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A glimpse of my S scale urban model railroad. Shot with the Olympus E-M1 using the Olympus M.75mm F1.8 prime lens with aperture fully open. Lighting is from natural morning sunlight through a window.
A 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive crosses a river on my S gauge model railroad. I scratch built the trestle from strip wood and created the river using paint and an epoxy resin.
Note the activity by the river bank where two travelers have set up a campfire. It's actually a small LCD bulb that is powered from a transistor radio. Instead of HEARING the music you SEE a flickering "campfire."
We gave the "little engine that could" a test run in the kitchen this morning. It works! The motor is actually in the coal car tender behind the engine. T. had to assemble the motor and the coal car and barrel from numerous pieces, and also he mixed his oil paints to get just the right color and applied all that by hand. A beautiful job I think. It's his architect's eye at work.
Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive built in the UK. It was built at the Robert Stephenson and Company works in 1829. (Wikipedia)
A shot from my S Scale model railroad. I constructed the urban Elevated using pieces from various model railroad kits and structural elements from Plastruct and Evergreen Styrene. Buildings are kitbashed from S scale and HO scale structures.
Foreign power on the local, Western Maryland Western Division layout, Loudoun County VA, August 19, 2014
This is a HO scale Athern RTR model of a AMD-103 Amtrak #204 with some light weathering and darkened grills.
Foreign power on the tire plant siding with just completed scenery, Lovettsville VA, September 15, 2014
CB&Q 49536 is an XM4C boxcar. The prototypes were built by the CB&Q Havelock shops in 1966. They were the only waffle side boxcars on the Burlington.
This model is 3d printed sides, Moloco roof, Branchline ends, Accurail underframe, Plano end platforms and lots of fabricated styrene bits. Decals are an old Modeler's Choice set.
Foreign power on the local, Western Maryland Western Division layout, Loudoun County VA, August 19, 2014
Is one of the primary caretakers of the Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum located in Gulfport, Mississippi. The museum hosts multiple working train sets with different gauges and home to the largest LEGO Railroad Display in Mississippi.
The final stop on our journey around the Eastport Branch is the rugged scenery of Crawford Notch, New Hampshire. The Maine Central’s Mountain Division tracks are carved along the side of the notch, and are perhaps the most rugged and scenic section of main line railroading east of the Rocky Mountains, and is the place legends are made of. Snows come early here in the notch, sometimes making an October appearance while the last of the autumn leaves are still on the trees. With winter blizzards, snow is measured in many feet, and requires the constant plowing and reopening of the vital east west line from the port of Portland, Maine to St. Johnsbury, Vt. So come stay awhile, and watch as generations of Maine Central trains pass through the notch, as we await the trains by the famous Willey Brook bridge.
Photographing this section of the Eastport branch is particularly challenging as the depth of the scene is only six inches from the fascia panel to the wall, and trying to consolidate several miles of extremely interesting mountain railroad into an eight foot long section, is the grand art of compromise.
Foreign power on the tire plant siding with just completed scenery, Lovettsville VA, September 15, 2014
Quiet morning on Schaffan Street, in the fictional town of Flagstone, New Jersey. Structures at left at Atlas Model Railroad Co., house at right is Woodland Scenics. HO scale models photographed outdoors on modules I built and scenicked.
A morning Harlem Line commuter train passes a Conrail local freight waiting in the siding during the summer of 1982. Once the commuter train is in the clear, the Conrail local crew will drop off a loaded boxcar at King Lumber. HO models photographed outdoors on modules I built and scenicked.
A visit to Bruce's layout, gave the Milwaukee E20 a chance to stretch it's legs and show the pair of "500's" how it was done. Bruce's layout is based on the Burlington Northern Rocky Mountain Division, which is why the lack of catenary and trolley poles, but that is what the imagination is for.
A coal drag powered by a quartet of Rochester & Irondequoit Terminal Alco Centuries rumbles through the fictional Red Onion neighboorhood on the west side of Rochester. The coal is destined for the Rochester Gas & Electric Russell Generating Station on Lake Ontario at Charlotte, N.Y. This scene is on the old RIT Model Railroad Club layout, since dismantled.
Both of these photos are already in this album, but, I thought I would put these two side by side, to illustrate the transformation of this little HO scale 2-6-6-2T engine from the wreck it was, to a somewhat normal looking model again. I have no idea how this model got into the condition it was in, I bought it this way, with the hopes of restoring it to operating condition. While not yet completed, it has come a long way.
Just completed CGW 106A and CGW 116F. These are detailed and painted Highliner bodies on Athearn Genesis drives. Now I only need three more to complete the set I have planned for trains 192/143 coming in at Dubuque Junction.
in 1963, the CB&Q Havelock Shop built 300 XM4 boxcars, 47500-47799. The last 10 were built with Transco side sheathing.
I had often wondered how to go about building one of these unique cars until Kurt Kruse, as a great modeling gift (or perhaps as a mean trick) had sides 3D printed for this car.
It was still something of a challenge to build. In addition to the resin sides, it uses Branchline ends and roof, Accurail underframe, Plano roofwalk and brake platform, some DA freight car detail parts and a bunch of bits fabricated from styrene. Painted with Model Master insignia red and my galvanized mix. Decals came from a bunch of sets including Microscale and some Modeler's Choice leftovers.
In the early 1950's my dad got me hooked on trains, at first model, and then the real thing. We would often visit The New York Society Of Model Engineers when they had their open house for public viewing of both their HO and O Guage model railroads. At this time they were located on Hoboken Road in Carlstadt NJ. Pictured is a part of their HO layout with a Hump Yard that was controlled by compressed air which simulated real life retarders. That's my dad on the left looking on. Sadly he passed away at the age of 59 from a totally unexpected heart attack. I miss the times sharing both life and the hobby with him. Howard Kent Jr. 04-1973.
Most of my railfanning in February has been confined to photographing the Santa Fe in my attic. Here a westbound intermodal behind a pair of GP60s and a GP60M B unit enter the yard at Belen, NM.
I was admiring this model railroad display at a local bank when a delightful older woman joined me. We shared our nostalgic love of trains, both real and in small form. We had both thrilled to the old steam locomotives and spent hours playing with Lionel, American Flyer, and other toy trains of an earlier time.
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