Great pictures, everyone!
Lionelbill:
Do you know what the clearance was between the two levels? (They look like double-stacks!)
Alan:
Is the pavement the actual QuietBrace, or did you add something to it other than perhaps paint? It looks great.
Thx -
Alex
My new PRR H30 style Hopper for my BEEF powered train. Industrial Rail car cut on my chop saw. Fun stuff!
My first attempt at this type of car.
It was fun!
Thanks Alex....believe it or not, it is the quiet brace. I am going to go back and paint it an appropriate concrete street gray. I had originally planned to cover the streets in foamcore or rubber pool liner material (used the pool liner in the past and it looks just like black top)....but, I liked the worn look of the quiet brace surface so the downtown streets will get the color treatment as I said above and I think they will look just fine.
Alan
This MTH SW-8 was the first loco I bought upon re-entering the hobby about ten years ago. As I figured out what I wanted to focus on, the roadname (Chicago NorthWestern) wasn't gonna fit, so I repainted it about 5 years ago, but wasn't ever really pleased with it. So, I decided to give it another paint job, and it is now lettered for my fictional "Liberty Belt Railway". I also painted up a caboose to go with it. Definitely not the quality of some of the experts around this forum, but it's growing on me.
Beautiful Steve - you are the king of the airbrush....
Great pictures everyone. Thanks. It's good to see that my favorite railroad (MaineCentral) got some exposure this week. The MEC lives on.
Western Town diorama
Matt
This diorama is not for my train layout and is h o scale because of cost, space and availablity of structures and figures.
My next project is the western movie set ranch scene.
In O scale the cattle are pretty easy to find - Walthers, Preiser and Life Like are good places to start. The mounted cowboys will be more difficult.
You can search here --> http://www.erichotz.com/miniatures1.html
The 32mm and 35 mm would be appropriate for O scale.
If I come across any, will e-mail you the info
You think you've got coupler troubles...............
USA tank cars have couplers that are great. They just ride too low. They give you the option to change the coupler to body mount.....you just can't use the stock shelf type coupler. Rats! Hello KD.
Best part of the week....love all of these photos.
New items this week.
1. Legacy arrived.
2. A colleague gave me this mug. What kind of N&W engine is that? Looks like an SD-something.
Peter
Thats an NW SD45 highood I got the control stand out of an engine similar to this one
Norfolk/Southern east/west overpass of Septa R5 Doylestown line.
At Fort Washington Pa turnpike exit. I've passed this intersection for five years on State RT 309. (at the top of the photo). I really wanted to take photo from lower perspective, but woods, fences possible shotguns kept me from that.
This is late,but here ya go
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