Great work everyone.
A Geep working Now Messenger.
Very good start for this 4th of July weekend!
Traffic on State Highway MO. 47 & on the outside siding at Prestage Tool & Gear Hawk Point Mo.
“Sonny” Richards foreman at the MFA Elevator stops to "Shoot the Breeze" with M&A (Missouri & Arkansas Railway) switch repair crew.
Thought I would post some to keep with the american holiday theme.
Okay, so I’m still recovering, you would be too.
So yesterdday I come home from work and my garage door is hanging open and there are several piles of stuff I’ve been meaning to talk my wife into getting rid of in the driveway and on the lawn…
I get out of the car and she meets me with a tasty beverage and welcomes me into the garage, which she has styled into a man cave… (The plot thickens…)
She’s set up the folding tanles I plan to use as a base for my railroad in one corner, and in the corner opposite she’s set up an entertainment center where I can watch movies and use my computer…
Several crates of my train stuff and a printout of my trackplan were close by…
I picked up some foam at the home center and cut it to fit my tables this morning… Then I did some organizing, then I unpacked some of the HO stuff and put some of it out just to “decorate”… Since the PB&J will be an N scale railroad I figured there was no harm in putting out some bigger stuff…
I hope everyone is having a good 4th of July weekend no matter where you are! I thought I would share a project of mine since it is patriotic. [:)]
Santa Fe SD45-2 Bicentennial in 1:29 scale.
Cry, cry,cry, sniffle, sniffle, cry cry. I just cannot get myself composed after reading this.
You dog!
New York Central L-4a Mohawk #3101* pulls into the freight station for the first time. [:D]
*[My first BLI Mohawk arrived with a serious running problem. BLI completely replaced it with the new one above. Although I was out my locomotive for nearly a month, BLI gets [tup][tup] for customer service.]
Tom
It’s a thing of beauty, Tom. [8D] I feel badly that its debut was blunted a bit, but at least this one is a winner. The ‘other’ never happened. [X-)]
Umm…you’re up awfully late. Are you by any chance playin’ wit dat t’ing?
-Crandell
Crandell,
Yea, I was tweaking the startup voltage (CV2) to get it to run better (which it does) and played around some with the momentum (CV3/CV4). I’m afraid I’ve been spoiled by my Trix Mikes. I’d love to get my Mohawk’s QSI decoder to start out as slowly as my Mike’s Loksound decoder but not sure that I’ll get there.
Tom
Happy July 4th!
I don’t have a patroitic theme, but here’s a shot of the scenery progress on my trestle/pond:
Tom,
Great looking loco! I have to have one or two of those!
nice photos everyone!
don’t have anything patriotic (or new…) for this weekend, but here’s an older shot of my Mantua NYC Hudson
… since my railroad of choice to model has (again) changed… she’s going to be relegated to club layout duties.
can’t wait to get started on the Bowser B-6 that showed up this week [:D][tup]
MAbruce,
That is some very nice modeling. Your pond is terrific. How did you create the ripple effect?
Tom
It is a Fourth of July Parade!
Here is what I have been working on:
This is my GP35 MRL #404 that I am almost finished with. Still needs just a little bit more weathering on the trucks and a few other places. Behind it is #406 that I finish just before. Both used to run the local that ran from Livingston to Bozeman the town that I lived in. Sorry but the lighting makes the engine look lighter than it really is.
Hello all.
I tried using the Sony camcorder to take some still photos, to see what the depth of field was like.
Also shot another couple of videos while I was there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1u5KvbiIzY&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teSLJgNJDYs&feature=channel
Jon
An Atlas Spirit of America 8-40B leads another set of Atlas 8-40Bs Gold units and a westbound freigntpast the turn near Cardington Yard.
Morning MOW train doing ballast work on the branch.
Thanks!
I used Mod Podge Gloss Medium applied with a brush over a painted surface. I brushed it on in one direction and repeated this with several coats. The brush strokes build up and eventually become ripples.