Large Scale Central

Work extra and night shoot on the AV

General Discussion
#1

I decided late this afternoon that it was finally cool enough to sit outside and watch trains. Between heavy rains a few weeks ago, the midget mafia and a few cats, my ballast is half gone in places, and the track is no longer level, soooooo, the obvious (only?) choice for motive power was ‘old reliable’ #6.

Just for something different, I got out the flat with the TD-24, and the RPO, and decided it was a work extra…

Wait a minute something isn’t right here…

The rpo came uncoupled while I was inside getting a beer. #6 would shove the rpo right along on the upgrades and level, then the car would run away on the downgrades. After a couple laps like that I stopped laughing long enough to fix it. Now I know you CAN shunt with a snowplow… go figure.

I found out my camera had a night mode the other day (see what happens when you read the manual?), so I just had to play with it…

Running trains don’t cooperate with 5 second exposures. a slow trundle looks like warp 5…

Thanks for looking!

#2

Great pictures Mik!!! I love the night shots.

Chuck

#3

Kim loves sitting outside at dusk watching the (solar) lights in the houses come on one by one. Makes the dogs nuts because they can’t figure out how it works.

#4

Good stuff. You need a big shade tree so you can run in the hot weather. I just got three bachmann lighted passenger cars im in the proces of repainting. 2 of them I got for free. I figured they would work nice running them in the evening.

#5

The layouts really filled in nicely, looks great.

#6

Mik,
that looks really loverly!

if you want to get rid of the “glowing” roof, glue some alu-foil to the inside of the roof.

#7

Mik;

Great photos. I want to try to mount a Kadee to one of those plows. It is somewhere way down on my “to do” list. Have to finish the armored locomotive it goes on first. . . Oh well, maybe someday.

The railroad is really looking good dispite the problems you mentioned at the beginning of your post.

Best wishes,
David Meashey

#8

Mik,

How did you put the solar lights in your buildings? My wife and I are starting to put our buildings out and want to do the same thing.

Chuck

#9

Korm, I have furnace tape here. It’s on my list.

Funny how the camera notices it ‘glows’ (and at least 2 other buildings, too) more than your eyes do…

#10

Looks real nice Mik.
It looks like a fun a fun time on the old railroad.
It still looks great. Nice work.