a picture a day....

Greg J, I can hear that train move and even smell the fragrance of its metal and paint. Some memories are very vivid of such treasures.

FrankM

Another Selkirk N.Y. photo

Moonson postedrigi

Greg J, I can hear that train move and even smell the fragrance of its metal and paint. Some memories are very vivid of such treasures.

FrankM

That's the way I feel about my childhood American Flyer S gauge trains.  I can smell ozone and I am laying on the floor under the Christmas tree watching a black steam engine speeding down the tracks.  Original Flyer smoke can do the same thing.

Here is another photo of the same train Frank.

RSJB18 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Excellent photos everyone.  Since I have been missing some days, I decided to make up for a day by posting two photos.  As I have been spending a lot more time at the Boyce Homestead this year helping my elderly mom and dad, and I got back to mowing grass there, I thought I would post a couple photos of this N scale diorama of the homestead as it looked when I was growing up in the '60s.  I worked off photos I took, and built it all by scratch.  That was in the late '80s long before 4 carpal tunnel surgeries and arthritic thumbs and fingers make it hard for me to handle small tools and parts with good dexterity.  Most of the trees on the diorama were there at the time I build the diorama, but have been cut down and other trees and bushes are now near maturity.  Wow, has it been that long!  Also, I forgot how steep and long that back yard hill actually is.  The diorama doesn't show that, but my twice injured ankle certainly feels it now when I am mowing.  Hey, whatever it takes to help the Godly man and woman who I can credit with guiding me into the person I am today!!

Looks great Mark.

Thank you very much!  I don't know if I can ever get back to that skill level, but when I retire I'll start working back in that direction.  No matter though, there are so many ways to enjoy this hobby!!

Still really miss this store, didn't survive the downturn.

Here's my contribution for this Memorial Day.  I created this park, Freedom Park , on my layout in memory of my Dad.  The park contains a real stone from Omaha Beach that I brought back with me when I visited Normandy France with my Dad back in 1999.  Additionally the park contains an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall.   

Thanks to all who served and especially to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  

For today .

Check out this little engines information

Larry

One of my trestles and waterfalls:

'New' Lionel AT&SF E6 unboxed today for photos. The B unit is a MTH unit

Scranton

Here is my contribution for May 30.  " Break time!"

May 30, 2017

Early Tuesday morning and the commuters are on their way to work by B&O RDC.

Here's a favorite livery:

Peter

I've been workin' on the railroad all the live long day!

Farther down the tracks, eastward, in the Twin Bridges neighborhood...

NJCJOE posted:

I have no idea why, but the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Is that the Amityville horror house?"

p51 posted:

NJCJOE posted:

 

I have no idea why, but the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Is that the Amityville horror house?"

I think because it looks just like the house from the Amityville Horror.

Putnam Division posted:

Here's a favorite livery:

Peter

Well it sure looks like the Jade in the jade green has left us forever.  However note the "return to" in the lower left hand corner.  Rockport Cleveland.  That was a yard on the [NYC] short line around Cleveland when this car was around.  Now it is a huge yard east of Hopkins Airport on the NS main line.  Look at Bing Maps satellite view.

Lou N

Sean007 posted:

p51 posted: 

I have no idea why, but the first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Is that the Amityville horror house?"

I think because it looks just like the house from the Amityville Horror.

That is the Horror house I posted, a recent photo. I thought the original photo of that sign reminded me of it in the background...

Lou N posted:

Putnam Division posted:

Here's a favorite livery:

Peter

Well it sure looks like the Jade in the jade green has left us forever.  However note the "return to" in the lower left hand corner.  Rockport Cleveland.  That was a yard on the [NYC] short line around Cleveland when this car was around.  Now it is a huge yard east of Hopkins Airport on the NS main line.  Look at Bing Maps satellite view.

Lou N

Lou......I took that picture in the 1st weeks of May in 1983 with a Kodak Instamatic camera. It was a cloudy day. I was was on my way to Buffalo to visit friends.....I stopped in Rochester NY and had some lunch near the Rochester Amtrak station. There was a small freight yard nearby with a team track.

Not the same house.... nope!  

Putnam Division posted:

Lou N posted:

Putnam Division posted:

Here's a favorite livery:

Peter

Well it sure looks like the Jade in the jade green has left us forever.  However note the "return to" in the lower left hand corner.  Rockport Cleveland.  That was a yard on the [NYC] short line around Cleveland when this car was around.  Now it is a huge yard east of Hopkins Airport on the NS main line.  Look at Bing Maps satellite view.

Lou N

Lou......I took that picture in the 1st weeks of May in 1983 with a Kodak Instamatic camera. It was a cloudy day. I was was on my way to Buffalo to visit friends.....I stopped in Rochester NY and had some lunch near the Rochester Amtrak station. There was a small freight yard nearby with a team track.

 

I do need to re-state...lower RIGHT hand corner.  I remember that color well.  I got a lot of attention locally.  The neighbor kid got the 6464 version for Christmas.  And we're still friends doing modelling 40, well 50, well many years later .

Lou N

Munoz Lines

My contribution for May 31. " The other side of the tracks "

Middletown #2

Effluence drain detail...

RSJB18 posted:

 

Note the GM&O cap. Hometown thing.

 

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is yelling "Get behind the white line young man!"

Or perhaps, since it's in Mobile, "Would y'all kindly move behind that white line, now, bless your hearts." 

Scrapiron Scher posted:

Munoz Lines

  You are earning points, Eliot!  

Train Nut posted:

Not the same house.... nope!  

Yes, it is. They remodeled it at some point. If you Google it, you will find plenty of references to that.

p51 posted:

Train Nut posted:

Not the same house.... nope!  

Yes, it is. They remodeled it at some point. If you Google it, you will find plenty of references to that.

Yes. Everybody knows they remodeled it. Changed the look a bit. Ive been there and seen it in person. Not the same house. Chimney gone and your picture no electric wires in your picture, trees where they're not supposed to be. Driveway not in your picture.   Whole outside setting is different in your picture.