Feb 15 Week(end) Photo fun

[OldGettysk]

Cool shots again , Jeffrey that shack is the pits , and that CD case looks a bir out of place, Jos awesome build , kinda hard to tell which one is the real deal !!

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

There's something unusual about this F7. You should be able to spot it quickly.

 

[Myowngod]

Hey Guy's,
Everything is looking great this week.

Jeffrey I really like that old shed you have.

Jos the farm is looking amazing. I love the moss on the roof, very convincing.

Here's my contribution to the week. I got time to work on my dad's layout and installed the turntable and roundhouse.

Here's the area before I started.
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This is when I just temporarily tacked the track in place to get the curves right.
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Here's what the area looked like on the underside of the world (no Jos, not Australia or New Zealand ) DCC 2 wires... HA Ha ha?!
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And this is the service area just before I left for this trip.
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[grove den]

love those colors UNDER the layout Ron !
Jos

 

[BNSF dude]

Jeffery, The F-unit has ALCo FB-2 trucks, no windsheilds, and a wire is showing through the window holes.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffery, The F-unit has ALCo FB-2 trucks, no windsheilds, and a wire is showing through the window holes.

The trucks are what I wanted you to spot. Many people miss that.

 

[UP2CSX]

Boy, my monitor really is awful - I can't even tell what kind of trucks are under that F unit. I thought it was the numbers falling out of the numberboard. Jeffrey, did the KCS ever have an F unit with ALCo trucks?

Jos, that farmhouse looks really nice. I like the way the window flower boxes came out. We rarely do that kind of thing over here and European buildings always look so much nicer with all the flowers.

Ron, the track and wire gangs have been hard at work and doing a good job. The underside of your layout looks a lot neater than mine.

 

[suprduc]

Nice work on the roundhouse and turntable Ron. Can't wait to see it's completion.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffrey, did the KCS ever have an F unit with ALCo trucks?

Not to my knowledge. I wanted to see what it would look like with them. I liked it so much I left them on.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffrey, that water tank thows a big shadow right on the backdrop, which makes it easy to tell when the backdrop starts and the layout ends. The scale of the locomotive in the mid-foreground is way out of proportion to the height of the church steeples in the background. I think it would be more difficult to tell where the backdrop was if the buildings were about 25% larger and the hills were smaller and more faded into the backgound. Also, whatever that flat piece of shiny stuff (a CD case, maybe?) is in the lower right corner doesn't help matters.

The locomotive is more than a foot away from the backdrop.