Model Railroading > CN Potash on Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving folks, and to my Canadian modelers, I hope you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day back on October 12th.

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Here's some bulk commodity haulage around the club layout a day or so back. 62 HO scale NARC/PWRS 3-bay NSC potash hoppers, Rapido, Genesis, InterMountain horsepower up front.

1200 pixel images here...
https://pbase.com/mrmrl/cn_models

~ Mr. MRL



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/20 20:00 by MrMRL.

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Wow!  I clicked on our images on the home page thinking it was the prototype in a new location.
Your scenery shows how "less is more" here in several instances.
Don't change a thing.

Fantastic scenery and pot ash train. Love the CN powering it.

Stanley Jackowski
Valrico, FL

Could not help but think of CN's practice of running trains so long that they only had a few sidings one would fit in delaying all the trains facing it.

Note the train exceeds siding length.

Good photos.

I love it when models don’t look like models but real railroads !!

Gary

Posted from iPhone

Really nice work; well done!! Keep it up!

Mike

That first shot is amazing!

Thank you for the feedback folks!

~ Mr. MRL

I enjoy your scenery. Whether in raw blue form or finished as in this series. Good looking train to show it off.

Robby, you really nailed it!  Great looking train on a great looking railroad.  See you in 2021.
Tim Costello

Sure has been fun to watch everything come together.  Neat stuff for sure.

Yeah, kinda sad to see the blue foam mountains all covered up.


~ Mr. MRL

Nice train. You can run those cars with CP and UP power as well.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

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Great models, scenery, and photography.  I haven't seen too many telemashed model pics before, Pic 1 is a masterpiece!

Rich

Awesome layout, train and photography.  Great work!

Jim Bertone
Quincy, MA

WOW, Just catching the photos today but man I want that 1st on on my train Calendar. That is
one special image. I guess we know who buys all them hoppers LOL. Perfect!

Very cool-I went with the Potash Corp cars because we see those over here as unit trains-but some Canpotex cars are getting mixed into the trains.
The Canadian National power also makes for a cool consist. I enjoy catching that on the BNSF past my window. It's a good change from the stuff I usually see.

Keep the pics coming-they do inspire and be safe on the real rails!

Dave Burman
modeling the modern Twin Cities
Trempealeau, WI

Again, thank you for the comments and feedback folks. The first image (along with 4 and 6) are composites with multiple areas of focus stacked back on top of each other in Photoshop. I know there are automated software programs that accomplish this effect as well (certainly better than me), but it really isn't too difficult to achieve with a little basic Photoshop skill.

~ Mr. MRL

 a split rail DE-Rail. Nice. I will install one on my lay out. Am I the only one to spot it? Keep the pohto' coming.