a picture a day....

@trumpettrain posted:

FOR TODAY: Clem Dempster is the crane mechanic for the Big Hook.  He just completed some minor repairs and the Big Hook is now ready for service.  

This MOW crew is clearing away brush to make way for a rail and tie storage area.   The Big Hook will be arriving within a couple hours to unload flat cars of rails and cross ties ... just another day on the railroad.

Patrick, the MOW crews never rest or get a break'.. There is always something they have to do...  Active scenes Pat',  nice work as usual'....✔😁🌟

Hi guys and gals, Great photos from everyone! I wish I had something special to share with you all but right now nothing! LOL

Ted it is nice to see you staying in the game, I have always loved your photos and story's that go with them!

For you all here is a photo just for laughs and it is where my layout is now! LOL

Mike, you are moving right along!  Your lumber is dark colored.  Is it ancient lumber like some I used in my layout, or is it a dark variety?

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Patrick, the MOW crews never rest or get a break'.. There is always something they have to do...  Active scenes Pat',  nice work as usual'....✔😁🌟

Thanks Ted!!  Much appreciated!  

@Mark Boyce posted:

Mike, you are moving right along!  Your lumber is dark colored.  Is it ancient lumber like some I used in my layout, or is it a dark variety?

Morning Mark, they are 20 year old 2x12's cut down to 2x4's

@mike g. posted:

Hi guys and gals, Great photos from everyone! I wish I had something special to share with you all but right now nothing! LOL

Ted it is nice to see you staying in the game, I have always loved your photos and story's that go with them!

For you all here is a photo just for laughs and it is where my layout is now! LOL

Coach - it certainly looks like you have a lot to show here!  It's where you are in the layout building process and my imagination tells me that you are going to have one fine looking layout when completed!!  Please keep show us more of your progress and keep us up to date.  You are doing it!!!  

@trumpettrain posted:

Coach - it certainly looks like you have a lot to show here!  It's where you are in the layout building process and my imagination tells me that you are going to have one fine looking layout when completed!!  Please keep show us more of your progress and keep us up to date.  You are doing it!!!  

Thanks Patrick! It has been a lot of slow work, but at least I am moving forward!

Repainted Lionel Freight Platform

Ford publicity dept. photo shoot' Featuring the New 1948 F-100 8 cyl 90HP Model'

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Ford publicity dept. photo shoot' Featuring the New 1948 F-100 8 cyl 90HP Model'

Nice.

Still like those figures.  Can't find any like them.

@Quarter Gauger 48 - Loved your pictures of the section house and crew...however, I find it hard to believe that the MOW foreman drives a Renault!!  My wife (then my girlfriend) had one of those in the 60's got into a tangle with a big Buick ... Renault lost ...  @leapinlarry - great pictures of your layout, I remember seeing it in person, looking great!

At the other end of the "scale/realism" menu...here is a 1930 Hornby M0  0-4-0 pulling a set of 50's postwar Mettoy freight wagons.  The M0 line, like the matching Mettoy line, was 0 gauge but somewhat smaller than the more expensive offerings from the companies.

Best wishes - cold, frozen rain, 29 degrees here in Central Texas.  Winter has finally arrived.

Don

Great work everyone, @Quarter Gauger 48, I like your scenic humor, Wow, Happy Railroading Everyone

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice.

Still like those figures.  Can't find any like them.

Dallas, go back a few pages on this thread.  You'll see the info on these figures I sent to Arnold'...

Good morning my OGR Forum friends, weather in middle Tennessee is cold, freezing rain, snow highly possible, simply saying, work in our layouts and run trains. We are staying inside today and having fun in our train room. Happy Railroading Everyone

Kind of racy for '48, risqué even.  That photog is risking Henry's wrath.

Who else but Larry has so much fun playing trains they need to wear a sweatband?  Gotta love it!

