a picture a day....

wow, nice control panel for your layout !

Larry, I sure am glad there are 2 chairs in your picture, cause it sure looks like too much for just one guy!

Mike, I really like your fueling platform, I also have one for my future layout and it really helps to see what others have done!

Guys 

That is the control panel for the old Clinchfield RR. Way back

I was showing some visiting friends the local museum last week so I thought it would be  nice to share some old old stuff. It's a nice little museum. I will continue one a day on the thread. The old box I posted last was a way they use to train guys (new employees) about the different signal meanings. Neat little homemade box.

Larry��

How about a twofer today? Note the brace for the legs of the sawhorse. I was preparing the upper level of my layout, when the sawhorse collapsed. I wasn't even near it at the time it went. All of my fake snow ended up on the floor. I got so disgusted that I went to Walmart and bought some white cloth material and used that instead.

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

Clinchfield RR ticket window located at the museum.

strike a pose.....

one nice looking train !!

Putnam Division posted:

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

I need some 520's to make that stretch 520.

Gene Anstine

It's 6:30 a.m., and there's a lull in the activity at the Caprock, Texas, engine facility -- except in the locker room.  The night shift is washing up, while the day shift employees are changing into their work clothes.  The night crew left things in good shape.  The engines for the locals are ready, the yard engines have fuel, clean windows and plenty of ice in their water coolers, and all road engines have been serviced and made ready.  During the night, a three-unit FT A-B-B consist headed by the 175L arrived on the CTX, hours late because of a derailment in New Mexico.  The 175 was replaced by three GP7's, which increased the horsepower by 9%, from 4050 to 4500.  That doesn't sound like much, but the CTX will top every hill several MPH faster, and should arrive at Temple at least an hour earlier.  The 175 will go out on a westbound freight this afternoon.

Passenger F7 A-B-B 307L-A-B will trade out with a two-unit  PA1-PB1 Alco-GE consist on 2nd Number 3.  West of Clovis, it will be up hill half of the way to Barstow, and the extra 500 horsepower will keep 2nd No.3 closer behind 1st No.3.  2nd 3 has the chair cars and more station work than 1st 3, thus the desire to swap engines during the station stop at Caprock.

Both consists pictured here have been fueled and serviced.  Roundhouse Foreman Tommy Willis is frugal with compliments, but he's quietly proud of night laborers Estubio Cruz and Robert Hancock, who have left the cab floors of these consists clean enough to eat off of, and there is not one trace of a bug on the nose or windshield of either engine.  That's the way they do things at Caprock engine service facility.

trumptrain posted:

Wonderful photos everyone!   Here is mine for today.

Wow! A GG1 double-header.  There's going to be some serious speed on the Free State Jct. when this pair leaves town.  Pat, your commuters might get a surprise when these G's show up.

More Twin Bridges environs...

Putnam Division posted:

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

I'm a sucker for 50's era catalogs!

And as a matter of fact I still have a few bow ties around and I can still tie them!

Lou N

tank farm cont.

Heavy Traffic

A special meeting at the station.

Here is mine for today.

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Here's my daily!

Putnam Division posted:

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.

An additional question for you, Peter...

Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used?  I've been looking for dimensions without success.

Regards,

Lou N

Christmas 2016

Almost missed posting a photo today.  Clark W. Griswold got lost again, on the way to Phoenix, with Aunt Edna trussed up and strapped to the rooftop luggage rack.  Here, the Griswold Family Truckster heads west out of Caprock, Texas.

am  or pm.......

Post War Alco heading for the Engine shop.

Tank farm near Twin Bridges, cont.

I have also loved those New Haven's.  I waited 18 months for this new MTH...

A Lionel conventional...

MTH F-3's...

Jerry

Selkirk N.Y.

NJCJOE posted:

Joe your layout and shelf photos are very nice, really enjoy them.

My little church scene

Super church scene Roger!!

