Chili Line in HOn3 update

First up a couple of photos of my Embudo station scene:

Based on prototype photos Embudo features the rock station and freight house built by Dave Jamriska. I built the kitchen/cabin and the garage tool house. All rocks were sized and applied one at a time just like Station Agent Wallace did.

Here is MP 331. The DRG built a large fill in this location, which is known on topo maps as "Indian Lake" which can be seen from Hwy 285 in Northern NM. The northbound train, 426 is passing the site. 

Arcata & Mad River GE 44-Tonners (1:160)

The 101 and 102 haul empties to the interchange on Mitch Valder's NorthWestern Pacific 1958 layout.  The 44-tonners were custom painted with special ordered decals from Highball Graphics.  The working beacon lights are from Details N Scale.  Brad Myers (Brad's N Scale Station) installed TCS Z2 decoders in both.

Excellent modeling

Mitch. Well done and the photo composition is good too. 

Embudo!

Ernie, what great modeling of Embudo...you really have a laser focus on the Chili Line and are re-creating it in miniature! Your photos in the May issue of MRH are great as well, keep 'em coming, amigo!

Town of "NORMA"

Early morning unit grain...

The last snow of winter finds a slow moving unit grain moving westward in the early morning...

This CP Rail National car 4 bay cylindrical hopper is a recent project that I completed...

Additional images...  http://www.theweatheringshop.com/gcpblack.html

Gary Christensen

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Great prototype shots, Gary! Er, I mean, model shots? Hmm, not exactly sure...

Amazing modeling, sir.

Great modeling and photos,

Great modeling and photos, Ernie, Mitch, Cody and Gary!

Gary, those two winter scenes in particular are amazingly realistic!

Stunning work this week!

 Great modeling and great Pictures from everyone!

Great pictures this week!

Great pictures this week!

Great winter shots there

Great winter shots there Gary. Are those CGI trees  in the first shot

Regards Phil

Tank Car

Obviously somebody wasn't too attentive when filling this tank car:

My MRH blog: https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/somewhere-southwest-12199582

Evening doodle...

...nothing spectacular on my side, just an evening doodle...great pictures and work friends...

An Xtra train ...

... with an extraordinary large load.

My N&W G1 did a great job however I think that I should build in a cam for better chuff synchronization yet.

Love it

Im doing a 1/24 scale 57 Chevy for my brother in law. Planning an "under a tree abandoned" Diorama. As always your work is inspiring

Thanks

Dick

Another way to do a chain link fence

I road the Amtrak this past weekend for fun and while I was at the station in Winter Haven, FL I noticed this unusual way to support a chain link fence around a citrus processing plant.  They used "H" beams with angle iron at the top to support a cable - which doesn't appear to support anything.  Maybe this would be interesting to model as something a little different.

Thanks fellas...

Thanks for the kind comments on another one of my projects fellas!

RAY & VERNE: Congratulations with your seats on the "Gang of 6!" I look forward to your individual column segments. I think fantasy modeling is just as vital as prototype parallel modeling. In fact there is a bit more to fantasy that exercises the human rights to imagination that I thoroughly enjoy. Again,..I thank you both and I'm looking forward to some good reading.

PHIL: Thank you considerably for the comments as well friend!

 The trees in the snow diorama and a couple of other scenes that I've built are home crafted. I was browsing a "Dollar Store" years ago right around the holidays and I noticed these plastic wreaths that resembled small scale pine boughs. I cleaned the store shelves out of their inventory of them and kept them as surplus at home for future projects. When I decided to employ the plastic boughs,..I bought a  plethora of differing sizes of wooden dowels. For about a month and a half, I created Conifers from the dowels and plastic boughs. I prepped the dowels first by whittling each one onto a taper towards the crown and then I shot each one with a Rustoleum* flat brown aerosol. Once the paint was dry, I then scribed the dowel from trunk to crown with a hack saw blade to represent bark. I then took boughs individually and sprayed them with a flat o.d. green before I misted them with spray adhesive and peppered the boughs with a very fine Woodland Scenics green foam. Each bough was then individually cut to size and strategically glued to the trunks of each tree from the bottom up. All of this until I felt that each tree looked full.

Another thread here with some marvelous model viewing photos from everyone!

Gary Christensen

Engineer -- Great job on the

Engineer -- Great job on the tank car! The spill really adds a lot.

Jappe -- How did you miniaturize that old junker?  

Bernhard -- Nice scene!

Gary -- Thanks for the info about your trees. I too was wondering how you did them.

papermill growing.

Played with new mortar method for n scale papermill warehouse. This result I liked. I used Durham's Water Putty spread with a stiff bristle brush until even, then misted with wet water from an old ACC  accelerator bottle for a fine mist. I dried it with a small space heater.

The Kraft mill and boiler are taking shape too.

Super stuff!

Thanks to all!

@Ernie, I'm diggin' the Embudo scene! Great modeling, really inspirational!

@Mitch -- are you a-sayin' that that's N scale!? Well, if it is or isn't, that's still a great looking layout. But that's one heck of scene if it's N!

It's Really N Scale

Thanks for the nice remarks.  I enjoy the challenge of 1:160.

You can see more in the latest issue (May/June) of N Scale Railroading magazine.  ( Can I say that here?)

Static fun

Nice grass!

Marty, how did you create the grass effects in the bottom photo? What products and techniques? I've gotta know!

I scored this Broadway

I scored this Broadway Limited N&W 2-6-6-4 Class A on ebay last week. I gave is a quick weathering job so it looks the part hauling heavy coal drags.