I managed to get a couple of cars done this week! Going back in time for a C&O 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit by Intermountain Railway. Substituted a Viking Roof from Des Plaines Hobbies along with Sill Steps from Yarmouth Model Works. Painted car with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Black Paints, then decaled with Speedwitch Media Decals. The prototype cars was built in 1936 and this car is in its original paint scheme, versus an earlier car I did with a 1950's repaint. Moving ahead to the 1970's, this is an Intermountain Railway PS 4750 CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray, then lettered with Oddballs Decals. Prototype was built in 1974 and leased to the Grain Terminal Association for grain service in the midwest. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
One of my next projects (Detailing, mucking up and just plain having fun with) my roundhouse facility: Thanks, Wolf
Great work everyone! Josta great atmosphere again in your picture!!! Rick, admirable quality and speed in finishing these cars! A few boxcars i finished recently (weathering).
Well Photobucket has decided to charge $399 a year to be able to post photos from there to here! Not likely. Don't know if or when I will be back. Jim
Since Russell mentioned it, I uploaded to railimages yesterday for the first time, should have discovered/used this earlier. Very easy to use!
400 bucks a year? Dang, I'm in the wrong business! Just upload them in RailImages. Your photos are way too good to leave them gathering digital dust.
We finished our second session of "Rail Camp" at the museum for this summer. The 9 campers and 3 teen helpers posing behind a layout made up of the T-Trak modules they built.
Boxcab and Russell, I know about Railimages. Sadly my photos are too large you use here. Hence the 'third party' hosting site. Photography is important to me and since I have retired from model railroading my last 4 years of photos are not usable here and cannot be retaken. I don't know how to resize them either. Any suggestions? Jim
You want software that can resize in batch if you want to do a lot of image resizing. "Bulk Image Resizer" and "InfranView IrfanView" are a couple of programs that can do it. There are probably several more out there I just haven't used them (maybe some of the folks in our photography/railfan sections can chime in on what they use) -Mike EDIT: As others have pointed out it is indeed "IrfanView" (thanks for the catch) I'm finding a sort of dyslexia invading my space as I age. Quite annoying!
Mike may have meant IrfanView. It is a free download which does a good job for resizing the files and some other minor editing. I've used it for quite a few years now since it was recommended to me and have not had any problems.
Jim- I have used IrfanView for many, many years. Freeware, which is quite simple to employ. Works great!
