Weekend Photo Fun 3-15-13-??

My first MTH Premier NYC R-11 subway.

In case you're not following us on Facebook at MrMuffin'sTrains, Ms Eclair finished her row of painted ladies and we added them to the layout..... There are 7 of them leading up to the church JDS built and offered us at York a few meets back....

Thanks for looking....

 Hey Allan, here's my current paper weight!!

 'til I get the motor plates to make it up.

Tis' the weekend

You tell Ms Eclair she does beautiful work. Looks great!

Frank - I don't think it's a flaw - depends on how you want to work it into the shot.   The majority of your shots are pretty nice!  Give yourself more credit

Nick - that FL9 looks sweet

A corner of my layout awaiting lots more trees.

kj VERY NICE WORK!

Here is my new acquisition to the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad.  Introducing the Southern Pacific Berkshire!  Matt

Matt, nice looking locomotive!  #3508 looks like it means business.  Bo 

Very nice!  Almost looks like some of the Victorians here in San Francisco.  Matt

Great photos this week!

Was running my trains tonight have been some reports of the new MTH Turbo train stalling out loose plugs between the cars cuts power connection between lead engine with the brains and slave engine in the rear. Have had no troubles myself for several weeks till tonight and guess where it died!!!!!

With 4 passenger cars inside the tunnel through the furnace room. This is my ceiling loops for the big trains 0-96 and 0-120 curves all around.

So here we are with lead engine one side of tunnel and tail engine other room. There is a plastic barrier so trains cannot fall off the track around the room, so difficult to get a train off if stalled here and this is the first train to stall out here.

HUMMM how to get it out? Lead engine wheels still spin rear engine is dead.

Great Northern power set perfect, plenty of power and with a shove lucky no derails I was able to push the Turbo train around the layout to where I can reach it.

Now to check out all those plugs!!

Click on photos for a larger view.

Re: Lens flair and Frank53's photo...

I would LOVE to lack the skills to take such "flawed" photos!!!  

Superb modeling and a great pic, Frank53.

Andre

You can get lens flare any time you want just by changing the F-Stop # The higher the F-Stop # the more Lens Flare you get. F-22 is a really good # for Lens Flare.

Zach, where is this RR?? Is this yours?? Very nice. Joe

I think I took that photo at F-29 

Christopher2035,

I like your new layout.  It looks really good. What is the size of this one?

Thanks,

Jim

This is actually the, "Grand Central Railroad". Its located in a retirement community in Sun City Grand, in Surprise, Arizona. While visiting Arizona last month, I took a look at the layout. I lived in Arizona for 5 years, and hardly ever caught the trains running. The morning I came by, I was happy I had my camera with me..

Zach

A couple old shots of the Christmas display that I can probably blame for loving this hobby so much.  I was a year old when my Grandpa put this G scale display together in 1995.  The first photo is of his engine house, water tower and two of the 3(?) mainlines.  The second photo is of my Cider Mill.  He has 13 grandchildren, and has made a building named after each of us.  In total, I think he's scratchbuilt around 20+/- buildings.

My dad always likes telling the story about the time that nobody could get the trains to run.  I (keep in mind that I was a year old) crawled over to the wall and plugged them in.

Love that retaining wall in it's state of decay...very cool...

"I just plop the camera down and push the buttons, I'm nowhere near your league when it comes to photographic skill and I don't even have a basic understanding of the technical aspects."

Frank, you are selling yourself short. That is an awesome shot, especially for one who claims not to know what they are doing. Heck, it's an awesome shot for someone who does know what they are doing!

Chris

LVHR

A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe sits idling as a Conrail Dash 8 prepares to pass on the outside.  Both engines MTH.  

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams"

Nice shot Pete!  I like the way you framed it.  I also like the way you eliminated the "new car" look on your vehicles.  What technique did you use to do that? 

All around there have been some great photos this weekend showing the excellent work being done!  Very inspirational!  Thanks, Bo 

Would like to Have a billboard like ZACK's, Have to change the wording

where did you find that one !!?

thanks

Matt, those models are from the Painted Ladies in San Francisco. I think they are still available or a least I've seen them on E-bay many times. I think they come four to a package. Don

Following a fast Freight!

And oh Yeah think Spring! My granddaughter Jaime's Garden center is open for the season!

Bo,

Thank you!

I weather everything (to some degree) on my layout. First everything is sprayed with a matte finish - I tape over all windows before.  Cars and rolling stock are weathered with india ink washes / chalks.  Locomotives with an air brush.

BTW: I custom painted the SP boxcar and created the UP "tank on a flat" from 3 PW Lionel 6465 tank cars and a flat car.

HTH,

Obviously, Frank's great photo is a star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pete,

I need 2 billboards,  just like the one of the brown bear on the tree,

dont have to have lights, 

whats the source

thanks

Terry

What's all this talk about lens flair or star filters.  My eyes do it automatically since I got old.

Frank 53
I’ve admired your photographs for some time. Don’t sell yourself short, you obviously have the needed technical skills down pat. You have an eye for composition and the modeling skills to make your photos interesting.  

Don - thanks for posting this photo. Ms. Eclair was thrilled to see it. She included 7 in her street too.