Here is the HO depot that I kit bashed for a friend's layout from two Atlas Maywood Station models. Still needs weathering and lots of scenicing to blend it in. He will be doing a clinic on his layout this weekend at the NMRA Lone Star Region convention. This shows one of the kits on the layout back behind the reefers before I started slicing and dicing.
Nice looking building. Where is it located? I ask because I spent some of my younger years in West Hempstead, NY, but I believe the Hempstead I knew and the one you're modelling are quite removed (SP never quite made it to Long Island)
Thanks. Hempstead is a little town about 35 miles north west of Houston. The railroad started out named the Galveston & Red River but by the time it built through Hempstead in the late 1850s, it was called the Houston & Texas Central. After the Civil War, it continued building to Dallas in 1872. Later it came under control of the Southern Pacific but was operated independently until it was leased to the Texas & New Orleans in 1927 and merged into it in 1934. The T&NO was finally fully merged into the Southern Pacific in 1961. This photo shows the depot during the WWI era. It was longer then.
Box, Like all my trestles through the years I did build it in place. The rock cliff is Scultamold and once dried only a good drill will penetrate. This layout is HO/On30 so this bridge is built in S Scale. Jim
HEY EVERYBODY, I haven't posted a picture in a while. I'm having problems focusing. It doesn't what camera or phone. Its my hands. Here's a picture to show what I've been up to.
Boxcab, Here is today's update of the trestle. On top an On30 train on the bottom the S Scale trestle. I don't think it looks too bad as the narrow gauge Mogul seems to fit right in. HO locos look good too. Jim
My little Coolpix focuses great, but pictures are sometimes blurred not because of focus but motion- long exposure to get enough light, and hands that can't hold it still all that long. To compensate for my shaky hands in photography, I have taken to using a tripod for nearly all my indoor model pictures and to outdoor pictures in poor light or using telephoto zoom. It makes it look like I'm making a big production out of it, but its just a way of using my inexpensive camera. I still hand-hold most of my grab-shots of modelable structures and rolling stock. I may have to get some kind of tripod to hold my hands steady during model-BUILDING!
The trestle photos earlier were taken using three rules. 1. Natural light 2. Tripod 3. Timer Observe these simple rules and you to may have a TB Photo Winner appellation after your names. Jim
Nice looking group. Seeing these, and after watching D&RGW trains on RFD TV Friday, makes me wish for days long gone.
