I had the privelidge to railfan Marias Pass with Grant-sar and a couple of his buddies yesterday--here's a sneak peek! Early morning light between Meriwether and Piegan, MT:
Did a paint job on an Atlas MP15 this week. Based on the Morristown and Erie SW1500 #20. Looks pretty mean. I have to do a few for myself now. Scott
The LLL, recently re-funded and powered, made its first purchase of a Consolidation that the B&O assured our purchasing agent was in tip top shape. I have asked our agent for more details about the purchase but he was vacationing in Bermuda and could not be reached.
Scott, Excellent paint work and a fantastic model. Mark, thats a very realistic photo and the weathering is awesome
Very cool photo of the snow-capped mountains behind a real train. The various layout photos are very nice, too, lots of good eye-candy. It clearly took many hours to get everything looking just so. Anthony, your work is superb! You should feel immense satisfaction after that achievement. I was fooling around with my wife's camera and came up with this inadvertent effect with the lighting and shadows. "Sunset on the Seneca Falls trestle"
Here are a couple of shots of my latest edition to the fleet ex NW SD35 now a EMD leasing unit. More information can be found at this topic EMD Leasing Ex NW SD35
I have been transferring some oldie pics from the outgoing Railimages site. Soundchipped Bachmann 0-6-0 Jon Conrail special
Anthony- I have five of the kits, still unassembled, but painted with an early air brush adventure. I will be submersing the same in Chamleon and starting over after seeing what they should look like in your photograph. Steve- If I can't laugh at myself, I would go insane from being serious seven days a week instead of just five.
Almost as big as the main yard, but single-ended, there's a lot of switching possibilities here. The plutonium reactors are to the left, with old milling plants to the right. Again I see the difference between painted and unpainted track! The crossover at the bottom right was a late addition.
Past the plutonium reactor is a gentle climb up to the third deck. You can see that this is indeed a dogbone. The two tracks to the left are where we came from; the two tracks to the right are where we are going, after a loop around the reactor. The two tracks in the middle are long yard leads for the reactor's yard. This section isn't finished as well as some others. I've relaid track up here a number of times, especially to the right of the image, and haven't got the ballast train through this throat. That's another of my spray can backdrops. We came up on the leftmost track, and are climbing on the rightmost track. We'll come back on the second rightmost track, and then then second letmost track.
This side of the layout, the east side, has only two decks. We'll climb behind the asylum, cross the garage door, and enter the third deck on the west wall.
This what my layout looks like during this photo shoot. It also shows the complete garage door side of the layout, where many of the transitions between decks take place. At the bottom is my backup Nikon D100 on a tabletop tripod. Since the D70 is sharper, I use it for shots that need its sharpness. But otherwise I use the camera with the correct lens, either 12-24mm or 24-85mm. I've yet to find a use for a 70-300 on model railroad photography. In shooting the South Harbor, I dropped a light onto the Cape Cod RR bridge, and am in the process of repairing it. That's what the tools and parts are for. The high bridges are the crossing from deck one to deck two. Just above the high bridges, the backdrop is coved to conceal another crossing between decks. At the left you can see my 1/4-inch foam core deck construction--not exactly 3/4-inch plywood, but perfectly adequate for N scale. The train at the top is crossing onto deck three on the west side. So far we've gone right to left across the RR bridge, then left to right across a high bridge, then right to left on the tracks hidden behind the coved backdrop, and now left to right. Clear? Yeah, sure.
Our coal train blasts by the first of the "plants" on the third deck. I saw these type of structures all over New England. They looked like manufacturing buildings plunked down in the middle of nowhere, and many times that's exactly what they were. After circling Westover, we'll come back on the rightmost track. Westover is off the screen to the right. A mixed freight headed by four Baldwin H16-44s waits on the long siding.
I had to photograph my not yet finished signal bridge. middle track branch line tower track looking to the tower
