Weekly Photo Fun 8/14- 8/20

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Sneak peak of a new project. The RD&S no longer needed an office in town so they leased the building to a new tenant. They will still use the second floor to house their crews on layover.
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First floor ready for new business as more lumber is being delivered.
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Upstairs for crews.
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GrampysTrains said:
Wow, Dan! That looks like the real thing.

Reading GP7 No.633 switching the small yard at Blackwood.

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For some reason this photo really grabs me in the scene...I can see the treads on the o'l pickup, the guy going unlock the gate, just so real....nice job for this set up Grampy!
 
Wow! Just WOW! Great start to the weekend already folks!

Dan, I think I have been to that place........ No I guess it is someplace with a dirty bathroom..... ;-) Nice, very nice work!

DJ, another absolutely fantastic shot. I am going to have to take a trip South to PA and see your work in person some day! I am always impressed with both the modeling, and the photography!

I have been continuing to finish up a few areas and tidy up the layout getting it ready to be judged for Merit Points. The last major bit of scenery to do is actually not part of the swction to be judged, but will help provide the backdrop for part of the area that is to be considered. This is the area at the end of the yard lead showing the abandoned tunnel:

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Up above that scene is the trackage by Bare Mountain:

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From a slightly different angle:

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As you can see this is still in progress. The bare trees will recieve foliage sometime tomorrow.....;-)
 
Thanks, Ray. You are welcome to come visit, anytime. I really like that boarded up tunnel and abandoned track. That's something you don't see, very often.DJ.
 
Dan, that sink is filthy...and amazing! Those little details are really something.

DJ, another nice scene. I wish I could duplicate your lighting. If you look just right, it looks like the guy at the fence might be doing something othet than opening the gate. :)

Ray, most excellent scene of the abandoned tunnel. Does the other trackage byspass the abandoned tunnel?

Crandell, I don't have much good to say about MTH but that video is one time a working MTH smoke unit would have looked good. You can almost smell the exhaust as the engine passes.
 
Crandell, that's a great video. Fine camera work of a fine model and layout! DJ.

Thanks Jim. LOL, I see what you mean.
 
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Jim, it is a PCM model. I won't have anything to do with Mike Wolf. :rolleyes:

Thanks for your comments, none the less. :D My thanks go to you, also, Grampy.

-Crandell
 
UP2CSX said:
Ray, most excellent scene of the abandoned tunnel. Does the other trackage byspass the abandoned tunnel?
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Thanks Jim! Yes the story is that the SLOW had a cave in in the old bore and decided it wasn't worth trying to repair the tunnel so they put a new one a few yards from the old one.... What actually happened is that when I originally made the trackage here (back when I knew everything) I had a bad "S" curve that loved to derail all but the smallest equipment. When I changed the tunnel location, I decided to leave the old. Made a pretty interesting scene I think. BTW, you can also see in the second and third photos where the line of poles will go. There is a cut in the tree line for the imaginary wires..... The next pole in line will go right where the edge of the grass is now in the lower left corner of the shot.
 
Excellent stuff as usual guys! Thank you for sharing.
Keep posting away, this is the best thread of the week


A little somehting I took today :cool::D

CN Mix Freight with MLW RS18 in the lead making it's way to Sorel-de-Chambly

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Dan: Really like the wall paper, what did you use for it?

Some progress shots of one of the D&RGW 16x24 water tanks in O scale that I am building for the narrow gauge convention. Close up is of the scratch built band tightners that I do for these tanks. In the last shot is a HO tank body in front of the O for size comparison.

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Then the finished shots of the C&S Baker tank in O scale (minus the ladder) This was also scratch built for the convention. Tank body is painted Tuscan over pre stained lumber. These C&S tanks are a hoot to build as the front and back legs do not attach to the middle sets, takes a good jig to keep everything parallel during assembly.

Matt Dillow
MD Custom Models
 
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mdcustom said:
Dan: Really like the wall paper, what did you use for it?
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Matt:

That tank is something! So how hard are the band tighteners to make???? I just looked at your site. You are an artist!

Wallpaper, like many things I do, I Google around, 1940's wallpaper and find an image. Then bring it into Photoshop and resize and print. The White sewing machine sign was done the same way but on much heaver paper.
 
Selector said:
Jim, it is a PCM model. I won't have anything to do with Mike Wolf. :rolleyes:

Thanks for your comments, none the less. :D My thanks go to you, also, Grampy.

-Crandell
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Ditto! :rolleyes: Nice video. Was there another Y-6b in front? Speed matching two models for front & rear operation like that is not an easy task! One can end up with a bunch of cars on the ground!

One thing I did notice, not to be too much of a finicky rivet counter, but unless the Y-6b was a compound, shouldn't you turn up the chuff rate? I typically go for 8 chuffs per revolution on articulated locos, though if it's a compound, 4 is right. They're also always a little off somewhere in the operating range unless you use a cam though:)

Just curious. Smoke units...Arrrrghhhh:eek::eek: Nothing like oil film all over your scenery and rolling stock to mess up your day. If I wanted three rail features, I'd buy 3 rail trains.;) Just my humble (or not so much :D) opinion
 


Hi, Alan, and thanks for your feedback. The Y series were Mallet type, but they were capable of simple steam start-ups for a maximum near 150,000 lbs. of tractive effort, second only to the Yellowstones. I don't have a second model, but you are right, there would normally be two on the front with a single pusher at the rear, as I have tried to depict. Once above 10-15 mph, the hogger would switch to compound steam, and that is what the video was meant to represent.

I have film footage from the 50's showing the Y's working at that same pace on a 2% grade. In fact, there is the very same footage available on youtube.

-Crandell
 
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