Sunday Scenic Showcase 9-14-2014

Alan, if that is scratchbuilt, you must have started it at age 5. Very nice, John!

Hi guys great photos so far.

Here's the Korber fire tower.

My younger grandson and I did some train work yesterday. We wired the lights in the Gravely Building and the watchman's tower.

The white LEDs are very bright. Almost too bright compared to the incandescents in other buildings. The unlit building in front of the subject building is not in its permanent location. It's a place holder for the Night Hawks Cafe that will be scratch built for that location.

 Because this was a built structure that I bought, I had to install the light from below, but it still works.

happy Sunday!

Alan....if you are referring to the train shed, that is a version that Jim at Bridgeboss and I came up with back a few years ago when Jim was introducing his train sheds.  He allowed me to do some custom designing so over a space of a couple of months or so, he and I worked made changes to his design to fit what I wanted for the layout.

Thanks,

Alan

Rescue truck on it's way to en emergency call.

I weathered this Weaver 40' D&H boxcar yesterday to go with my recently-completed AtlasO RS3...

Alan,

I am glad you started this off. I am working for the wife today painting the living room. Here is a structure I constructed some time ago.

Great work everyone.

Alan Graziano

Wonderful weathering job, Joey.

The BIG "L"

Just completed a factory front which will go on TMB Club Layout. The front is a full 4' wide and all windows and bays are lighted. Also some photos of the harbor scene that has been developing. As luck would have it a rock crew was busy installing rock  around our trestle.  Also included the images of the control panels we will use to run the main lines

great photo's as usual

Nice work and nice weathering!

Some old photos from my past life in On30...

The station began life as a Lionel Rico Station kit, The little 0-4-4 was based on a Bachmann Porter and all the other railcars were scratch built from styrene. The little boxcab was also scratchbuilt over an AHM/IHC HO power truck.

Wow, Handyandy, that is spectacularly realistic!

handyandy - My Mother always told me something like that that about my brains, without the slow one.  I assume you photographed that outside because of the background.  If that was a diorama, it's spectacular!

Everyone else, you never cease to amaze!

Summer is nearing its end, and the the temperatures waning, sidewalk dining becomes the thing on a cool Sunday afternoon. 

Is that you sitting on the bench railfanning?

Don

Thank you, PTC!

This was an old 30" door that I built my first On30 layout on. It was a simple little switching layout that I soon lost interest in as I couldn't really run the trains. I kept it for picture taking while I built a 4' x 4' circular layout. These pictures were taken out side with, of all things, a 3.0 mp Vivatar digital camera I had back then. The door has since been converted to a portable O-27 layout.

As for that being me in the pictures. I wish I was that thin! LOL

Some of you may have seen this, the Boyce homestead where I grew up and where my parents still live.  My 84 year old dad still maintains this and mows a lot more with a walk behind Gravely that is as old as me - 58.

Myles,

Glad to see you got some time with a grandson on the lighting.  It is looking good.

Spectacular showcase guys!!  Beautiful work....

Alan

Mark! That's excellent! Is it part of a layout or a self-standing diorama?

Thank you.  It is a self standing diorama.  I built it about 25 years ago, intending to install it on the layout, but that was before the girls were born and we moved several times.  (Funny the youngest had her bridal shower today).  One day it will go on a layout.  I will have to work on reacquiring those skills.  ;-)

Congratulations Dad!

Those skills come back fast. It's like riding a bike—not a mountain bike with 24 speeds, just a regular old bike.

I've got plans drawn up for our current and last house that will be built and put somewhere on the layout.

Yes, you have been an inspiration in trying old and new skills and showing good results.

Thanks Mark! That's because even though I'm 69, my older grandson thinks I'm about age 20 inside. Maybe in the brain... the body? I'm not so sure. I'm always pushing the envelope. I did this throughout my professional career and it continues to this day.

Mark:

Beautiful model of the family homestead. Your Dad has to be very special to maintain this.

Brian,

Dad grew up farming and helping his dad with his plumbing business.  Dad never went to college, but I am convinced he could have made a great engineer.  He has an uncanny ability to figure out ways to make repairs and improvements on buildings that were built of materials you can't replace today.  He taught me a lot about working, being a good citizen, husband, father, and Christian.  Now he is teaching me how to age properly by his example again.  Of course he isn't as strong as he used to be and only work a few hours a day, but he knows how to pace himself.  I often ask if he needs help with anything, and his answer almost always is, "No I'm okay, you have your own work to do."  Thank you.