Weekend Update 4/14/13

[up1950s]

[Hornwrecker]

Planted a few test trees to see how Ed's height recommendations would look on the layout.  These are about 80 scale feet tall, early spring.



They do make the rockwork look better.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I think they look good!

[eric220]

Just runnin' trains here.



I really need to find a few spare hours to do some work on the layout. Tough when today was only my second day off in three weeks.

[Dave V]

Pure Pennsy hawtness, Eric!  I can almost see Kittanning Point behind the E6...

The Standard Railroad of the World...  America's Broad Way of Commerce...  The incomparable, mighty Pennsylvania.

[PaulP]

Not much modeling for me lately because of long work hours.
Did manage to do some ops last sunday.
This is a small clip from it'

Paul

[RWCJr]

Only doing a little painting touch up on the roundhouse. Spending time playing inside hostler while taking a construction break.
Robert

[superturbine]

Only doing a little painting touch up on the roundhouse. Spending time playing inside hostler while taking a construction break.
Robert

Wow.... It looks awesome Robert!!!!

[delamaize]

I FINALLY was able to get my trains moved into my "new" house, so for now I got an oval of unitrack on a folding table, letting my foobie NP LT Mt. run in circles dragging about 20 boxcars with it. 

[flight2000]

So I finished these two bad boys this week.   

Still more work to get through on the bench.  Progress is being made on another set 6 SD70M's for the GDRMCo (Leggy's stuff).  Lot's of work on those bad boys, but progress is getting there.  These are easy compared to those.... 





Brian

[mark.hinds]

Planted a few test trees to see how Ed's height recommendations would look on the layout.  These are about 80 scale feet tall, early spring.

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They do make the rockwork look better.

Excellent shot!!  Composition, color balance, and subject (I like D&H Alcos) are all top notch. 

MH

[rail and tie]

I know we have all seen these and probably have them, but I finally got mine from Karen and they are absolutely great.  Well done Dave and Karen!

The detail is fantastic and will be great in the little garage scene that I am doing up.

[mu26aeh]

Not much for me.  Stopped by the LHS and got a couple of decoders.  Had my 8 year old son with me and he asked about getting a car for his set.  He has HO Thomas trains and I've been wanting to get him a "real" train set, so I got him a HO Athearn blue box engine, 3 freight cars and caboose.  Now I have to get a slightly bigger board for under his bed and a switch or two to have a place for the cars to go.

[jereising]

We're just south of the Bealville crossovers.  I've got a project going here, building a ranch.  No particular prototype.  Here 'tis before I began:



And here we are with the basic terraforming done and structures in place:



Here's a slightly different view.   There is a ton of detail to be added and things on the railroad are slow for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the arrival of spring in Middle Tennessee and the concomitant yard work.

[MVW]

Excellent shot!!  Composition, color balance, and subject (I like D&H Alcos) are all top notch. 

MH

Gotta agree. That's a beautiful shot. Trees look great.

Jim