a picture a day....

Randy...appreciate your comment...the pic is one of my favorites...

FOR TODAY:  Riding my bike across the RR crossing, I glance up the tracks and this is what I see.

@Capetrainman posted:

Late night steamer hauling the "20th Century Limited" pulls into the North Main Street station...

That is a beautiful shot; subject matter, composition, and most of all the lighting; that allows the viewer to see all the details that you put into the scene.
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@trumpettrain posted:

FOR TODAY:  Riding my bike across the RR crossing, I glance up the tracks and this is what I see.

That’s a view only a railroad enthusiast both real and model can appreciate. Nice shot Pat.

Gene

Have been without a proper AT&SF diesel locomotive for awhile now since selling my older scale TMCC model several years ago.

Been on the lookout for some of the plated models - preferrably MTH Premiere as they have a very reflective stainless finish to the side panels of theirs. A forum member reached out to me a week or so ago saying he had several sets that he is selling for a friend who was dismantling their layout. The 4 unit F3's arrived yesterday and they are simply spectacular!

I have an older Premiere 72' passenger set and a plated baggage that I acquired several years ago that will serve as a good 'transition' car between the plated locomotive and the silver cars.

@Capetrainman posted:

Randy...appreciate your comment...the pic is one of my favorites...

Excellent shot Paul.  I'm going to try and remove the basement wall from the background.  I'll send it to you and see what you think..  Nice work on this one'.. Looks like a the real deal..

Hi guys it been awhile.

I see nothing has changed and everyone is still posting outstanding photos!

@Capetrainman Paul your night scenes are just amazing, you sure know how to bring a layout to life!

@trumpettrain Patrick your guys are always working, but it sure is nice when you take the time for the kids to go on a little bike ride and get some wonderful photos!

@c.sam Sam great looking train set and what a wonderful backdrop to take the photo! Nicely done!

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Capetrainman

Paul:

That is a SUPERB nighttime photo!!!! It is very well composed and though you can definitely tell that it is nocturnal, you can still clearly see the details of the buildings, automobiles and the arriving locomotive. BRAVO!!!

My thoughts exactly.  Excellent photo

- walt

This was a shelf display the first year that I bought the Lionel Pharmacy building and Miller signs.  I just happen to like this picture.  My daughter is a pharmacist and my D.I.L. is a hygienist so these items are special to my family.

- walt

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Excellent shot Paul.  I'm going to try and remove the basement wall from the background.  I'll send it to you and see what you think..  Nice work on this one'.. Looks like a the real deal..

Thanks, Ted...you may have used the "Zeke" effect, part of the canned Microsoft picture editing software, on some of your pictures.  The feature has now disappeared and been replaced with other filters during one of their updates...

Also...thank you Mike, pennsy, Walt, and Randy for your comments...here's another I edited around the same time period...

A slow day at Fox News Channel (affiliate). . .they're broadcasting a live feed of Lionel Trains in action.

Small image, I know, but the best that I have of a TV station that was gifted to me by a friend. Wrong scale, but I appreciate a friend (who doesn't "get" scale) who thinks of contributing to my layout.  Look way in the background.

- walt

The '48 Buick Roadmaster pulls out with a full tank of "93" while the "20th Century Limited" pulls out of the North Main Street station in the background...

@Capetrainman posted:

The '48 Buick Roadmaster pulls out with a full tank of "93" while the "20th Century Limited" pulls out of the North Main Street station in the background...

Great shot; seeing the windshield visor (was it called a visor?)brings back memories. 

@Genemed posted:

That’s a view only a railroad enthusiast both real and model can appreciate. Nice shot Pat.

Gene

Thanks so much Gene!!

FOR TODAY:  A freshly painted jet powered snow blower has been set out on a siding high up on the Mountain Division.  The MOW Dept. workers Lucky Jones and Willy Mace has been dispatched to give this unit the once over.  It may be August, however, the winter months will soon be upon us.  With those winter months comes snow and lots of it for the Mountain Division.  This jet powered unit will be used to blow snow off the rails especially at switches during the winter months.

