Here's my HO Driline city

Here's my HO Driline city scene.

SD60E

I have been working on 3D printing a Norfolk Southern SD60E cab that will be a drop on replacement onto a Proto 2000 SD60 chassis/shell. I should have the shell printed by this time next week.

Day's end

Dri - nice attention to detail.  Things like the tall grass and detailed park bench really take the scene above and beyond.

My contribution is a couple of cars sitting on a siding while the sun sets:

-Kevin

High Bridge

It's the first scene I completed on my layout, and still my favorite vantage point for layout photos.

Train NTSW-19 crosses the ballasted deck girder bridge over Hickman Road, with a load of steel plates bound for Chicago Bridge and Iron in Clive, Iowa

James

Nice work folks and nice use

Nice work folks and nice use of natural light Kevin!

RE: Day's End

Kevin - Definitely "Yes its a Model" worthy!

Some weathered stuff.

Here are a couple of GP35's that I just weathered and added to the roster.  One is a former Conrail and the other UP.  They get rotated onto my district along with several other locomotives, mostly GP35's.  My Logansport and Indiana Northern district of INRAIL is just one of three.  My best friend, Quintin Schini models the M&IN district with the third one being the Fulton County Railroad.  Tom Johnson 

Here's another from the

Here's another from the wrinkle in time on the Bear Creek.  The big MACs are in the company notch lifting the coal train up the hill.  Thanks again, Charlie, it was a fun chase.

As always more of the Bear Creek can be seen here:

http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/index.shtml

Paul

Great photos, all

Great start to the weekend.  Dri - what's the film crew on location filming?

-bill

This image shows a BLI

This image shows a BLI Paragon 4-8-4 and some cars on a diorama placed at roadside on a table two years ago. Everything you see was imaged by the camera, but it is a composite of four stacked images. Behind the diorama, which includes the foreground, river, rails, bridge, and middle ground, is a paved two lane country road, 8' of easement, a fence, and a field covering the next 800 meters or more in the low ground. Beyond, in the far distance, is the Beaufort Range on Vancouver Island and the Comox Glacier. 

Film Crew

Right now they're in the parking lot of Napa with a reporter shooting stand up video of a car accident. With nearly 17 years in television broadcasting I had to do a scene like this on my layout  

Steel Mill Structures

Here are a couple of pictures of the Walthers Steel Mill kits I built for a client. See more on my blog.

http://mrhmag.com/blog/richard_harden

My 2 cents

Birds eye view of small industrial yard on my Norfolk Portsmouth Belt Line.

"Electrically Controlled Time" - an old train station clock

Yes, I know that it's not a picture of a layout or model, but since I'm in the building stage and don't have much else to share I thought I would share one of my favorite keepsakes left to me from my Dad.  Below is a picture of a clock that Dad got from a L&N train station (station unknown) boasting the new-fangled "Electrically Controlled Time" - which Bulova started making in 1931.  The plaque on top with the Electrically Controlled Time is for some reason hinged where it can be folded down.  I did some Google(tm) searches and many of these clocks had custom faces printed with the same of a business or advertisement.  When I first got the clock it still ran; however it no longer operates.

This closeup of the hands shows a little circular dial with an arrow on it.  This dial would spin (counter-clockwise) when the clock was running and it's purpose was to show that this new technology was indeed operating!

Here's a picture I found on the web of the same style clock custom printed for an insurance agency.  Picture compliments of iCollector.com.

My intention is to get my clock repaired and hang it in my new trainroom / office as a reminder of my Dad and those train days gone by.

Rick - thats a great piece,

Rick - thats a great piece, thanks for sharing. I hope you get it working again, best of luck.

Excellent modeling guys

Great contributions ; pics / modeling / weathering /diorama / layout / rolling stock -  from all the talented people here. All of the above post are excellent. Kudos' to all who posted.

Always enjoy this thread.  Fine quality of talented modelers here.

Thanks for contributing and sharing your work.

New shots of old stuff - Buck & Loretta's & Ole' Man Skinnard's

I was messing around with my Iphone 4S and wanted to see what it would do on close up shots, so here are the results:

First up I wanted to show what progress(?) has been made on restoring Buck's old Buick.  It appears not much (nothing?) has been done!  When Buck was asked about the status he said: "I being fixin to git to work on that old hunk of junk, but thar's beers to drink and fish to ketch!"

Curious on how the clean up is going on the front porch?  When Buck was asked about the status he said: "I being fixin to git to work on that thar porch, but thar's beers to drink and fish to ketch - now ifin Loretta wood quit her darn complaining a man could enjoy his purrrsuits!"

Down the dirt road from Buck & Lorreta's is Ole' Man Skinnard's place which looks in much better shape.  Maybe it's because Skinnard is hardly every home and is rumored to be up in the hills here he spends most of his time distilling his white lightening.

Favorite photo....

Rick,

Great photos of the old layout! I am also in the construction phase. I would like to share a photo of my wife's grandfather who retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad. He is the gentleman standing on the left. If anyone has any information on the locomotive type I would appreciate it.

 Thanks

Tom

Skinnard's Place

Fine story Rick and how true to life...we all have places like this in the neighborhood...old cars on blocks or not..extra toilets serving as planters...that old couch or car seat still to good to really get rid of...yup, all still in the neighborhood...

Hey, wait a minute....could that be my place!

One task I did this weekend

I stained all of these cars with Floquil (Yes, I still have some).

PRR 8178 comes up as a 2-8-0

PRR 8178 comes up as a 2-8-0 H-*, [H-8sa, similar to #7194 in 1939]{Similar to #8175]

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/prr_steam4.html

http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Rosters/steam_class.html

Though the picture there shows the compressor having been upgraded later in life...It's anywhere between an H-8 and an H-10.

Just bought an Atlas Genset.

Just bought an Atlas Genset. Going to get a decoder for it next week, but tested it straight DC and it's very nice. I'm impressed so far. 

quick picture

a quick shot taken from the video of my layout :

Waiting at the tower

MEC 512 waits for the signal from the tower before entering the yard.  I installed a lighted entrance and interior on the second floor which includes a lighted track diagram display.