Sound! Athearn has done a heck of a job on the 60M it looks better than my kato SD70MAC!
DJ, it a ‘fog’ effect that is applied in Photoshop. Not real hard to do but does take some time to get it right so that it looks believable, otherwise it just looks kinda funny.
Jarrell
Love the mist, Grampy’s pics and those SP locos.
An HO P2K B&M S1 makes an appearance on the OO scale UK side of my layout.
Mike
Another shot of the New Kid on the Block, a PFM Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2 fresh out of the paint shop. She’s a little ‘grindy’, but you’d be too, if you hadn’t been run since about 1970, LOL!
Another ‘newcomer’, an ex Salt Lake 2-6-6-0 bringing a short string of cattle cars through Wagon Wheel Gap. She’ll spot some of them here to pick up stock from high-country pasturage before the snows set in. In fact, the loco was rushed out here to California so fast that she doesn’t even have her number (3370) put in on the boiler front, yet. Talk about power shortages on the Rio Grande in 1947!
Here she is spotting the cars at Wagon Wheel Gap. She’ll take the rest of the train up to Sierra City and pick up some more stock, then bring the whole bunch back down to Deer Creek and the lower Sierra Ranches. October can sometimes bring an early snow to the high mountain meadows around 6,000 feet.
Tom [:)]
Wow, Tom …I’m impressed…green with envy…[^]
Mike, that shot is just BEAUTIFUL! How on earth did you get the algae in the stream? Really superb modeling!!
Tom [bow][bow]
Thankyou Tom! I’d gladly make room for some of your steamers [:)] Love that first shot especially.
The algae was? were? done with acrylic paint before I poured the varnish. I think I have an old overhead photo of it somewhere if you’re interested. It doesn’t look as good from overhead, but I’m happy with how it works from water level.
Mike
edit: it was a crummy photo - I’ll take a better one soon when I have time
[bow] To all this weekend…I’m jealous…
Great stuff this weekend. I don’t have good lighting yet over the layout. Rather spend my money on some cars or the wallet killer GAS!!! I will try to get some tomorrow, or even the layout plan. I was going with a shelf layotu, but I have so much room I will probably do a 12ft by 4ft and a 12ft by 4ft. Kinda like a bid rectangle. Probably be more fun than a shelf layout. It wouldn’t be hard to do at all. I will try to get some shots thou.
Still playing with Mirrors (see last week’s WPF for details)… My contributions this week:
Wabash # 1104 with 1104A in the lead crossing the bascule bridge out of the yard.
Wabash class O-1 4-8-4 #2907, same bridge
Alright guys, hope you can see this, to see more got to the Dixie Model Railroad website.
BTW… The ore train is 140 cars and that is the head end in the background.
-Dave
This week’s pictures are of my completed high current decoder adapter. This is something I designed to allow me to DCC control my layout lighting, not draw power from the track (i.e. use an external power source), provides fixed DC voltage for Tortoises, and provide multiple lighting circuits for buildings. This version has a much higher current rating than my original unit (up to 10A vs. 3A). I am powering mine right now with a Magna Force MF615 for a 6A output limit. An old power pack of transformer will also work. It also has the variable output for interior building lighting that is controlled by the throttle setting and I added a second on/off section for exterior building lights and street lighting. F0 and F1 each control independent on/off outputs. Lastly, the fixed and switched voltage ranges are adjustable within a range, by selecting a value for R5. No more stacking diodes to adjust the voltage on the fixed voltage regulator.
Here’s the schematic:
And a few pictures of my unit during construction.
OOOOH! I want one of these! Cool gadget.
Wow Tom I really love that Loco
you can almost feel it breathing
What’s the loco at the top left in the background ?
Impressive. You might want to think about selling this concept to NCE, Digitrax or maybe Tony’s Train Exchange, and make a little “coin” on the side.[tup]
Terry–Thanks. She’s proving to be quite the puller, too. If she’s like my other PFM’s, the ‘grinding’ will go away once she’s worked in a while. I honestly think I’m the first owner she’s had that ever has RUN her! It’s caused from their rather strange articulated reduction gearing.
The loco in the background is an Oriental Limited “Powerhouse” USRA-style 2-8-8-2 modeled after the Rio Grande’s 3500 series from the early 1920’s. It’s a combination of cast metal and brass. Not really highly detailed, but a very smooth loco and so quiet all you can hear is the rods clanking.
Tom [:)]
I like the idea and the use of a mirror is very clever but why not just set the camera on the track and take the photo
My newest loco a Bachman 2-8-0 DCC with Tsunami sound get’s pressed into service
pulling the 2 car local from Thurmond to Mt Hope
Mike, that scene looks like a painting. Very well done! Man, I wish I was half that good.
Jarrell