Nov 16, 2007 Weekly Foto Phun!

[jesso]

I'll start it this week, I hope no one else has done one!

Ever since I built Mooreway's house, he has been very happy that he can go in his backyard and take pictures of trains!

 

[Nazgul]

Scott...I love that section of your layout!:thumb:...heck, I love the whole thing!!!:winker:

Speaking of houses...

Kurt sent me one of his scratch-built houses in "kit" form....for those of you who missed this little gem here it is:

http://forum.zealot.com/t151596/

He did all the cutting and test fitting. He even partially built the porch in 3 sections for easy installation :winker:.

I glued it all together, painted it (and the bricks) and made the roof material and window shades. It was a fun joint-venture:thumb:

 

[chessie4155]

Scott: That looks like one happy man...:thumb:
Steve: Great looking house...:thumb:

 

[TrainNut]

A repeat but one of my favorites...

 

[Ralph]

A KP&W freight follows the river.

Ralph

 

[60103]

Here's an interesting shot of the side of the roadbed.
And the new LED signals they installed all along the line.
CNR is double tracking the section between two current double track bits (or are they passing sidings?) The signals for this point, which is still a double to single track junction) used to be a couple of hundred yards behind me and were only 2 heads.

 

[DeckRoid]

Nice pics so far!

Here is the beginning of my scenicking...


Here we have a noticeable seam, which going to be a road. I just wanted to see if I could "grass" it down. Nope. Needed a road thru that area anyway.


And here we have a little side by side action. Ok, posing, no action. I only have the passenger engines. No passenger cars yet. Gotta go slow, lest we bring down the wrath of the wife. But its ok, I got more scenicking to do before I am ready for 10 - 14 passenger cars! Gotta take it slow.

 

[Nazgul]

DeckRoid....Nice work......and nice ENGINES!!!:thumb::winker:

NP all the way!:twisted:

 

[DeckRoid]

Steve,

Nice F3 and very nice butter knife! Your butter knife even has the steam generators. They are missing on my F9s, or so I was told by the rivet counter at my club.

Did you add/paint any extra goodies to your engines? I am thinking of getting the Walther's F series Super Detail Kit but I need to keep my mind to building my mountain... can't get sidetracked.

 

[mooreway]

Nice to see I have home on your layout Jesso.

Nagul nice house

Deckroid Locos look great.

Jesso has been giving me some photo lessons, Here is M of W shed I have been working on in N scale.

 

[UP SD40-2]

Scott, NICE SHOT!:thumb: GREAT scene to start off this weeks thread:winki::mrgreen:

Steve, OUTSTANDING JOB on the house:bravo: , Nice shot of your F units too!:thumb::mrgreen:

TrainNut, GREAT shot of the mudhen:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Ralph, NICE SHOT!!:thumb: your layout is AWESOME!:winki::mrgreen: .

David, NICE proto shots!:thumb::thumb:

DeckRoid, looks like your off to a good start on your scenicing:thumb: , NICE shots of the F units too:thumb::mrgreen:

mooreway, NICE SHED!!!:thumb::thumb:

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NEW ENGINE...
i picked up two engines at the Milwaukee show last week, i posted the Rio Grande SD40-T2 last week:thumb: , heres the other one i bought, its a BLI SD7:mrgreen: . the FIRST pic has the SD7 with a GP7 behind it, the second pic is the SD7 alone:smilie: .
:deano: -Deano

 

[chessie4155]

Great start to the new week...
Fantastic pics everyone..well done:thumb:

Hows this for in your face! sign1

 

[Sarge_7]

Great pics everyone:thumb::thumb:

Here is a tease off what is ahead in the future:mrgreen:

 

[cnw1961]

Great start again this week.
Scott, love that bungalow – is it scratch built?
Trainnut, that is really a good one.
Ralph, great scene :thumb:.
DeckRoid, good start to scenery.
Steve, seeing this photo, I hope you did a lot of pictures before you dismantled the layout .
mooreway, nice shed.
Deano, I love your new SD7, a very impressive engine :thumb:.
Mark, absolutely fabulous shot :thumb::thumb:.

 

[jeffrey-wimberl]

Athearn F7A I've been working on. It's one of my odd-balls.

 

[jesso]

Steve - Great Job on the House! :thumb:

TrainNut - Nice Engine! That is one big snowplow!

Ralph - Great Scene! I love the bridge area! :thumb:

David - LED Signals, wish I could get some of those for my layout!

Deckroid - Good Job! Nice engines! :thumb:

Steve - Nice engines! For a while I had a GP7 Northern Pacific running on the club layout. Will have to check and see if I took pictures of it. Northern Pacific had some great pain schemes. :thumb:

Mooreway - good job on the shed, and on my houses! :thumb:

Deano - Nice engine! I need to figure out how to put engineers into my engines. :thumb:

chessie4155 - Great Shot! I hope the engine was tied down and you had permission to be there! :mrgreen:

Sarge 7 - Looks like a fun project!

Kurt - My houses are laser-cut models that Mooreway designed. Great job on Steve's House, you have a gift with small lumber! Nice scene! I love that tree! Again your scene looks completely real. :thumb: How did you do your backdrop?

Jeffrey Wimberly - Nice engine

 

[CNWman]

My trip to John Listerman's layout

Great shots guys!:thumb:

Last night I went over to my good friend John Listerman's layout, the Christianson, Cyanthian, and Thomason RR or the 'most famous part of the B&O coal operation (I can't remember what the latter was), which I allways LOVE going to! I also brought over my BL2, thinking it had DCC. It didn't, but I got to put it in a nice, dead track where it could just sit pretty:

sticks out, doesn't it? John says that if the B&O historical society came over, seeing a C&O engine, much less one that had come AFTER 1953 (the last year most steam was active), would've killed him. Luckly, the guy didn't show upsign1.
Here's a shot of on of the best seniced areas on his layout:

Anything look odd to you?:mrgreen:
Here's Lawson Milling Co. on of the coolest structures on John's layout, and ENTIRELY SCRATCHBUILT!!!!!

Here's a Rio Grande car that met it's fate at the bottom of a cliff (this must've happened during or a bit after WWII because the layout is supposed to be mainly in W.V.)

I also got to drive a train of empties to Horde Mine, led by a 2-8-0. Here it is going under a bridge...

...and over another!

 

[brakie]

Another oldie..
But,a side note first.
Guys,I will start taking new pictures..I was waiting on the move into the new apartment.That was accomplish yesterday.I feel obliged to posting more since the weekly photo fun was my brain child along with tons of help from Deano..
I am very happy that the WPF has become so popular.

Thank you!!!
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A C&O T-1 rolls up the number 2 main while C&HV COJA-M (Columbus-Jackson-Manifest waits for a relief crew.

 

[Gary Pfeil]

Boy, lots of great shots already! Love the NP locos. And CNW, that is just a gorgeous photo.

 

[Nazgul]

Steve,

Nice F3 and very nice butter knife! Your butter knife even has the steam generators. They are missing on my F9s, or so I was told by the rivet counter at my club.

Did you add/paint any extra goodies to your engines? I am thinking of getting the Walther's F series Super Detail Kit but I need to keep my mind to building my mountain... can't get sidetracked.

Tell the "rivet counter" to go count some rivets........I saw some in the middle of the highway (good place for him to start:mrgreen

The butter knife is an F3 and the other is an F7. I did not add the details however, as these engines were a thank you gift from a fellow member of this forum. He probably wouldn't want me to mention his name so I won't..........................Deano....................Anyway this anonymous person added a lot of "extra goodies" such as:
decals, sunshades, rearview mirrors, firecracker antenna, f unit style coupler cut bars, MU socket, roof grabs above the front windshield, nose grabs on the F7, hoses, F7 and F3 designation plates. He also added decoders and dcc compatible lights and weathered the lower sections on both units. Oh yeah...he threw in a couple of custom weathered boxcars. To this day, I still look at all that and can't believe the quality of the work....and the man:thumb:.

He got the rocks....I got the trains......I got the better of itops:

I did not take these pics btw, I hope Deano..............I mean the anonymous person, doesn't mind:winker: