a picture a day....

@Sitka posted:

Climbers racing to the top

@trumptrain posted:

FOR TODAY:  It's Friday afternoon in Patsburg and the team tracks are busy!  As a gang of ol timers view the action from the tower platform,

@trumptrain posted:

OK.................the other day I commented on Patrick's backpacking on a ridge and now you two are giving me a nose bleed today   ..............NICE  PHOTOS from on HIGH guys.

@mike g. posted:

Hey guys, great photos and stories about hiking. Sorry I haven't been around to comment sooner but its been busy here and it's not done yet! I would really like to post something but all you would see is new post and cross post for a new fence! LOL What a blast!

I am hoping to be done with it and back in the train room within a week if I am lucky!

I hope you all have a great week!

Not to worry Mike.    Mostly just a little train running for relaxing myself.     Involved with a small wood carving for Judy's Christmas present .

You have a good weekend too sir.

Here you go Dallas Climb to Glory,

FOR TODAY:  Great weekend to be outdoors having fun!

Josh, Jenkin, and Lazo climb rocks.

A trolly whizzes by as a logging train passes above and boaters row below .... all the while the rock climbing trio are focused on their task at hand.

Ah ... the beach and canoeing ... how relaxing!  

Ah ha!  More rock climbing!  The canoeing does look relaxing, but so does train watching!

@Sitka posted:

Here you go Dallas Climb to Glory,

@trumptrain posted:

FOR TODAY:  Great weekend to be outdoors having fun!

Sitka and Patrick.............if I show up on your mountainous  layouts .........do you have insurance coverage or am I going to have to increase my own.

( NO  TRESPASSING  signs don't  absolve responsibility for dangerous activities .)

Nice layout climbing scenes guys. 

Some citizens of Warrenville like mountain climbing too!

Running my vision line challenger at the local Train Museum.

FOR TODAY:  Last commuter train and trolley out of Patsburg late Saturday evening.  Just another day on the railroad.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Sitka and Patrick.............if I show up on your mountainous  layouts .........do you have insurance coverage or am I going to have to increase my own.

( NO  TRESPASSING  signs don't  absolve responsibility for dangerous activities .)

Nice layout climbing scenes guys. 

Have to work that out with a cold beer.

@Sitka posted:

Have to work that out with a cold beer.

It always seems to assist in some form of inspiration.

@Lionelski posted:

Some citizens of Warrenville like mountain climbing too!

Getting another nose bleed here John ......starting to get a little oxygen deprivation at these heights also .

Nice arraingment  these features and figures

@trumptrain posted:

FOR TODAY:  Last commuter train and trolley out of Patsburg late Saturday evening.  Just another day on the railroad.

Looks like a really nice scene for that  IMAGINEERING  thread Patrick.

@trumptrain posted:

FOR TODAY:  Last commuter train and trolley out of Patsburg late Saturday evening.  Just another day on the railroad.

Great scene Patrick...much potential with special effects for Ted's thread...!

Late night meal at the "20th Century Diner!"  Open 24 / 7 next to the bus station....

Some rail fans ready with their cameras. I hope they don't have to wait to long, I'm cleaning the train table and basement.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Getting another nose bleed here John ......starting to get a little oxygen deprivation at these heights also .

Thanks Dallas

The figure on the right is a common Plasticville painter.

The mountainside is thin, white, Styrofoam, salvaged from packaging, layered together with Elmer's white glue.

I then painted it with leftover grey, green and brown latex paint and sprinkled sawdust, some dyed green with Rit Dye (just like in the 1950's) while the paint was still wet. Lastly, I added some small pieces of lichen and weed flowers sprayed green.

I like free.

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Thanks Dallas and Paul for your comments/compliments on my previous post.  Much appreciated! I posted that photo on Ted's thread back in 2020, however, not with special effects.  At your suggestion I will play around with special effects.  If I like the result I will re-post the same photo with the special effects ( before and after ) on Ted's thread.  

Patrick...looking forward to seeing the  pic...

FOR TODAY:  It's 1950 ... Engineer Buster Bottoms is making time with this old tea kettle, as he calls number 97!!  He's got the throttle notched all the way out and she's doing 32 miles per hour.  He can't wait to get assigned to one of them new fangled diesel locomotives like a F3 or BL2 or a RS3.  Heck ol Buster would even settle for a GE 44 tonner but his real dream is to be at the throttle of a Fairbanks Morse Train Master. ...  Just another day on the railroad.