a picture a day....

SIDEHACK, just for the record, I really like your modeling work, your scenes look so realistic and your layout is so nice. Thanks for your pictures on this great forum. Happy Railroading 

Larry, thank you for your kind comments, I always enjoy seeing pictures of your fine  layout

Vandalism during pandemic...

Postwar US Air Force switcher. 

For today:  "On the way into town ... just waiting for the train to  pass."

                                            KCS SD40-2 on the Orange Line at NJ Hirailers.

The zoo from a 2004-5 version of our layout.

Brewery and Hotel at night

For today: " Just Another Day on a Way Freight ....... Jake , the brakeman, just pulled the uncoupling bar as, Clarence,  the locomotive engineer eases the train slightly forward out of the clutches of the B&O red boxcar.  Another boxcar of freight delivered on time which keeps the customer happy! " 

For today. " Work begins  this  morning .... very early." 

MAIN STREET,  west end of town...quiet...the way we like it

                                                     Something sweet in Paterson, NJ........

at the crossing

@jackiejr posted:

MAIN STREET,  west end of town...quiet...the way we like it

nice detailing, a lot going on in that section of town.

With smoke pouring out through a hole in the damaged roof, the fire department is on hand to evacuate the residents and quell the blaze.

@Trussman posted:

nice detailing, a lot going on in that section of town.

 

Thanks  Trussman    Had fun creating it

Everyone great pictures, jackiejr, great down town scene, looks so good, there’s simply so many great layouts pictured here on “A Picture a Day”. Happy Railroading and happy Tuesday.    

@sidehack posted:

at the crossing

Ray, great picture...is that a '53 Olds approaching the crossing?  I like the Pennsy cars too...between the passenger cars, are the diaphragms aftermarket or original? 

For today: " Bufford the brakeman ... on the job." 

Guys - I am sort of way over in the "toy" end of the hobby but here are a few pictures you might enjoy on a dull Thursday afternoon.  Welcome to the Leonardtown and Savannah (L&S) on a nice spring day.

Here is the local waiting in the hole at "Small Town" as the new diesel powered express has the main and is about to blitz past the local depot on its way to Macon and Atlanta.

Here we see the nose of those new demonstrator F-3 A-B-A from the NYC as she starts her entrance into the Georgia coastal mountains, heading west from Savannah towards Macon.  Nothing like the mountains in the west of the US, she will make short work of these hills as she leaves the ocean behind.

Finally its clear tracks ahead as we enter the inland forested plains of Georgia, moving west and slightly north towards Macon and then more north to Atlanta.  We really haven't disturbed the commuters on the platform waiting for that local that follows the express.  Goodness we even haven't disturbed that Northern Cardinal (in Texas we call them "Redbirds") on the covered bridge over the stream.

Just for fun.  As the old saying goes...I know I am in my own little world, but they like me there!

Don McErlean

Don’t your layout looks great. This is what I call fun!

@Capetrainman posted:

Ray, great picture...is that a '53 Olds approaching the crossing?  I like the Pennsy cars too...between the passenger cars, are the diaphragms aftermarket or original? 

Thanks, the Olds is a 1955.....Those diaphragms are the originals, and fit is good

Erie Shore & Ironton near Huron, Ohio.  The last gas station until Sandusky is servicing a traveler and competing railroad company trucks pass by on the old state route.  Laid in place to the left is the Lake Shore Electric (2 rail and running on overhead) which will actually be the LAST thing put in so I am not having to paint and wire while reaching over the overhead.  

RonH:  Thank you for your comment.  I keep trying to add detail to make things "more" realistic, but it is the 4x8, flat green plywood board, that came out after Thanksgiving and went back in the attic after New Years that I remember, so that's were I spend most of the train time.  Thanks again. 

OBTW, Crazy J.R.R that is the coolest Shell gas station I have ever seen.  Neat!

Don McErlean