MOW foreman Bill Bailey observes from the ground.  

I love toy trains but I also like the other aspects of liking trains.  Maybe some remember this: it was either a Burger King or McDonald's give-away man years back.  I car per every so often. 

A nice Halloween train.

= walt

@walt rapp - Hey!  I remember the McDonald s Train...I used to have one, collected the cars as you said...but in one of our many house moves it went " the way of all things".  Thanks for posting, it was a great memory.

Don

@walt rapp posted:

I love toy trains but I also like the other aspects of liking trains.  Maybe some remember this: it was either a Burger King or McDonald's give-away man years back.  I car per every so often.

A nice Halloween train.

= walt

The set was offered by Wendy's around 2002 or so.  I have at least one full set still sealed and a few duplicates of some of the cars.

@pennsyfan posted:

Great shot; seeing the windshield visor (was it called a visor?)brings back memories.

Bob, I researched the "Visor" on the '48 Roadmaster...to your point, seems it was referred too as a "sun shield" or "sun visor" as you mentioned.  I recall my dad had one on his Pontiac version...

The "Twenieth Century Limited" at the North Main Street Station!"

@ed h - Thanks.  Now that you reminded me (us) it was Wendy's. 

Here's another different kind of train that I own.  It's NOT cake/pastry = it's plastic

- walt

@walt rapp - Now that's a wild toy train!!

Not nearly as fancy but still pretty much a "side line" toy train is this battery train from Schilling (Germany) .  Its a late 1940's product (1948 I believe) and marketed at the peak of toy train sales in the pw period, but their advertising was clearly aimed at "Mom" who may still have had a fear of "electricity + toys" for their children. This was battery powered and the battery was remote and controlled the trains with a remote speed control.  I am not sure these lasted too long, I have advertisements from 1948 and 1949 but nothing after that.  In addition, I don't believe Schilling ever marketed any other loco's or rolling stock, or even ever changed the colors.

The levers on the cars and tender are for lifting the "hook" on the coupler to allow uncoupling.

Well , no candy wheels or ice cream filled gondola's but that's the Schilling battery train from 1948.

Best Wishes, Don

@walt rapp posted:

@ed h - Thanks.  Now that you reminded me (us) it was Wendy's.

Here's another different kind of train that I own.  It's NOT cake/pastry = it's plastic

- walt

So it's fat free and no calories!!  I think I'll pass .. LOL!!  Very nice photo Walt!!

FOR TODAY:  These here brothers Del and Bert Suggs are gettin ready to have one heck of party this weekend at their cabin!  They ordered a reefer car load of Bud and a truck load of Coca Coler for the weekend long party.   Tomorrow the meat truck will arrive with a couple sides of beef and a pig.  These boys are expecting about a hunered plus quests to join em.  Sure hope they bring tents cause this cabin only has 3 bedrooms.   Goin to be a whole heap of good times and carrin on this weekend!  YEE HAH!!!!

@Capetrainman posted:

Bob, I researched the "Visor" on the '48 Roadmaster...to your point, seems it was referred too as a "sun shield" or "sun visor" as you mentioned.  I recall my dad had one on his Pontiac version...

The "Twenieth Century Limited" at the North Main Street Station!"

Thanks Paul!

Tree ornament

- walt

The Pennsy PA about to leave the West End Yard just before dawn this morning...

Another night scene - from one of my Christmas Layouts

- walt

Brisk activity on North Main last night at dusk...

FOR TODAY:  I'm having a great weekend in and around ( well most around ) Patsburg!!  After arriving by train and getting into my rental car ( a 1956 Buick Roadster ),  I traveled out into the surrounding countryside.

Driving on an old country road I caught this view of Lower Patsburg.   I pulled my 1956 Buick Roadmaster over to the side of the road and captured this view with my Kodak.  

I then saw these folks recreating on the water.  

