Wisconsin Central - Heritage Division

[w neal]

Aigh laddy, tis Faller indeed. Do you think they might work or are they too "cementy" looking?

[w neal]

[w neal]

Strung "summore" lines last night. This time at Nelsons:












Trying to leave some slack here and there:







More practice = more speed. Funny that.

[w neal]

Added a baseline treeline for Medina Junction's backdrop. One of those 20 minute projects. Will add a lot more trees later...

[w neal]

I thought the pole line would look better with a third line. As the song says; "why not?"

Compare:

[w neal]

Just a bit of fun:

[Philip H]

Really nice detail - I need to string some of my poles and do drops to the houses.  Of course, I'd have to finish my houses . . .

[Kev1340]

Definitely looking good!

Cheers,

Kev

[w neal]

Thanks very much sirs. I do appreciate the responses. I'll keep striving to make things look better.

My scenes are a bit too happy. I'll be glad to get the tracks, cars, etc. weathered & add some assorted junk. I'll also be glad to get some trees here and there. More updates to follow...

[packers#1]

Lots of progress, nice. That third line is key!

[Dave Schneider]

Looking great. I have power line envy right now. The electricity went out Tuesday night in a storm and I have been generating since then. The Milwaukee Road coil car looks great. Nice subtle weathering job.

Best wishes, Dave

[svedblen]

Looking great! Power lines, and especially the third line, brings things to life. I really like how your scenes come together.

/Lennart

[w neal]

I dunno where the comment went from yesterday but...

Yes, the poles definitely have a bad lean in that one area of Nelsons. They do look pretty bad. I agree. However, there are two reasons for the sloppiness. One: Their proximity to the backdrop (like extremely close to it) forced me to lean them quite a bit so as to avoid them casting a shadow on it. Two: The poles are meant to represent those of a line that is in decline and will be removed in just a few years. My pictures do indeed highlight the lean, but frankly Scarlett... 

And do not worry friend, no offense taken.  If something looks bad - tell me. I am open to all comments (Well, most all that is  )

Sorry to hear about a real power loss out there. It happens here every few months due to storms of some form. The blessing - no T.V., the bummer - running the layout by touching 9 volt batteries to the tracks. 

I am tempted to go back and add a third line to some prior lines. But their proximity to the backdrop prevented me from doing so the first time. Hmmmm...

[w neal]

Not much going on so far this week, except painting more lineside poles and maybe the odd supertree. I did manage to slap a couple decals on my W.O.T. machine. Now, I just need to weather it. It sorta kinda represents one the WC used to have back in the day. I think they inherited one very similar to it from the GBW/FRV buyout. My understanding is that this service did not last that long. Will it stop me from trying to simulate it? No.

"Soo Wee"...

[kc9jts]

Not much going on so far this week, except painting more lineside poles and maybe the odd supertree. I did manage to slap a couple decals on my W.O.T. machine. Now, I just need to weather it. It sorta kinda represents one the WC used to have back in the day. I think they inherited one very similar to it from the GBW/FRV buyout. My understanding is that this service did not last that long. Will it stop me from trying to simulate it? No.

"Soo Wee"...

Don't forget that they had a fair amount of IMS coming out of Green Bay on a daily basis (mostly orange Schneider trailers).  Southbound train was T218 (later GBHA1Z; often referred to as "Gabby-Haze") and the northbound was T219 (HAGB1Z).  For a while based on demand I think they also ran a T220/T221 which was overflow IMS and from what I remember/photos I have seen was often double-stacks.

Nick
Omaha