Trackside Thursday

CNJ/Jersey Central MOW crews getting ready to head out to the mainline today.

Lionel Speeders custom painted/decaled by SIRT for me about 5 years ago.

I just love Post-war Lionel Billboards.  Here are three of my favorites trackside on the Shenandoah Short Line.

@pennsyfan posted:

Happy Trackside Thursday

Unloading barge full of scrap metal onto gondola.

Nice track side action thanks for sharing

@walt rapp posted:

From one of my early on Christmas Layouts

- walt

Walt your getting to my soft spot with this weeks offing the hay stacks reminds me of the way the Mennonites do it around here. I deliver feed to them and took this pic last late fall. There’s always farms track side. Thanks for sharing your pic.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well I don't have anything as elaborate as Bob in regards to a waterfront scene, but here is mine...one stream and one rowboat   !

Happy Trackside Thur

Don

That’s cool Don thanks for sharing.

Well here’s mine. A Weaver RS-3 sneaking through the Side track by Kimbrel Coal Co.

Trackside for this fine Thursday!   Humphrey Tragob and Sirob Follrak unfasten the chains that hold these powerful beauties in place during their long  train ride.  Boss man Axle Bentley stands in front of the Mack pondering as where to park these tractors once they come off the flatcar.  

Great scene Patrick!

It's a busy day at the trackside repair station and the technician teams are getting their assignments. These guys are independents, so they'll repair any railroads equipment.

@lee drennen - I'm guessing that you removed your comment about my haystacks because I got a notification that you showed your own picture of a real one and commented about being from a Mennonite farm.

After my divorce, my kids lived in a area of NW PA know for its Amish population.  That was my inspiration for the scene on my layout.

walt

FOR TODAY:  It's Springtime in Patsburg!  The Westend section of Patsburg is bustling with activitivty.  The Good Humor truck makes its' first appearance since last Labor Day.  Kids line up for Popsicles, Dreamcicles, Nutty Butty cones, Rocketship pushups, and for those lucky kids with a nice shiny ( or not shiny ) 25 cent piece  ... a half pint of delicious Good Humor ice cream.  Emmmm ... one of the many pleasures of the season we call Spring.

AND some new Lionel sets have arrived at Kiddie City Toys.  A dad and his two kids walking by stop to admire the new sets only to discover that owner Klaus Atnas has fogged the windows. Now the young family trio's curiosity is at a fever pitch and they must come inside KCT to have an up close look at these exciting new sets.  I wonder which set they will purchase today.  O'l Klaus is a pretty persuasive salesman!  After all, he sold Sally Sue that nice jump rope after she came in looking for the Milton Bradley game called Sorry which was out of stock.  

At Westend Park:   Nanny, Mrs. Bledsoe pushes young Fauntley Nottingham as Mr. Higgins takes a break from his men's clothing shop.

Westend Ave on Friday afternoon.  

@trumpettrain posted:

Trackside for this fine Thursday!   Humphrey Tragob and Sirob Follrak unfasten the chains that hold these powerful beauties in place during their long  train ride.  Boss man Axle Bentley stands in front of the Mack pondering as where to park these tractors once they come off the flatcar.  

Humphrey Tragob and Sirob Follrak...been watching old movies again Patrick?

@Farmall-Joe posted:

Humphrey Tragob and Sirob Follrak...been watching old movies again Patrick?

Farmall - Joe  .... you figured it out!  Bravo!!   Not watching old movies here, however, those two actor's names popped into my head just before I was about to press Post Reply.  At that moment I paused and said " why not do a play on words".  I've done this before in other posts but no one seemed to catch those .  You have a most discerning eye my friend!  

@lee drennen posted:

No they did Man I love this place!

From what I saw in my email, I didn't notice anything close to controversial.  Hmmm.  Sorry to know this.

walt

@walt rapp posted:

@lee drennen - I'm guessing that you removed your comment about my haystacks because I got a notification that you showed your own picture of a real one and commented about being from a Mennonite farm.

After my divorce, my kids lived in a area of NW PA know for its Amish population.  That was my inspiration for the scene on my layout.

walt

@lee drennen posted:

No they did Man I love this place!

