IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!!! 3/27/17 Edition SHARE YOUR TEAM TRACK PHOTOS HERE!

It's good to see operations on the Free State Junction Railway are moving along smoothly as usual.

Here in the Valley, trouble is brewing (as usual). Using borrowed power from the Akron Terminal, the Valley Railway's morning crew was scheduled to make a delivery to the Everett Team Track. Unfortunately, due to a minor grammatical mix-up, that delivery has been delayed. 

Apparently, the consitently 0-10 Valley High School Rangers football team arrived before the morning train and is insisting that train tracks are for trains, and team tracks are for teams. They refuse to leave until practice is over.

Because there's nothing in the rule book to deal with a situation like this, the switching crew is just watching in disbelief.

Of course, the old timers have gathered to lament the failures of today's youth.

As for the delivery, it will just have to wait.

Patrick, Love the trailer unloading, very  cool!

Thomas, That football team is asking for trouble. The fiercest linebacker is no match for a piece of rolling stock...Great scene BTW

...And this week, with Baseball's first pitch only a few days away, people are stocking up on their favorite summer beverage, after all It's the "Real thing"...

Great story there Thomas!!  I wonder what the score of that scrimmage game will be .... freight car 1 team 0?   That team better have one heck of a defensive line   LOL!

Look's like Mark Dif's team track billboard reffer load will be able supply the fans ( in this case the switch crew ) lots of Coca Cola as they watch the game  

All we need now are some photos of a Oscar Meyer Weiner billboard reffer being unloaded on a team track so hot dogs may be served in addition to the Coca Cola. 

Mark Diff posted:

Patrick, Love the trailer unloading, very  cool!

Thomas, That football team is asking for trouble. The fiercest linebacker is no match for a piece of rolling stock...Great scene BTW

...And this week, with Baseball's first pitch only a few days away, people are stocking up on their favorite summer beverage, after all It's the "Real thing"...

Thanks for your kind words Mark!  Great team track scene!!  I love the coke cases!  Did you make them?

Great Coca Cola truck too!!   Yes baseball season is upon us and here in Patsburg the dominant beverage is beer .... see attached photo.

Great scenes guys.  I enjoy and look forward to this weekly post.  I have quite a bit of work before I get to the location of the team track planned on my layout.  Until then, I'll continue enjoying the inspiration from this thread.  

The team is gone for the day and things have returned to normal on the team track.

They may be offloading trucks filled with tires from LA on Patrick's Free State Junction, but not here in the Valley! We're unloading nothing but the finest rubber to hit the road - Tires made right here in the Rubber Capital of the World, Akron, Ohio!

Mark, Yet another picture perfect matchup between car, load and vehicle. Nicely done!

Patrick, Great pictures this week! That rig is awesome and looks great unloading those flats. Thanks again for bringing us TTT.

abbrail posted:

It's good to see operations on the Free State Junction Railway are moving along smoothly as usual.

Here in the Valley, trouble is brewing (as usual). Using borrowed power from the Akron Terminal, the Valley Railway's morning crew was scheduled to make a delivery to the Everett Team Track. Unfortunately, due to a minor grammatical mix-up, that delivery has been delayed. 

Apparently, the consitently 0-10 Valley High School Rangers football team arrived before the morning train and is insisting that train tracks are for trains, and team tracks are for teams. They refuse to leave until practice is over.

Because there's nothing in the rule book to deal with a situation like this, the switching crew is just watching in disbelief.

Of course, the old timers have gathered to lament the failures of today's youth.

As for the delivery, it will just have to wait.

Odd??? Those look like Cleveland Browns uniforms.

Lou N

Lou N posted:

Odd??? Those look like Cleveland Browns uniforms.

Lou N

Haha, and they have an oddly similar record!

Wow!  You guys never disappoint and today's posts are especially great.  Made my day.

Tomlinson Run RR 

Last week the RSJ&B had some visitors drop in to help out on the team tracks. Unfortunately their motives were less than honorable. So while 8506 was spotting some cars the locals called in some "Super" help to run the troublemakers out of our galaxy.

Unfortunately a couple of stowaways were left behind........

Also the Help Wanted ad has finally been answered. The job posting was seen by a couple of work crews on-line and they have agreed to take the positions.  They are currently traveling to town via USPS and will  get to work as soon as they clear background and drug tests.

Great posts this week everyone. We Jets fans can sympathize with the Valley High fans.

trumptrain posted:

Mark Diff posted:

Patrick, Love the trailer unloading, very  cool!

Thomas, That football team is asking for trouble. The fiercest linebacker is no match for a piece of rolling stock...Great scene BTW

...And this week, with Baseball's first pitch only a few days away, people are stocking up on their favorite summer beverage, after all It's the "Real thing"...

Thanks for your kind words Mark!  Great team track scene!!  I love the coke cases!  Did you make them?

Great Coca Cola truck too!!   Yes baseball season is upon us and here in Patsburg the dominant beverage is beer .... see attached photo.

Patrick, I got those Coke cases off Da'bay. You really have a fantastic selection of beer!

