a picture a day....

Here's where "customers" of the establishment shown by @Quarter Gauger 48 need to go after visiting it

- walt

Came across this old photo from when we had our garage layout that started back in 2009.

My wife was from FL (Tampa), we live in the Appalachian mtns, and my favorite RR was the Santa Fe; hence our RR was named the A.T.&S.F.    The white viaduct represents the old Flagler Causeway in Key West

Added some wall display shelving given to me by good friend Steve M. from here on the Forum

Living next to the Savoy is never quiet'..

spending a summer's night camping out in the back yard.  That's the model of my daughter's house that I made.

- walt

On the track outside of Bob's Country Store, a reefer from the local vineyard, 'Lighthouse Vineyasrds," is placed to help introduce the new line of "reds" that Bob is bringing to his customers!  Bob is kicking off the new brand with a come one, come all wine tasting event every night this week...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Ted, great to see you posting your buildings and street scenes again...as always, nice work...

@Capetrainman posted:

Ted, great to see you posting your buildings and street scenes again...as always, nice work...

Thanks Paul... As you know too well, always too many darn distractions... and never enough time to do what we need to do... MODEL & PHOTOGRAPH'...😁

A fun day on the court

- walt

Early Friday morning activity at the "Charles Street Yard" as the late fall season sends her first  snow of the season...

Friday is always laundry day at the Rapp household.  That's a model of my parents' house that I made along with a fairly accurate back yard too.  Mom and Dad figures included!

- walt

Morning guys, I have to say great pictures from you all!

@Jim Teeple you sure have some outstanding buildings! It is a pleasure to see them being posted here!

@Capetrainman Paul great scenes of your town and sorry about the wreck on the tracks! One would think that wouldn't happen till the snow started!

@leapinlarry Larry I would have to think from the time I started fallowing you this is the first time you posted photos and it didn't have one BN or BNSF in the photos!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

@Jim Teeple posted:

Jim, great scene, I like the worker coming out of the manhole. How come there aren’t 5 other workers standing around watching him? LOL

I posted this in the Vehicle area, but someone told me it should be here, so it is!

@Jim Teeple - everytime you post those photos of your exceptionally beautiful work, I keep wondering how many of these have you made?  It seems like everyday you post 3 or more and they never repeat.  Not that I mind, mind you!  I love studying them.

You often have very creative parts to each "scene".  I particularly liked the one with the guy pasting a sign on a building: this one

- walt

Man, I just hate following Jim's posts.  It's all downhill after his. 

When Miller came out with this animated drive-in sign featuring "Gone With the Wind", there was no stopping me from getting it.  First, I had 7 of his signs already and loved each one.  But this one is special because my sister, rest her soul, was a nationally recognized expert on GWTW - both the novel and the movie.  This one was a no-brainer.

- walt

Some early morning activity at the "Charles Street Yard"...

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

I posted this in the Vehicle area, but someone told me it should be here, so it is!

Don, I’m not sure why this wouldn’t be acceptable in the vehicles thread.  It’s a great looking truck and a great scene!  I’m glad you posted it.

Urban (actually small town) planning.

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

I posted this in the Vehicle area, but someone told me it should be here, so it is!

Don, you've got a lot going on in this picture so it would qualify for many of threads here on the forum.  I saw, read and marveled at your post in the vehicles thread earlier today.  You went it quit a bit of detail on your kitbashed fish monger truck so it definitely fit in that thread.

The "Chief" pulling into the North Main Street Station...

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

I posted this in the Vehicle area, but someone told me it should be here, so it is!

Don great looking truck and layout!! It does belong in that thread. I got your six

I used to take these kinds of pictures years ago when I still had a camera with the capability to do so.  I miss taking them as they are great reminders of Christmas layouts in past years.  These are from my 2002 layout.

= walt

@walt rapp posted:

I used to take these kinds of pictures years ago when I still had a camera with the capability to do so.  I miss taking them as they are great reminders of Christmas layouts in past years.  These are from my 2002 layout.

= walt

Time lapse photography.  A thing of the past for the casual photograph.

@coach joe posted:

Time lapse photography.  A thing of the past for the casual photograph.

YEP!  I used to have a Canon AE1.  It was a film camera.  It eventually became nearly impossible to buy film and/or get it developed so I sold the camera to a used camera shop.

- walt