Wow ,took me a bit but the couplers were the give away ,nice picts & switchers…ex work to all …JW
yA, I lost my golden a few years ago, too, great animals.
are yours HO or Nscale?
Excellent start. I only have today for some RR work. Been working at it slowly this past week. Facia is now on.
It is actually an IHC kit I believe. Turned out pretty good with not to much stuff to have to really work at to fit right.
Just finished this coaling tower yesterday. It was a Bachmann kit but I added the Tichy coal chute and other details.
Friends of ours bought me some WS golden retrievers for the layout so there is no escaping them at this house,not even in the train room.[(-D]
Here’s a link to more pic’s
Brent
RRCanuck, I am amazed at the lighting in your first image. Spot on, and it does magic for the interior of your nice structure.
Farrellaa, nice work on the coal tower. I like the Tichy chute! I have the same kit on my layout, except I’m pretty sure it came under the Life Like moniker. I had to struggle with the stairs…they didn’t seem to fit as per the instructions, but they finally went on okay.
Jarrell, a beautiful crisp shot, as always.
-Crandell
A few from me. This is the PRR Decapod I’m currently painting and a hopper I’m weathering.
It’s all the same kit, those dies have been around. I think my kitbash into a factory has bits of all three.
Tom, love the rocks by the spoon yard, where they made from castings?
Doing something different this WFP, I am showing part of the bad part of the layout. Little back ground on this section for people that do not know my history. Layout started as a HO Slot Car Track, was pretty good sizes, U shaped and is 4 foot wide and 19 foot long, and the ends where 4 foot wide by 4 foot. Thing to do with slot cars was to use indoor / outdoor carpet. Not the thing to do with trains if you want to make it look realistic, much like the green grass mat’s.
Anyhow, I am very slowly ripping the carpet up. This section is the new passenger station passing spur I am working on. This spur is on my A Line. When the spur is in use, I can park a 15 foot long train on the main and run the passenger train. Station spur will hold a 13 foot long train when I want to run freight.
I must say these photos are not that good, sorry! Light coming through the garage door windows did not help at all.
First is a string of hoppers sitting on the main line.
Next I tried to be artistic (shows me not to think) and used a slower shutter speed showing a high speed pass of the passenger train.
Passenger Cars are Con Cor Santa Fe Valley Fliers.
There will be a two lane highway going pass the passenger station, rough mock up of the road.
Road is made from Fun Foam, see the roads posting on the main page. With some advices from Rich, I am sure it will look great when done! [:D] While not true HO scale, I uses Hot Wheels and Johnny Lighting cars.
For the heck of it, picture from the
In another thread we were discussing modeling standard gage and narrow gage trains (HO/HOn3/HOn30). I posted some pictures of HO standard gage, N scale standard gage, and HOn30 equipment so people could see the difference. I decided to share one of the pictures here where more people will see it: Two locomotives:
- MEC 616 is an HO scale standard gage 2-8-2 USRA Light Mikado
- The brass locomotive is Sandy River & Rangely Lakes 2-6-2 #23 in HOn30
The reative size of these locomotives is correct. I have seen photos, paintings, and other models of standard gage and 2 foot gage locomotives together that confirm this. Also, the 2-6-2 is a LARGE locomotive for 2 foot gage, other locomotives like the 0-4-4 Forneys are smaller
Great stuff again this week guys. Keep them coming.
Here’s one from the BRVRR:
NYC GP-40 leads a small freight through the reversing loop on the BRVRR layout.
This is always the best thread of the week guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming. I always learn something here.
Very nice scene. I love night shots. I am planning a similar scene on my layout using Walthers Union Station kit which is actually a model of Omaha’s Burlington Station, which was on the opposite side of the tracks from Omaha’s Union Station. The two stations were connnected by an over-the-track concourse. Although my layout is a freelanced railroad, my plan is to create reasonable facsimile of Omaha’s Burlington station which I remember well from growing up in Omaha. I will kitbash it with the CMR concourse. The prototype Burlington station had the concourse extending from the pillars which are trackside. Here is a picture of the prototype with the concourse having long since been dismantled:
Yep that’s it. The only detail I added was the Miller Engineer neon sign that the Denver Union Station has. I still need to detail the inside, and add some passengers in and around the station.
Sounds like you have a good plan to build the Omaha Station. Good luck building your station, make sure you post up progress pics of it.
My C&O finally received some hoppers.
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It’s been over five months since I could run a train, due to the teardown of the old one and a big international move.
So it ain’t much for now, but it makes me happy!
Video - First Run on the Barre Branch
Kansas City Southern locomotive #4621 snakes it’s way towards Goochville, and a trip through the yard.
Further down the line, 4621 pauses on the trestle for clearance to enter to yard with a local freight in tow.
Ken, yes. rocks by Spoon Yard were cast from about 3 or 4 of the Walther’s molds.
Happy Halloween.
