Playing around with the camera, I took these photos last night of the Roanoke scene on the Duckunder. In the first one, I see the truck driver opening the hood has a glue string that needs to be removed where his hand is pulling up the hood to repair the engine.
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Excellent your new RR is coming together beautifully!!!!
Really nice Will. I especially like the many and various vehicles - the '58 Impala was the first model car I ever built as a kid and I also like the glass roofed Ford Skyliner...
Will
Your RR is coming along nice and so fast. Some great vignettes.
How much of the old layout were you able to salvage?
Steve
Very cool, I like your camera work as well.
Really nice Will. I especially like the many and various vehicles - the '58 Impala was the first model car I ever built as a kid and I also like the glass roofed Ford Skyliner...
The 1958 Chevy has always been one of my favorites, too, as my grandfather bought one new and kept it until he died. I have fond memories of it.
Will
Your RR is coming along nice and so fast. Some great vignettes.
How much of the old layout were you able to salvage?
Steve
Steve,
Thanks for your comments. All the benchwork for the old layout was scrapped within a few days. I kept almost nothing. The zero milepost seen in one of the photos above came from the old layout.
Very cool, I like your camera work as well.
It's fun to experiment with the camera perspective and depth of field!
Thanks,
First of all I have to put weathering the crane on my list of things to do. Not decrepid but used a bit.
The Roanoke station is perhaps the structure I most enjoyed building on the layout. It was done from a photo from the N&W Historical Society and was taken around 1910 or so I would guess. It is Max Meadows, Va. which is on the line to Bristol. The station no longer exists, being torn down some years ago. O Winston Link did a night shot of the building in the late 50's. The second story of the tower was gone at that time. I would like to know why and when it was changed.
The model is completely scratchbuilt of Evergreen styrene including the windows and doors. There are no casting used, even the corbels and brackets are built up. The battens are all applied one by one. Ther are over 1800 pieces in the structure. The order board is a Grandt casting.
The N&W and the VGN had different stations in Roanoke of course but this is Will's layout and rule one and two apply.
George Lasley
Great stuff!!!! nice models
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