a picture a day....

I agree with @Sitka Bob, that is an excellent front yard!  @pennsyfan You could charge admission to a historic site!

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@Mark Boyce posted:

I agree with @Sitka Bob, that is an excellent front yard!  @pennsyfan You could charge admission to a historic site!

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This was my Christmas layout before I started getting a bit more serious after which my entire living room, sans a 2' walkway thru it, became my Christmas layout area.  This was 1996

- walt

hope they work for the railroad

A night shot of my 2023 Christmas layout

- walt

Hores racing iron horse

FOR TODAY:  MOW workers gitner done on the Mountain Division.   Foreman A.D. Bromwell leans against the caboose step  wiping  his brow after a long day's work as Grif Harkins and Jeb Burke move a crate of track spikes.   The oncoming train will take the MOW crew down the line to the MOW camp.  

I have added some wall hugger buildings on my layout. I think it really is an eye catcher for a former vacant  wall.

Here is a few more pic of the wall hugger buildings .sorry I posted them separately. 

@farmerjohn , Wow, your artistic ability coupled with the beautiful trains you run is simply amazing. Your buildings against your back wall look great, also I see the Chicago & North Western Diesel fits nicely in your lash up. Great pictures… I’m out in California now, but spent 3 days with Captain Will Porath (@Will2926). I took him the UP-Boy Scout Lionel VisionLine ES44 DieCast diesel, and the cars. We had a ball. This is the picture of Wills layout. Happy Railroading Everyone

A winter scene on one of my Christmas layouts.  I say this everytime that I show it but I just have to: that big red, metal, lighted train was a Christmas gift from my sister, a mere 4 months before she suddenly and unexpectedly passed away.

Therefore I treasure it and try really hard every year to find a place for it on the layout.

I tried an experiment with the mirrors to see if it made the scene look bigger.  Not a great result.

- walt

Walt, a nice tribute to your sister’s memory.

WOW great photos guys!

@walt rapp your night Christmas scenes are just wonderful! You could make it Christmas year round!

@Sitka Mark you had to be in the right place at the right time to catch that wild stallion trying to beat the Iron Horse!

@trumpettrain Patrick, sometime your guys on the MOW crew work to hard! I think they might have earned a eatra day off with pay!

@farmerjohn John I think the buildings look perfect! Nice work, its funny looking at your layout one would think it cant get any better, then BOOM there you go making it even better!

@leapinlarry Looks like you and @will2926 had a fun time! He really had a nice start on his layout. It looks like they were in the process of installing a TT! I hope you stuck around to help them out!

As for me guy I have nothing but a smile on my face from all the wonderful photos you all have shared!

@mike g. posted:

WOW great photos guys!

@walt rapp your night Christmas scenes are just wonderful! You could make it Christmas year round!

@Sitka Mark you had to be in the right place at the right time to catch that wild stallion trying to beat the Iron Horse!

@trumpettrain Patrick, sometime your guys on the MOW crew work to hard! I think they might have earned a eatra day off with pay!

@farmerjohn John I think the buildings look perfect! Nice work, its funny looking at your layout one would think it cant get any better, then BOOM there you go making it even better!

@leapinlarry Looks like you and @will2926 had a fun time! He really had a nice start on his layout. It looks like they were in the process of installing a TT! I hope you stuck around to help them out!

As for me guy I have nothing but a smile on my face from all the wonderful photos you all have shared!

Just happen to be walking by Mike

FOR TODAY:  Ma & Pa doodlebug is right on time as usual!  

Thanks for the comments  everyone. Leapin Larry hope you have fun on you're California  trip and thanks for posting Wills layout. As yall know I really like bridges. Here is a pic of my latest which was made by ideathinker. He can build about anything you can imagine. Trains are so much fun when others enjoy them also.

Thanks @mike g.  I try, not always very successfully, to take an overall night shot every year.  I don't have an expensive camera so I settle for what the cameras I own can do.

Here's one from my 2013 Christmas layout as example of what I mean that I try to take a night shot every year:

These 2 are examples of my favorite type of night picture.  I had an SLR film camera to shoot these but no longer own a camera that takes exposure timed images. These are from different years

walt

Another fun feature on my layout is coal mining . Western Kentucky  is coal country. I decided to put a coal scene on my layout . I used some coal that came from below our family farm 15 years ago. Just another funfeature.

Awesome coal mining scene Farmerjohn!!!

@farmerjohn posted:

Another fun feature on my layout is coal mining . Western Kentucky  is coal country. I decided to put a coal scene on my layout . I used some coal that came from below our family farm 15 years ago. Just another funfeature.

Great scene'.  Any chance of a few more shots of the P&H 4100 and the white unit behind it.. Thanks..

