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Home   Forums   Events Calendar   Sponsors   Support the RRLine   Guestbook   FAQ     Register Active Topics | Active Polls | Resources | Members | Online Users | Live Chat | Avatar Legend | Search | Statistics Photo Album | File Lister | File Library [ Active Members: 4 | Anonymous Members: 1 | Guests: 215 ]  [ Total: 220 ]  [ Newest Member: Alexander Castro ]  All Forums  Model Railroad Forums  Railroad Photography Forum  The Gallery: Dec. 2020 "Modeling Year In Review" Previous Page | Next Page  New Topic |   Topic Locked |  Author Topic Page: 1 2 3 4 5 of 5 TomPM Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/02/2020 :  11:20:50 PM       There is some amazing modeling shown here. I am blown away by the level of detail on display. Since I am getting back into the hobby after basically a ten-year layoff, I have to work on getting my skills back to where they once were. I have not concentrated on structures or the layout thus far. There are many projects on the layout, and you will see in my photos, areas like the Water Tower Diorama are in need of some tender loving care. Instead I been working on clearing as my son called it, “the Wall of Trains” that was on the workbench. I have been building and weathering a large number of cars. I have weathered and built all the reefers, 2-bay covered hoppers, and RTR boxcars that were in the wall. I will post some of the weathering results later. Here is a portion of the wall when I began the project. You can see several covered hoppers on the workbench. Clearing the covered hopper pile was first on the agenda. In the meantime, I have been acquiring some new rolling stock and power for the layout. I will start out with a couple of those acquisitions. As a birthday present to myself, mainly because I didn’t have the nerve to ask for a $300+ locomotive as a potential birthday gift, I obtained my first Broadway Limited locomotive, a set of Baldwin Centipedes in the Baldwin Demonstrator scheme. A little later I got my second BLI locomotive or should I say motor, a PRR P5a. Sorry for the wordiness of the post but I felt I need to explain my modeling year. Country: USA | Posts: 4827 wvrr Fireman Posted - 12/03/2020 :  3:06:56 PM     I kept myself busy with NMRA related activities for my layout this year. The first photo is of the Lunde Colliery on my Wyoming Valley Railroad. The scene was finished late 2019 for my NMRA Golden Spike, but I did not get a chance to share a photo of it with the forum until early 2020. Then I started working on Cars for the NMRA Achievement Program. So far, I have finished three cars that will be evaluated. I have to build one more car for evaluation plus two other cars. So, I still have work to do. Incidentally, all three of the cars took 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the NERx Virtual Convention, last night. 3rd was the Idler Car, 2nd was the Ice Service Car, and 1st was the Wrong Way Boxcar. Wyoming Valley Idler Car: Lehigh Valley Ice Service Car: Lehigh Valley "Wrong Way" Boxcar: Chuck Country: | Posts: 6658 BigLars Engineer Premium Member Posted - 12/03/2020 :  3:38:58 PM   Edited by - BigLars on 12/03/2020 3:58:30 PM Country: USA | Posts: 11958 BigLars Engineer Premium Member Posted - 12/03/2020 :  3:56:41 PM   When COVID started I began making short videos of my trains running instead for taking my micro layout to train shows. Here is the link to my YouTube channel if you want to look. https://www.youtube.com/user/BigLarsON30/videos?view_as=subscriber [ing]http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/BigLars/202012315562_video.jpg"[/img] Country: USA | Posts: 11958 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/04/2020 :  02:55:52 AM   More great work everyone. Larry, I particularly enjoyed your WW1 railway thread. I did a second structure as part of the 2020 challenge. An N scale scratchbuilt waterfront warehouse. Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2819 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 12/04/2020 :  09:33:06 AM   The second modeling project that I tackled this year was the FSM Branchline Bucket Coaling Station. It was a fun build! That build was detailed in this thread: http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=52423&whichpage=1 Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33311 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 12/05/2020 :  09:12:32 AM   Time for another photo taken at the Suncoast Center this past February. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33311 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/06/2020 :  03:25:39 AM   I enjoyed your coaling station build Bruce. For the rest of the year I've gone all nautical. Started off building a 1:144 U-Boat, more as a weathering exercise. Full build here. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=52814 Was only a $10 kit, but ended up doing a diorama and a huge amount of research, which I enjoyed as much as the build. Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2819 Terrell Fireman Posted - 12/06/2020 :  11:38:34 AM   My first new project of the year was the Holt house. Started near the end of February and lasted to near the end of July. Country: USA | Posts: 2352 TomPM Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/06/2020 :  9:08:46 PM       quote: Originally posted by BigLars When COVID started I began making short videos of my trains running instead for taking my micro layout to train shows. Here is the link to my YouTube channel if you want to look. https://www.youtube.com/user/BigLarsON30/videos?view_as=subscriber [ing]http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/BigLars/202012315562_video.jpg"[/img] I have been doing the same. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpYK3slou82_nOsSy6IMCng/videos Edited by - TomPM on 12/06/2020 9:14:51 PM Country: USA | Posts: 4827 TomPM Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/06/2020 :  9:21:01 PM       The following video is perhaps the most special of the year. When I got back into things at the end of last year it would be a long time before trains ran on the layout. One night as I was working on the workbench my son came down to the basement and asked why I was not running trains. I told him the layout need too much work. Two hours later with him doing most of the work trains were running again. Since my IHC Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co 2-6-0 Mother Hubbard was the easiest loco to grab it got the honors of testing the layout.After some tweeks the result is below. https://youtu.be/seA_XgSqf8s Country: USA | Posts: 4827 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 12/07/2020 :  09:14:30 AM   Enjoyable videos, Larry & Tom. Tom, I have two of the IHC Mother Hubbards and they run great - as do most IHC locomotives. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33311 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 12/07/2020 :  09:20:12 AM   After building the FSM Bucket Coal Loading Station, I scratch built a small coal bin to sit beside it. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33311 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 12/08/2020 :  01:48:07 AM   My next nautical build was an O scale fishing trawler. Started with a cheap out of scale laser kit, for the hull & deck and scratchuilt most of the rest, including all the details. Full build here. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53025 Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2819 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 12/08/2020 :  08:59:35 AM   I've been enjoying your trip into things nautical this year, Rob! 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