Halloween fun

[ezdays]

Halloween is less than two weeks away and so if anyone has any train pics to go along with this spooky occasion, let's post them here.

This is a few shots that I took of my abandoned and supposedly haunted house a few years ago. This always seems to happen this time of the year:

   

   

Oh, the house is N scale, but I'm not too sure about those creepy things....

[Running Bear]

Try this game: Cat Bowling

[yellowlynn]

WOW RB! That last picture was truly frightening.

Lynn

[Running Bear]

You ought to see me with my mask on!

[ezdays]

You ought to see me with my mask on!

Uh, could you please put one on, this is truly frightening enough.

[yellowlynn]

Thank you, Don. I couldn't have said it better

Of course, this explains why I never post my face anywhere. I like this forum far too much to see it explode.

Lynn

[Running Bear]

You ought to see me with my mask on!

Uh, could you please put one on, this is truly frightening enough.

[Running Bear]

Covered up for your protection! Now hand over da trains!

[Darkwing]

YIKES! Scary stuff! Who let that in here?!

[Ralph]

Some Old Heads who have worked the line around Kings Port like to tell the new guys about a ghost steam train that appears late at night around Halloween. Back in the '30s there was a terrible wreck just East of town one Autumn night when a passenger train derailed and tumbled down the bank into the Hudson with no survivors. The young hostler in that GP40 is pretty shaken but will never admit what he saw!

[Running Bear]

Would you?

[eightyeightfan1]

Was out at ore Hill taking some pictures of some Southwick and Winsted action. Didn't see it till I downloaded this picture.

[Running Bear]

That's when the engineer has one of those 'Holy S**t!' moments. As well as some new gray hairs.

[Ralph]

How did you do that double exposure trick Ed? I thought something like that would be cool for my pic but didn't know how to do it with a digital camera.

[eightyeightfan1]

It was a lot of work Ralph. You also need a Photoshop program. I use MS Picture it v.10.

First. I took a picture of the GP-38 on my layout. Moved that out of shot. Leaving the camera in the same spot, I set up the Consoldation going the opposite way and took a picture. After downloading to my computer, using MS Picture It, I chopped out the unwanted areas(spaces in handrails, grabs) on the GP-38. When finished I placed it into one of my backdrop pictures. Moving to the picture of the Consolidation, I traced around just the loco, tender and the passenger car, then copied and pasted to the first picture. I then chopped out the unwanted areas so there weren't any blank(raw) areas on the Consolodation. Using Picture Its "transparency" function, I kept going til I got the Consoldation to the right "ghostly" transparency.