O Gauge W&LE Updates!

First class railroad, excellent work. Any videos???

This is beautiful track work!!!!! Outstanding!!!

Malcolm

I love the simpleness of your layout.  Just finished reading about it in OGR and now more pics.  Scenes are great and layout is not cluttered with a lot of buildings.  Looks like minature of the real life railroaing

Mike

Thanks everyone. I do have some videos on YouTube. Just search O Gauge W&LE. I love keeping it simple. The scenes aren't complicated at all, but I just try to match what I have pictures of along the real W&LE. Scenic Express has really been a god send with their line of products.

The article in OGR was great.  I really like your modeling.  The photo of the deer in the cornfield is so authentic for this area.

Jason, You have a fantastic layout there. Simple, uncluttered and realistic.

I would like to know where you got your chain link fencing, scratch or Scenic Express?

 

Absolutely stunning!

Jason,

 

Excellent work!  Thank you for sharing.

 

Fred

Jason - Beautiful work!  You have a great eye for details.

 

Art

looks so much like the W&LE I see local. wish there was steam too!

Thanks everyone! For MilwRdPaul, the chain link fence is by Scenic Express as well.

 

Great work. How'd you get the "snow shot"?

Outstanding.  I particularly like the scene of the tractor running down the dirt road.  I've noticed you even simulated dried mud cracks in the soil by the edge of the field, that's really great attention to detail.

Great layout, great scenery. I also enjoyed the article in OGR.

Excellent!

Very realistic and great detail, Jason.  I can almost feel the heat coming off the ground where the tractor is moving along. And I really like the strapping on the pallets of lumber. Nice work!

Stunning work, Jason. It looks very real with every scene.

For AGHRMatt, that snow scene was actually shot outside on a module. Very simple. Just a card table with two inches of snow smoothed over a long peace of weathered Atlas track placed in front of a convincing background. I wish it was a bigger module, I would have liked to have gotten a few freight cars on there as well.

Jason, what technique are you using to make your trees/scrub brush?  That's exactly the kind of look I'll want when I build a layout.

Jason trying to find the right words here.... simply AMAZING..

Wowak, the trees are all super trees and Super Sage Trees by Scenic Express. The leaf Flock is also a new product by Scenic Express as well. It's texture is perfect, and I quickly become a huge fan. The brush is known as "briar patch," also by Scenic Express. It comes in multiple colors, but I airbrush it to give a more natural blend of greens. Believe it or not, I use Spanish moss, colored, from Michaels as my forest floor. Gives the right texture and color for small weeds and ferns one would find. When all blended together, it's very convincing.

Thanks, it looks great.  I hadn't been following the recent developments from Scenic Express, it does look worlds better than regular old foam.

Jason,

 

I really enjoyed reading about your layout in the most recent OGR issue. It looks great, and I can't believe there are that many neat photographs with such a relatively small space...and it looks like you're not even done yet which makes it even better. Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks,

Eric Siegel

 

Jason, as others have stated, these scenes are incredibly realistic.  Awesome job!!

Wheeling45,

   Absolutely fantistic updates, thanks much for sharing them!  I have a couple questions for ya, where did you get the 84 lumber ident decals in the size to fit your O gauge layout, also which company did you purchase the man driving your John Deer Tractor from, I have the International Tractor and John Deer Manure Spreader in the same size, on my layout and need to acquire both the man and the 84 decal.

Thanks

PCRR/Dave

For Pine Creek Railroad,
Believe it or not, the 84 Lumber decal that fits the Atlas Lumber yard is simply a bumper sticker I got at a local 84 lumber. I just cut it out with an exacto knife and stuck it on the building and then weathered it. The guy on the tractor is from Bachmann actually and he is from a Seated Pedestrian set.

Wheeling45,

   Great, my brother is an 84 Corp Manager/Buyer I will hit him up for the old 84 Bumper Sticker and cut it out like you did, and can you be a little more exacting on how & where your purchased the Bachmann individual set of sitting people, can't seem to come up with them any where.  If you order them off the net, I could sure use the address.

Thanks

PCRR/Dave

 

Pine Creek Railroad,
I wish I had the packaging the came in, but I don't. I got them at Imperial Train Company, my local Hobby Shop. I heading there today to pick up my new Lionel Procor Tankcars I ordered. I'll see if they have anymore for you.

Wheeling45,

   Thank you very much sir I appreciate it.

PCRR/Dave

If you had to guess.. how many trees are on your layout.

ALL great shots....but that snow shot....if not for 'the gap'......I'd say it was real!

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the comments! Zett, it's hard to say. There is easily close to 400. That little patch of woods that the train cuts through has 40 alone.

All great!  Love the scarecrow.

Wheeling45,
    Had to run over to the Bill & Walts to pick up a Tin Plate 2600 Type Pipe Car Dave the owner found for one of my Tin Plate trains, he had one old time tractor driver left from the 1950's people, sits in the International tractor seat perfectly, bad news, it's the very last one he had and the compay is long out of business.  I definitely still want

to know where you got the other sitting tractor driver, decided it is so neat I am going to pick up the John Deer Tractor & driver also.
PCRR/Dave