Thanks for opening Russel! Here is a Kato SD45 that I added detail parts to such as MU hoses, Signal Control Box, Lift Rings, Marker Lights, Sinclair Antenna. Also in locating the Signal Control Box in front of the Engineer, I filled the holes of the grabs on that side and drilled new ones on the fireman's side. Painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Microscale's PC Set and Diesel Detailing Set. Thanks for looking! Rick J
An oldie from me as well ............ My Key Challenger, soon to sport a Tsunami and oval speaker. Carl
Looks like Black Friday with that steamer and the Penn Central, so I'll offer my RSD-15 in PW&NJ's' black yard switcher paint scheme, along with the 59-tonner in grungy blue.
I'm busy with benchwork and turnout building. But I can run some trains too. Here's train No. 53 on it's way from Fiddletown to Wolf Creek, approaching Salina. Wolfgang
San Francisco area NMRA Coast Division Meet:12/4/11 Hi, all, As a model RR public service to all: Any of you who are in the San Francisco Bay Area, next weekend you are invited to come as a guest to the Coast Division Meet on Sunday, December 4, 2011 at the Boy Scouts of America HQ building at 1001 Davis Street in San Leandro, CA. http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast Guests are always welcome at the NMRA Coast Division meets, there's no charge (what a deal!) We have Show and Tell, Photo and Model Contest, Clinics, all free of charge, provided by the Coast Division. You may especially like these two clinics (see below), and you get to find out what's going on in model railroading in the San Francisco Bay area NMRA Coast Division at the same time as well. http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/meet_clinics.shtml You can see full pictures, details about all the happens in our quarterly meet reports web pages (going back to Dec 2005), at: http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml For those of you not able to attend, here's three photos of general interest, enjoy! --------------- 1) NMRA 2011 National Convention Model Contest 1st Place Diesel, GM&O Ingalls Diesel in HO, by Tom Vanden Bosch 2) Edwin Ness just knocked our socks off with his O scale model of his house under construction. Used scale-sized model lumber and is built and framed with the exactly correct construction techniques, spacing, and dimensions. Impressive!!! 3) The future of our hobby is well assured. Dominic DiMaio, age 12, displayed this superbly weathered N scale SP SD50: ----------------- AGENDA Here's what we have planned: 9:00 AM ............ Doors open. Free Door Prizes. Buy Raffle Tickets. 9:30 AM ............ Get Auc on Cards. 10:00 AM ............ "Operati ons, Plain and Simple" by Seth Neumann. An initiation into the wonderous world of opera tions with a view to the simple 11:00 AM ............ "Building a Resin Car Kit" by Dave Connery Dave will walk us thru the steps, share his tricks and techniques for construc ng a resin molded freight car 11:00 AM ............ Model Railroad Roundtable moderated by Jerry Littlefield 12 Noon .............. Business Mee ting ~1:00 PM* ......... Aucti on starts, Roundtable con tinues 1:30 PM ............ Model/Photo Contest Results 3:30 PM ............ Timesaver Results, Raffle 9:30 AM – 1:15 PM: Model Contest: Favorite Model Photo Contest: Favorite Railroad Related Photo Allen Fenton Timesaver Switching Contest (un l 3:15) See more about all this by downloading the December 2011 Coast E-Dispatcher: http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/dispatcher/E-Dispatcher201112.pdf We also have Show and Tell: bring any model to share and show off! Works in progress welcome! ============= SWITCHING CONTEST Have a go at the Allen Fenton Timesaver switching puzzle, Which is a fun, devilish little switching layout and friendly competition we have at every Coast Division Meet. You got to try it! ============ If you're interested, please come by as our guest of the Coast Division, Pacific Coast Region, NMRA. Happy Holidays to all, As a public model RR service On behalf of the NMRA Coast Division, John Sing Coast Division Model Contest chair-flunkie NMRA PCR Coast Division Model Contest / Photo Contest / Show and Tell web pages: http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest.shtml X2011 West National Convention photo/video repository: https://www.facebook.com/x2011west?sk=photos
Been a while since I submitted any photos - I've been working on some home renovation projects so railroad time has been limited for the past several months. I finally finished the first section of Frostbite Falls, my winter scenery section. Here's a few pics.... George V.
George I like your photos. Good to see winter anytime of the year. I see the storm felled one of your crossing signs! Jim:thumbs_up:
Jim, Thanks for the compliment. Yes, that crossbuck.... it was actually hit just before the photo was taken by the oversize load being carried through the area - a giant camera! The photo crew didn't pick that up until they got back to the darkroom and developed the film. George V.
On the left is a hill added by the Chief Cook & Bottle Washer (my Brother) of the Beebe River RR to conceal a 90 degree corner.
George, I had to look twice at your first photo. Wow...please accept my compliments. You have that wintry look down pat. Very nice indeed! Well, it finally arrived. We heard about a Canadian Pacific excursion headed by a large T1c 2-10-4 Selkirk coming to Seneca Falls. After lengthy negotiations and some exchange of a few coins (do I hear a horse choking!?), the powers that be finally allowed the monster to come through Seneca Sub. Here it is, caught on my favourite spot:
Here is my imagineered steel drover caboose. I operate it with 2-3 cattle cars. L&H Packing Company is a company here is San Antonio. They are a very large meat packer in the Southwest US.
Wet and steamy day on the PW&NJ This is my son's new (new used, anyway) Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 making it's debut appearance on my little diorama, rearranged a little and touched up with some special effects.
Great job on the smoke! A lot of attempts I see a photoshopping steam and smoke is uh....not very good. Yours is excellent! :thumbs_up:
