Weekend Photo Fun October 24, 2008

Here's a couple of pics of a white metal kit of a tack shed I've been working on as well as a couple of cars.....

 

Here's an oldie: the Sarah Adams fast refrigerated freighter being nudged into dock by tow tugs.

 

Nice ships as usual, Pete. The backdrop caught my eye. Photo or painted? Looks a lot like Anchorage, Alaska. Fits the scene really well. Good work.

 

What caught my eye in your shot Pete was the length of that Reading Gondola in the yard. What's that, like almost 80 scale foot long ?

 

Homer, Alaska--a six shot panorama that I stitched together in Photoshop.

Train1,

It's a 85-foot gondola, which probably looks longer due to the wide angle lens.

 

It occurred to me that many newcomers at Trainboard haven't seen my railroad, so I'll start at the beginning. This is milepost 0, and also milepost 20, as my layout is one big loop spread over three levels:

 

This is the steam facility.



More later.

 

From a reverse angle:

 

Reverse Angle Photo

Here is my first reverse angle "down the line" photo. I used a plain decorative mirror square; no Helicon focus. Thanks to Tony Hammes for the technical input and assistance.

Here you can see the mirror location; the engine is out of the picture on the track to the right and is reflected in the mirror. Original picture:


Cropped photo:

 

Wow, Pete...Homer, AK. Small world. I thought your background looked familiar. My youngest son lived in Homer for about half a dozen years. He still owns property in the town (if you think it's really large enough to call it that!).

NYW&B

 

a special train on the clubs layout this weekend at the Marina Market in Rainier, OR

 

For Alaska, Homer's actually pretty big, about 6000 people--"A quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem." It is certainly the end of the highway too. I've only been there in late August. I imagine it's pretty dreary in the winter. I am looking for Kenai real estate, BTW. I haven't uploaded the full panorama. At print size it's about 300 Mbytes. I have a print in my house that is 8 feet long by about 14 inches high, with amazing detail.

Since my divorce, I am looking for Alaska real estate, either lots or a get-away cabin.

 

I found what looks like may be a colourized image, perhaps the 40's, of an Allegheny from the C&O arriving at Seneca Falls.

 

OK, so I finished that white metal kit of a tack shed except for the weathering.... I've attached a couple of photos with and without roof......

 

The work here by everyone just blows me away. Great job everyone!!

As for me, I have been busy working with cd55 and trying to come up with a ground throw for the ATL turnouts. I just laying my track directly on homasote, because this is a industrial area,, I was thinking of maybe making it like Duluth Mn, so I could do some pilings and bulkhead retaining walls for the port area,, but back to the subject.

Here are some pics,,, I used a radio shack sub-miniture slide switch. and just worked at different ideas, what you see in the pics is staged,, I worked with just one switch and see what worked best,, then I will apply to rest of the turnouts.





I also used a #71 drill bit, and some .025 wire. I do have some .030 wire I am going to try that also. These pics are the result of two attempts to get it right. The first one I sed a larger drill bit for the wire in the slide switch,, no bueno.

Adios for now. Wyatt

 

That's a great little shack. Very well done.

Wolfgang

 

Thank you, Wolfgang!