Nothing new from me this week so I will drag out an old one. I always liked the clouds in this one. I was set up outside way out in the sticks to get a good horizon and it started to rain. I threw a plastic tarp over everything and the shower passed.
I just converted a number of images from the 3008 x 2000 format to one more friendly for posting here. So here's a couple of Trainmasters delivering the Trainboard Tour car past the roundhouse to the yard lead.
I'm currently working on weathering some switchers that have been sitting around for long enough Broadway SW7 Atlas S4 P2K S1 3 more to do over the weekend Jon
An abandoned set of grain elevators and removed GN tracks at Tracy, MT: Also, it's Golden Week in this part of Montana--nows a great time to go shooting the fall colors, and trains too!
This is kinda an exipiriment. First, the "Climax Locomotive Works" plant in N is up and running again this fall, if you didn't already get a kit for the horizontal boiler A and wanted one, the resin molding works a LOT better in low humidity (read, the furnace is running again!) than it did this summer. Email me or contact me if you want one. I'm doing a couple builtups for Ebay this fall and had some fun with this one. I'm trying to imitate some of the old hand-tinted historic postcards I've got, where only like one or two colors were put in for effect. This is one of the Class A's pulling a log train over the Hickory Valley Railroad log pond: Oh, and the vertical boiler wood-frame version is still coming along. I think you'll like it when you see it.
Caboose Office I liked Tompm's caboose office from last week, so I built one for my N scale layout. Actually, I already had the caboose up on blocks and weathered, so I just added all the details. Maybe I can make some more old cabooses for different types of layout offices. Here is the caboose. It's well lighted with a soft drink machine for those hot, thirsty South Texas days. The yardmaster has posted the mail to Union Pacific listing the location of most of those missing freight cars. :happy19pb:
Hi, all, Here's my contribution for the week. This is a Randy Gustafson custom paint job, done for me on an old Minitrix. I commissioned Jim Hinds of Richmond Controls to do a constant intensity light kit for me for this switcher and finished installing it last week ...... installation pictures web site coming sometime soon. This is the same switcher previously documented in: http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing/Santa_Fe_FM_H12-44_Zebra_Stripe.htm Take care, all!
A lot of nice shots this week! Hemi, I love the elevator photo. There's something about grain elevators that is classic. Jon, love those switchers. I might have to get me an HO scale WP switcher just to play around with. Mr. Sing, great job as always!
Flash, I lilke those caboose. A very good idea. Jon, which is the method you use for weathering most? Airbrush, chalk??? Wolfgang
I have never participated in a weekend photo. I dug up a shot that I never posted from this summers trip to Crawford Hill. Here are some brand new Gevos and I believe this is the train that had build dates of 6-06. This shot was taken July forth weekend! Pretty close to the trains maiden voyage.
Anyone for a cold drink ? I messed up the back side pic but you can see my idea. Obviously not mounted permanently to layout as yet. But the brew is cold !
Here you go, Wolfgang, how I weather my locos http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?p=321128&posted=1#post321128 Jon