RSJB18 posted:

Last week the RSJ&B had some visitors drop in to help out on the team tracks. Unfortunately their motives were less than honorable. So while 8506 was spotting some cars the locals called in some "Super" help to run the troublemakers out of our galaxy.

Unfortunately a couple of stowaways were left behind........

 

 

 

Also the Help Wanted ad has finally been answered. The job posting was seen by a couple of work crews on-line and they have agreed to take the positions.  They are currently traveling to town via USPS and will  get to work as soon as they clear background and drug tests.

Great posts this week everyone. We Jets fans can sympathize with the Valley High fans.

Rsjb18, you've got a lot of action going on around and above you team track. That looks like a fun layout. I really like way your team track is lit. Maybe some lights will have to go on my team track, for night time loading and unloading.

Mark Diff posted:

RSJB18 posted:

Last week the RSJ&B had some visitors drop in to help out on the team tracks. Unfortunately their motives were less than honorable. So while 8506 was spotting some cars the locals called in some "Super" help to run the troublemakers out of our galaxy.

Unfortunately a couple of stowaways were left behind........

 

 

 

Also the Help Wanted ad has finally been answered. The job posting was seen by a couple of work crews on-line and they have agreed to take the positions.  They are currently traveling to town via USPS and will  get to work as soon as they clear background and drug tests.

Great posts this week everyone. We Jets fans can sympathize with the Valley High fans.

Rsjb18, you've got a lot of action going on around and above you team track. That looks like a fun layout. I really like way your team track is lit. Maybe some lights will have to go on my team track, for night time loading and unloading.

Thanks Mark Diff. The LED'S are scratch built from Model power. Here are some photos of how I made them. 

This photo has a lot of things:

1. Work crew loading the Boxcar.

2. Delivery guy with the handtruck delivering Coca-Cola to Boyd's Billiards and Annie's ice cream.

3. A robber just robbed the barber shop and is getting arrested by the cop.

4.  The Wells Fargo stagecoach was a gift from The mayor of Railtown Frank Rounds to the mayor of Lesserton Josef Lesser for a potential museum about the Wells Fargo company. 

SDIV Tim posted:

This photo has a lot of things:

1. Work crew loading the Boxcar.

2. Delivery guy with the handtruck delivering Coca-Cola to Boyd's Billiards and Annie's ice cream.

3. A robber just robbed the barber shop and is getting arrested by the cop.

4.  The Wells Fargo stagecoach was a gift from The mayor of Railtown Frank Rounds to the mayor of Lesserton Josef Lesser for a potential museum about the Wells Fargo company. 

Hey Tim, That's a lot of action on your layout. Your backdrop makes your layout seem to go on and on, wow!

SDIV Tim posted:

This photo has a lot of things:

1. Work crew loading the Boxcar.

2. Delivery guy with the handtruck delivering Coca-Cola to Boyd's Billiards and Annie's ice cream.

3. A robber just robbed the barber shop and is getting arrested by the cop.

4.  The Wells Fargo stagecoach was a gift from The mayor of Railtown Frank Rounds to the mayor of Lesserton Josef Lesser for a potential museum about the Wells Fargo company. 

Very nice team track scene Tim!!  Anywhere the public  can have access to unloading certainly qualifies as a team track.  You team track is certainly wonderfully unique!  You definitely have alot of action going on simultaneously! 

I agree with Mark - your backdrop really adds a great dimension of depth to you layout!  Bravo!!   I hope we'll see more of your team track scenes in the future here on Team Track Tuesday!!

Great scene, Tim. Billiards, ice cream, and trains... that's a town where I could stick around for a while!

Mark Diff posted:

SDIV Tim posted:

This photo has a lot of things:

1. Work crew loading the Boxcar.

2. Delivery guy with the handtruck delivering Coca-Cola to Boyd's Billiards and Annie's ice cream.

3. A robber just robbed the barber shop and is getting arrested by the cop.

4.  The Wells Fargo stagecoach was a gift from The mayor of Railtown Frank Rounds to the mayor of Lesserton Josef Lesser for a potential museum about the Wells Fargo company. 

Hey Tim, That's a lot of action on your layout. Your backdrop makes your layout seem to go on and on, wow!

trumptrain posted:

SDIV Tim posted:

This photo has a lot of things:

1. Work crew loading the Boxcar.

2. Delivery guy with the handtruck delivering Coca-Cola to Boyd's Billiards and Annie's ice cream.

3. A robber just robbed the barber shop and is getting arrested by the cop.

4.  The Wells Fargo stagecoach was a gift from The mayor of Railtown Frank Rounds to the mayor of Lesserton Josef Lesser for a potential museum about the Wells Fargo company. 

Very nice team track scene Tim!!  Anywhere the public  can have access to unloading certainly qualifies as a team track.  You team track is certainly wonderfully unique!  You definitely have alot of action going on simultaneously! 

I agree with Mark - your backdrop really adds a great dimension of depth to you layout!  Bravo!!   I hope we'll see more of your team track scenes in the future here on Team Track Tuesday!!

abbrail posted:

Great scene, Tim. Billiards, ice cream, and trains... that's a town where I could stick around for a while!

Thanks when I remember to I will. I might do a couple weeks worth and save them for down the road.

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