@coach joeJoe, wow, thank you for the kind words on this frosty cold morning here in Tennessee. Yes, I get really comfortable running trains, the head sweat band works for me. Do you have a layout, if so place some pictures for our review. @Quarter Gauger 48, Yes, I love his great pictures of how life used to be, amazing realism, neat automobiles, beautiful ladies, Wow. How is the weather out your way. Happy Railroading Everyone   ( see Farmerjohns beautiful steamer from the rear end)

Larry I wish I had a layout.  3 years after moving to SC I'm still trying to make enough room in the spare bedroom to get a 4x8 up and running.  I always thought I would have a bigger space so I have way too much train stuff that was stored in the room when we moved.  With no basement or shed I'm still trying to organize storage for all my stuff, train and otherwise.  I think I'm getting close, i need to find a place for 6 or 8 more boxes of train stuff to have enough room to work with.

Great pictures everyone, They all sure look like fun!

Larry with freezing rain and chance of snow it sounds like a wonderful idea to stay inside and have fun!

Coach don't worry you will find the room! But I love when you post the new autos you find!

As for me no photo right now, I will stop in later and drop one off!

Mike, sometimes I think it's the smalls that are killing me.  I think I've got enough cars, trucks, motorcycles, busses boats and the like for the old Roadside America layout, but I can't walk passed one of those car racks in the store without stopping and looking.  My only saving grace is most are too large in scale.

FOR TODAY :  Meet Ernie and Toady from  the Free State Junction Railway MOW Dept.  These fellers hired out with the railroad 20 years ago today.   In celebration of their two decades of service, the rest of the MOW gang ( not pictured ) plans to take these fellers out for supper tonight at Edna's All You Can Eat Buffet ( known to locals as the "feed troff" ) More than likely they'll all wind up at O'Bryans Pub after the pig out at Edna's. ... just another day on the railroad!

@coach joe, wow, I understand what your saying, but, in reading your profile you live near Myrtle Beach, so that’s a beautiful place to be. I will be traveling that way one day and maybe we can have a cup of coffee together. Although I have a layout now, I’m downsizing a little at a time, and my favorite trains will be shelved and then I’ll go see my friends with layouts for fun. There’s a lot of folks with great model railroads I’d love to visit. Harmonyards is located in Shiloh, NC., and I’ve been there. So, I just love to travel. @Mike G, one day I’m coming your way to, I have friends in Seattle and it’s on our bucket list, even a trip to Alaska. So, keep the light on. It’s the friends in this hobby that make it so much fun. Happy Railroading Everyone

Hi guys I am back like I said and I brought a photo for you all to enjoy!

But first I want to say a few things.

@coach joe  Joe I understand the car rack game, I do it every time we go into any store, and it just kills my wife! LOL

@trumpettrain Patrick that is so cool the rest of the MOW crew is taking the guys out for supper, I sure hope they are not picking up the bar tab also! LOL Oh and a side note, Toady just happens to be kind of an off the wall name! LOL

@leapinlarry Larry you know me I always love the BNSF engines you post! But then again everything on your layout is AMAZING!

Ok guys here is the photo you have all been waiting for!

The part of the layout with all the track laid for my redo and also my storage area! LOL

Excellent photographs, everyone.  I’m in the same boat as Mike.  We are staying afloat!  😄 Here is my mess! 🤔

Larry you let me know when you head this way.  I think we can do a little better than a cup of coffee.  Maybe a seafood dinner?

@mike g. posted:

Hi guys I am back like I said and I brought a photo for you all to enjoy!

But first I want to say a few things.

@coach joe  Joe I understand the car rack game, I do it every time we go into any store, and it just kills my wife! LOL

@trumpettrain Patrick that is so cool the rest of the MOW crew is taking the guys out for supper, I sure hope they are not picking up the bar tab also! LOL Oh and a side note, Toady just happens to be kind of an off the wall name! LOL

@leapinlarry Larry you know me I always love the BNSF engines you post! But then again everything on your layout is AMAZING!

Ok guys here is the photo you have all been waiting for!

The part of the layout with all the track laid for my redo and also my storage area! LOL

Mike, lets get that room shaped up.. This is no way a Marine should have a room in this amount of disarray ............😏

Agreed, Mike needs a Field Day for the train room.  ; )  Hop to it devil dog!