@walt rapp posted:

From what I saw in my email, I didn't notice anything close to controversial.  Hmmm.  Sorry to know this.

walt

@lee drennen posted:

Walt just some of the reasons I don’t post here much anymore

Nothing got deleted. The photo is still there. You (Lee) posted it inside the quoted reply of Walt’s post instead of in the body of your post. User error, not moderator action.
https://ogrforum.com/...7#184297498884941357

@Training Wheels posted:

Nothing got deleted. The photo is still there. You (Lee) posted it inside the quoted reply of Walt’s post instead of in the body of your post. User error, not moderator action.
https://ogrforum.com/...7#184297498884941357

Sorry my bad but it wasn’t there as Walt state

@lee drennen- Lee glad to see your commenting again and great comment on the haystack and the Amish Farm.  Thanks for the comment on my picture.  My wife's family is from Lancaster, PA and has Mennonite relations in their background and we lived in southern Maryland and had Mennonite neighbors (including horse drawn wagons and such).  They may have some unusual practices but on the whole, they were honest, hard working, and straightforward neighbors.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@lee drennen- Lee glad to see your commenting again and great comment on the haystack and the Amish Farm.  Thanks for the comment on my picture.  My wife's family is from Lancaster, PA and has Mennonite relations in their background and we lived in southern Maryland and had Mennonite neighbors (including horse drawn wagons and such).  They may have some unusual practices but on the whole, they were honest, hard working, and straightforward neighbors.

Best Wishes

Don

Don, good to see you posting; after all the news about Texas weather.

@pennsyfan - Thanks for your concern and comment Bob, we certainly have been having a "doozy" this spring.  I teach at Baylor and on Friday we had to evacuate the University Buildings and seek shelter in the specified locations for Tornado shelters.  Baylor is in downtown Waco which was destroyed by a tornado in 1953 so it was somewhat scary!  Anyway thank you for your concern and asking.

Best Wishes

Don

Well its a little late but here is a starting post for today's thread.  The commuters are waiting for transit on the Leonardtown and Savannah in order to get into town for some shopping.  No school age children they are all in school so the parents are taking some time to get to the stores in peace!  Mrs. Hilda Stout (in the green dress) is looking forward to a lunch near the Savannah River waterfront at her favorite cafe...(just between us, perhaps she goes there too often )

Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well its a little late but here is a starting post for today's thread.  The commuters are waiting for transit on the Leonardtown and Savannah in order to get into town for some shopping.  No school age children they are all in school so the parents are taking some time to get to the stores in peace!  Mrs. Hilda Stout (in the green dress) is looking forward to a lunch near the Savannah River waterfront at her favorite cafe...(just between us, perhaps she goes there too often )

Best wishes

Don

Ah, the Savannah River waterfront cafes.
That’s where I got the sign “Barracuda Bob’s “ for my layout. I think they have since closed.

Trackside Thursday

Funeral at St Patrick’s chapel.


Dahill is my friend Ed’s FP. He’ll be the last guy to let you down.

From one of my Christmas Layouts.  The house is a model that I made of my parents' house where I grew up in Port Vue.  Mom always hung clothes out to dry on sunny days (Sadly, maybe, I had to help).  When I made this scene I made sure to put the poles in the correct spots.  The hedges and trees too.  That's a model of my Dad and my Mom that Trainsformations made for me back then.  They are SPOT ON.

- walt

A small town main street.

@walt rapp posted:

From one of my Christmas Layouts.  The house is a model that I made of my parents' house where I grew up in Port Vue.  Mom always hung clothes out to dry on sunny days (Sadly, maybe, I had to help).  When I made this scene I made sure to put the poles in the correct spots.  The hedges and trees too.  That's a model of my Dad and my Mom that Trainsformations made for me back then.  They are SPOT ON.