Meanwhile, back in tinplateland, one of them newfangled streamliners is pulling into town:

Roger,

Agree, great church scene.  Where did you get those extremely cool gazebo's?

Jerry

JerryG posted:

Roger,

Agree, great church scene.  Where did you get those extremely cool gazebo's?

Jerry

I got the Gazebos from a vendor at York....about 5 years ago. Don't remember who, but they were in the orange hall.

Thanks for your good words.

A fun ride. The Alamosa Car with a very nice bar and young lady tending it.

Thanks Roger.  Found them on the web from a guy in MD.  Put in an order.

Jerry

Eat Mor...

Lou N posted:

Putnam Division posted:

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.

An additional question for you, Peter...

Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used?  I've been looking for dimensions without success.

Regards,

Lou N

Lou......sorry, no..........2 suggestions......have you tried the NH Historical Society?    When Model Railroader has one of the 24 hr free look at our Archive offer, see if anyone has done an article.

Peter

My grandfather had two careers.  One was for Southern on the CNO&TP.  The other was bridge construction.  Sometimes his two careers crossed paths, such as building the new bridge at Burnside KY.  In the 1950 photo from his collection It's nearing completion over the Cumberland River, soon to be lake.

This is the beginning of my 12 foot of modules that I am adding 6 feet to.....it will remain both urban and industrial. I will be telling the story here:

https://ogrforum.com/topic/max-foods

Here is about 2/3 of the way down.

Work is beginning in earnest. I have to be finished for our show at the Science Museum of Virginia on Thanksgiving weekend. 

Peter

New toys...

Starting up the steam engine in the roundhouse:

I like this picture thread.

Another fun ride in East Tennessee  not to long ago was the 630 being helped with two freshly painted Norfolk Southern diesels. # 3521 and 3224.

NJCJOE posted:

Very nice Garden railway. Do you have any live steam engines?

No, I don't Maybe someday.

jstraw124 posted:

My grandfather had two careers.  One was for Southern on the CNO&TP.  The other was bridge construction.  Sometimes his two careers crossed paths, such as building the new bridge at Burnside KY.  In the 1950 photo from his collection It's nearing completion over the Cumberland River, soon to be lake.

 

I've always been in awe of what it takes to be an iron worker. Some of the heights that these people work are truly amazing to me. I don't like being on a step ladder, let alone imagine working at some of the heights they do! 

Twin Bridges Tank Farm, cont.

I don't know if I can keep up with a picture a day, but I'll try. Here's one from the past when I was first working with modules, and trying out various scenery options.

Putnam Division posted:

Lou N posted:

Putnam Division posted:

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.

An additional question for you, Peter...

Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used?  I've been looking for dimensions without success.

Regards,

Lou N

Lou......sorry, no..........2 suggestions......have you tried the NH Historical Society?    When Model Railroader has one of the 24 hr free look at our Archive offer, see if anyone has done an article.

Peter

Thank you for sharing your wisdom.  I will look into both.  Those signals are quite a curiosity and I have considered making a few.

Lou N

Here is my contribution for today. "TGIF"

Hanging out at McCuaig's Maui Lounge.

Bridges and block signals.

Another from the past: some Santa Fe at the station.

a look inside the Roundhouse ......

JDaddy, I like the way you've got those three story buildings right up against the elevated tracks.  Reminds me of growing up in the Bronx one block from the 4 train.  I had friends that lived in buildings like that right underneath the el on Jerome Avenue.

Roger Wasson, The roundhouse, inside and outside, is fabulous. It's a lot to be proud of. Thanks for showing it to us.

FrankM

Here's my entry for today.  " Getting ready for the parade "

"Middletown"

Broader view..

Larry Sr. posted:

 

 

I always liked the "swirls" on the inner wheel face on old wheel sets.

A longer view...

...of the Twin Bridges, Tank Farm neighborhood project.

FrankM.