Very colorful, could have come out of an MPC catalog.

Hi guys I will get it cleaned up as soon as I have a place to put stuff! LOL

FOR TODAY: A photo taken of the other side of the tracks ...  Oh scrap!!  ... and lots of it!  

@trumpettrain posted:

FOR TODAY: A photo taken of the other side of the tracks ...  Oh scrap!!  ... and lots of it!  

Boy Patrick.......another case of people not wanting their refuse deposited near their own area.

( Seems like this could have been covered with some tarps or a privacy fence ............then again ..........the scene does seem to ADD to the feel of The Free State Junction Railway )

Nice photo.

Okay Patrick & Dallas'.. here is a MOW crew being reassigned to the The Free State Junction Railway to clean up that mess. Their superintendent is friends with the president of the free state, and is happy to lend a hand.. Since it is a week-end job, the crew is happy to receive double time for their efforts..😉

Yes indeed QGer, those nice fellows would be glad to clean up the junk mound!

Hey Mike. I really like the pics you posted of you're new layout. A problem I had on my layout I didn't leave enough room for buildings or scenery in front or behind the track. It looks like you're addressing that from you're pics . Well done. You're going to have a fantastic  layout. Have fun.

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Okay Patrick & Dallas'.. here is a MOW crew being reassigned to the The Free State Junction Railway to clean up that mess. Their superintendent is friends with the president of the free state, and is happy to lend a hand.. Since it is a week-end job, the crew is happy to receive double time for their efforts..😉

Okay Ted!  Thanks for the offer of sending this motley crew down to help clean up efforts on the FSJR. These guys look qualified for the job for sure!   Tell them to have their rears in Patsburg at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.  They should report to MOW assistant superintendant W. E. Kleen at the FSJR main office on Patsburg Ave located directly across from team track 3.   The FSJR will pay double time, 3 hot meals, and they can sleep over in one of our bunk cars.  This will be a two day project.  Lots to clean up ... so no boozing it up on Saturday night.  We need to have these men in good shape for a good day's work on Sunday.

Dallas - I agree, the junk pile does add to the layout's ambience ... lol !

FOR TODAY:  WPBTV reports a train derailment in Lower Patsburg.  A run away boxcar ran through a switch and collided with the locomotive of a freight train.  Both the locomotive, a tank car,  and boxcar derailed.  There was much concern about the flammable load carried by the tank car directly behind the locomotive, as the derailment caused a slight rupture of the tank.   Patsburg Fire Dept was immediately summoned to the scene.  More details  to follow.    

Pat, “What a revoltin’ development!”

Two girl friends of the MOW crew temporally being assigned to the FSJR, decided they'd make an effort to drive down from The Ponderville & Wordens Navigation & Traction RR, home town, to visit Their men for the week-end.  They had hoped to close the deal on the Packard convertible at Integrity motors they've had their eyes on.  However, the Sales Mgr, Ernest Dealtoro, will not budge on the price.  He explains to them, Packard Ragtops are difficult to find and are in high demand.  If lowers the price, he may get fired as the owner of the business insists on full market price.  Ernest, recommends the Ford.  But the girls' want the Packard, as they like the color....

They are determined to make the trip.  Lets see what they come up with to make that happen'..😏

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Okay Patrick & Dallas'.. here is a MOW crew being reassigned to the The Free State Junction Railway to clean up that mess. Their superintendent is friends with the president of the free state, and is happy to lend a hand.. Since it is a week-end job, the crew is happy to receive double time for their efforts..😉

The double time sounds good Ted .

I think a good sales pitch would get the guys on ' beerthirty '  a lot faster if they could sell the tarp and privacy fence idea.

Cooking up some freshly caught fish after a morning fishing on the lake and a hiker stops for a chat. Better look out though, there's a bear across the tracks looking interested in the smell of that fish!!!

So, it looks like Audrey found this Hornet at the Champion garage.  After checking it out, she negotiates with the owner, Lorrain Dupree,  who accepts Audrey's offer'... This is just in time for Audrey and Vicky to get down to the FSJR..... and see their men'...