Nice. Can we see the rest of the engine?
You have to ask him nicely.
A scene on our club’s layout. Rolling stock and picture belong to another member of the club.
The gray cylindrical structure was scratch built by another member.
Aside of posting the picture I did lay the track work.
Thanks, but this is one weathering job I can’t claim. My loco for sure but that awesome weather is the work of Michael Couvrette, “Coovi” at MTW as he’s known by some. I love weathering my stuff because it isn’t really proto weathering and I can get silly with it but I wanted this one to look exactly like a pic I found online and quite honestly I wasn’t comfortable doing it. I’d say he nailed it.
Funny thing is I’ll have to find a club to run it at or run down to Bob’s because it sure won’t fit on my layout. [%-)]
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Great pics guys, especially the cab forward. Here’s my entry. It’s an SPMW tool car that I found a picture of when surfing the net awhile back with the picture description depicting the train heading to the Colton yard in California. How it got sent there from the Englewood yard in Houston is anyone’s guess.
Anyway, I thought it was a cool looking car so I took an IHC smooth side passenger car and turned it into the tool car. I had to cut 8 ft. off of each end of the orginal pullman standard and then removed sections of the body and then wrapped the frame with a sheet of .005 styrene to cover the original doors and windows. I then used a hobby knife and cut out the different portals that I saw from the picture as close to scale as I could get it. With some sanding , painting, a few strips of styrene here and there, and grab iron installation, got it finish Thursday night. It took me two weeks of evening work to complete the model.
A meet in Springsteen: 
Nothing much this week for me because I am in Orlando Fl. Since it was my birthday recently, I got a gift from a friend here. This was taken in Savannah Georgia, where they got it from a Museum. I believe it may prove instrumental in designing my next yard.
A belated [bday] to you! I see, that you have updated your signature accordingly [:D] It was apleasure to observe, how much you have grown in the last year! Keep ´em rolling, those iron wheels!
The same roundhouse today:
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Hi folks. Really, really nice work shown here this weekend. I just returned from another long trip to Asia, so no layout pics from me. But while I was over there I needed to get my hands on some cheap, non-counterfeit, 3D drafting software. I found Google Sketchup 7 for free online, and after using it on my project fiddled around with it just for kicks. Here’s a quick rendition of a boxcar. With a bit of practise, you can make almost anything with Sketchup, and of course, you can orbit around the model and see it from any angle you choose. It seems to me that for certain projects, being able to look at a model this way could be very helpful, whether it’s to judge clearances, esthetics, whatever. Anyway, thought I’d share it with you if anybody has the need. Cheers.
Wow Chuck That’s a great looking Car
Nice paint job ! [bow]
I hate to quote photos, but this is just a single one and deserves to be seen again anyway. What a great shot! Could you post more about your layout?
I will go along with that!
Cuda Ken
Another week of un-beleivable photo’s, I can’t ever get enough of these!
I keep telling you guys you can’t post pics of real trains!!!
Maybe in another month or so I can start posting some pics. I’m still laying track…
Here’s my my picture of the day.[:D]
I’ve been on a hiatist for the last year but I’m back. Been hard at work converting to DCC and its been a chore for me. This one will get a blast of weathering in the coming months. I’m thrilled with the sound and the more realistic motion that I have now.
Some days all goes well until a few minutes before quiting time as the minor derailment shows.
This B&M boxcar derail on the last switch move of the day.[8]
Upper Management decided to wait till Monday to rerail the car since OT would be involved.
This crew doesn’t usually work Saturdays but,the distribution center was running behind unloading cars.
Another surprise was this C&O RS1…This unit belongs to a local chapter of NRHS…C&HV leases this unit on special occasions but,not for regular train service…Don’t know the full story.
Well, I finally got some more work done this afternoon. This included road construction and adding details to the loading dock. Too bad the contractor knocked down 3 links of the chain link fence, two steps forward and one back.
Bob
Here’s another, there will be more in the future. 