Model Railroading > Happy Birthday Burlington Northern!

I know I'm a day early but let's get the party started! 45 years tomorrow BN was formed from the merger of NP, GN, SP&S and CB&Q. Lou Menk was at the helm and Nixon was in the White House. A gallon of gas was 36¢ and the federal debt was $381 billion.

In my garage, it's 1995 and BN is hauling coal in circles but you can't go back!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/15 22:30 by pmack.

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Amazing modeling!

Posted from Android

DG .
Unknown, US

Huh? Can't go back?!? That modeling of yours just did! Nice job, and Happy Birthday BN!

Cheers,
Harry

Your modeling is "scary" good!

Wow, great scene!

Joel Brazy
Coatesville, PA

Beautiful scene, very well done.

~Ryan

That is some excellent modeling, I sure do miss the BN and many more.

That really is top notch modeling, sure looks realistic to me.

Kris

Let's see more of this layout

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Yes, more please.

Excellent work. I like the switch machine and signal enclosure.
I see (what I think/hope) your camera reacts to red LEDs like mine do: they make it orange-yellow.
It happens to my images of red LEDs in 1:1 and 1:87 scales.
Attempts to correct those colors have not worked for me so far.

Pmack.....It almost looks real,, you've done a great job of detail in this scene, love those macks......

Excellent modeling!

Agree with all of the comments here that this is a great scene, and we need more pictures!

John Parker
Longmont, CO
BNSF Fall River Division

Paul, you've gone above and beyond again!

That is some fine modelling and photography there,very convincing.
Regards,DK

Thanks all for the comments. I'd show more of the layout if there was more. I have 5 freemo modules in my one car garage. The ends are snap track curves across my workbench on one end and across a scrap of plywood on the other. I like operations but even more like making images like I remember seeing or wish I could have seen. Often there is careful camera placement and digital trickery involved, see this thread from last year when we had winter in Oregon:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?3,3319085

pmack Wrote:
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> I know I'm a day early but let's get the party
> started! 45 years tomorrow BN was formed from the
> merger of NP, GN, SP&S and CB&Q. Lou Menk was at
> the helm and Nixon was in the White House. A
> gallon of gas was 36¢ and the federal debt was
> $381 billion.
>
> In my garage, it's 1995 and BN is hauling coal in
> circles but you can't go back!

Paul, very nice work! Nice era-specific weathering - the variation on each of the two MACs screams 1995 for each of the individual build dates of those units. Also, the shadow effect behind the power makes your photograph especially believable.

Great job!

David Lehlbach

happy birthday to the BN. Paul that is some fantastic work. very well done!
Glenn hoover

railstiesballast Wrote:

> I see (what I think/hope) your camera reacts to
> red LEDs like mine do: they make it
> orange-yellow.
> It happens to my images of red LEDs in 1:1 and
> 1:87 scales.
> Attempts to correct those colors have not worked
> for me so far.

I have noted the same issue with real signals too. They look like yellow blocks even though they are reds.

Rob