- walt

What a great modeling skill Walt.   Your description of the memories and modeling pulled me into your photo to take a closer look around.    Nice

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Liking this a lot .   This is really cool Bob. .   Just when I've thought Ive seen it all on the forumites layouts , wow.         Nicely done sir.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed it.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

What a great modeling skill Walt.   Your description of the memories and modeling pulled me into your photo to take a closer look around.    Nice

Walt, have you ever done a how to on the scenery thread? You should, your work is amazing.

@walt rapp posted:

From one of my Christmas Layouts.  The house is a model that I made of my parents' house where I grew up in Port Vue.  Mom always hung clothes out to dry on sunny days (Sadly, maybe, I had to help).  When I made this scene I made sure to put the poles in the correct spots.  The hedges and trees too.  That's a model of my Dad and my Mom that Trainsformations made for me back then.  They are SPOT ON.

- walt

WOW!!! Walt this is fabulous modeling!!! Quite stunning really, and what a terrific tribute to your parents!!!

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  

@trumpettrain posted:

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  

There's that FM TM H-24-66 Reading poking its nose in your trackside Thursday in Patsburg, MA scene, got to love it! Great stuff Patrick! I travel back east at least once a year to Lehigh University, PA, Wilmington, DE, and Stamford, CT. My son will be a sophomore at Lehigh University next year, and I have family in DE and CT. If I can ever figure it out, I would love to see your layout and catch some live music with you blowing the trumpet. (wish list) In the meantime I'll keep enjoying your posts here on OGR, keep 'em coming.

FYI - Two of my favorite bands are Chicago and Tower of Power. Great brass sections!! I've seen Tower of Power at least 5 times at the Frost Amphitheater at  Stanford University in the 70's! Wow, so awesome.

Keep those FM Train Masters rollin'!

I just thought this would be a funny entry for a trackside thursday posting.  I have a floor layout, 11'x14' with lots of switches, so there are always derailments and other things that go wrong.  As Murphy's Law would have it, those problems always seem to be in the rear of the layout .

When I'm planning my new track design and scenery options for the new Christmas season, one consideration that I keep in mind is making sure that I have a way to get to the back of the layout.  Here's me after rerailing a couple of cars in the rear.  Keeping my balance is no small, easy task to boot.

And it ALWAYS seems to happen when I have guests.  These images were taken by my B.I.L.

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

I just thought this would be a funny entry for a trackside thursday posting.  I have a floor layout, 11'x14' with lots of switches, so there are always derailments and other things that go wrong.  As Murphy's Law would have it, those problems always seem to be in the rear of the layout .

When I'm planning my new track design and scenery options for the new Christmas season, one consideration that I keep in mind is making sure that I have a way to get to the back of the layout.  Here's me after rerailing a couple of cars in the rear.  Keeping my balance is no small, easy task to boot.

And it ALWAYS seems to happen when I have guests.  These images were taken by my B.I.L.

- walt

Walt, you must have been tuned in to my thoughts earlier! Seeing you reminds me of picking my way through the rock garden when I ran the LGB in Brooklyn.

Track Side Thursday

A Jug Band concert in the park.

@pennsyfan posted:

Track Side Thursday

A Jug Band concert in the park.

We had the same group a few days ago to entertain the courtyard shoppers. They certainly get around.

Gene

Here are a few pictures around my railroad:

Well in fact we are having tremendous thunder storms here in Central Texas ... BUT...in Small Town on my RR the day is sunny and clear and folks are gathering at the McDonald's for lunch.

Best Wishes

Don

@walt rapp posted:

I just thought this would be a funny entry for a trackside thursday posting.  I have a floor layout, 11'x14' with lots of switches, so there are always derailments and other things that go wrong.  As Murphy's Law would have it, those problems always seem to be in the rear of the layout .

When I'm planning my new track design and scenery options for the new Christmas season, one consideration that I keep in mind is making sure that I have a way to get to the back of the layout.  Here's me after rerailing a couple of cars in the rear.  Keeping my balance is no small, easy task to boot.

And it ALWAYS seems to happen when I have guests.  These images were taken by my B.I.L.

- walt

Something Alpine-looking about your moves....maybe Aspen....

Trackside for this fine Thursday!

Trackside on a rainy Thursday with the Flower Moon.
Welder working on liftbridge tower.

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  

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