a picture a day....

Tear down, no fun.

Dewey why are you taking it down?

Removed it in 2009 due to spouses health issues and needing the room for a rehab facility. I moved down the hall to a 9x19 attic and built a 9x16 round-the-wall layout in Feb. 2010. But it has essentially lain dormant since I also developed a debilitating health issue right after I wired it and ran trains. Now trying to get up and going again.  Place is a mess(see below)!

Dewey Trogdon posted:

Removed it in 2009 due to spouses health issues and needing the room for a rehab facility. I moved down the hall to a 9x19 attic and built a 9x16 round-the-wall layout in Feb. 2010. But it has essentially lain dormant since I also developed a debilitating health issue right after I wired it and ran trains. Now trying to get up and going again.  Place is a mess(see below)!

Looks great, never mind the items on the table as it will get done when it is ready. This is therapy my freind, take your time and get out of reality and into you Train World for a while

Dewey I like your new layout!  And I hope you find the time and ability to move forward with it! Im a Southern fan also!!   I just had to take down my 6x12 that was in one of our two living rooms and move into a 17x11 room that I am doing an around the wall similar to yours!  

Jim

Dewey, nice to hear you're getting the pike up and running again.

Construction on the Team Track.

Thanks for your comments regarding the attic layout guys. I'm old but too dumb and stubborn to give up.The real agony of demolition was in 2008 for taking down my 15 year old airborne operation in the kitchen of our mountain cottage in western N.C.. When I knew we had to move to access better Med facilities I had a fallback position with the upstairs layout at the Greensboro Condo. But alas square footage needs and health circumstances forced the tear down of it as already noted.

Fuzzy photos of the 5 track mountain operation: 

Wonder how that forklift operator gets back and fourth between Johan's layout and mine.....with the forklift no less.....

RSJB18, good work on the loading dock.

Dewey Trogdon posted:

Thanks for your comments regarding the attic layout guys. I'm old but too dumb and stubborn to give up.The real agony of demolition was in 2008 for taking down my 15 year old airborne operation in the kitchen of our mountain cottage in western N.C.. When I knew we had to move to access better Med facilities I had a fallback position with the upstairs layout at the Greensboro Condo. But alas square footage needs and health circumstances forced the tear down of it as already noted.

Fuzzy photos of the 5 track mountain operation: 

 

Some real nice equipment you have there!!!!   I really do hope you are able to get things up and running again!

Jim

GGD El Capitan Hi-Level Diner Car #655 with some new window treatment.

  NJ Hirailers

Not trains as such, but this bridge goes over,the tracks, I was waiting for a train then...

Two trains passing...

World Trade Center Twin Towers under construction at NJ Hirailers. The members who are building this have put a lot of respect, pride and attention to detail not to mention the hours of work.  

PAUL ROMANO posted:

World Trade Center Twin Towers under construction at NJ Hirailers. 

All I can say is, "WOW!"

Larry

PSAP2010 posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

World Trade Center Twin Towers under construction at NJ Hirailers. 

All I can say is, "WOW!"

 

Larry

WOW is what I said also!!!   100% AWESOME and heart touching! Never forget!

Jim

westbound NYC reefer block crossing the East Branch.....

Busy freight yard with Lionel accessories.

OKHIKER posted:

Busy freight yard with Lionel accessories.

Is that the postwar Milwaukee Road GP7?

OKHIKER posted:

Busy freight yard with Lionel accessories.

What a room full of fun.

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

PAUL ROMANO posted:

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

 

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

Not anymore, not since he got caught up in the #MeToo scandal.  ;-)

LaramieJoe posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

 

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

Not anymore, not since he got caught up in the #MeToo scandal.  ;-)

Very, very funny! The thought occurred to me that mentioning Fay Ray might not be politically correct.

BTW, I am open about telling people that I do stereotype women: IMHO, by and large, they are superior creatures to us. 

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

LaramieJoe posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

 

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

Not anymore, not since he got caught up in the #MeToo scandal.  ;-)

Very, very funny! The thought occurred to me that mentioning Fay Ray might not be politically correct.

BTW, I am open about telling people that I do stereotype women: IMHO, by and large, they are superior creatures to us. 

Add you know what, Arnold? They ARE! This is what I don't get about the whole thing. 

Paul

I took this last night at Cascade Locks, Oregon.

There's a train passing under the bridge on the North bank.

p51 posted:

I took this last night at Cascade Locks, Oregon.

There's a train passing under the bridge on the North bank.

Gorgeous shot! Mind if I borrow it for my computer wallpaper? I love that area. The wife and I have stayed at the hotel just beneath that bridge and the  best times are when it's pouring rain and a UP consist thunders by!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

No its' not Fay Wray, its' our club president, Ben Fioriello. Ben's hair is white not blonde.......... Ben escaped to host Trainstock 2018. 

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

PAUL ROMANO posted:

KING KONG alive and well at NJ Hirailers in Paterson, NJ.  

Great idea. Love it. Is he holding Fay Ray (the pretty blonde)?

No its' not Fay Wray, its' our club president, Ben Fioriello. Ben's hair is white, not blonde.......... Ben escaped to host Trainstock 2018. 

gandydancer1950 posted:

OKHIKER posted:

Busy freight yard with Lionel accessories.

Is that the postwar Milwaukee Road GP7?

Boy do I wish it was!!  This one is an early Lionel Railsounds era GP7.  Great sounding horn though despite being an early Railsounds  offering.😀