2 more photos of the roundhouse:

Roger Wasson, That roundhouse is absolute perfection! Every inch of it. Wow. And WOW again!

FrankM

For today, C&NW.

Here is my daily contribution.  " There's going to be a parade "

coach joe posted:

JDaddy, I like the way you've got those three story buildings right up against the elevated tracks.  Reminds me of growing up in the Bronx one block from the 4 train.  I had friends that lived in buildings like that right underneath the el on Jerome Avenue.

Joe......just like on the IRT #2 on White Plains road and the IRT #6 on Westchestweer Avenue!

Peter

For those who want Menard's to make a brewery, here ya go!

Moonson posted:

A longer view...

...of the Twin Bridges, Tank Farm neighborhood project.

FrankM.

I really like your Hess oil tank farm and the twin bridges, too! 

Just some old stuff.

Summer, 1974 Mobile-Pensacola-Mobile round trip excursion. Southern 4501, on L&N trackage.

L&N (this is pre-CSX) Alco (!) pulling excursion train backwards into position; Mobile waterfront. Note the

GM&O cap. Hometown thing.

Mobile.

Later, coaling-up in Pensacola, at midday, for return trip. Somehow, the sweat, pushed-back cap and cold bottle (glass bottle) of Coke the engineer is enjoying says a lot about the "romance" of steam railroading. In the summer. ("I could be in a nice, clean and maybe air-conditioned diesel cab right now...")  

MIKATT1 posted:

"Middletown"

I love it!

Peter

Excellent photos everyone.  Since I have been missing some days, I decided to make up for a day by posting two photos.  As I have been spending a lot more time at the Boyce Homestead this year helping my elderly mom and dad, and I got back to mowing grass there, I thought I would post a couple photos of this N scale diorama of the homestead as it looked when I was growing up in the '60s.  I worked off photos I took, and built it all by scratch.  That was in the late '80s long before 4 carpal tunnel surgeries and arthritic thumbs and fingers make it hard for me to handle small tools and parts with good dexterity.  Most of the trees on the diorama were there at the time I build the diorama, but have been cut down and other trees and bushes are now near maturity.  Wow, has it been that long!  Also, I forgot how steep and long that back yard hill actually is.  The diorama doesn't show that, but my twice injured ankle certainly feels it now when I am mowing.  Hey, whatever it takes to help the Godly man and woman who I can credit with guiding me into the person I am today!!

...another angle...

Mark Boyce posted:

Excellent photos everyone.  Since I have been missing some days, I decided to make up for a day by posting two photos.  As I have been spending a lot more time at the Boyce Homestead this year helping my elderly mom and dad, and I got back to mowing grass there, I thought I would post a couple photos of this N scale diorama of the homestead as it looked when I was growing up in the '60s.  I worked off photos I took, and built it all by scratch.  That was in the late '80s long before 4 carpal tunnel surgeries and arthritic thumbs and fingers make it hard for me to handle small tools and parts with good dexterity.  Most of the trees on the diorama were there at the time I build the diorama, but have been cut down and other trees and bushes are now near maturity.  Wow, has it been that long!  Also, I forgot how steep and long that back yard hill actually is.  The diorama doesn't show that, but my twice injured ankle certainly feels it now when I am mowing.  Hey, whatever it takes to help the Godly man and woman who I can credit with guiding me into the person I am today!!

Looks great Mark.

D500 posted:

Just some old stuff.

Summer, 1974 Mobile-Pensacola-Mobile round trip excursion. Southern 4501, on L&N trackage.

L&N (this is pre-CSX) Alco (!) pulling excursion train backwards into position; Mobile waterfront. Note the

GM&O cap. Hometown thing.

 

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is yelling "Get behind the white line young man!"

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all who served!

Signal Crew hard at work.

Bob

Munoz

Scrapiron Scher, Beautiful. Authentic, even to the level of the bolt heads visible on the vertical posts supporting the railing (!!!)..

FrankM.