Let’s get it underway! Here’s Southerns RS 3 #2131 backing a box car into a spur…
2131 is an Athearn HO scale RTR.
Jarrell
MP15DC in E-street yard 
You will be hard pressed to find a nicer engine than an Atlas Master Gold Series Locomotive with QSI Sound. Here’s a Union Pacific HO Dash 8-40CW coming round the bend past the “Trailer Trash Park”.
Nice Photo Jarrell !
Love the Mopac ! nice looking switcher
Here’s a video of my friend Art’s C&O H-5 Pulling a string of emptys accross the New River bridge and thru Mt Hope
I’m busy with my H0n3 modules:
Still without track.
Wolfgang
Nice work so far.
Jarrell - Love that RS unit (and your scenery in general).
My latest (with a digital sky backdrop):
Some cars that were finished!
Athearn 50’ Box Car Kit, Replaced the 6’ Door with an 8’ Door, Plugged the Roofwalk holes and decaled using Herald King Decals, Followed article by Jim Six.
Athearn 40’ Box Car Kit, Replaced the door with a Detail Associates Superior 5 Panel Door. Herald King Decal.
Atherarn 40’ Box decaled with Champ Decal.
Rick
Work is progressing on the engine house at Hawksbill Station. I still need to weather the building and work on the ground around it. The ballast is all in place. So far, so good!
I am very encouraged by everyone’s photos. Nice work, everyone.
I haven’t posted in a while, so here is my first WPF contribution in about five weeks. It shows a Pennsy Q2 4-4-6-4 crossing the Seneca River taking cattle to market.
-Crandell
Great work, everyone. Crandell, great looking addition to your roster.
A Geep and a switcher. DJ.
Thar she is! Lookin´ great, Crandell! [tup]
I’ve been hard at work on the railroad in preparation for the operating session next Saturday, but I did find these old photos of my layout from 2006 and 2007. You can find them on my blog.
Jarrell’s grenn Southern RS3 is a tough act to follow, but everyone else has some great photos, too. Pennsy is well represented I see.
Here are some Burlington F units of two trains meeting in Vally Heights. Standing Falls is partly visible looking beneath the bridge.
last week I posted work in progress mainly new road construction.
This was my first road not using sheet styrene. I started with Durhams water putty and finished it off with dry wall compound. Below are are the results after finishing the road
Yes, I see that white streak on the background and will do something about it after the allergy season if it that ever happens.
This has been a real learning experience and if it not for the forum just think how much worse things would look. But then I wouldn’t know how real you make scenes look.
Bob
OUSTANDING work everybody!!
Here’s a ACL hopper from me.
Bob, just park a steam engine under the white streak and call it a day. At first glances that what I thought it was. [:D]
What did you think of the Durhams water putty, where did you buy it and what was the cost? Why did you cover it with drywall compound? My drywall compound has more lumps than my wifes home made mash potato’s.
What are the tanks toward the front? Kits or scratch built.
Reason I ask is because I ripped out my town of Kingsdown and wanting to make new roads, sidewalks and looking to add a small oil depot.
Looks good and looking forward to some insight.
Cuda Ken
I don’t remember if I posted this one here, so here it is…
CSX 2112 and 1042 working DM yard.
Ken,
Now, why didn’t I think of that!!
Like most things experience is the best teacher. First I used weather stripping cord (a putty like rope) to outline the road. Then I mixed the Durhams pretty thin and poured it inside the cord and leveled it with a scrap piece of styrene. If you try to rework it too soon you make things worse and if you wait too long it gets too hard. Consequently the road ended up like your wife’s mash potatoes. Durhams is available at Lowes and most hardware stores. It cost $2.52 for a pound can and 4lbs goes for $7.88.
I misspoke about using drywall compound it was joint compound. Once again I thinned it with water and spread it out. After it dries it sands easily and a wet foam brush will soften it up so you can smooth it out some more.
For a town and parking lots sheet styrene would probably be best but for a windy road or one going up and down try using the above.
The oil plant came from several different kits including a Walthers piping kit and I scratched built the dike. The office -ware house is a Walthers built up. It isn’t too far off from the real thing.
The building to the left was a pump house and the rr siding came in along side the dock with the drums.
Thanks for the comments and good luck with the town.
Bo
Crandell
Nothing better than a Q2 right out of the shops at the head end of a train.
CZ
Super awesome photos everyone! Since DJ posted a geep and a switcher, here’s my pair. (us Pa. guys gotta stick together LOL) This part of the layout’s been posted before but never before in this state of completion. 90% done in this section…
Matt