Here is another view from my Richmond, Texas NTRAK modules. The yellow and blue lines are on the right and are hidden from viewing from the front of the modules by a thick wall of vegetation. Just one way to break up the 3 track mainline look of the typical NTRAK format.
Russell, I love the way your water tower rises up into the blue sky. This could be a setting anywhere in N. America on the prairies. Well done! From me, a C&O H-8's energy and mass shakes the Seneca River Trestle.
Russell & Crandell - both excellent pictures. Candy - yes, Russell is a true artist but I think he would admit that it is that great Texas "blue sky" that makes the picture pop.
Nice shots! I don't know if my trestle could handle that massive H-8, but here's what I caught crossing it today: Crossing the Pond Or you can take a tour of my layout to see what it looks like these days. Still a lot more work to do.
Well it's a hot afternoon in downtown Mogollon and after a couple of beers and a shot or two at the Bloated Goat 2, these bikers seem to be interested in conversing with the "ladies" at the Gila Hotel. I took this shot while I was operating on Woodie's (mogollon) 1/35n2 layout yesterday. Since Woodie's internet connection is down for a few days, I said I would post this in his honor. Happy Friday everybody!
Thanks for your kind words folks. That is correct. My artificial lighting skills are still not very good so I try to haul everything outside and let mother nature do my lighting.
I get a kick out of this shot. Although the club gave me these modules to take care of I did strip and relay track and scenery. They have always called them Hondo(bridge) and El Gato(Mormon like rocks), but nobody could give me any references as to why. So the light colored rock module I call Moron Rocks and I have yet to rename the bridge. There is only one bridge like that in the Inland Empire and it is the old PE line through Redlands and is dormant. This is an old favorite from my layout. An Intermountain F3 is climbing out of the canyon entering the vast desolate dessert. I think the F3 engineer about pissed when the noise from the train above became evident.
Checking my weekend will be the train show and I hope to post some pictures of that. Here are some SD40/SD45/Tunnel Motor pictures I am trying to locate. SD40 SD45-2 SD40 SD50
Thank-you, Ms. Streeter, I appreciate your comment. :smile: That's exactly what I was hoping to elicit in viewers, a sense of riding atop a noisy, surging coal hopper with the smoke billowing back towards the viewer tinged with a whiff of eau de Creosote. Oh, oh, oohhhhhhh....!
Here is a link that shows a tunnel motor on the left and a standard engine on the right. The radiator air intakes on tunnel motors are low to get cooler air from the restricted space of tunnels. High radiator air intakes are standard. (I think I said that right. ) http://www.actionroad.net/DRGWLPD3/CCC/UP5999_a.jpg
