Weekend Foto Fun May 26, 2006

Great pics guys!!! Well it took a long time, but I finally was able to get my train items and personal belongings back. Minus the items that were sold,,, any who I set up my switching district up so I can piddle till I get the AC in garage and plan for the future empire.

Here are a couple of pics.




Here is what the layout looks like when it is dissasembled. The layout fit in a 16' 7" x 11' 6" room. Now I have a 22' x 22' garage to use, woooooohoooooo.



Adios to all,, have a great weekend, and happy memorial day to all!!!

Wyatt

 

Here are my contributions for this weekend...

First, my superdetailed and weathered Susquehanna B40-8. An Atlas model, but I added ditch lights, changed the number on the cab, the numberboards, and added red lenses for marker lights on both the front and rear. And of course, weathered with pastels and paints.



An accompanying Athearn caboose:

 

Some shots of a sampling of my fleet:

New York Central 60' high-cube boxcar, custom decorated for my modern-day NYC:

 

Two Guilford cars spotted at Butler Paper:





3 centerbeams waiting to unload at Johnson & Sons Lumber:

 

In the yard:







New Orleans Public Belt, weathered after a prototype. (involved several successive layers of white and yellow pastel to get the faded color *just right*)

 

MMA box spotted at Instant Horizons:







And I'm spent... Hope you enjoyed.

 

Gotta love those (unfortunately long-gone) Squeek Bash-8's!

I have the same Atlas B40-8 Susquehanna loco (#4008). Very nice-running engine, and it's actually prototype-faithful so we didn't have to add any details. I never worked up the nerve to weather mine though.

 

I didn't get to look at the little stuff so here is one of my 1:1 trains at Berowra in Sydney's north

 

Sten,

Very interesting view of catenary! Thanks! It looks too spidery to be true.

 

mtrpls, AWESOME stuff !!!

 

Great Weathering

Sure is! Very very nice. :thumbs_up:

 

mtrpls,
great weathering. I like this.

Wolfgang

 

Thanks for the compliments, guys. Everyone on this board is an inspiration to me!

Wolfgang: I have visited your website several times, and I am very impressed with your level of work. You have done a fantastic job capturing the feel of American railroading, especially considering you live in Europe. And congrats on that little piece (operating gates) in Model Railroader magazine!

 

I like mechanics. :angel:
You can see all in motion in WebVideos at my site Braunlage

Wolfglang

 

mtrpls, that is a VERY impressive Mississippi Export (MEX) car. If I was still working over in Pascagoula, I would send you photos of those cars in 1:1 scale, along with the GP15 that pushes them around.

How did you create the excellent rust stains on that car?

 

Stay cool and run steam.....

 

mtrpls, how about a tutorial on how you did those? and in-progress pics if you got them?

 

This weekend my family and I attended a car show at a local museum and to our suprise they had their garden layout running. The gentleman at the throttles said that the layout had sat for a while and that they just completed the new wiring and that all of the track is brand new.

Ben

 

it's real...... I won't dare anyone to touch it to find out - 1500vDC