Let's See Your Night Shots, More Than Just Trains, They Should Tell A story.

Here's a couple of my favorite night shots.

i don't have great shots but I have a few that do show a scene that I would like to be in, and that is, as I recall, the point of this thread.

walt

The 'party train' stops at the station to pick up more party goers:

Same 'party train' with a party outside as well:

Here's one in which I did spend many hours when younger.  Miss these in today's world:

And who of us hasn't enjoyed a treat while there?

One of (most of) our favorite childhood 'events', yelling 'Trick or treat':

Tourist attraction unlike any other in the world:

And I can HONESTLY say I am in this scene.  This is Waltburg - a small town of 6 houses of models of my family's houses, inlcuing mine:

The old trailer park on hot summer night. Don

scale rail posted:

The old trailer park on hot summer night. Don

 Hey, no place like home sweet home'... no matter how humble it my be'..

Nice shot'....

My son took these for me, you are right Don, the night time photos are a real challenge !!   

Nice Photos Chris! Your layout sure stands out weather its day or night! Love all the pictures you post of it!

This is my night engine house with smoke. I installed a MTH smoke unit in the back connected to a small brass tube that connects to aquarium tubbing. There is a three way aquarium valve to adjust the smoke to each engine bay. It works well. Don

scale rail posted:

This is my night engine house with smoke. I installed a MTH smoke unit in the back connected to a small brass tube that connects to aquarium tubbing. There is a three way aquarium valve to adjust the smoke to each engine bay. It works well. Don

This is very cool Don...  I wouldn't mind seeing a daylight shot of this as well'...

I didn't realize how many night time shots I have in my files. I can't find any of the round house in daytime. Here is one with all diesel and electrics. Click on picture to enlarge. Don

 Wow Don, that is a very authentic shot'.. Difficult to determine it is not the real thing.  Very good camera execution ...

All these night time shots are very nice, when I get around to redoing my layout. I may look into trying to get some pictures up. Though it will take a while.

AT&SF waycar with its signature porch lights burning:

I was looking at past pictures I have taken on my layout, though not much work done on it scenery wise. I do have some night type shots. 

Even when I do redo my track plan, I will probably not had much in the way of scenery, as this updated plan will probably been redone in the future again. 

John Sethian posted:

BobbyD posted:

scale rail posted:

John, were did you get the shelves for the Hardware Store? Looks great. Don

Don, is it an image placed behind the window display?

Scale Rail,

Bobby D is correct, that it is an image. But its a bit more than that. I took a lot of interior photos of the real Ayres Variety store (the store has been in my hometown since 1946), then photo shopped them together to look like aisles as well as to get the proper perspective when placed in a semicircular strip.  The desk, birdhouse, people at the cash register and all the window displays are real.  Here is a top view of the first floor

The woman coming down the stairs is underneath that web of wires behind the first window on the left.

Here is what the strip looks like.

It has been heavily photo shopped: each aisle and end cap is a separate photo, distorted to get the perspective right, the flags have been modified, the lights angled inward, etc

For the upper floors I took a more conventional approach:

That reply is far above and beyond the "call of duty".

So thanks!

Nice thread! Going to add to keep it going.

The layover.

Layout at night

"Sun has set":

The freight consist will be spotted behind the Depot on the East End Branch and the Dinner Train will be spotted in front of the Depot to await boarding of the first call dinner patrons.

"Tying down the Dinner Train for the night":

The kitchen staff is doing cleanup before calling it a day.

A C&O Allegheny leads a long boxcar train through Terryville at dusk

2 photos of the suburban station at Terryvill at night featuring the PRR Nellie Bly and the Jersey Central Blue Comet on their way to their final destinations of Penn Station, NY and Communipaw terminal, Jersy City, respectively.

CoastsideKevin posted:

 Nice work Kevin'...

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

ToledoEd posted:

Ted, I never understood the interest in trailers....oh, youth so wasted.  Great photo shoot, and talk about 'setting a scene'...ooo la la!

Thanks Ed, I have a few more I'd like to post.  Not sure if they may be to risque for the forum.... I don't want to present anything that may cause concern in spite of the real filth on the net, TV and the social media sites'...  Your thoughts''''.... 

Well...Ted....I delete those photos because in my opinion they don't belong here regardless of the filth on thenet, TV and social media sites....  We don't want that here....

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

CoastsideKevin posted:

 Nice work Kevin'...

Thank you Ted! Be well.

I don't have any photos handy but here is a video of my layout at night. 

RamblerDon posted:

I don't have any photos handy but here is a video of my layout at night. 

 

Very cool night video RamblerDon.

Looks like you just joined the OGR forum yesterday.  Welcome aboard.

Saturday night, late fall after a sandlot ball game. Stopping for a coke before heading home.

walt rapp posted:

i don't have great shots but I have a few that do show a scene that I would like to be in, and that is, as I recall, the point of this thread.

walt

The 'party train' stops at the station to pick up more party goers:

Here's one in which I did spend many hours when younger.  Miss these in today's world:

Tourist attraction unlike any other in the world:

And I can HONESTLY say I am in this scene.  This is Waltburg - a small town of 6 houses of models of my family's houses, inlcuing mine:

 

WOW!!  Fantastic images everyone!

Walt, we always look forward to your builds, you just need to post MORE images for us!! 

SP waiting at the station

Crew members are finally wearing safety vests. 

Added scratch built MU cable and hanger.

Relocated air hoses and reformed to drape outside the plow. 

I love this thread. There is something very romantic about trains at night. Here are a couple enjoying the ice rink in front of their scenic plot this winter. This is a bit of a Christmas layout I am working on. 

The waterfront never sleeps. Loading the ships a night.

                                             More night moves'...

Caught in the act'..

Rear Window

11:15 PM out of Burbank, highballing into Sacramento ...

Night views. 

El to grand central. 

     Electric Chrome, & Urban Nights'...

Sun down & Dusk'.. sets in..

Who needs street lights'...

The TV is on. Wonder what is going on the 2nd & 3rd floors....👀

Radio Days'~

Lots of nice pic's here.  I love experimenting with camera setting to get a good night shot.  It's a lot harder than I thought and I've been messing up night shots for years especially when we had film in our camera's.  Now with digital, no wasted prints..  Just thought I'd throw one up on the site here.  The city scene was taken with a Canon SX50HS with manual settings, on a tripod, NO flash, ISO 80, F stop 6.3, Aperture 4 and exposure time of 15 seconds.  The only lighting used are a series of blue flood lights mounted permanently to make the night scene more realistic when I'm running trains and also to give me some type of light in the room   The city is a 10 foot section on a riser of all H.O. buildings on the layout for depth perception.  The engine is a repainted, reworked Lionel working its way thru the switches back to the engine facility after a hard days work.