a picture a day....

Nothing like a good coal burner on the rails

That is nice, Ted!!

While Joyce's friend Cynthia, gets a table at Spencers, She talks out loud, Gee, I hope I don't bump this great big truck as I try and backup...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

While Joyce's friend Cynthia, gets a table at Spencers, She talks out loud, Gee, I hope I don't bump this great big truck as I try and backup...

Nice!

They sure looked good yesterday @GG1GUYY !  The way things are going for my home team I don't think I'll see another one of these in my lifetime

- walt

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

While Joyce's friend Cynthia, gets a table at Spencers, She talks out loud, Gee, I hope I don't bump this great big truck as I try and backup...

Ted, great scene!  Is the maroon two tone a '54 Merc or Ford?  Looks similiar to a "Collector's Classic" Buby?

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

While Joyce's friend Cynthia, gets a table at Spencers, She talks out loud, Gee, I hope I don't bump this great big truck as I try and backup...

Great looking scene and it looks like Joyce might have just picked up the car from the auto detailer!

Lumberjack keeping those rails clear

I don't often post to this thread, but I just liked this picture.  Its a Hornby (U.K.) 0-4-0 tender type #50 steam loco and a set of No 1 Coachs and a Passenger Brake Van all circa 1950 move down the track just leaving the depot.

Best Wishes

Don

My son designed, built, and scenicked (spelling unknown) this 1988 Christmas layout.  It's his train design concept of a face.  2 eyes, big nose, and a smile.

He wanted to use his Contrux Christmas gift so he found 2 good ways to do that.

- walt

Rail King U.P. Northern pounding the rails

@Capetrainman posted:

Ted, great scene!  Is the maroon two tone a '54 Merc or Ford?  Looks similiar to a "Collector's Classic" Buby?

Paul, that is a 1953 Ford, Custom Tudor Sedan, model 70B. Solido, France ..

@Quarter Gauger 48 -Thanks for posting QG48 it was a great picture.

Don

FOR TODAY:  This picture could have been taken in Hagerstown, Maryland in the 1950s but instead it was taken in Patsburg, Md. Zip code: 00000-000.  

A consist of ALCO FA1s brings a train of auto racks through Butler Junction as a WM BL2 number 81 idles on a yard track.  Number 82's engineer Pokey Zucker leans out of the cab for some fresh air as brakeman Corky Lumpmeir , on the front deck,  can't wait for the shift to finish.  Tomorrow he starts his first day of Locomotive Engineer School.  O'l Cork is pretty darn excited about that too!!

Nefarious Nate waits for his next sucker to walk by.

Big buck taking on that PW Lionel Prairie steamer 2018

Christmas joy for the locals

- walt

Relaxing lake side

- walt

@Mayor Magoo- Loved your poem and (sadly) so true!

Don (not the barber)

@Mayor Magoo posted:

An earnest young fellow named Ron,

got his haircut at the shop owned by Don.

For a buck twenty-five,

in a salon, not a dive!

Too bad those days are long gone!

Fair enough . . . but you gotta factor in that Ron was earning 75 cents an hour back then!

Black wolf howling

Dairy and horse farm

- walt

A few curious onlookers watching the CN Mountain Steamer pass so they could cross the tracks and head to work...bankers, retailers, bartenders, dentist, you name it...  Parking still a value at a dollar a day!

FOR TODAY:  A view from " the other side of the tracks".

Brakeman halts traffic at warehouse siding.

Wow, what a fun to review topic, so many uniquely beautiful scenes, Happy Railroading Everyone

Taking it easy at the hotel.

Great scene Mark.  The photo really does it justice.

@Bob Golfs posted:

Great scene Mark.  The photo really does it justice.

Thank you, Bob!

Downtown:

@leapinlarry 's picture made me think of this tin-plate car that I b ought as an add-on car to Lionel by MTH's Christmas train set.

- walt

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Downtown:

Arnold, that's a really neat view of your layout, I don't think I have seen photos from that angle before. Thanks for posting it!

George

@Mark Boyce posted:

Taking it easy at the hotel.

Classics look great Mark, they fit right into the scene.

Lionel TV car, you're on Candid Camera

@pennsyfan posted:

Classics look great Mark, they fit right into the scene.

Thank you, Bob!  I’m pleased with this scene.

@GeoPeg posted:

Arnold, that's a really neat view of your layout, I don't think I have seen photos from that angle before. Thanks for posting it!

George

@Arnold D. Cribari Arnold, I agree with George.  I don’t recall this photograph angle.  Your town looks good.