Ok, it is little early but I have new Sony Point and Shot camera that the wife and I got for an up coming cruise so I have been playing around with shooting some of my trains.
A couple shots of my CSX GP-38 A couple of some Railboxes I got yesterday, one weather and the other original that I will weather this weekend and a B&W of the Magic Pan Bakery (need to fill in the corner)
I have built a diorama over the past three weeks, the first real modelling I have done in five years. I wanted something for outdoors photography…in the sun, of course,
Apart from cropping to rid the final product derived in Combine ZP of its weird edge, a stack of four images, I have done nothing to this. Everything visible to the lens and CMOS chip is depicted unaltered in this image. Nothing has been removed, added, or changed.
Well, it’s now Friday on the East coast, and all I got are a couple of “bugs” at the crossing in Stoney Creek. Wow, Crandell, great loco and photo, esp. like the back ground. DJ.
Great pictures so far… Rail boxes are an undying classic! Last week, I was happy to see a long string of Rail Gon in the harbour… It would be a nice model in HO.
@Crandell: Excellent diorama! It blends seemlessly with the real background. Is the blue shed real or model?
On my side, nothing fancy, plain benchwork… Track laying started on the new layout extension. It is a protofreelanced reinterpretation (Euh???) of Quebec City Harbour (we blended two distinctive parts of it together!) We also worked on the peninsula tonight.
And some update from the existing layout (new concrete overpass) and some industries along the main line (the one in the foreground is scratchbuilt according to an insurance map from 1957).
I think they came with the kit but then again they have been left overs from another kit, I don’t throw away the extras from a kit, you never know when something might work on another building
Matt, thanks for your comment and question. The diorama is what is below the obvious trees beyond the tracks and immediate middle ground. So what appears to be terrain, rails, bridge, and the train are parts of the diorama, and the background foliage, the real stuff, is actually all there large as life, including the green potato shed. I had the diorama on the bank slightly higher than the paved country road which is between the diorama and those trees and mountains and the large shed. The diorama is about 4’ by 14", and would be more than 70’ to the scraggly tree at extreme left. There is also a fence on the far side of the road about 10 feet away from the pavement.
I just had a better look at my own image, and I hadn’t noticed how well the tall grass at extreme left blends in…like I had photoshopped it. But truthfully, that really is tall rye on both sides of the fence I mentioned, about 40 feet away from the camera.
This is a Front Range 40’ ACF Welded Side Boxcars to represent the cars the DT&I rebuilt with Plug Doors and insulated for use serving the Campbell’s Soup plant in Napoleon, OH. Car painted Armour Yellow and Boxcar Red, lettered with Champ Decals.
This is an ACF Welded Side Combination Door Boxcar, standing in for a GATC car (None Available). Substituted a 9’ Door from the scrapbox to match the prototype and used Details West Extended Coupler Pockets. Painted Boxcar Red and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals.
This is a stock Walthers 86’ PS Hy-Cube Boxcar, painted Armour Yellow, Galvanized Roof and White Excess Height Stripe at end. Lettered with Herald King Decals. The BRO over the Reporting marks means the car is to be returned to the Ford Stamping Plant at BROwnstone, MI, a DT&I Customer.
All cars had their sill steps replaced with A-Line metal steps, and no rust here except for the wheels on the cars.
From San Miguel del Monte, Argentina I took this two videos and photos. The firs video it’s the switching locomotive taken the hoppers to unload them, while in the mainline passed the empty hoppers taken back to load again.
Wow, great work everyone–a VERY impressive start to the weekend! [bow]
Crandell: What a great diorama.
Jeff: LOVE that shed!
Garry: Burlington SD’s–what’s NOT to love?
I posted this in the Diner this week, but thought I’d re-post it for the WPF thread. My lone (illegal) October fisherman totally non-plussed by the big Challenger roaring over the South Yuba bridge behind him.
Things you see when you don’t have your camera… arrrrgh…no pics!
Yesterday as I was heading into Knoxville at the junction of I-640 and I-275 I look up to my left at the NS line and what do I see…F units pulling a nice shiny maroon passenger train into town. [banghead]