a picture a day....

For today:  " Saturday morning in Patsburg.  Waiting for the local freight to go by. " 

For today:  " Farm equipment arrives for local farm equipment dealer.  Must mean spring is around the corner." 

Bill T posted:

Bill thanks for post those Reefers my favorite is the Northern Pacific 

Took this on the layout this evening. Some Nickel Plate Action 

TRUMPTRAIN,

WHAT SCALE AND WHERE DID YOU FIND THE JD DISC?

Italian or BBQ?

For today: " Steam power."

jpc posted:

TRUMPTRAIN,

WHAT SCALE AND WHERE DID YOU FIND THE JD DISC?

I actually found the disc and the farm wagon at my local grocery store in the toy section.  I'm not sure of the scale but they look to be either 1:43 or 1:48.  I bought the disc and the farm wagon for $1.00 each.   

Here’s another pic I took yesterday 

Coal

For today: " RS 1 switches the team track in Lower Patsburg." 

                     MO-PAC under moonlight...

"Collage":

Every pic is about the fun of riding the rails.

Heads up!  I'll be moving back to this layout build soon.

          great shot Mark !!    awesome backdrop

Zeke. That’s a very neat looking pic 

Caught this guy hiding in the trees in East St. Louis Illinois today.  Does anyone know the story on this retro Finger Lake Railway Locomotive 

Lee - thank you!

Lee, that is their livery. Take a look at this linky:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=5033608

As to what one of their engines is doing out your way, who knows?

Found it!

Finger Lakes Railway GP38-2 # 2005 ( ex PC # 7727, CR # 7727 , GMTX # 2648 ) is seen fresh from paint at MEI East St Louis, IL on Jan 14th 2020. Unit is owned by GATX and on long term lease to the NY shortline. 

From:

Mark Mautner took this pic and has it on Flickr

I really like these crossing signals. Scaled very nicely and adds good detail.

                                           nice catch Lee !

          Finger Lakes Railway Photo Book

                       https://www.fingerlakesrail.com/gallery.html 

Thanks Lew and Brian I searched the web after I took that pic with no luck on the loco number but forgot about rail net archives I like the old NYC paint scheme they use 

HudsonORailRoader posted:

I really like these crossing signals. Scaled very nicely and adds good detail.

Who makes them? very nice 

For today: " Stop Look and Listen."

                          Country Station on the Yellow Line at NJ Hirailers.

Station Plaza

briansilvermustang posted:

         

                                           nice catch Lee !

 

          Finger Lakes Railway Photo Book

 

                       https://www.fingerlakesrail.com/gallery.html 

 

 

 

 

Brian you are something else thanks for posting 

sidehack posted:

Station Plaza

Ray, nice touch with the fallout-shelter sign.

Dad showing off this curved tunnel on the PRR Low Grade at Benezette, Pa.

Bill T :  Great picture, I thought at first this was the famous and exceedingly rare "Halloween General" from1960  but although the coloring is similar that has a black boiler  not orange as well as being a 4-4-0 American and not a 4-6-0 "10 Wheeler".  No matter , this one looks GREAT as well.  Is it  LIonel? MTH? Who? 

We have a house on Tybee Island, Ga and I am researching the Tybee Railroad (Independent from 1888 till about 1890 then part of the Central RR of Ga).  It always operated as an independent line, with its own station in Savannah and went from Savannah the 14 miles to Tybee Beach and served Ft. Pulaski (a coastal gun defense fort with enormous cannon that lasted from the post Civil War era through WWI) as an intermediate stop.    The RR lasted only about 30 years but was really on its last legs from about 1922 on when the auto road opened between the same points.  It had only two locomotives, both American 4-4-0 converted from wood to coal and then to fuel oil to lower the smoke in the sensitive beach areas.  It carried both commuters and normal visitors but in the summer often ran double headed on weekends (tough to do with only 2 locomotives).  There is little vestige of it left and very little history available.  I hope to build a little On30 layout some day that is based on its operations.

Best Wishes Don