Maybe an empty cross in front of the church, but there are no bunnys, chicks, or colored eggs here....
Flash, Joe Mainz's layout is impressive! Is that depot area modeled after a Santa Fe prototype? Nicely done!!!!!
I'm pretty sure it is SP and it, too, is a specific location east of San Antonio somewhere. I will ask Joe this next week. Here is a better picture.
Thanks guys! Bob Great steam shots! That steamer looks like it is coming right at you! John Breen Cool looking steamer and coach! John Sing Great looking F-7! Scott Great looking train! Jon Great shots of the coal yard! BTW Thanks for immortalizing me in a sign. Sorry I didn’t get a chance to say something last week. Brian Great looking visitors! Fluid Dynamics Nice looking Amtrak train! Hemi Nice start on the layout! Chad Awesome shots! Alan Nice shot! Flash Great layout shots! Jon More great shots!
Scott, awesome photo. I think you nailed that steep forested slope, that is very hard to model and look real!
Great photos this week showing some great modeling. I have been out of town back in the woods where there was no internet. Nobody put up any prototype shots so here is one of an old well worn Geep 39. This BNSF ROSTER says this was an EX BN engine. Looks like EX ATSF to me.
Nice stuff as usual everyone. Just comments opn some things that caught my eye. Flash, I really like that HO layout that you photographed. It's incredibly well done. Powersteam, your unitrack looks great. Did you simply paint it or add ballast? Scott Stutzman, Nice shot. Really nice. Brian, Unseniced but fully dieseled works for me. I kinda want to see that diesel thats lying in the background. I have a soft spot for black dipjob diesels. Sitch, I like that yard shot. I also like seeing some of the classic HO structures on layouts such as that engine shed. I need something like that for my N scale layout. Mr Grant, the best thing about having a mostly finished looking layout is being able to fiddle with the little details like your fence. I envy you. Hopefully in the next year I'll get past the plywood stage on my layout and begin doing structures and other details. BTW it is great to see more HO layout pics in the weekend photos. For a while TB was more of an N scalers site, I think it's great that we have so many diverse modellers here now. Good to see the variety. [ April 17, 2006, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: traingeekboy ]
What a difference a year makes. This is what mine looked like this time last year...the coffee mug denotes where the coal yard is now!! Last year Last weekend Jon
I stand corrected- that SP sign was the kicker. It's a very nice model, BTW. What era does he model? As for everyone else, the pics look great- thanks for sharing!:thumbs_up:
I had an awesome railfanning weekend. Took around 600 photos, including highlights such as... -an unpatched (but "scotchlighted") BN SD40-2 -a TRE Commuter Train on a highway overpass (it was moving and we were moving so the timing was impeccible! I was not driving, btw) -the corn syrup unloading facility at the Coca-Cola plant in Dallas -pics of the DGNO Mockingbird Yard, including visiting museum stock, a couple of RailAmerica switchers, and the two adjacent corn syrup unloading facilities there -a railroad-over-street bridge labeled "M-K-T Lines" -a shiny new pair of Gevo's hauling a TXUX train, with a trailing TFM SD70MAC as the DPU. -the elusive "Berwick Bathtub" UFIX car -a string of 6-7 BN, BNSF, and ATSF Difco-dump style cars -an "Earthworm" train with a single, odd-duck horizontal ribbed 5161 BNSF hopper. (possibly not a 5161, have to confirm) A big thanks to my pal Rossford Yard for dragging me along on Saturday, plus the bonus trip to the Stars game. Once the dust settles with the new website, I will approach the mod-gods about getting a Railimages account set up again so I can actually post pictures.
friscobob: Not so fast on my part. One of my long time Texas resident buddies says that Caldwell was on the ATSF Temple to Galveston line. There was a lot of SP and SSW through there, so I'd better wait before I definitely say it is SP. The team track is SP, so maybe that was SP's location to ship freight on that line. More in a day or so. BTW, it does look like there is an interchange there. Joe Mainz models early diesel SP. (Another reason I assumed it was SP.) GP30 is pretty modern stuff for Joe.
And to confuse things further, the Santa Fe and Sp used similar colors to paint their depots in that era. SP called it Sunset Gold with brown trim and Santa Fe called it Colonial Yellow with brown trim. However the style looks very similar to other SP Depots in the area like the one on Flatonia. I do have a photo of the Santa Fe Depot in Callwell and it looks very different.
Oh I see! You used Jeff's gas. Railfanning now-a-days is an expensive proposition. I can't wait to see the pics.
Geeky: The Unitrack was weathered, painted and ballast was added. I painted the roadbed a grimy black. The rails were first painted grimy black and then mineral red. The spikeheads were painted a raw sienna/burnt sienna. I used natural rock very fine ballast from Color Canyon Materials to cover the roadbed. Stay cool and run steam.....:shade: :shade:
