Salado Creek usually looks like this as I modeled it on my layout. It is a nice quiet stream and normally has water in it. After about one-quarter inch of rain this week, it looked like this.
Russell Great looking steamer! Bob Great b&w shots! What is the Santa Fe steamer in the first one? Carl Great locos! Mike Cool steamers! Didn’t know you had any! John Sing Awesome locos! River_eagle Great shot! Carl Cool pics! FreeMo Tim Cool layout shots! Jim It is always good to see progress! Pete Wow! Great looking layout and solution! Smallbore3p Good looking building! Alaska GP49 Looking good! OC Engineer JD Great looking train and locos! Flash Neat comparison shots!
Tom: That ATSF 4-8-4 is a "War Baby". Here is another photo showing the tender, A brass SP 2-8-2 Mikado is behind the ATSF tender. Here is a description of this class of ATSF 4-8-4's. [FONT=arial,helvetica]The 4-8-4 type received the nomenclature Northern because the first 4-8-4 was used on the Northern Pacific. A number of roads declined to use the name, such as the New York Central's Niagara and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Dixie. On the Santa Fe, the official moniker was "Modified Mountain" (4-8-2 type locos were called Mountains). Similarly, the Santa Fe called its 4-6-4 locomotives "Modified Pacifies."[/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica]Santa Fe received its first 4-8-4 in 1927. It was the second railroad to order the wheel arrangement (after the Northern Pacific's ten 4-8-4s in 1926), and it was Baldwin's first 4-8-4. Between 1928 and 1941, thirty-five additional 4-8-4s were delivered to the Santa Fe, all built by the Baldwin Locomotive Company. The locomotives held down fast freight and passenger train runs across the system and on the flatlands a 4-8-4 could haul as many as twenty-nine heavyweight passenger cars.[/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica]With the outbreak of hostilities in 1941, the Santa Fe suddenly found itself without sufficient power for manifest freights and troop trains, not to mention the myriad other business increases caused by the war. With military production taking over most of America's manufacturing might, civilian auto and truck production came to a standstill and submarine and patrol boat production gobbled up diesel engine production capacity. The government established the War Production Board to ration manufacturing time and materials to where they would do the most good. Some railroads, such as the Chicago & North Western, were allotted diesel locomotives, while others, such as the Milwaukee Road, received new steam power. [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica]The Santa Fe received allotments for both steam and diesel power, ultimately receiving more than half of the EMD FT freight diesel production during the war.[/FONT] Stay cool and run steam......
Hey JD Those steams look great :thumbs_up: Hey Tom, That's one of two. 1Erie & 1 DL&W. Good pictures this weekend everybody !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to agree with the PA's.... But, I have to say, I am a bit biased toward these beauts: Here's what I did this weekend! Finished staging, started to lay track in the helix: I also built the wye to Plain.
Hemi, your PA's look pretty good too. Did you modify the couplers on your Kato DRGW PAs to get them to couple closer? I needed to do that on my Kato PA's to close the gap (Unimates in an asymmetrical short shank / medium shank config) .....
If Kato annouces them in D&RGW 4-stripe, I'm in trouble... No mods yet. I want to get unimates on them, sicne I get an uncoupling A-unit now and then. I found out the single A-unit will pull the entire CZ up the helix, and keep up with the A & B units ahead of it...:angel:
TONS of great photos everyone!! My contribution is AFT 4449 on my project Freedom Train. Happy Modeling!! Johnny
Lineup of Frisco power. Two trains await their turn to head west to Tulsa, OK, while a GP35/U30B set awaits assignment to another freight.
This was shot at 85mm on a DSLR. I built parts of the creamery from N-Scale Architects backwards--it turned out OK! Here the slight mismatch of modules doesn't show. The tall tree above the smoke stack hides a seam in the backdrop. Check out my blog. I've posted a bunch of new pictures, and am soliciting comments on them. The link is below, in my signature line.
Finally getting to post on the SNFF. I have been corresponding with mopacfan2007, aka Donovan in Dallas on and off for several years now and found myself in the position to go and visit him when I was in Oklahoma City for some work related training. I have always liked Donovan’s layouts and seeing one was worth the wait. I took a quick tour of the layout and we discussed many ideas about layouts and operating. He pulled out a switch list for me but I declined and continued our discussions. We found we have a lot in common and I only wish I lived closer or could visit a little more often. Over all I had an awesome time and can't wait to visit again. Thanks Donovan
I cant remember if I posted these here before or not. If so, sorry about that. These are the two latest customers that I installed on the T&GL during this past summer. The first is Hanlin Lumber & Building Supply. Its scratchbuilt using Northeast Scale Lumber & Grandt Line windows with scratchbuilt details. The second is M.C. Beer & Son Plumbing Supply. I kitbashed it with parts from a couple of different Model Power kits with a scratchbuilt overhead crane, pipe racks & other details.
This scratchbuilt depot seems like its taking me forever to finish. I have run into many problems but I think I finally have them all resolved. Made some progress this week with paint and window treatments. The roof is also taking shape. Shouldn't be much longer now (I hope):shade:
Lookin' great, Mike!!!! Very nice, my friend. Separation lines are sharp,the white (which is hard to shoot in the first place) is opaque, and even.. Sweet--Ivo will have a real gem when you're finished!
