TRAIN THEME THURSDAY : close up shots around the layout......

Thursday morning salt loadout. 

Coastsidekevin great salt facility!

Trumptrain I always enjoy seeing your many details

Old people and their chickens

sidehack posted:

Coastsidekevin great salt facility!

Trumptrain I always enjoy seeing your many details

Old people and their chickens

 

Ray - very nice! Where did you get the fencing?

sidehack posted:

Coastsidekevin great salt facility!

Trumptrain I always enjoy seeing your many details

Old people and their chickens

 

 Sidehack, you have been posting some extraordinary and very realistic looking works'.. I like your style of modeling'.  Quite impressive scenes, and scenarios.  Very well done'...😃 indeed'..

sidehack posted:

 

 

Very, very good work. I really have a love for details, and you nailed all of this perfectly.

Everything is very well thought out and placed exactly as someone would in real life.

Thanks, scratch built most everything, except of course the old couple and their chickens.

Kevin, I found that the old real metal screening works best for me and people are throwing it away for the new material which isn't very realistic for fences.

This is what it would look like if going by in a rail car. I forgot how this was done I think someone had the software?

sidehack posted:

Coastsidekevin great salt facility!

Trumptrain I always enjoy seeing your many details

Old people and their chickens

 

Fresh eggs - Yum!

Great modeling sidehack

just as good as fresh eggs is fresh fruit, so says Rick and Ilsa

Sheesh, things have really fallen apart since DeBlasio became mayor of New York city. Even the prostitutes are back working in the subways - 

Up close today: " Restocking the Pullman diner's kitchen." 

Fresh fruits and vegetables and a large pumpkin for pies. 

Master chef Lanny Lane, in white outfit, hand selects only the finest produce. 

Fresh milk and cream from Bedford Creamery.  

Truck driver Harvey Olson ( all his friends call him H O ), and loading foreman Hershel Frazier ( sitting on front bumper drinking a soda ) take a break. 

sidehack posted:

just as good as fresh eggs is fresh fruit, so says Rick and Ilsa

Wow'.. Rick & Illsa,  Where did you find them...  Been looking for them to go with my 'Casablanca Hotel'...  Nice scene'...🥂👍🏻

Lots of activity at Rick's today.  Whether  you like cards, dice, roulette, or just dames, its all at the Casablanca Hotel.  Stop by and say hello to Rick, and enjoy a drink on the house'...

A FEW MORE !

Up close for this fine Thursday!

Extension added to Lida's

trumptrain posted:

Up close for this fine Thursday!

As always, great stuff! Thanks for sharing, Patrick. 

sidehack posted:

Extension added to Lida's

Wow, excellent! How did you do the stone wall? I'm trying to create something like that to cover wires I have run across the surface of the layout. Thanks.

Up close today.

Ron

Took these last night hope to get a farm sence going soon. 

CoastsideKevin posted:

sidehack posted:

Extension added to Lida's

Wow, excellent! How did you do the stone wall? I'm trying to create something like that to cover wires I have run across the surface of the layout. Thanks.

Thanks Kevin

sorry didn't get back to you sooner, that Lida's Grocery was sent to me as plaster castings which I put together and detailed, the stone foundation wall came with it. I'd have to look back to find his name.

It is a nice little structure but needed something so I scratch built the addition on the right. 

sidehack posted:

CoastsideKevin posted:

sidehack posted:

Extension added to Lida's

Wow, excellent! How did you do the stone wall? I'm trying to create something like that to cover wires I have run across the surface of the layout. Thanks.

Thanks Kevin

sorry didn't get back to you sooner, that Lida's Grocery was sent to me as plaster castings which I put together and detailed, the stone foundation wall came with it. I'd have to look back to find his name.

It is a nice little structure but needed something so I scratch built the addition on the right. 

Looks great! I want to make something out of styrofoam, and I thought a stone retaining wall would look natural and be a good way to hide wires. I may end up using foliage instead. Thanks.

Wow, get ready to ride the full length, 21 inch orange and brown Summit View StationSounds Passenger Car. All Aboard.... Hope everyone is having a fun week.

Larry

Big and beautiful, great job

sidehack posted:

Larry

Big and beautiful, great job

Very cool... And wow, what a layout'....NICE'..

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

 

  Brian, I just love that car'.... The original California Zephyr'...

Up close today: " The wrecked hopper car & the car dept. inspectors."  I actually bought this fire damaged Weaver hopper car, as is, off E bay for $5.00  plus $4.00 shipping because I wanted the trucks/couplers.  Once it arrived, I thought why not weather the car and create a scene.   I later photographed the car in different scenerios before removing the trucks.  Here's what I came up with ... including it's delivery by a B&O dockside switch crew.  It all takes place on the Free State Junction Railroad's Mountain Division. 

                                           Intermodel action at NJ Hirailers.