a picture a day....

FOR TODAY:  A B&O dual service GP9 heads up a passenger train.  Here the train makes a station stop.

Not too long after the passenger train departs the station, a passenger is treated to this view as she glimpses out the window of her coach ... junk, a J class locomotive, water tower, and an SW1 rounding the bend at Butler Junction.  She reminisces as to how her grandpa was a railroader, a locomotive engineer of high seniority.  Riding the train always provides a variety of interesting scenery and vivid memories!  

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Mike, that is really something! Looks and operates great! Can't go out and buy one of those off the shelf, what a well thought out and executed project. Can't wait to see it on your layout.

Mike, great job on the runway...although with you being a Marine, I thought at first your plane might be a "Harrier" taking off straight up?

@coach joe posted:

Mike what a great module you've put together.  While the takeoff speed may be a bit slow for the Blue Angels I think it'll look fine with a non-military plane of an earlier vintage.

Mike and Coach Joe.......the DeHavilland Canada Beaver and the Douglas A-1 Skyraider were used by the Army and other branches in Vietnam.   The Skyraiderwas last used by the US in ' 73  ✈

Info can of course can be found on the Net. 🤓

Patrick, nice to see the MOW Crew getting things done! Wonderful scene!

Thanks guys for all the nice compliments! It's been a real pain but I like how its turning it out! It would still be under the table if it wasn't for Farmerjohn!

Paul, The Harrier would have been a great idea, but then it would just go up and down. I plan on putting a piper cub or something like that on the runway!

@mike g. posted:

Patrick, nice to see the MOW Crew getting things done! Wonderful scene!

Thanks guys for all the nice compliments! It's been a real pain but I like how its turning it out! It would still be under the table if it wasn't for Farmerjohn!

Paul, The Harrier would have been a great idea, but then it would just go up and down. I plan on putting a piper cub or something like that on the runway!

Thanks Mikeg. !   I must say your airport runway looks absolutely fabulous!!!  It will look superb at the Mike G International Airport

@mike g. posted:

Patrick, nice to see the MOW Crew getting things done! Wonderful scene!

Thanks guys for all the nice compliments! It's been a real pain but I like how its turning it out! It would still be under the table if it wasn't for Farmerjohn!

Paul, The Harrier would have been a great idea, but then it would just go up and down. I plan on putting a piper cub or something like that on the runway!

Mike , I don't know if you want to use either of the two I mentioned  🤔 but both can take off on short runways.      The DeHavilland used by the US Army looks similar to a Piper Cub.

@mike g. posted:

Patrick, nice to see the MOW Crew getting things done! Wonderful scene!

Thanks guys for all the nice compliments! It's been a real pain but I like how its turning it out! It would still be under the table if it wasn't for Farmerjohn!

Paul, The Harrier would have been a great idea, but then it would just go up and down. I plan on putting a piper cub or something like that on the runway!

Mike, many great options for aircraft to use the runway....great addition to your new layout!  You've inspired me to put a runway on my winter expansion of my layout.  BTW, happy you decided to use the bus station on your layout

FOR TODAY:   Monday morning, October 25, 1950, is nothing but busy down at Butler Junction in Lower Patsburg!  Approximately 7 a.m. ... A train load of pulpwood rounds the bend bound for the nearby toilet paper manufacturer ... Cleantoosh.  

9:00 a.m.  A Western Maryland Consolidation takes on water as a WM BL2 idles on a siding.  The produce platform has been busy with dairy, vegetable, and fruit transloads.  All the freight cars have been moved off the produce track and transferred to the yard by the BL2.  Now the crew of the BL2 awaits their next assignment ... probably a helper assignment to the time freight due in the next 20 minutes.  And so it is ... just another day on the railroad.

Mike I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of airplane you put on the runway!

Pat, I’m glad it’s 1950 in Patsburg.  No transportation slowdowns and everyone is working!

Here’s an interesting photo from Wikipedia:

Thanks guys!

Paul, I had to keep the Grayhound as the cheapest I could ship it to the east anywhere was around $100

Patrick, you have one of the busiest towns I know of! Maybe you could get a couple of those guys to go down and help out at the ports to get the cargo off the boats! Great scene!

@mike g. posted:

Thanks guys!

Paul, I had to keep the Grayhound as the cheapest I could ship it to the east anywhere was around $100

Patrick, you have one of the busiest towns I know of! Maybe you could get a couple of those guys to go down and help out at the ports to get the cargo off the boats! Great scene!

