Gettysburg and Northern "County of Adams" #105 switches the Stone Container Paper Plant on my yet to be named layout.
Lucky Penny Yard....taken from above the old steam shop ! Lucky Penny Yard is one of my fav places to hang out ! All of this area...clear up to Georgetown at the top of the pic...will be done in black cinder/ballast. All the mainlines will be done in ARM mauve (red) ballast. I still have to repaint that pit...hate the weathering Walthers did...YUCK !! The fuel island will be just to the left of the new diesel shop in the center of the picture. As you can see...T.H.E.R.R. runs any power it can get its hands on...LOL.
I haven't started building my layout yet, but I managed this shot of my new GEVO shooting laser beams: View attachment 50353 I don't have the slightest idea what happened here.
Hello George... Hmmmmm... Very interesting Walthers turntable with (what appears to be) Kato Unitrak leads off the TT. So... how did you manage to connect the Unitrak to the Walthers TT??? Have you figured out a way to use the Walthers Roundhouse with the Unitrack as well??? I was going to use Atlas, Peco or Micro Engineering track because I didn't think it would be possible to mate the Unitrack to the TT... and even less so for the Roundhouse.
Hey Joe... I set the TT in the hole with the mounting lugs set on top of the plywood. I cut off a short section of the Unitrack roadbed so that the rails that stick over the TT lip just miss the TT as it turns. There was a little filing needed on the rail ends to finish them up. The rest of the Unitrack roadbed sets perfectly flat on the plywood The TT bridge rail and the Unitrack rail are the exact same height. ;-) I thought for sure I was going to have to either trim or shim those little mounting nubs under the TT lip to get things working...but everthing matched up perfectly ! I dont have a Walthers roundhouse to check. I have an older Atlas roundhouse that I cut down to a single bay for THE Wifes excursion train steamer repair shop. The rail out of the Atlas roundhouse also matches up perfectly with the lip on the Walthers TT. I still have to wire the leads off the TT. I run DCC and the instructions and advice from others who own the Walthers TT make it sound simple enough to do that part. Other then the silly 'spoke' effect weathering Walthers slapped on the TT pit floor...I'm happier then a pig in mud with this thing
This is my favorite photo of my Wilhemina Pass module, which unfortunately, doesn't exist any more. I'm building a new one in the next year and I hope the LDE (8' and two six footers) will at least match this one. Cheers! Bob Gilmore
My favorite (and only) finished scene: Love the great work being displayed on this thread. Some rather impressive photographic skills as well. Jamie
Here is my Pittsburgh City scene. Amtrak train the Pennsylvanian leaves the city for Harrisburg while two SD80macs bring a coal train to the USS steel mill. This appeared in N Scale Railroading in May-June 2011.
Great pictures by everyone!! Even Carl S !!! LOL Here is my favorite shot on the Albuquerque Carnuel & Tijeras RR. It is a publicity shot in the Kachina New Mexico Yard. The crews had many hours of time in washing the freight F7's for the shot. Mike
Get to pick just one, huh? Well, seeing how John already put up the same GP60's as toured my layout as well, I'll fall back to a different train, same spot. This is pretty much 'the view' and 'the reason' the current layout exists. Everything else is feeding into to this view, based on lots of ATSF calendar shots, and this same exact spot on the cover of "Canyonlands and Super Chiefs" by McMillan. What I'm trying to model: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0072/5972/products/Canyon_Lands_book_large.jpg?90 I also have to enthusiastically 'thumbs up', or +1, or whatever, on that Pittsburgh scene, Todd. Looks like the north end of the Ft. Wayne bridge to me, right down to the Priory hotel, which I've stayed in, and has upper floors that gunsight right down the bridge looking south. If you don't know Pittsburgh, trust me, that's nailed it pretty darn well.
