Weekend Photo Fun, 16-18 Mar, 07

[COverton]

Hi, everyone. If it wouldn't be too forward of me, please allow me to start us off this week. I look forward to seeing more magnificent photos from all of our usual contributors, and hopefully from others!

-Crandell

http://www.railimages.com/albums/crandelloverton/ada.jpg

[river_eagle]

I don't think I have posted this one before!
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/N-Turtle_Creek_Central/TCC2803.jpg
Turtle Creek's most recent loco put into service

[JohnMitchell]

An older part of the new layout, a NH GP9 goes about its' business as the cows come home.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/JRswing_bridge_020.jpg

[COverton]

Very nice photo, River Eagle. Lots of nice detail and composition. That sweet engine ain't too shabby, neither! :thumbs_up:

[r_i_straw]

Here is a MoPac 4-6-0 pulling a stock train through Sugar Land. Sweet smell.http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/585/IMG_0921.jpg

[Powersteamguy1790]

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1198/Copy_of_DSC_1390.JPG


http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/584/DSC_1335.JPG



Stay cool and run steam....:cool::cool:

[SecretWeapon]

Great Stuff so far !!!! Here's some of S.Lupia's customs.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/michaelsabia/agb.sized.jpg

http://www.railimages.com/albums/michaelsabia/afe.sized.jpg

[HemiAdda2d]

More Moffat Route shots form last week!

Gore Canyon is very deep, inaccessible, and remote. Here's Tunnel 40:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1036/Tunnel_40_loads.jpg

Tunnel 39 separates the remote depths of Lower Gore Canyon from Radium, and Azure:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1036/Lower_Gore_T39_empties_2.jpg

A coal empty rips thru the open countryside between Sulphur and Granby:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1036/UP_WB_empties_west_of_Granby_2.jpg

A BNSF eastbound manifest attacks the 2% grade out of Tabernash with a vengeance:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1036/EB_BNSF_Tabernash.jpg

[Bill Denton]

The remnant of the North Woods Hiawatha waits patiently at New Lisbon, Wisconsin station for its meeting with both the westbound and eastbound Hiawathas. After exchanging passengers. it'll travel back up the Valley line to Wausau.

http://home.comcast.net/~skytop35/NewLisbon.jpg

[Tioga Railroad]

Excellent modeling and prototype pics guys. I should try to get here more often. I don't think I've ever shown these here before, so I'd like to offer them up for viewing. Its some of my freelanced road's equipment on a layout that I made and sold about three or so years ago.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/911/T_GL_1.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/911/T_GL_3.jpg

[Paul Liddiard]

I don't think I have posted this one before!
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/N-Turtle_Creek_Central/TCC2803.jpg
Turtle Creek's most recent loco put into service

I love the TCC locomotive shot!!

[Wolfgang Dudler]

Here're the pictures I took along with my new videos (http://www.westportterminal.de/video.html):

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0506.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0501.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0504.jpg

Wolfgang

[traingeekboy]

Nice pics everyone. I like the fact that someone just started it rolling and everyone joined in. I have seen huge fights break out on forums over when and who, when it comes to photo threads.

I wish I had a camera so I could join in, but I am entirely without camera or camcorder these days.

[HarryII]

Here're the pictures I took along with my new videos (http://www.westportterminal.de/video.html):

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0506.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0501.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/500/07-03-17_IMG_0504.jpg

Wolfgang

super Wolfgang :thumbs_up:

[Pete Nolan]

Nice images all around the board! We must be giving editors headaches!

Here's my first for tonight.

I know that insane asylum is not politically correct today, but Jeanne and I are modeling the 1950s. So, after climbing the long grade behind Harrigton Farms, we pass this scene. We are directly above the East Harbor. In the foreground is our first ball field, which got destroyed last summer, when I fell fixing tracks behind the insane asylum. I wanted Animal House's Faber College here; Jeanne wanted an insane asylum. Guess who won? The buildings are paper-wrapped matte board.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/4491Insane_Asylum.jpg

[Pete Nolan]

Here's my second for tonight.

This is Williamstown. You can see the insane asylum up on the hill in the background. It's a sleepy town. That's one of my five-minute backdrops for the sky. We'll return on the left track, after passing the plutonium "research" reactor and going on to Westover.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/CollegeTown.jpg

[Pete Nolan]

Here's my third.

Past Williamstown, we get into the the suburbs. These are ceramic houses that I bought for about $1.00 each on eBay. They are about the right scale, and an easy way to populate a village. Some of them are rather garish, others just right.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/Suburbs.jpg

[SecretWeapon]

Here's my second for tonight.

This is Williamstown. You can see the insane asylum up on the hill in the background. It's a sleepy town. That's one of my five-minute backdrops for the sky. We'll return on the left track, after passing the plutonium "research" reactor and going on to Westover.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/CollegeTown.jpg

Very Nice Pete. :thumbs_up:

[Pete Nolan]

This is not a favorite of mine, but it does show the garage that I built my railroad in. I haven't bothered to fix the sky--that's what it really looks like. The poor guard tower in left center really got bent in the move. I never saw it until this photo.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/Entering_Pluto.jpg

[Tompm]

Crandell
Neat scene!

River_eagle
Nice looking loco!

JohnMitchell
Nice looking scene!

Russell
Great photo!

Bob
Nice looking turntable area!

Mike
Great looking locos!

Hemi
Awesome shots!

Bill
Good looking train!

Chuck
Great scenes on the bridges!

Wolfgang
Cool shots and locos!

Pete
Great tour shots!

[Tompm]

Chessie decided to strut her stuff along the hillside!

P2K SD9
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_001a.jpg

Athearn Blue Box U30B
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_002a.jpg

P1K High rood boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_003a.jpg

Athearn 50’ Boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_004a.jpg

[Tompm]

Life-Like Boxcar. This is a “toy” boxcar I picked up at a show. I have use it to experiment on with different weathering and upgrades.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_005a.jpg

P1K High rood boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_006a.jpg

Accurail ACF covered hopper
P1K High rood boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_007a.jpg

Athearn 50’ Plug Door Boxcar
P1K High rood boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_008a.jpg

[Tompm]

Atlas 2-bay offset hoppers
P1K High rood boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_009a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_010a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_011a.jpg

[Tompm]

Athearn Custom painted and dry transfers
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_012a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_013a.jpg

Railrunner/Athearn 54’ Covered hopper
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_014a.jpg

Bev-Bel/Athearn 40’ Boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_015a.jpg

[Tompm]

Atlas PS-2 Covered hopper
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_016a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_017a.jpg

Bev-Bel/Athearn 50’ gondola
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_018a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_019a.jpg

[Tompm]

Athearn 50’ gondola
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_020a.jpg

Athearn 40’ Boxcar
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_021a.jpg

Athearn Extended Vision Caboose
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/1439/Cat_hill_022a.jpg

[satokuma]

great shots everyone..
The BearCatRR sponsored its first Railfan Photo Day. Here is shot of some of the fans watching a working F7 roll by...
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/813/thumbs/Fans_onthe_BearCatRRweb.jpg (http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showphoto.php/photo/50571)

[atsf_arizona]

SNFF 2007 03 18

Here's my contribution for the week:

http://home.comcast.net/~atsf_arizona/Santa_Fe_Zebra_Stripe_RSD5s_1.jpg

These happen to be the older Atlas 1999 run of these Alco RSD4/5s, not the new run that just came out.

Simple weathering with Bragdon Enterprises weathering chalks, and
Pollyscale Grimy Black dry-brushed on the trucks.

:-) Have a good week, all!

[Pete Nolan]

These munition sheds, behind the locos, were quick and easy projects from my scrap box. The delapitated buildings behind the sheds are from the old layout, and are ready to collapse. Towrd the left is a !-1/2 diameter pVC pipe rapped with paper. At the far left is a building, scratch-build, for an old mine.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/4549MunitionsSheds.jpg

[COverton]

Steve, you're supposed to set out the pick-up signal so the engineman knows you wanted to board. :teeth: Very impressive.

For everyone else, my, you fellers can really strut the stuff! That shot with the RS4/5's is totally believable! Didn't I see it in National Geographic back in '51?

Here's another I shot just yesterday. I like to find angles that make my layout seem larger than it is, and this one was particularly tricky. The span you see, bridge, river, and the approach, is part of a 45" X 12" diagonal span crossing the operating pit. Due to its narrow profile, I had to get the camera lens at just the right spot to prevent you from seeing the river-end on the other side of the bridge and make it appear that the river goes on for many miles. Also, the plain spruce timbers at the edge of the pit are just behind the top edges of the coal loads.

I hope you like it.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/crandelloverton/adb.jpg

[MEC_FAN]

I made up some control panels out of .050 alum. and my buddy Pete helped me wire them in this week. The push buttons do not control individual switches. They control routes, push the button for the track you want to get to from the switch lead and all the switches will line correctly. The LED's let you know what track you are lined for. You can throw swithes from your throttle by calling up the switch number and hitting the button or the dispatcher can throw them from the computer.
Searsport panel
http://www.n-scaler.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10005/normal_Picture_122.jpg
NMJ south end yard panel
http://www.n-scaler.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10005/normal_Picture_123.jpg
Stuff that makes it all happen
http://www.n-scaler.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10005/normal_Picture_126.jpg

[SecretWeapon]

Nicely done John :thumbs_up:

[Ironhead]

Nice images all around the board! We must be giving editors headaches!

Here's my first for tonight.

I know that insane asylum is not politically correct today, but Jeanne and I are modeling the 1950s. So, after climbing the long grade behind Harrigton Farms, we pass this scene. We are directly above the East Harbor. In the foreground is our first ball field, which got destroyed last summer, when I fell fixing tracks behind the insane asylum. I wanted Animal House's Faber College here; Jeanne wanted an insane asylum. Guess who won? The buildings are paper-wrapped matte board.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/575/4491Insane_Asylum.jpgPete,

Great idea! I suggest modeling the great scene with Chief Inspector Clouseau and the lunatic Dreyfus on the bench by the water...

[MOPMAN]

All I can say is WOW. This thread gets better every week. Great shots all.

[jwaldo]

http://www.ScaleRailsOnline.com/images/Galleries/jwaldo/2057/SD70M_8.jpg

I painted the underframe and trucks with Polly Scale SP gray. Still not close, but better. The plow is painted with ScaleCoatII SP gray, which is a perfect match for the Kato paint, but I didn't want to have to dullcoat the underframe, since the SCII is glossy.

And, am I the only one who thinks that molded-on windshield wipers are one of the most evil inventions in model history? :angry: