Trackside Thursday

Happy Trackside Thursday.

Barry is in a heap of trouble this morning. The used tire tires that were piled up behind his station, adjacent to the trolley tracks fell overnight and are blocking the tracks. Trolley Motorman O'Shaughnessy used the phone at the diner to call his dispatcher and told him that he can’t move his trolley.
The police were called and now Barry is trying to explain the officer O’Toole that the tires were piled up neatly and the dogs must’ve knocked them over. Clancy isn’t buying it. Probably based on the fact that Barry‘s nickname is “Any Day Now”.

In the meantime, an extra garbage truck was called out to clear the mess. Zeek and Charlie are very happy to get the overtime; that will of course be billed to Barry.

Fire Inspector Mike is walking around the property checking for any file violations.

Trackside for this fine Thursday!   Over on the team track  Burl Spratt and Lenny Mosley talk strategy for unloading the B&O Time Saver boxcar.  " You know Lenny, if we really bust our butts this morning we can get this car unloaded by noon."  Wearing his signature big smile while enthusiastically nodding his head in agreement Burl replies " Yep Lenny.  I'm right there with ya, cause you know every Thursday is the Belly Buster Lunch Special over at Mama Lucia's Italian Diner!  I'm thinking on gettin me a huge plate load of Mama's famous Lasagna with sausage!!  Now that's some good eatin!!  Let's get belly bustin busy!!  

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A view of the birds from the elevated trackside -

That darn weather vane fell off again

- walt

Trackside on this beautiful sunny afternoon in California. I do have a snow plow, just in case, LOL!

Section boss is going to be pretty ×@#<# if he has to bring a tour of investors through this area with the old ties laying all over.         Gotta hate working so late at night but Sal's joint will still be open and the supervisor is going to buy a round.

Happy TT all.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Section boss is going to be pretty ×@#<# if he has to bring a tour of investors through this area with the old ties laying all over.         Gotta hate working so late at night but Sal's joint will still be open and the supervisor is going to buy a round.

Happy TT all.

Terrific photo Dallas!!!  The lighting is perfect!

@trumpettrain posted:

Terrific photo Dallas!!!  The lighting is perfect!

Thank you Patrick.

Well its a bit late of a start, but I suppose I will venture out with the first picture.  This a very recent acquisition at a train show about 2 weeks ago.  Its a ready made scene that happened to just fit in an open place in my layout.  Seems that Dad and his son are doing some ice fishing at the local pond.  They have broken through the ice and are trying their luck.  A neighbor is coming up to see how they are doing and will maybe join in.

Best wishes on a beautiful Thursday here in central Texas, temp only 86 ...what a relief from the 90-100 recent trend.

Don

Busy day trackside

@Sitka posted:

Busy day trackside

Nice scene Mark.

I'm still liking your lighting in these photos sir.

[  that certainly must be an energy drink ( !?! ) in the red bottle . ]      God speed .

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice scene Mark.

I'm still liking your lighting in these photos sir.

[  that certainly must be an energy drink ( !?! ) in the red bottle . ]      God speed .

TY Dallas on the photo, I think he has a bottle of a cold Utica Club Beer God speed!

Well its early morning, the coffee service truck is unloading at the diner and a couple of folks have pulled up for their morning "JOE"...

Best Wishes, Don

Trackside for this fine Thursday!

workers looking for PW Lionel parts

Well its a busy lunch time today in Small Town and just about the only restaurant, McDonald's has a full lunch crew on board.  Traffic is backed up as normal anytime the crossing gets closed by a train, and Officer Sullivan has his hands full. At the intersection into the shopping district, looks like a little car scuffle there, maybe a bent fender and a lot of bent feelings I am sure.  McD's has a lot of business and the parking street is crowded.  But no matter how much traffic there is, the flag flies proudly over the town center.  Busy Day !    (OBTW, the train has a Hornby MO tender locomotive from 1930 and the cars are Metoy from the UK in the 1950's).

Best Wishes, Don

Trackside Thursday Workers

Here's what's trackside for this fine Thursday!

@Jim Teeple - Jim, great scenes, thanks for posting.

Don

@Jim Teeple posted:

Two great scenes Jim. It looks like that woody is in a no parking zone. 😊

Shopping for farm-fresh produce.

Well the follows in the yard had some free time and decided that the recent snowfall needed a snow man!!  Foreman not really happy, thinks they could find something better to do especially since his budget is paying them !!

Happy Thursday everyone

Don

Trackside for this fine Thursday!   The FSJR leased this crane from Union Pacific for the extensive track renovation project now going on.

I don't know if having a playground/picnic area next to an airport is the best place, but "someone" decided it was OK here.

- walt

The Giraffe car just pulled in and some of the occupants are going into the station

Best Wishes Don

A GORGEOUS  COOL  SUNNY  AFTERNOON...........

.........what a perfect day to be....................................

.............................KING OF THE  ROAD. 

God Speed all.

Trackside for this fine Thursday:   ALCO & EMD diesels of the Western Maryland Railway.

Trackside shakedown. The train clubs carpenter created this piece for the Fas Track  since the postwar applications don’t work. I wanted to test this group of cars I recently cobbled together. I added springs and did quite a bit of cleaning. The contour of my roadbed doesn’t match but I shimmed it with two pieces of cut lumber from an adjacent AF lumber mill. I had to cut one of the Geoffrey cars out because he was acting up. He thinks he’s better than the zoo giraffe. I told his handler to cut back on his carrots food a few days. Well here’s the test run.

The folks at McDonalds are getting a good look at a short freight pulled by old 6100, the oldest loco in the line, dating back to 1930.  She sometimes stops here, allowing the fireman to run off and get him and the engineer a "Big Mac" for lunch!  Even the racoons are enjoying a feast today as they raid the garbage cans in the parking lot.   Busy day in downtown Small Town and officer Sullivan has his hands full moving traffic past the crowded intersection that leads to the suburban station.  All in All though just a normal weekday in Small Town.

Best Wishes, Don

@Jim Teeple posted:

@Jim Teeple

Jim:

Though I follow all of your posts and consider all of your models true works of art, the one above really interests me.

There is a steam locomotive servicing facility is in future plans for our major layout revision. Something resembling your model in the above photos would be a great addition to said facility. However, excuse my ignorance, is the model meant to be that of a coaling station or a sand processing station? It is a wonderful building.

Again, BRAVO sir on your artistry!

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Jim Teeple

Jim:

Though I follow all of your posts and consider all of your models true works of art, the one above really interests me.

There is a steam locomotive servicing facility is in future plans for our major layout revision. Something resembling your model in the above photos would be a great addition to said facility. However, excuse my ignorance, is the model meant to be that of a coaling station or a sand processing station? It is a wonderful building.

Again, BRAVO sir on your artistry!

Thanks Randy,

It is a freelance sand drying facility, probably not very prototypical. Here is another photo.

@Jim Teeple posted:

Thanks Randy,

It is a freelance sand drying facility, probably not very prototypical. Here is another photo.

@Jim Teeple

Jim:

Thanks for your quick reply. It is a great building

NASCAR takes one of its top cars on a tour

The reason that I bought the #17 DeWalt car is because my nephew was on the pit crew back when Matt Kenseth drove it.

- walt