@Capetrainman posted:The Greenbrier pulls into the North Main Street station...
Lighting looks perfect Paul. 
The right half of this photo brings back memories of the Jimmy Stuart type of snow storm that I manually labored over to achieve in a VERY SIMILAR scene. 
Dallas, nice additional touch with the snow in the pic above...from chill to 80 degrees here today!
@Capetrainman posted:Dallas, nice additional touch with the snow in the pic above...from chill to 80 degrees here today!
Thanks Paul.
That was what I did to your on 11/2/21 photo that you posted......
......on 10 /31/21. ( I'm not sure , but I think I am ,that I didn't get your permission to use your photo )
Dallas...happy you had some fun with the pic! Only fee to you for usage of pic is friendship!
I have a question about someone that posted a night video accompanied by lightning and thunder with background music from the big band era, Anyone remembers that video???
Not sure if this is the one you are thinking of Don McCuaig did a couple videos of this layout. Spectacular, of course being an Emmy award winning cinematographer that probably had something to do with it. Last Run OGR Link
There are a couple of versions floating around on youtube.
@ScoutingDad posted:Not sure if this is the one you are thinking of Don McCuaig did a couple videos of this layout. Spectacular, of course being an Emmy award winning cinematographer that probably had something to do with it. Last Run OGR Link
There are a couple of versions floating around on youtube.
Wow, Wow, and Wow, you have some memory. I just remembered how great the videos were back in 2010 but I couldn't remember the photographer's name. Thank you!!!
Excellent story and relatable to life. Here today and then as time moves ahead we are no more. Just like the great railroads of the golden era'... As John Huston used to say'.. "If it's in the stars, so be it, they call destiny ".
A little different touch with the click of the mouse...
@Capetrainman posted:A little different touch with the click of the mouse...
Paul, where did you find that black '59 Chevy Impala Coupe? That is a sweet model! Very nice photo by there way!
Small townSaturday night.
Roanoke Shops never close and things are always busy.
Scott, thanks for the comment...I bought the '59 Impala from a table vendor at York or W. Springfield a decade ago for five bucks, I believe...no box, just the car. It's a Road Champs. Nice little unit and the gals seem to like it It holds a fair amount luggage in the trunk...
@ChuckHunter posted:
Small townSaturday night.
Chuck, great scene...seems realistic enough that the wife and I could have been right there last night walking down Main Street...
In 1949 ... Under the gaze of yard lights, two locomotives meet ... one, a century plus old technology whose days are numbered ... the other, a new breed whose type will go on for many incarnations. Each incarnation better than before. 
The dawn of a new day illuminates early morning activity at the rail yard in 1951. Milk moves in mass quantities via rail and is delivered to towns large and small. 
@ChuckHunter posted:
O Winston Link would have shot this, had he been a model railroader.
Nice to see this thread getting plenty of new beautiful contributions'.. Nice work gents, and thank you for posting'.. Let's keep going... Night photography of your layouts is endless,,, 😎
A picture posted earlier but updated with the "Zeke" effect first mentioned by Ted...
The "Zeke" effect...seems to give better results in the city scenes, but I like how it accentuates the soft dusk light to the right of the trailer...
Nice Paul'... I like the Zeke affect too.........
Some folks are still trying to figure out in that one photo whether the signal was out of true or the entire building wall. Sorry about that fax pas! 
Jim K
Bravo, all you Forum folks who have contributed photos to this thread, many of which are stunning. I plan to revisit this thread periodically. Arnold
@Randy Harrison posted:
Wow Randy 
These lighting effects are so well done. Seems like the modeling is pretty fantastic also. Really special.
@Capetrainman posted:
Last time I saw that girl in the forground she was in a night scene at a crowded station getting her picture taken.
Love that blue '59 Paul.
The Super Chief.
@Dallas Joseph posted:Wow Randy
These lighting effects are so well done. Seems like the modeling is pretty fantastic also. Really special.
Dallas:
Thank you for the high praise. I am the lamest photographer that ever lived. The photos are many years old. The exposure on these photos is by accident. They were taken by me with a very early, low resolution digital camera exacerbated by the fact that I did not know what I was doing. The flash on that camera was not very effective. These were supposed to be photos that looked to be of daylight. I kept them anyway because, in retrospect, they could pass off as nighttime scenes. So, they have been resurrected because of this great OGR Forum topic of nighttime scenes.
My son Chris and I will take credit for the modeling of the harbor and the station platform. Chris was quite young at the time and enjoyed working with me during the summer on building projects for the layout which, before the time of these photos, was a large, temporary, Christmas season layout. The wood for the project was scrap plywood for the bases of the harbor dock and sea wall as well as for the station platform. The wood planks were popsicle sticks (At the time, a box of 1000 popsicle sticks were available at Michaels Craft stores for around $5.00) cut to size, glued to the plywood bases and stained. The dock pilings were wooden dowels. The mooring cleats for the dock were from a model ship, scratch building supply company and were very inexpensive. I am still using the original box of popsicle to this day for a station platform for my train club's layout in Red Lion, PA.
Sorry for the dissertation, but, I am sometimes quite "long-winded".
@Randy Harrison posted:Sorry for the dissertation, but, I am sometimes quite "long-winded".
Not to worry Randy.
" Long winded ......and ......dissertations " are normal for artists. Your HOBBY ARTISTRY is what speaks volumes Mr. H.
As far as the lighting in your photo not being what you were looking for , well, I harken back to a FUN artist , Bill Alexander who painted in a wet on wet technique and would be PLEASED when his brush would make a HAPPY little accident. I still watch some of his videos on YouTube when I need a dose of inspiration.
A little late night activity at the N. Main Street station...
@Dallas Joseph posted:Last time I saw that girl in the forground she was in a night scene at a crowded station getting her picture taken.
Love that blue '59 Paul.
Thanks, Dallas...plenty of room for luggage in that huge trunk...
Dusk at the local Chevy dealer...the '55's are selling well at $1,925 list with a full tank of gas to boot...
Some late night activity at the Greyhound station...showing the "Zeke" effect with an attempt to add red tail lights...
A unique look from adding the "Zeke" effect...
UP heading for the yard for the morning run.
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