 looks good even it has been bumped to secondary freight service.
Jarrell … RS3’s never look better than when they were in Southern green.
Ray … The steam shovel looks real. Great modeling joib!
Everybody. Please honor our vets and our troops over Memorial Day Weekend. (I bet you already are doingt that without my reminding youi.)
Here’s a few more pics
CSX meet at Bridgeport.
Don’t rember if this one was posted, so here it is.
CSX #789 “Spirit of Nashville” takes a spin
Enjoy,
Dave
Thank you sir!
It was a “fun” kit to put together. Got to use a whole lot of words I used to tell my 8th. Grade classes they shouldn’t use in “polite” conversation…[:-^]
Yep, it is Silflor. I used about 10 different varieties of it. Long, short, Prarie tufts, etc. Since I model mid August, 1925, I used the Summer, Late Summer, and Fall colored ones.
Great shots, so far. Heartland, here’s the rest of the local. DJ.
Wow some incredible shots so far.
I got some more trees done on the mountain…
