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[Edit:] Heh, I just noticed this was my 300th submission...
On 9/28 I went to visit a train club that was holding an open house. The New Jersey HiRailers has a big layout.
A really big layout. As in 185 feet long big.
On a previous visit, I made a video using my camcorder and "CamTrak", a car I custom-built to carry my camcorder on O-Gauge model railroads, capturing an engineer's-eye view of the layout as it's pushed by a train. You can see an example of what I did with it in this video taken on a previous open house at the same club. That run only covered 3/5 of the layout.
In an effort to capture the rest of the setup, which includes an enormous spiral bridge encircling a city, I got one of the club members to take my camera car for a spin, with a lightweight flatcar seperating the two, the idea being that in the event the low-riding camera car snagged an obstruction (which it has done before), the flatcar would derail and absorb the impact from the pushing locomotive.
Long story short, the flatcar managed to derail for no real reason, and while signalling the operator to start up after fixing the mishap, the train suddenly took off in reverse, went the wrong way through a switch, and roared into a trainyard, derailing the camera car and careening out the other end of the yard, only to vanish from sight before it could be stopped.
It took several minutes to find the errant locomotive. Nobody who saw it run away knew where it ended up. It took some members crawling underneath the vast expanse of scenery to find the loco sitting on some hidden track beneath the aforementioned city.
I described the runaway incident to a senior member as "There's a milk carton with a picture of your engine on it". Hence this pic, which I whipped up in a couple of hours and posted to the O Gauge Railroading forum. Curiously enough, this is my first successful attempt at coloring a sketch, so in the name of artistic variety, I'm also posting it here.
Digitally colored pencils via Micrografx Picture Publisher. Somehow, the uncompressed version of this pic weighs in at 152 Megabytes. Dunno how that happened, but at least it all saved--from under one of those "(Program) has encountered a problem and needs to close" error dialogs. That's a good thing. Cause I hadn't saved it prior to that O_o .
On 9/28 I went to visit a train club that was holding an open house. The New Jersey HiRailers has a big layout.
A really big layout. As in 185 feet long big.
On a previous visit, I made a video using my camcorder and "CamTrak", a car I custom-built to carry my camcorder on O-Gauge model railroads, capturing an engineer's-eye view of the layout as it's pushed by a train. You can see an example of what I did with it in this video taken on a previous open house at the same club. That run only covered 3/5 of the layout.
In an effort to capture the rest of the setup, which includes an enormous spiral bridge encircling a city, I got one of the club members to take my camera car for a spin, with a lightweight flatcar seperating the two, the idea being that in the event the low-riding camera car snagged an obstruction (which it has done before), the flatcar would derail and absorb the impact from the pushing locomotive.
Long story short, the flatcar managed to derail for no real reason, and while signalling the operator to start up after fixing the mishap, the train suddenly took off in reverse, went the wrong way through a switch, and roared into a trainyard, derailing the camera car and careening out the other end of the yard, only to vanish from sight before it could be stopped.
It took several minutes to find the errant locomotive. Nobody who saw it run away knew where it ended up. It took some members crawling underneath the vast expanse of scenery to find the loco sitting on some hidden track beneath the aforementioned city.
I described the runaway incident to a senior member as "There's a milk carton with a picture of your engine on it". Hence this pic, which I whipped up in a couple of hours and posted to the O Gauge Railroading forum. Curiously enough, this is my first successful attempt at coloring a sketch, so in the name of artistic variety, I'm also posting it here.
Digitally colored pencils via Micrografx Picture Publisher. Somehow, the uncompressed version of this pic weighs in at 152 Megabytes. Dunno how that happened, but at least it all saved--from under one of those "(Program) has encountered a problem and needs to close" error dialogs. That's a good thing. Cause I hadn't saved it prior to that O_o .
Category Designs / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 700 x 962px
File Size 94.5 kB
Probably "Express Milk". Or something like that. I was at a loss for a fictional name brand, and that wasn't the focus of the pic anyway since so little of that side of the carton is visible. Chalk it up to late-night coloring sessions in a sleep-deprived state :)
Trains are fun. I recently bought a couple of engines in CN colours from the Salvation Army. I don't know if they work, but I wanted them as static models.
A friend of in is rather a know-it-all. I was planning on showing these to him and asking what kind of locomotives he thought they were. He'd come out with something like "diesel engines... um... that's a switch engine I think."
Then I'd come back with, "it's a road/switche engine actually. Specifically a General Motors Electro Motive Division SP40. The other is an EMD D9 b0 b0, but they phased those old car-body types out of service years ago."
The danger is he he might assume I knew more than that and start asking questions.
A friend of in is rather a know-it-all. I was planning on showing these to him and asking what kind of locomotives he thought they were. He'd come out with something like "diesel engines... um... that's a switch engine I think."
Then I'd come back with, "it's a road/switche engine actually. Specifically a General Motors Electro Motive Division SP40. The other is an EMD D9 b0 b0, but they phased those old car-body types out of service years ago."
The danger is he he might assume I knew more than that and start asking questions.
I also have a number of Government of Canada grain hoppers (ok, I have eleven of them and will probably get a few more).
I'm waiting on some CP locomotives (ES44AC) that I have on order to pull them (CP has trackage rights into NYC, and their locomotives can be spotted in the South Bronx from time to time).
My current avatar is based upon a 32-car Chessie system grain train I was running in my living room, (viewable here.
I'm waiting on some CP locomotives (ES44AC) that I have on order to pull them (CP has trackage rights into NYC, and their locomotives can be spotted in the South Bronx from time to time).
My current avatar is based upon a 32-car Chessie system grain train I was running in my living room, (viewable here.
I"ve a CN caboose and a hopper car that came with the engines, as well as about ten sections of curved track. I don't need the track particularly. Without a transformer, and with engines that might not even run, what use are they? (I"ll be giving them to a friend probably.) The caboose is neat -- it comes in CN livery too. The CN hopper car is a little more problematic, being just brown with a white CN on it. I'd rather have a box car which is more similar in size to the engines.
I presume the car I have is a hopper -- an open car about half as tall as a boxcar, with four angled chutes in the bottom. I don't have a handy reference.
I presume the car I have is a hopper -- an open car about half as tall as a boxcar, with four angled chutes in the bottom. I don't have a handy reference.
I have plans to do a NEC-ish layout in my basement. At least the kinds of trians running there will be reminiscent of the 'Corridor' (I have an Acela, AEM7'a and a whole mess of Amfleet cars, plus some NJT, Metro-North and LIRR and a whole mess of rapid transit. Anth then there's the freight stuff...
The EP-5 was only really designed for the short dash from New Haven to NYC (keeping those Ignitron rectifiers cool was a royal pain). The GG-1 was actually based upon another New Haven design with the same wheel arrangement, whose name escapes me right now (I'm on my cellphone and can't open another window to look it up).
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