Well, its that time again. Here is one from the "moldy oldy" file. The Con Cor PAs have been replaced by Kato engines and the NTRAK modules have been changed quite a bit with more real estate, different track layout and more structures since the photo was taken.
Great shot Russell! Looks just like Sugarland. Yesterday I decided to put a road across my desert so I marked it off with a pencil and cut through the plaster down to the foam base. Then I squirted out grey caulking compound on the foam and smoothed it out with a 2" putty knife. I probably need to add another layer but anyhow here is a pic I took today. Kinda sorry to lose the spacious look of my desert but I wanted to capture the look of miles and miles of lonely highway running along the tracks. The car is a '39 Ford and the truck is a '40 model, both of which look like they have seen better days. Cheers!, Bryant
Tom and all y'all that want to do smoke: I bought an HP computer couple years ago and discovered a software pkg on the system called "PhotoImpressions". Takes a little practice but you can do convincing smoke and a few other tricks. I suppose you can buy the package but I havn't looked. It must not be highly rated or it would not have been free. I laid the far background scene in with a Microsoft pkg called 'PICTURE-It'. I highly recommend this MS pkg. Bryant
A recent shot of my layout that is modeled around Spokane. NP, GN and SP&S are all in this shot at the station
Here is my contribution for this week. Pueblo passenger station in back and some of the freight yard in front.
SNFF 2 20 05 Hi, all, These I've previously posted over on the Trainboard "Multiple Unit Lashup" thread; re-posting for general sharing. Southern Pacific Trainmasters, a set of four: And a different angle: I might add, *all* of my photos these days are much improved because of digital photograph editing software. Just wanted to let all of you know that my original out-of-the-camera photos don't look anywhere near as good as the final product. Case in point, here's a (smaller-size) copy of **original** of the above photo: Quite a difference, the original shot wasn't good at all - too dark, too blue, out of focus. What I needed to do is remove excess blue caused by incorrect lighting, changed the contrast and brightness levels so that detail can be seen, pushed the red a little to naturalize the color, sharpened the out-of-focus, and finally, cropped the original. So, once you get some basics down in using the digital camera, give a try to post-edit software. The inexpensive ones are good enough to start with; I'm still using the basic Microsoft Photo Editor which comes standard with MicroSoft Office. Whatever software you try, you'll be glad you did! (smile) Take care, all.
Been working on a fantasy loco scheme this week Today I went to see the original 'Stephenson's Rocket First a replica Then the real McCoy Jon
This shot of my special excursion train was one of the last pictures at my module Pulpwood loading. Now, it's sold. And I've rebuild this part of the layout. Wolfgang
Marty Great yard scene! John W You also have a great looking yard scene! John Sing Nice shot of your power! And great tips! Dan Cool picture! Jon Terrific job on the locomotive! Nice shots of the Rocket! Bob Great layout shots. Nice weathering on the rolling stock! Wolfgand Great shot!
I hope those folks in the gondola brought some rain gear. The weather looks like they may get wet soon.
Reminds me of Highway 90 out in West Texas around Marathon. Been a while since I chased any trains out there. Come to think of it, the last time I was out there I was riding Amtrak through that kind of landscape.
Marty, back when I was a kid, in 1961, my family took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Minneapolis-St. Paul. I was packing my trusty Kodak Brownie but failed to take any photos of that part of our trip. I guess I have to rely on folks like you to rekindle those memories for me. Great shot, thanks.
Bruce: Those hoppers look great. Light colored rolling stock is difficult to weather. Your hoppers look so realistic. That scene is quite dramatic. How do you do your backgrounds? Stay cool and run steam.....
Here are some shots taken earlier today. The first is my local switcher ready to depart Ranoake yard with the 3 San Antonio Pacific hoppers. The next two photos are of my newly acquired GP60's that were given to me as birthday gifts from my wife and two children.