Steve McQueen , takes a spin on a Harley.  His favorites were British bikes..

@farmerjohn - i don't know if you've only started posting images of your beautiful layout just recently, but I sure am glad that you are!  I don't remember seeing them before.  THanks for showing them to us.

- walt

A little bit of a different type of picture: power for my Christmas layouts and DCS equipment under that.  This is the setup almost every year. The ZW is for conventional trains, the MRC is for all DCS controlled trains, the 'V' is for accessory power.

- walt

Morning guys I hope your all doing well!

@farmerjohn John you have one of the most beautiful layouts and your mining area is just a small part of something that is just amazing! I am so thankful that you let me see it in person! I hope to make the trip again one day to see your layout again and make the trip to see @leapinlarry Larry's layout!

@walt rapp Walt he has been posting for as long as I can remember, between here and other threads here on the forum!

QG 48. I'm  at the train show  at York. When I get home next week I'll take some more detailed pics of my coal mine and post them .

Mike g. You're  always welcome . I've done a lot on the layout since you were here.

Here is some  pics I hope u you enjoy.

Excellent details, FarmerJohn!

Farmer John, Impressive layout... Excellent modeling'... Outstanding scenes'...

@mike g. posted:

Morning guys I hope your all doing well!

@farmerjohn John you have one of the most beautiful layouts and your mining area is just a small part of something that is just amazing! I am so thankful that you let me see it in person! I hope to make the trip again one day to see your layout again and make the trip to see @leapinlarry Larry's layout!

@walt rapp Walt he has been posting for as long as I can remember, between here and other threads here on the forum!

well, it's my loss that I didn't know that or see them.

Here's my picture for today.  An older Christmas layout - as ALL of my pictures are of

- walt

@farmerjohn posted:

🤓 .............Farmer John ......I.....aaaah.........??????

......excuse me...I'm trying to find the appropriate appreciative words in my dictionary to describe this scene on your layout. 

Thank you.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

🤓 .............Farmer John ......I.....aaaah.........??????

......excuse me...I'm trying to find the appropriate appreciative words in my dictionary to describe this scene on your layout.

Thank you.

Dallas, I tried to count the number of street lights he has installed in this scene.  I can't seem to do it as I keep losing count along the way.  It sure is one heck of  fantastic layout.  Should be featured in all the model train magazines...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Dallas, I tried to count the number of street lights he has installed in this scene.  I can't seem to do it as I keep losing count along the way.  It sure is one heck of  fantastic layout.  Should be featured in all the model train magazines...

I agree.

Maybe we could print this scene on a large 18×24 inch sheet to get a count on the lights .

It sure is quite the amazing scene Farmer John has assembled.

This might be my favorite picture taken on one of my Christmas layouts.  This is a screen grab from a video that I shot - I mounted my camera on a car right behind the tender and shot a video.  This is a screen grab from it.

The 'double line pause" icon gives it away.

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

This might be my favorite picture taken on one of my Christmas layouts.  This is a screen grab from a video that I shot - I mounted my camera on a car right behind the tender and shot a video.  This is a screen grab from it.

The 'double line pause" icon gives it away.

- walt

Fabulous pic Walt!!! Wow!!!!

@walt rapp posted:

This might be my favorite picture taken on one of my Christmas layouts.  t

Crazy cool shot Walt.

@trumpettrain posted:

Fabulous pic Walt!!! Wow!!!!

No two ways about it Patrick .   I can't think of any way this shot could be improved.  A definite wow.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Crazy cool shot Walt.

No two ways about it Patrick .   I can't think of any way this shot could be improved.  A definite wow.

I totally agree, Walt!  Great angle!

Thanks @trumpettrain, @Dallas Joseph, and @Mark Boyce for this nice compliment.  Just a lucky capture really = no way could I plan that shot based on where it was taken on the layout.

The steamer was a conventional PW on, no smoke.  It would have been nice to have a wisp of smoke IMHO.

as always, thanks

walt

Here's my entry for today's "a picture a day" thread. As is always the case with my photos, this was one of my Christmas layouts.

Several home made things shown here: the "pillars"(?) holding up the elevated track, the curved trestle, the pole billboard, and the 'weeds' or whatever that yellow stuff is supposed to be, and a few trees.

- walt

i'm surprised that no one has pitched in here yet today, so I will.  As is always the case with my pictures, this is from one of my Christmas layouts

- walt

Well ,,,,,,my picture today from the layout shows my CEO ( 💖 ) sitting in her white dress at the Twin Bridges station getting ready to get on the Amtrak headed for NYC.     

  FANTASY...........earlier today.........REALITYSEE YOU LATER CEO ( 💖)

God Speed all for this nice October day.