A little forced perspective.

      In both photos the foreground cabins are O scale. The background models are HO Scale. They are situated less than a foot away from each other yet the eye is seeing the scene as cabins and loco either down the embankment or the cabins across the other side of the rail yard.

Mechanicville blues

Amtrak’s Adirondack, with a D&H PA-4 in the lead, meets a Boston & Maine freight getting ready to depart Mechanicville, N.Y. in October 1975.

Actually, I haven't modeled Mechanicville (yet), but that’s the only place these two trains would meet in real life so I staged the photo elsewhere.  The PA is a Proto 2000 model that I modified to represent a Morrison-Knudsen rebuild.  The lead GP38-2 is an unmodified Athearn Genesis, but the second one is a Proto 2000 model that I was going to sell but decided to improve instead.  It now looks almost as good as the Genesis now that I’ve removed the odd side sill bump-outs at the step wells and repainted the blue for a better match.  The factory blue was very strange.

The trailing GP9 is also from Genesis, but I also repainted its blue in order to get a faded look.  Yes, I masked around the “BM” logo.  Same goes for that Kadee B&M boxcar.

I adjusted the image's overall color balance using Adobe Photoshop Express and painted the sky and exhaust using the Paint 3D program that came with my Windows.

Dominic

WPF

PRR and Dominic, great photos!  Dom, I especially enjoyed reading about all your work on the models involved.  Very impressive!  I've been down that same path with reworking P2K and Genesis GP38-2s, so I could really relate to your comments.

I've been laying ties on the new layout this past week and I hope to finish the last of them up today if I hustle.  The main portion of Atlantic yard, shown below, and the end of my peninsula made the move with us, but all the other visible trackage is new. 

Looking east:

More pics, details, and a layout plan for the new place can be found at https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/43153?page=1#comment-484500 .

Gannon

Nice work this week guys. Sw1200 is making its train up to head over to switch the interchange with the Arcata& Mad River at Korblex. Kevin  

Remote Engineer view on the GHR

We're continuing to improve the remote crew's experiences for industrial switching ops on the GHR. Here's the latest remote Engineer's "in cab" experience - front, side and rear views from 3 live-streaming Choo Choo Vision cameras:

The remote Engineer also hears the loco sounds via a Zoom call (musician setting) and makes/receives crew radio calls via Zello with PTT and optional speaker mics.   

Pete

Time to make a choice

Surrender to the sheriff…or jump into the raging river below. 
 

HO scale diorama 4”x4”x10”

Scaletrains Dash 9 just

Scaletrains Dash 9 just finished up and hit the layout. Was BC Rail livery, re lettered for a HLCX leaser.  Not based on a prototype. 

jeff

Choices

Ha! From the look of things there will be no bullet-free jumping.

Great work as usual

All great photos already here this week.   I havent added many lately but got out today to take a few.  Here's some projects I recently finished up.   A couple Atlas TOFC piggybacks and the Tangent NP combo door box.  Both belong to a friend that I just weathered for him.  Thanks for lookin' Steve

N Scale Grapple Truck

N Scale is not dead, its just lost in the hobby (NOT)!

Great work everyone

Nice  work  everyone A couple of photos   taken with my new (tome)   iphone

chop nose or not ?

Good submissions

Good submissions this latest round!  Thanks for sharing!

Joe

Repairing the new Consolidation

"...Hmmm...

"...Hmmm, Boss, I'm not so sure about these new 'Lightweight' couplers...."

They're not those new

They're not those new 'plastic spring' ones are they

Modeltruckstop, I love your

Modeltruckstop,

I love your weathering and track work.

My heaviest loco going over

My heaviest loco going over unfinished bridge area.

Thanks

Thanks Dee!

@Prof & Brian

 - glad you liked it.

Good looking Mikado

I like the Elesco feedwater heater, all-weather cab and tender extension. Really awesome looking locomotive. The weathering task you've assigned yourself will be watched closely.

Bob

Omaha

Bob, Thanks to you, I just

Bob,

Thanks to you, I just learned what a Elesco feedwater heater is.

Here is one on the CNR Mikado at Steamtown.