Ah Mike, you brought us back to 2021 kicking and screaming!  😩

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Douglas A-1 Skyraider were used by the Army and other branches in Vietnam.   

  ✈Info can of course can be found on the Net. 🤓

INFO CAN BE FOUND ON THE NET. NOT NECESSARILY TRUE INFO THOUGH.   THE ARMY NEVER USED SKYRAIDER AIRCRAFT. MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT OUT OF USAF TECH SCHOOL WAS HURLBURT AFB FL WHERE I WAS A CREW CHIEF ON A1E & A1H SKYRAIDERS. DID A TOUR IN NAM TOO.  NO BIGGY, JUST GOT ALITTLE HISTORY WITH THAT BIRD.

PRETTY NEAT MIKE!  I THINK IT WOULD LOOK BETTER AS A HELICOPTER TAKING OFF

@jackiejr posted:

INFO CAN BE FOUND ON THE NET. NOT NECESSARILY TRUE INFO THOUGH.   THE ARMY NEVER USED SKYRAIDER AIRCRAFT. MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT OUT OF USAF TECH SCHOOL WAS HURLBURT AFB FL WHERE I WAS A CREW CHIEF ON A1E & A1H SKYRAIDERS. DID A TOUR IN NAM TOO.  NO BIGGY, JUST GOT ALITTLE HISTORY WITH THAT BIRD.

PRETTY NEAT MIKE!  I THINK IT WOULD LOOK BETTER AS A HELICOPTER TAKING OFF

Thanks for the history lesson!

Don't worry I am sure there will be a helicopter on there somewhere! Once I get it installed I am going to have to build other stuff to go with it!

@trumpettrain posted:

FOR TODAY:   Monday morning, October 25, 1950, is nothing but busy down at Butler Junction in Lower Patsburg!  Approximately 7 a.m. ... A train load of pulpwood rounds the bend bound for the nearby toilet paper manufacturer ... Cleantoosh.  

9:00 a.m.  A Western Maryland Consolidation takes on water as a WM BL2 idles on a siding.  The produce platform has been busy with dairy, vegetable, and fruit transloads.  All the freight cars have been moved off the produce track and transferred to the yard by the BL2.  Now the crew of the BL2 awaits their next assignment ... probably a helper assignment to the time freight due in the next 20 minutes.  And so it is ... just another day on the railroad.

Patrick , I can't get over how many different views you show in your photos of the layout .🤤

Another great one Pat. 👍

@Mark Boyce posted:

Mike I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of airplane you put on the runway!

Pat, I’m glad it’s 1950 in Patsburg.  No transportation slowdowns and everyone is working!

..........and no virus Mark. 🙄

@Capetrainman posted:

Mike, many great options for aircraft to use the runway....great addition to your new layout!  You've inspired me to put a runway on my winter expansion of my layout.  BTW, happy you decided to use the bus station on your layout

........and besides some emergency equipment , is it possible there might be a digital ATC recording somewhere in the pile of infinite inventory we have available ? 🤔

Mike, here’s a reissue of a 1/48 scale UH-1 on my Area 51 layout. It was a bit fussy to put together, but worth it in the end I think. It may have been a Revell model.

Great job on the runway!

Nice job Artie, on a great bird'... 120 'Combat Assaults'  in those sweet Babies'... Where are the 60 Cals???? on portside & starboard'.... No armaments' in the model'...

I just took this picture of my Lionel Hobo water tower with my new iPhone13 Pro:

I had added an LED so the hobos could see better:

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Mike, here’s a reissue of a 1/48 scale UH-1 on my Area 51 layout. It was a bit fussy to put together, but worth it in the end I think. It may have been a Revell model.

Great job on the runway!

Good looking figures Artie 🤓

Got to see a lot of those Hueys and yours looks really good.         What was the  " fussy " part of the assembly of the model  ? 🤔      If it is a Revell model I would understand after having built model cars and planes from them .

@stangtrain posted:

I just took this picture of my Lionel Hobo water tower with my new iPhone13 Pro:

I had added an LED so the hobos could see better:

Nice twist on the hobo camp stangtrain by adding the LED.

Nice photo with the iPhone 13 Pro . 👍

Ted and Dallas Joseph, I built the model to be an “unmarked” helicopter, so infamous in UFO reports, for my Area 51 layout.
As for the build, there was quite a bit of filing and sanding to get the parts to fit, and quite a bit of clamping with rubber bands to glue together. I have fond memories of building it, as I was down at my family in Maryland, while my wife and her sister took a trip. My nephew and I like to build models outside on a nice day.

