WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 2-12-16-??

Here is a shot of the oil facility on my home layout

Hey Scott that's really creative work on the Frozen train as well as the rest of the layout, including the ships.  Disney should sell this as a park exclusive.  It looks a lot better than their 60th Anniversary set.  They would clean up.

Seen at this year's Amherst Railway Society show at W. Springfield, this module recreates Reading Company waterfront facilities along the Delaware River. It includes a float bridge complete with tug with car float as well as coal piers. The track layout allows a switcher to move cars between these piers and the car float to an adjacent yard and freight house. 

Bob

#1104 will be leaving the yard soon..................

Scott

Nice work on the Frozen layout. So the question is: When dose the passenger cars go into production.

Since Valentines day is Sunday.

In my continuing mode of proto-lancing, here is one of the locomotives used to haul my 21st century version of QLA / QSF / CTB via the Floydada, TX Gateway.

It is about 85% finished:

A few months ago I posted a photo of a scratch built barn.  Following its completion as well as that of the adjoining farmhouse, work began on the three dimensional scenery of the farm scene.  It's still not done, but hopefully we will wrap up the work within a month.  The structure is an accurate model of a Pennsylvania barn including the forebay (the overhang over the foundation), the fact that it is built into the hillside, and the roofline consisting of just two planes.  Anyhow, I temporarily set the barn in place and took a shot of it from underneath the adjacent PRR stone arch bridge.  So here ya go...

Rob Leese posted:

. . . In my continuing mode of proto-lancing, here is one of the locomotives used to haul my 21st century version of QLA / QSF / CTB via the Floydada, TX Gateway . . .

Nice work, Rob.  That big engine would have looked good making the adjacent mesquite blow around in its wake as it pulled the QLA across the rolling plains.

The stress bed area is starting to shape up. The stress bed is a replica of a real working version. It's purpose is to make pre and post tensioned concrete beams, etc. additions to come include a travel lift, concrete forms, etc.

Scott,

I've got dibs if you ever consider selling that Frozen consist! My Granddaughter would love it!!!! Awesome job.

Outstanding work on the PA. barn. I had to study the photo for awhile to realize that it's a model.

Mark

Here's a Korber round house I just completed for someone. 

Haven't posted in a while, as I've been busy working on the new layout.  I decided to go back to all postwar. The kids really like it better & while the scale stuff is very nice, there's just something magical about these classics that I can't really put into words. Anyway - here are some pics from the last 2 weeks. 

Added the back wall panels & started the framework

Had my little helpers along with me -

end result -

then started figuring out the track plan -

Got the board & front shelf painted in the base green color -

Finishing up the wall/closet/floor today -

A 2015 Christmas Layout memory

I'll explain later why the drive-in scene was such an important part of the layout's theme for that year.

- walt

scott.smith posted:

I have to get on the road early this morning so Weekend Photo Fun begins now!

Last week I finished my repaint and custom decals for the "Frozen" layout at the VMT.

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Scott

my daughter would go nuts!  Her 2 favorite things - trains & frozen!  We were trying to get up to Roanoke again before my wife is due w/ baby # 3 (early April) but not sure it will happen. 

I'm very surprised Lionel has not made a Frozen set or at least a boxcar. I think they are missing the boat on this

My Thanks for "Likes" [Feb. 5, 2016 Photo Fun] to the following voices:

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 I don't think I have posted these previously. You may notice some details you like or have not seen before.

FrankM.

Moon Township, USA.

Waiting for the train to Salzburg in Munich train station and got a picture of a classic.

Nice job Chris. I see you figured out the posting photo's thing!

MIKEY, Thanks for posting those Munich train station photos. I noticed how clean  and graffiti-free the entire place and everything in it are. And always a nice touch, there do not appear to be any mental-cases or sociopaths lurking, waiting to slice people  up or push them to their deaths.

FrankM.

I haven’t posted in awhile, so, even though this is an older photo, some of you might not have seen it. The Owl was a Southern Pacific passenger train that passed through the San Joaquin Valley town where I grew up. In the middle of the night, those GS steam whistles could be heard a long way away. In the late 1940’s, Espee used older Atlantic locomotives to pull their Sacramento Daylight. Between runs, the locomotive, tender and a 60 foot Harriman combo car was kept in the Tracy yard.

Here's the Korber Archie's Trucking  flat, I just finished for someone. 

Thanks

Alex 

I set up this temporary layout a few months ago.

