IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!!! 2/14/17 Edition!!! Lets see your team track photos!!

Great scenes!

Todd Knoll posted:

Great scenes!

Thanks so much Todd!

Checking secret cargo on  #1289 .....................

Great Northern  gon and Alaska RR flat with a large vessel to be unloaded on the team track.  Purchased the Great Northern gon from Mitch "The Gi-raffe" Marmel, he could not use it due to the Gi-raffe's keep jumping out of the gon and running off. 

Patrick, I like the Milk tanker. Can you show us more of that truck? I think I need one. 

Sirt, Mystery load,,,I love it.

Keith, I love that vessel load. Did you make that?

For this week, The trucks line up as the crane will be busy unloading another steel shipment, but in a  slightly different form. They will unload wheel sets to be remanufactured by a nearby foundry/machine shop...

Across the way, Haney's is picking up stakes and moving to bigger digs as the moving sale is in progress. Rumor has it he's re-opening near the new interstate interchange....

I wonder who will move in?

Great scenes Trumptrain (and everyone else). Here is my humble team track.

Mark,  I made the vessel from 1-1/2" plastic pipe, parts from a HO pipe kit and a plastic tube from paper roll, and old plastic bottles for the ends.

CBS072 posted:

Great Northern  gon and Alaska RR flat with a large vessel to be unloaded on the team track.  Purchased the Great Northern gon from Mitch "The Gi-raffe" Marmel, he could not use it due to the Gi-raffe's keep jumping out of the gon and running off. 

 

hello CBS072

Is that a boiler from the 2-10-10-2 by chance

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Tiffany

Tiffany;  The vessel would be installed standing up, and would be called a "tower" in a oil refinery, gas plant or chemical plant.  I saw that Lionel was making a 2 car gon and flat car with a long overhanging load, So built one for less than the cost of a Lionel one. 

Hey guys!  Great contributions this week!!  Wonderful photos and scenes.

SIRT - I love the secret cargo idea!!  I just wonder what is beneath those tarps? Your photos tell a great story!  I love the guy who pulls back the boxcar door ... you have placed all the figures so perfectly. 

Keith - great looking tower!!  Thanks for sharing how you made it.  Authentic looking scene too!!

Joe B. - There is no team track too humble for this thread and yours is just fine!! When I think about it, most team tracks are a simple off shoot from the main line offering the customer a very basic service of on/off loading.  Looking forward to seeing what might be loaded/unloaded on your team track next week!!

Mark - your railroad wheels look great!!  Did you do the weathering job?  Your scene is terrific as always and great story telling too!!  I heard that Mr. Haney was going to purchase the Shady Rest Hotel and sell his wares outside on the porch .... any chance of that? 

Also as per your request, I took a few shots of the milk tanker.  But first I must clue you in.  I had thought of creating this scene ( I like milk trains ) for TTT several weeks ago but had no milk tanker.  As I went to the Great Scale Train Show the other weekend, I scoured the show searching for a milk tanker to no avail.  Finally in the last hour I found this septic tank tanker truck.  Since it had a white tank, I thought it close enough to serve my purposes.   

I also did a couple photos of the MOW equipment & crew working at the end of the team track.   Have a creative and fun week everyone!!

Thanks for the ah, milk truck pictures. (we won't tell anyone its a septic tank truck ). I think the Shady Rest hotel is safe. But, maybe Haney can rent out a back room of Drucker's General store? As for the wheel car, I made that out of an Industrial Rail flat loaded with wheel sets I pulled from a bunch of old Atlas trucks. I will be making a post (probably on Friday) on how this flat was made as well as three other flats I have reconditioned. These will be starring in future TTT's.

One of the gi-raffe escapees from that Great Northern gondola takes shelter in a boxcar, watching the afternoon commute...

Mitch

Good representation of old logistics.