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Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:
Originally Posted by walt rapp:

You notice everything Frank!!!  The answer: yes.

 

The configuration of the back yard, including the placement of the clothesline poles, sidewalk, tree, and hedges, are all fairly close to being accurately placed.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

- walt

Yes, I remember what Frank commented about too.  My Boyce Homested has the trees in the proper place, and the hill out back.  Too bad I didn't include Mum's clothesline.  It would have been off to the side.  I built the outhouse but not the doghouse.  Remember, I was working in N scale 25 years ago when I built mine.

Places like these, things we have felt important enough to craft onto our layouts, are shrines, I feel, to times and people and places that have become sacred to us because they mattered, mattered because they were part of how we got where we are and part of whom we have become.

 

We run trains and sometimes just pass-by or visit our layouts and quietly take a private moment of satisfaction in seeing those special spots we have memorialized. Good for us!

FrankM

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Great work, gentlemen!

 

Moonson - It's no wonder you've been able to build a successful business. Your scenery skills are beyond excellent. 

 

Another one from around the station (I gotta get moving on this layout so I have backgrounds other than the station. It's getting old.):

 

 

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Originally Posted by Zeke:

Great work, gentlemen!

 

Moonson - It's no wonder you've been able to build a successful business. Your scenery skills are beyond excellent. 

 

Another one from around the station (I gotta get moving on this layout so I have backgrounds other than the station. It's getting old.):

Thank you for saying so, Zeke. I feel very, very honored to have been successful at Layout Refinements and value every customer and client I have ever had. I remember them all and have been enjoying friendships with many of them.

 

And since you are focusing on stations, may I share this perspective on one of them on my layout with you. That photo of your station shows a handsome place, to be sure.

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Last edited by Moonson
Originally Posted by Moonson:
 
Places like these, things we have felt important enough to craft onto our layouts, are shrines, I feel, to times and people and places that have become sacred to us because they mattered, mattered because they were part of how we got where we are and part of whom we have become.

 

We run trains and sometimes just pass-by or visit our layouts and quietly take a private moment of satisfaction in seeing those special spots we have memorialized. Good for us!

FrankM

 

 

 

Totally agree Frank.  Great observation and perfectly stated.

 

My 2014 Christmas layout had all 6 of the model houses that I built on display for the first time (pictures later).  Placed it front and center for good viewing.  Can't tell you how many times when walking by I would stop and think about family.

 

- walt

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Sometimes a vignette can take a bit of explaining: This is a scene from early in the British detective series Foyle's War.  Foyle has told his driver, Samantha Stewart, to not get involved with an arrest and wait by the car.  She does as told, but as the villain gets away and runs past her, she holds out a trash can lid and he runs right into it.  One of my favorite scenes from the series.

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And some vignettes take no explaining at all:

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Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Originally Posted by Moonson:

A variety of angles and close-ups of a part of Moon Township that has experienced a few subtle changes... (They've been working at off-loading that jukebox for years, now)...

That jukebox is a very cool scene, Moonson.

Thanks a lot for saying so, Lee Willis.

I don't know where scenes like that come from in my noggin because I don't recall ever seeing such a scene in real=life. However, I figure, it may have happened somewhere, even if that somewhere is my miniature Land-of-imagination-whimsy-and-play, just down the road and to the left from Oz.

Originally Posted by AG:

engineer break.

This photo and Frank's recent photos say a lot about commitment to ground cover detail. Maybe it's just me, but really good ground cover detail is what makes a good scene a great one. Over the years I've seen many ground cover "how to's" in different publications but nothing that created a visual effect that impressed me. Don't think it's one of things you can just show others how to do. You have to have an eye for it and be willing to experiment.

Originally Posted by Scott T Johnson:
Originally Posted by AG:

engineer break.

 

This photo and Frank's recent photos say a lot about commitment to ground cover detail. Maybe it's just me, but really good ground cover detail is what makes a good scene a great one. Over the years I've seen many ground cover "how to's" in different publications but nothing that created a visual effect that impressed me. Don't think it's one of things you can just show others how to do. You have to have an eye for it and be willing to experiment.

Thank you Scott!

AG.

Newly assigned to the Winterton yards GN GP30#3010 departs for the North Pole

 

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Trailers loaded with Easter goods bound for the Chicago sitting on track 2 at Winterton Yards. 

 

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 In other news the Council of Legendary Figures consisting of Santa Claus, Mother Nature (Wife), Father Time, Cupid, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman authorizes the expansion of Intermodal facilities at the North Pole and the construction of a new rail line and yard facilities on the other side of Winterton( My Garage).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 My cousin gave me his 1930's-50's Lionel train set and that got me restoring it and setting it up in the garage. I realized these were collector items and not toys, so I went modern and I started to build my train room about two years ago. Not knowing anything about the hobby sent me to the internet, luckily I came across  Eric Siegel and his 3-Rail O-Gauge/O-Scale train website, which I used to model my bench-work, rock and tunnel builds. I also found Lex Parker, who got me interested in scratch building. I built my telephone poles from his directions and that got me started. I am now following Joey Ricard and his amazing Spruce Coal & Timber railroad.

 

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Here are a few scenes from Patsburg and the Free State Junction Railway!

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Almost time for a cold one!
Break time for the section gang
A busy town!
No matter how you play it .... this rock won't roll ... OR no rolling stones!
Early morning trolly & deer grazing.
Another view of trolly exiting Stone Cliff Portal.
Patiently waiting for the next train.
Power plus many hoppers!

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