Fantastic work!!!

Steve,

I'm so happy that you decided to share these with us--MAGNIFICENT. Your touch with weathering and rust is definitely "Master"-grade!

As you know, the Coal Breaker makes me drool, lol. It kinda DOES look like St. Nick's, in a way? It's certainly big enough!

You know, I actually have kicked around the idea of building St Nicks. I think the only reason I'm not trying is because it would be one of those modeling projects that completely consumes a modeler for like, ten years, adding detail after detail, and trying to model the wreckage inside, as seen through all those windows?

The train cars are fantastic, too! You've really got a great thing going here!!! Can't wait to see the Tiger!!

Oh, and I'll be photographing that other breaker on Friday, next week! I'll send ya photos!

Super work there! Some of the best weathering and rust I've seen even as high as the bar is here.

I see graffiti on half the Norfolk Southern rolling stock that goes past my work place. Some may call it 'urban art' - I call it what it is- vandalism.

Are you going to attempt the same weathering in N scale? That will be something

Needs more rust...

PaperPanzer

That looks excellent! I think they would look great together in a diorama.

Like this!?:

Wonderful work,,,  top notch!

Mostly,,,,,,,,,,,  thanks for sharing

Manstein's revenge

Very impressive...I think you have found your niche'!!! 

I'd like to see you do a graffitied-up car as well with all the bright colors and symbols!

    I like watching trains go by and checking out some of the good graffiti !

It must drive Union Pacific nuts, but some of that stuff is very artistic. Perhaps some fellow modellers moonlighting?

That looks excellent! I think they would look great together in a diorama.

Very impressive...I think you have found your niche'!!! 

I'd like to see you do a graffitied-up car as well with all the bright colors and symbols!

Awsome Steve, lovely jubly. Nice to hear from you again matey.

panzerpilot/griffin/Hercmech:  Thanks for the compliments.

tojo72:  These are all HO gauge, commission work.  They are not on my own layout.  I'm designing my own layout now...N gauge...I REALLY LOOK FORWARD to building/weathering my own stuff!

wbill76: It's great to be back, Thanks Bill!  I bet you saw some really beat -up freight cars in Juarez,  huh?!

Tigerman: Thanks T-man, Graffitti can actually be purchased as a DECAL...REALLY!  A lot of railroad enthusiasts building modern layouts insist on graffitti... I DON'T/ WON"T do graffitti.  There are some fantastic sites with railroad car prototype (that's the term in Railroading) pictures available.  Here are two I used to weather the boxcars shown::

Where's the graffiti? LOL

We certainly don't see any of that here in the forums. Well done on the cars and buildings.

Did you take pictures or get reference to any real trains before you started? 

Fantastic work Steven,your entire layout must be awesome

Nice to see you back around these parts Steve! Some very cool stuff you've got going on there on both the cars and the buildings. Railroad offers such a wide spectrum for weathering and you've captured it nicely with this sample. Some of those cars look like ones I used to pass by every day in the Union Pacific rail yards on the way to work in Juarez!

WOW!!!! Even more impressive stuff

Sir D: Look again...check out the Soo Line car!

I'm a bit rusty on posting threads and I hit the post button before loading all the photos, there's a bunch more now showing a lot of variety.

Really nice looking paint job!

Your train car looks awesome!

Hey. That looks really good! Nice to see an example from the other side of modelling. I like the "streaked" effect and the rust.

LIGHTLY!

WHAZZAMATTER with you........

Let's see some of dat 'ol grungy stuff.