Toy train photography gallery (post your awesome shots here)

Ucwepn · 2014-02-26T11:20:20+00:00

Hi Guys and Gals thought we need a thread for this topic (well I do anyway 😛) I love trying to get that perfect shot and one day I will haha. Photos can be...

Off The Rails

The snow was deep on the northern end of the Denham & Western this morning!

Admittedly, not the greatest shot, since you can tell there are no tracks. However, snow days are exceedingly rare in my part of the US, so I thought I’d better get some shots in while I could.

Super

That is awesome. I like how the photo looks to be black and white and the only color is the red train.. Did you do that with trick photography?

Off The Rails

Thank you!
Nope, that’s exactly as it was taken! Funny, I didn’t even notice at the time I took it but the red train really does stand out.

Super

it also looks like a working headlight on the blower unit...is this modified?

Off The Rails

Wow, I didn’t notice that until you pointed it out! The snow blower is totally stock and the headlight is just a fortunate trick of light.

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One more shot of the snow plow train.

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With the tracks cleared and the snow storm gone, normal schedules resume on the D&W. Here, one of our center cabs hauls a train of empties back to the yard.

leylandvictory2

i am in the process of cleaning up my storage locker. So I am in the process of taking a photo of each rolling stock.

Super

Of each one Leyland? Don't you have a lot?

leylandvictory2

ha ha. Yes, I have a lot. it will take me awhile.

Super

Might I suggest that you start a new Thread in the 'My Collection' Forum for Leylands collection of rolling stock so all the pictures will be in one place and easier for all of us to find?

leylandvictory2

Super wrote
Might I suggest that you start a new Thread in the 'My Collection' Forum for Leylands collection of rolling stock so all the pictures will be in one place and easier for all of us to find?

sounds good. I will post it later.

Off The Rails

The Christmas layout has been delayed due to an issue with the scenery!:s

Super

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Christmas layout 3.0: I gave up on snow covered grass and/or snowy cobblestones (large vinyl sheet from Lemax) and went with a basic white batting snow cover over the whole table. It’s kinda lame but it works, I suppose. Anyway, still working on it while the little guy sleeps off his pain meds from tonsil surgery yesterday. I hope he’ll be happy with it when he wakes up! (And can remember where he put Christmas Thomas!)

Super

I like it, especially the water/ice feature. Is that blue aluminum foil? Every year, every Layout we gain experience and ideas for the next build.

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Thanks Super! Yes, the water is a couple pieces of very thin blue foil (maybe Mylar?) that I think you use in place of tissue for gift wrapping. I think it adds a nice sort of fake-ish Christmas bling. I have some blue cellophane gift wrapping too but I might save that for another application.

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The 2:00 PM passenger train pulls out of town and heads southbound across a high trestle.

This train is made up of a late production C battery powered C12 and a string of three blue Suha coaches, all purchased from Super. I borrowed a length of track from my son’s vast Trackmaster 2 collection.

Super

Really like the angles on the pictures as it does seem like we are below the high trestle looking up at a train going by.

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More photos of trains on high trestles. My son was inspired by my previous photo set and wanted to do a similar set of his own. He recently got a Tomy Shooting Star Gordon and he also got out his Tomy Streamline Thomas to run along side Gordon. You’ll notice Winston is connected to Thomas and Clarabelle. I’m not sure why he chose that particular consist, I’m just the photographer!

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