[steved]

Kind of quiet around here.

https://i.imgur.com/xgcBGBm.png

[conductorchris]

Paul: love that Conn River shot. Great selection of cars.

You know I've walked that area dozens and dozens of times.

I think the Brattleboro yard remained ballasted with cinders until the end of CV. Some of it still is.

Christopher

[pnrailway]

conductorchris, on 25 April 2021 - 03:54 PM, said:

Paul: love that Conn River shot. Great selection of cars.

You know I've walked that area dozens and dozens of times.

I think the Brattleboro yard remained ballasted with cinders until the end of CV. Some of it still is.

Christopher

Chris,

Thanks for the info. I will have to go back an put in cinders instead of the stone I used. BTW, what was the track ballasted with?

[timmuir]

Nice photography, Paul. I really like that first one, it seems familiar to me for some reason. Nice atmosphere!

Steved, I am there!

I can almost hear the crickets and birdsong in your scene. Then off to the right, the soft atmospheric wail of the locomotive whistling for the crossing, getting nearer, and as it encounters the rise before it, the engineer hauls back on the throttle and the stack erupts with a staccato blast that rattles the windows for a block around. With a resounding clanking and knocking of flailing bright steel rods, it rumbles by, pungent aromas of coal fire, steam, hot grease and oil, fill the air for a brief moment, then with gusto, the engine picks up speed, wheels singing a steel melody above the cacophony of the heavy freight train's passing, followed in time by a lessening of the din, until the final statement and period of the caboose is dotted, it's wooden house clunking over the crossing, it's chimney smoking with the promise of a warm spot by the stove inside; a little wave from the brakeman, the end has come and gone. I can almost hear the crickets...

pardon my waxing..

[steved]

Mixing eras, 1962.
https://i.imgur.com/gTo7p1H.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sZeHmhv.jpg

"It's my railroad and I'll do what I want!", R. Steel.

[timmuir]

NICE! Love the last shot, I like your use of signs.

..more crickets

[steved]

Thanks Tim and happy birthday.

[ebnertra000]

Those are some great shots! I bet you'll find these of interest whenever I finally finish them...

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[steved]

Nice work Travis, I've always enjoyed your work.
I've been using shapes I already have, and then using a little Google image search and Windows snipit tool along with some PaintDotNet I've managed to put together these.

https://i.imgur.com/57gPgb5.jpg

Prior to the 1960s highway signs were more localized and that's the feeling I'm trying to model.
I'm trying to put together a place and time I remember from my childhood when things were simpler and on a much more human scale.
I grew up on the prairies of Colorado and Nebraska, crickets, and I like the vast empty spaces, so that's what you see here.
There is no prototype for what I'm modeling just a feeling. Can you model a feeling? I think you can.

[Coonskin]

steved:

Excellent work! Your structures look great, and the fog in your pics make them very evocative.

Well done.