Wow, so many beautiful pictures, and nice layouts...We do Salute our Men and Women serving our Country, both Active or Retired, and all those serving in our Police Departments, Fire Departments, and Emergency Responders Medically all over the USA. ALSO FEMA, and The Red Cross.....Thank You.. 
Lots of wonderful photos by all of you!! Leapin Larry your layout brings out the "real" in railroading as does P51 cell phone madness shots. Of course Brian your photos of "real" are terrific!
Here is my contribution for this fine Sunday November 12, 2017. Photo #1 " A Salute to Veterans Past & Present" Photo #2 " Waiting " Photo 3 " Western Maryland circa 1949 " Photo 4 " Working the Yard Job " 
p51 posted:
nostalgic!!!
TedW posted:FrankM: I noticed you had a certain small affinity for the S2 Turbine. To that end here’s a couple more photos you may enjoy. TW...
toooootally enjoyable, each of those three photos, TedW. Thank you for your thoughtfulness!
P.S. Are we sure that little boy near that behemoth is not little Frankie ,
somewhere in the Pittsburgh area,
back-in-the-days of old?!
Oh wait, my father's not hovering above me, so it couldn't have been me.
briansilvermustang posted:
I wonder if that is traveling down the westside of Manhattan.
I don't know how those ships keep from rolling over. Since each of those containers stacked-up there is the better-part of an entire trailer-truck, the overall size of that entire shebang boggles my pea-pickin' li'l mind!
briansilvermustang posted:
which containers have all the O gauge trains.......
Hmmm.... I wonder which container the 1968 FLH Harley I sold is in.
VW Doodlebus
Is it real or is it photoshop? In either case it looks cool.
Ken
Took these 2 down from shelf lubed lightly and ran them with dcs remote pretty smooth runners these 156 electrics are.Made in late teens to about mid 1920s.
Had these 2 for many years and one day been saying that for long time will paint both shells as i also have the Janice L. Bennett dry transfers for them which are stored away and are still good used pair last year on a steam engine.
In our conversation years ago she mentioned her father had a license with Lionel to make the dry transfers and passed on then Janice took over for a while and then stopped. She told me why but will keep that to myself.
Still have several envelopes from 2001 of various transfers along with her hand written correspondence along with samples she sent as well .
The one below i had made a new roof from brass taken the measurements from the good shell and it came out wonderful after soldering it on from inside which Lionel did back then also from looking at the original stripped shell . Trouble is i painted it wrong shade of green not dark shade and half to strip it one day and redo. Have the car set for both as well not shown.
TedW posted:FrankM: I noticed you had a certain small affinity for the S2 Turbine. To that end here’s a couple more photos you may enjoy. TW
The third photo is outstanding !
Here's mine for today.
pulling out of the yard area, ready to go.....
Here is today's installment.
Let's play find the GMC 2 1/2 ton truck.
It's the only actual hidden element on the layout anywhere.
So, why is it back there? It is a 1:50 scale truck, which looks really odd among the other slightly larger scale vehicles. It's back there for forced perspective.
But even still, it has all the correct markings for that time and place.
And before anyone asks, no, no one has ever noticed it back there in real life.
Here's todays photos.
Some temporary whimsical messing around....
For Thanksgiving Day, the village area is having a New York-style parade with the typical huge (pretending to be blow-up balloon) figures, and an accompanying Upstate NY-style village fair)...
FrankM, getting in "the spirit".... 
Very, very NICE, Frank !! 
Happy Holidays !
Moonson posted:Some temporary whimsical messing around....
For Thanksgiving Day, the village area is having a New York-style parade with the typical huge (pretending to be blow-up balloon) figures, and an accompanying Upstate NY-style village fair)...
FrankM, getting in "the spirit"....
Frank your layout continues to amaze me, your modeling skills are so impressive!
gandydancer1950 posted:Moonson posted:Some temporary whimsical messing around....
For Thanksgiving Day, the village area is having a New York-style parade with the typical huge (pretending to be blow-up balloon) figures, and an accompanying Upstate NY-style village fair)...
FrankM, getting in "the spirit"....
Frank your layout continues to amaze me, your modeling skills are so impressive!
That's a lot of fun hearing that from you. I have been criticized more than once for the parade, so I appreciate your approval. For some darn reason, I enjoyed modeling that parade - every single inch of it. I guess that's the boy in me, to which I say, "Good!" Right?
FrankM.
briansilvermustang posted:Very, very NICE, Frank !!
Thank you, Brian, Thank you, on both counts!
FrankM
Moonson posted:gandydancer1950 posted:Moonson posted:Some temporary whimsical messing around....
For Thanksgiving Day, the village area is having a New York-style parade with the typical huge (pretending to be blow-up balloon) figures, and an accompanying Upstate NY-style village fair)...
FrankM, getting in "the spirit"....
Frank your layout continues to amaze me, your modeling skills are so impressive!
That's a lot of fun hearing that from you. I have been criticized more than once for the parade, so I appreciate your approval. For some darn reason, I enjoyed modeling that parade - every single inch of it. I guess that's the boy in me, to which I say, "Good!" Right?
FrankM.
I agree. This hobby is all about what makes us feel good!
gandydancer1950 posted:Moonson posted:
Frank your layout continues to amaze me, your modeling skills are so impressive!
I agree fully. I always look forward to these shots, as that's some amazing work!
Now this is even more FUN hearing from you, too, Lee/p51 !!! Thanks very much!
FrankM
have a GREAT THANKSGIVING everyone !!
Here's my contribution for this day. " It's good to be a peacock on Thanksgiving"
Here are photos of some of my favorite things on my layout. You will see I'm a big Yankee fan from the Mickey Mantle era.
Here are a few more:
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