It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!
Here are some pictures from the multi-gauge layout a the club this week.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!
Here are some pictures from the multi-gauge layout a the club this week.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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First O gauge train run in almost three years. Moving out of my condo,helping my mom get her house fixed back up and then buying a house left no time for any train fun,until now. The tinplate trains my dad left me are back in operation. I wish he was still here to enjoy them too.
I've been busy this week populating my passenger trains. I put over 275 in the Amfleets, around 150 in the Alaskan Vistas, and maybe 60 in the Flying Yankee.
The video is good but the train is a little blurry going by. But you can really see a great difference the people make inside. As it passes by you get the sense that people are there and it makes the layout feel more alive.
A view of the people going into the Amfleets. I was going to do LED lighting but the existing incandescent was actually better than I thought. I used the cheap "WeHonest" Ebay people. In such small windows I didn't feel the detail was needed. These run about $13 per 100 people.
The Amfleets (yes two differenct phases) going over the river near the restaurant over the river. The seafood/steak place is not quite done yet and there is no bridge on the near track yet either but those are future projects.
The Alaskan Vista Domes in the yard. I used a much nicer grade of people in them because they would be really visible inside. These people were more expensive at an average of .50 per. Behind the car you see the recently completed COTTON BELT boxcar I repainted, aged, etc... Next to it another recent work is the DT&I. I'm no SIRT but they came out ok.
For the Flying Yankee I used "Beeple". All these trains required the surgical alteration of these poor people's legs as usual. I also painted the walls and chairs a bit to add some more detail. These are not finished yet as I may be adding LED lighting to these since the overhead system is very weak in these.
A 2017 Christmas layout memory
Actually this week's entry could have been from any of the previous 22 years! Ever since I started hosting my annual Family Train Party I have always had what the kids have christened as a "candy train". Here's 2017's menu. Not shown are all of the other goodies I set out.
- walt
Took the Berk out for a spin around the layout last night. Lots of work still to do on the layout, but here's a decent shot of it crossing the lift bridge.
Happy Friday!!!
Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.
Worked on the farm scene & back corner this week -
cleaned up the control panel a bit & added a spur-
2046 leads set 1473WS from 1950 -
Seen through the eye of a 20mm lens, NS ES44DC 7617 leads eastbound M8M into the siding at CP Kumis on the ex VGN Whitethorne District.
NS Dash-9 9321 leads Chicago bound 23M through Hummelstown, PA on the Harrisburg Line.
After numerous delays, the Lehigh Valley heritage unit gets moving westbound out of Harrisburg, PA with 19G
MARC MP36 13 brings the last train of the day in Brunswick, MD.
NS Dash-9 9569 leads 189 past MP 273 in Wabun, VA on the Christiansburg District.
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