Hey, lets get the ball… uh, train rollin’!
Here Southern Rwys RS-3 2131 leads a local down Choctaw Ridge past the section foreman’s house just above the little town of Woodland in the Appalachian mountains.
Jarrell
**Jarrell…**Very nice [Y] [Y]
Here’s a ex. St Lawrence boxcar, and patched to Norfolk Southern.
Jarrel & Robby outstanding photos!!!
#841 a Dash-8 …the crew waiting patiently for refueling at the Denver BNSF yard.
Here are some cars that I just completed, no weathering on my railroad!
This is a Front Range ACF 50’ Single Door Boxcar, with an Athearn 10’ Door Substituted for the kits 8’ Door, car lettered with Microscale Decals.
E&C Corrugated Side 52’ Gondola, lettered with Oddballs Decals.
Front Range 50’ Intermodal Flat, Southern Railway built these from excess 50’ Boxcars. The Trailer is a Durango Press Kit that I wanted to use for the metal wheels and landing gear to add weight to this car (no place for weight). The Flat was lettered with Oddballs Decals and the trailer with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking!!
Rick
Nice work!
Jarrell, I really like that scene. The foreman (and family) must not get too much sleep living on top of the tracks like that. The diesel smoke must not do too much for the laundry either. [;)]
No picture this week. Rather, I put a video roll-by together featuring new scenery on an area of my layout… Still a bit more to do:
This Rookie Engine pulling a long freight is bound for the West coast. Here it is leaving the foothills of Alberta and just licking the Eastern edge of the Rockies. Soon it will have help from a Consist of Selkirks and Mikados, for the long grind up to the Continental Divide.
Brent
Wow, you guys. Either my brain is learning how to appreciate good models and photography at long last, or our caliber of them has risen dramatically over the past several months. WPF has been tremendously appealing for me since the early spring. Of course, Jarrell has been outstanding since Day 1 for me, but what would you expect from a retired master photog? Weathered boxcars that I could only dream of accomplishing…wonderful. Rock cuts with a steamer coursing through them. Oh my! [8D]
Here is my latest. I have been using Sagelight since April to improve my photos. Got to cloning out shadows on the backdrop, filling in ‘sky’ where window casings would show, and of course the added steam and smoke. I’m having a blast!
Crandell, you need to stop posting pictures! You are making me want to much on the next layout. I had just talk my self out of having 12 to 16 inch elevation’s and here you post that great picture!
By the way, how high is the Y6 b from the bottom of the layout?
Your impressionable friend Ken
Thanks a bunch, Impressionable One! [:D] I wondered if the Y would make you take a look. [(-D]
The far side of the trestle is actually at the transition to level. At that point, I have near 8" of vertical separation.
Essentially, my layout is one big folded loop where the overpass is directly below where the locomotive is right now. The lower track has descended from out of the right side of the photo beginning at the same top level as the trestle, run downhill and into a tunnel and comes out below the curve you see ahead of the engine. The lower track is visible between the church and the house to its right.
Crandell
Excellent work from everyone, this week. A pair of Alco road switchers continue across Hammer Creek. DJ.
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Great work all.
Jarrell … Nice scene. I can almost hear that Alco rumbling over the bridge.
Robby … Another great weathering job. You should name your railroad “The Rust Belt”.
Motley … Love the Santa Fe warbonnet and western scenery.
Rick … Your freight cars look really good.
MA Bruse … Great Roll By video.
Crandell … We can count on you for great steam photos.
DJ … Your photo with Alcos really captures a mood.
My photo shows the rear of a Football Special… Must be a big game with that long train.
Garry, I wonder why so few people take images with a train moving away from them. You have done a very credible job of making this a realistic scene. I like the lighting, the low angle, the perspective and depth. Nicely done!
Crandell
Thanks Crandell … If my photos are of the rear of the train, I will not hear from rivit counters about some non- prototypical details on the locomotives. [:-^]
Wow Great Shot !!
Wonderful work by everyone!!
I didn’t get much modeling done this week, but got some parts in. So here’s some full scale news, & a shot from my travels this week.
This is DM&E #6359 AKA: Mt. Rushmore, after a collision on the east side of Ossian IA on Nov 4, 2010. A Fertilizer (straight )truck was crossing a farm field access crossing & was struck by the train heading eastbound. From the news picture it looked like a 3 engine grain train consist & was probably not at high speed. The truck driver was taken to the hospital, but no condition was reported. The truck was struck on the passenger side & dislodged the hood & the hopper on the truck. It was reported that the truck stopped at the crossing & then proceeded without seeing or hearing the train. The crossing is marked with small stop signs & small crossbucks. The locomotive has some damage shown in this shot, the hand rails are bent, the ditch lights are gone, & the cut bar is bent as well. This was photographed the next day in Marquette IA & it was idling.
Here is a pipe load I made from scratch to go onto one of my Athearn Bulkhead Flat Car.
Excuse the messy workbench.
Thank Terry, I appreciate it. The picture is actually 26 different pictures ‘stacked’ with a free computer program called Combine ZP. A big shoutout to Crandell for turning my attention to the program.
Jarrell
Will, you did a great job modeling this load. What are the pipes made of, and how did you get the ‘rope’ so prototypically tight like that? I have a hard time threading an ordinary needle!
Jarrell
It looks like EZ Line from Berkshire Junction. It’s an elastic type product. A little drop of CA and it’s good to go. I’ve used it and it’s a charm.
Jarrell, Kyle Y is right, it is EZ Line. The bands that wrap around the pipes are thin strips of electrical tape.
The pipes themselves are styrene tubing that is 9/32" in diameter. This is equivalent to 24" in HO scale.
I got the idea from Pelle Soeberg’s book “Done In A Day.”