And of course there's my good friend Emmet Hogg at the wheel of his tractor.  His wife Edna May stands to the side of the hay wagon as a scarecrow stands guard in the corn patch.  Of course that crow on the scarecrow's shoulder must be one brave bird or perhaps the scarecrow needs to be fired for low job performance .. lol!  At any rate it's a great weekend!!

@Genemed posted:

That’s a view only a railroad enthusiast both real and model can appreciate. Nice shot Pat.

Gene

Thank you so much Gene!  

From one of my Christmas Layouts

- walt

Grandma Alice getting ready to pick some apples.

FOR TODAY:   Working on the weekend!  These fellers are gitner done!!

For one of my Christmas Layouts, because I was in possession that year of our Family Train (2343 and a bunch on 6464 cars), I tried to create a part of that year's layout to resemble the way my Dad used to set it up.  The track, switches, cardboard houses, manger set, church and fence and other stuff are all from that home layout.

In the 2nd picture I only had the SF 2343 on the track for testing.

- walt

Morning guys, I hope your all doing well! Its been 8 long day since my last visit here and I have to say you guys are killing it with all the photos!

@Capetrainman Paul, you have every car for ever situation! Its amazing how you can always catch the perfect shots!

@trumpettrain Patrick, I have never seen a jet engine snow blower, makes me wonder if they really have them! As for the guys it sounds like a fun weekend at the cabin! I wish I could attend that party!!

@Sitka I sure hope Grandma makes an apple pie!

@mike g. in regards to jet engine snow blowers. I know that the LIRR was using jet engines mounted on an angle to melt the ice on switches. When I had the G gauge running in my garden at Christmas time; I was thinking about using that idea to melt the ice on my rails. I couldn’t find a 12v hair dryer so I gave up.

@pennsyfan posted:

@mike g. in regards to jet engine snow blowers. I know that the LIRR was using jet engines mounted on an angle to melt the ice on switches. When I had the G gauge running in my garden at Christmas time; I was thinking about using that idea to melt the ice on my rails. I couldn’t find a 12v hair dryer so I gave up.

Bob, thanks for the information about the Jet snow blower!

You sure had a great looking G scale, I wish I had the $$$ to build one! LOL

@mike g. posted:

Bob, thanks for the information about the Jet snow blower!

You sure had a great looking G scale, I wish I had the $$$ to build one! LOL

Thanks Mike, I didn’t have room for a layout when we lived in Brooklyn. My son gave me an LGB starter set in 1979. I set it up in the rock garden for Christmas the following year. It grew every year for 35 years.

@mike g. posted:

Morning guys, I hope your all doing well! Its been 8 long day since my last visit here and I have to say you guys are killing it with all the photos!

@Capetrainman Paul, you have every car for ever situation! Its amazing how you can always catch the perfect shots!

@trumpettrain Patrick, I have never seen a jet engine snow blower, makes me wonder if they really have them! As for the guys it sounds like a fun weekend at the cabin! I wish I could attend that party!!

@Sitka I sure hope Grandma makes an apple pie!

Thanks @mikeg!   The New York Central had jet powered snow blowers so there is a prototype.  They were used to blow out snow from track switches and to melt frozen switch points.    Other roads may have used jet powered snow blowers as well, however I'm not familiar with any who did.  

As for the party at the cabin ... It was one heck of a wild weekend!!!  Bucyrus Willard got to consuming a bit too much white lighten  ... after a while he told the folks he was going to the cabin to change .. well, instead of going into the cabin he went into the chicken coop ... next thing you know Ol' Bucyrus came charging out of the coop,  running faster than a speeding canon ball,  with nothin on but his birthday suit and a big o'rooster chasing him in hot pursuit!!    That dag gone rooster was peckin Bucyrus right on the keaster too!!   Next thing ya know ... Ol' Bucyrus made a beeline straight over yonder to the pond and dove right in!  And that rooster?  .. Well  he stayed up on the shore line guarding it like a minute man in the Revolutionary War.  He'd had enough of the shenanigans put on by Bucyrus!  AND after all that ... no one at the party would give Bucyrus his cloths back .. LOL!!!  You should ah been there Coach!  You missed a good one!!