Christopher - How big is your layout?

A little ES44 muscle flexing:

I finally found those pesky freight cars known as the Vision Line Ethanol Tank Cars.  They are phenomenal! 

Stay warm this weekend!

Michael

Here's a Korber Kendall  manufacturing, l just built for someone. 

mikey posted:

Waiting for the train to Salzburg in Munich train station and got a picture of a classic.

 

Actually you have three. The first and fourth. When my wife and I were dating back in 97-99 both could be seen in Nuremburg. The fourth pic in a slightly different scheme pulled a lot of the REG and IRG running south to Tuttlingen where she lived.  The ICE is one of the early builds. All three were built by Siemens

Scott, great job on the Frozen theme!  My daughter would probably like it!

Christopher2035, the new layout and room are really looking nice! It seems like you had just started the scale layout and came back.  I have been impressed with each layouts pictures!  Can't wait to see how you finish this one!

Alex M, it seems you have no limits to your talents in this hobby! Very nicely done on the buildings!

SIRT, I always look forward to your detailed and weathered rolling stock photos! another great one!

And to everyone else posting, another great start to the weekend!  Thanks for posting!

Above is the new MTH SD60. I took this picture just a few minutes ago.

Scott Smith

Something for Valentine's Day

Great images all. Christopher, good to see the young ones helping out!

Happy weekend to everyone here on the Forum!  Here are a few shots of a Weaver NYC 40' boxcar fresh out of the weathering shop...

Rivals meet.

Been weathering lately...

Before/after of a Weaver Railbox.

This Maryland Midland hopper only received a light dusting towards the bottom, plus a little cement dust on the trucks.

This one is my personal favorite. I went pretty heavy on this Bath and Hammondsport boxcar. Note the patched numbers...

joeyA posted:

...  Here are a few shots of a Weaver NYC 40' boxcar fresh out of the weathering shop...

Very, very nice, JoeyA.

Maybe, you ought to become a little business at this. Display at the April TCA Meet @ York, PA (or next October's Meet,) to test-the-waters, and I'll bet you will find an encouraging market niche all yours. I did.

Or maybe team-up with somebody there, to share space and the expense, maybe somebody like Andre [River Leaf Models] (?) which would make for an attractive combination. If I still had my booth there, I'd invite you in.

FrankM., Layout Refinements, & Moon Township layout

Joey A, I really like the blistering on the boxcar, it looks very authentic. Excellent work as always.

Don

Frank, thank you very much for your kind words of encouragement.  I consider that high praise as I've been inspired by your work for some time now!

As for becoming a business, it's not really part of my "master plan" right now.  As I told Steve "SIRT" (whose work has also been a tremendous inspiration to me) recently, I'm enjoying learning/practicing various weathering techniques on these relatively inexpensive Weaver & Atlas Trainman items as there's no real fear of messing them up!

I keep the ones that I'm REALLY satisfied with, and try to sell off the rest for enough profit to pay for my supplies.  The end goal (for now anyway) is to practice until I become good enough at the craft so that I can weather everything on by future layout (structures, track, trains, scenery, etc.) and be personally satisfied with my work.  

Unfortunately I'm a bit of a perfectionist (something tells me you know exactly what I mean!), so looking at the work of the true weathering Pro's makes me realize that I have a LONG way to go.  But I'm sure having fun trying to get there!

Thanks for your reply, Joey A. I wish you the very best.

Having your creativity become satisfying to yourself, and then having it accepted and even purchased by others to put on something as personal  as a layout is an immense rush, privilege and joy. I can't describe to you in words the first time somebody handed me money for one of my "Insta-Ramas" (scenes) at York and took it away with them!

FrankM.

Christopher2035 posted:

Haven't posted in a while, as I've been busy working on the new layout.  I decided to go back to all postwar. The kids really like it better & while the scale stuff is very nice, there's just something magical about these classics that I can't really put into words. Anyway - here are some pics from the last 2 weeks. 

 

 

Added the back wall panels & started the framework

Had my little helpers along with me -

 

 

end result -

then started figuring out the track plan -

Got the board & front shelf painted in the base green color -

Finishing up the wall/closet/floor today -

Chris,

I look forward to your postings every week. Postwar has never really been my "thing" but I'm getting interested again in the "basic" stuff - conventional 0-31 type operation or as I call it "No bulls**t"! Just run trains.

Thank you for sharing each week with us. Love the look of your layouts and your work. Thank you!