Nice busy atmosphere chessie4155.
Your detailed layout gives the feeling that your railroad really serves a community.
Jacques
Your detailed layout gives the feeling that your railroad really serves a community.
Jacques
Weekly Photo Fun week of Feb. 29
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Now there's a shot of yours I've not seen before. Nice job working the shrubbery into the foreground. Tip... Next time your at the office supplies store, pick up a can of air. Then, right before you take your picture, dust your engines and cars. For what it's worth...
There's really not very much dust on them. Besides, when I do dust them off people say that they're too clean and that they need some dust on them.
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It's not such a big deal in HO (still annoying and noticeable) but I model in N and when you zoom in on a scene and it's all covered with large scale dust, it destroys the believability. I wasn't being condescending about your picture, I was just offering a quick easy fix to improve an annoying problem. It was a take it or leave it tip and you chose to leave it.
No big deal. I look forward to your next fresh and unique photo.
No big deal. I look forward to your next fresh and unique photo.Oh no, I'm not upset about it at all. I just don't have a problem with the dust being there. I'm not trying to pass models off as the real thing. I did enough of that in my younger years. I'm just showing models as models. The one that's in this mornings photo is an old Model Power crane car from a work train I used to have. I hacked it up a little to change it around some and made it into a transfer caboose. It was a bit of a challenge to bring it's weight up from 1.3 ounces to the NMRA spec of 4 ounces. I hot glued some flat weights to the bottom and put an old CPU heat sink in the cabin. That brought it to 4 ounces exactly. I still have to paint it for the Midland Gulf Railway.It's not such a big deal in HO (still annoying and noticeable) but I model in N and when you zoom in on a scene and it's all covered with large scale dust, it destroys the believability. I wasn't being condescending about your picture, I was just offering a quick easy fix to improve an annoying problem. It was a take it or leave it tip and you chose to leave it.
We were out on Drexel Ridge when the Jersey Central Fast freight rolled through.
PK1 F3A – Jersey Central
PK1 F3B – Jersey Central
Athearn RTR 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – SOO Line
Athearn RTR 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Pennsylvania
PK1 F3A – Jersey Central
PK1 F3B – Jersey Central
Athearn RTR 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – SOO Line
Athearn RTR 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Pennsylvania
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Santa Fe/National Trailers
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Wabash
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Baltimore & Ohio
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Southern Pacific/Acme Trailers
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat (Renumbered) with Two Trailers – Reading/International Trailers
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Reading/B&O Trailers
Athearn Blue Box Kit 50’ Flat with Two Trailers – Pennsylvania/International Trailers
Bachmann Silver Series Flat Car - Pennsylvania
Athearn RTR 40’ Flat with Crates – Pennsylvania
(The flat cars are the most recently weathered additions to the fleet)
Athearn Blue Box Kit 40’ Wood Boxcar – Undecorated – Custom painted and Dry Transfers - Rutland
Athearn Blue Box Kit 40’ Wood Boxcar – Erie
Athearn Blue Box Kit 40’ Steel Boxcar – Undecorated – Custom painted and Dry Transfers – Jersey Central
Athearn Blue Box Kit 40’ Steel Boxcar – Undecorated – Custom painted and Dry Transfers – Jersey Central
P2K Northeastern Center Cupola – Jersey Central
The ex-Spokane, Portland, and Seattle 2-8-2 is going to be a really great looking loco when its done. 
Hope I get the chance to ride behind it.
Hope I get the chance to ride behind it.HEY FOLKS, just a reminder, this thread IS CLOSED to pictures...but COMMENTS are still WELCOME.
PLEASE post NEW PICTURES to THE MOST CURRENT "WEEKLY PHOTO FUN" thread. THANK YOU!
Wayne
PLEASE post NEW PICTURES to THE MOST CURRENT "WEEKLY PHOTO FUN" thread. THANK YOU!
Wayne
TomPM, I'm very impressed with your boxcars weathering job.
Could you please ( maybe in a separate thread ) give us more info about your technique.
I know doctorwayne posted a very good tutorial about that subject ( and I bookmarked it ) but I would like , if you don't mind, have another "opinion" about weathering boxcars.
Jacques
Could you please ( maybe in a separate thread ) give us more info about your technique.
I know doctorwayne posted a very good tutorial about that subject ( and I bookmarked it ) but I would like , if you don't mind, have another "opinion" about weathering boxcars.
Jacques