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PRR Steam, 4-8-2, M-1a

@Randy Harrison posted:

PRR Steam, 4-8-2, M-1a

Great shot Randy, for a moment i thought that it was 1:1 scale. I had to look twice to see the middle rail.

@Randy Harrison posted:

PRR Steam, 4-8-2, M-1a

@pennsyfan posted:

Great shot Randy, for a moment i thought that it was 1:1 scale. I had to look twice to see the middle rail.

Definitely a great shot Randy.

I think it's interesting that the white - ish backround works really well with the bright images of the scenery and train. 

( never had a backround for my layout.......after seeing this shot I might have to gather up some cardboard and matte white and really pale matte cobalt blue and have at it. )

From Randy Harrison... another Pennsy steamer ... 0-6-0 tank switcher by Lionel.

Best wishes everyone.

Don

Nice Don! I love that little tank engine.

Pennsy Steam!

Pennsy Steam!

More Steam

Real steam, I took this 7 years ago when she visited northern Virginia.

Doug

Well, I must admit I thought you guys had me as I had run out of PRR steam.  Then I found this picture of my layout circa about 1954 and low and behold, there was my (original from 1947) PRR steam turbine in the background, still pulling freight!

So...from Sitka and others...PRR Steam!!

Best Wishes

Don

@Jerry Williams -Thanks for the comment on the little tank switcher.  If your in the market these little gals would have my recommendation.  The price was modest, it smokes like the proverbial chimney, pulls like mad and goes around the tightest turns on my layout (0-27).  Its just a fun little engine to watch run.

Best Wishes Jerry

Don

Oil Derreck seen on Don's great vintage photo

Tank cars as seen on Sitka’s photo.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Definitely a great shot Randy.

I think it's interesting that the white - ish backround works really well with the bright images of the scenery and train.

( never had a backround for my layout.......after seeing this shot I might have to gather up some cardboard and matte white and really pale matte cobalt blue and have at it. )

@Dallas Joseph

Dallas:

Thank you for the compliment on my backdrop. Now for the spoiler. What you are seeing is not a backdrop. This is a photo of our Christmas store layout that was at Richardson Farms, a farm store in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland. Their climate-controlled green house was empty for the winter, and we were allowed space from the first of October through the second week in January to set up a train layout for the public and sell O gauge trains back when me, my uncle and my son were in business. Over the top of our 20-foot long, modular mountain range you can see the top of one of our display shelf systems. The white background that you see is the sunlight that is shining through the roof and sides of the greenhouse.

Fortunately, I knew how to wind up with a million dollars in the train business. Start with $2,000,000.00 and open a store.

@pennsyfan posted:

Tank cars as seen on Sitka’s photo.

Per Bob's yard light.

Yard shot as seen on Dallas's photo

Entering the yard with a string of coal hoppers.

Coal trains

Continuing the coal train theme.

Coal tender (with real coal)

Grass between the rails

Grass between the rails per pennsyfan.

From Dallas Joseph...a green electric locomotive...(OK its SNCF and not PRR but it IS green and electric ! )

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s narrative, it’s not green; but it is electric and it is Pennsylvania!

It's also green, PRR and electric.

It’s electric

Observation car as seen on pennsyfan shot

From Sitka...Observation Car (Lionel 2401 "Hillside")

Best Wishes

Don

Following Sitka and Don:  AMT PRR City of Chicago Observation car.

Bob

@Randy Harrison posted:

It's also green, PRR and electric.

Alright Randy..........you nailed it !!!  👍 

Electric line pole.

Following Bob Fett’s observation car.
City of Pittsburgh Observation car followed by Pennsylvania Business car.

Passengers as seen on pennsyfan photo.

Passengers aboard the PRSL RR head to the Jersey shore.

More passengers........

........I guess this BLOWS  THE  ROOF  OFF  of the myth about passenger cars needing ROOFS.

Passengers with roof

@Dallas Joseph posted:

More passengers........

........I guess this BLOWS  THE  ROOF  OFF  of the myth about passenger cars needing ROOFS.

LEDS will look so much better, I added some HO seated in my vista dome. Looking good

@Sitka

Hey Mark, be careful with that vista dome. It will get sheared off in all the PRR tunnels. 😱

Passengers in train on trestle.

@pennsyfan posted:

@Sitka

Hey Mark, be careful with that vista dome. It will get sheared off in all the PRR tunnels. 😱

Passengers in train on trestle.

I know I did read about that in a few Pennsy books that they never had any, They did lease some in the south wind in the winter and 60's. My tunnels have the room

From Sitka & Pennsyfan - dome car with passengers

Here are some people "Waiting to be passengers" 

Best Wishes

Don