10-4 Artie, that would explain no 60 Cals'... The model came out good.. I don't recall Revell kits being difficult to construct'.. But, I haven't built a Revell in many years'...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

10-4 Artie, that would explain no 60 Cals'... The model came out good.. I don't recall Revell kits being difficult to construct'.. But, I haven't built a Revell in many years'...

I always had a much better experience with the Monogram models Ted.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

I always had a much better experience with the Monogram models Ted.

It's been so long, I can't remember which were cleaner parts.  That does take me back.  I only built cars, no boats or aircraft.

When I was into HO for a time in my teens, Revell had great kits for the station, bakery, printing company, small yard buildings, and others.

Hey Artie, Outstanding job on the Helicopter! I am not sure what will be there, but I am sure I will find something!

Stangtrain, Water tower looks great! You sure are making life easy for the Hobo's! LOL

Stangtrain, I love the hobo water tower, and it reminded me, I need to connect the wires, it’s been in place for a long time. Yours looks great.  Today, we are getting the Ford Switcher snd the CSXT Switchers ready for duty. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Leapinlarry: The hobo water tower is a great accessory and the music is a nice feature also!

Artie I built that same model when I first got back into O gauge.  Being marked 1/48 I thought it would make a great flatcar load for one of my Lionel flats that was missing the airplane with the folding wings.  Boy was I mistaken about that, the Huey sat too high and was too long for that traditional sized flat car.  My brother has that model now, he was building all those 1/32(?) scale military models for a while.

FOR TODAY:  Fireman Waylon Pritchett on the tender deck, fills the WM Consolidation's tender with water for the second time today.  Just another day on the railroad.

Another good one Patrick. 👍       

Boy am I glad you posted this Patrick , rumor  had it that Pritchett called in sick and was found playing golf with some of the boys from Cleantoosh  😉

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Mike, here’s a reissue of a 1/48 scale UH-1 on my Area 51 layout. It was a bit fussy to put together, but worth it in the end I think. It may have been a Revell model.

Great job on the runway!

Artie, great job on building the chopper...the scene looks realistic!  Is the Chief Warrant Officer standing by checking his orders/  Very sharp detail on him!

"Get on the 60!"

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Another good one Patrick. 👍       

Boy am I glad you posted this Patrick , rumor  had it that Pritchett called in sick and was found playing golf with some of the boys from Cleantoosh 😉

Thanks so much Dallas!  

Yup.  Waylon Pritchett has been known to call in sick  whenever he gets the hankering for 18 holes of golf.  One time, after calling in sick, he ran into the Superintendent of Motive Power at the 9th hole.  I mean to tell ya ol Pritchett didn't know whether to wind his watch or use some Cleantoosh right there and then!  Word has is it that Cleantoosh would have come in handy at the 9th hole that day ... LOL!

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks so much Dallas!  

Yup.  Waylon Pritchett has been known to call in sick  whenever he gets the hankering for 18 holes of golf.  One time, after calling in sick, he ran into the Superintendent of Motive Power at the 9th hole.  I mean to tell ya ol Pritchett didn't know whether to wind his watch or use some Cleantoosh right there and then!  Word has is it that Cleantoosh would have come in handy at the 9th hole that day ... LOL!

OH  BOY......😂😄😅😁

Thanks, Paul. The landing strip is simply painted cardboard with expansion lines drawn in with pencil. The CWO is checking a map for where a UFO has landed!

Another rally at Morrison's Doors...we're coming to the end of the season with the chill and cold approaching...we won't see most of these cars on the road for the winter as they'll be put away with "trickle chargers' installed to keep the battery power up.  The TR 6 guy showed up for Artie and the Buick guy for Ted...not sure how who the VW bus guy showed up for?  The workers in the foreground are completing the fall clean-up for the owner,  as they take in the sights for free.  The pizza guy made some good money on tips from the rally goers this season...this time, he had an extra pizza in the van not taken by a no-show customer, so he will offer it to the landscaping crew for the bubble...!

Hey, Paul, tell that guy with the TR6, I appreciate it! Lots of great cars in that scene!

FOR TODAY:  Another moving picture.  A west bound Pennsy passenger train exits East Tunnel.

Patrick, great scene as usual...the fall colors are vibrant...