Trackside Thursday

Coal worker

A little MOW trackside.

Trackside for this fine Thursday!

Sorry guys I am so far behind I just handed out a bunch of likes! I hope it doesn't drive you crazy, but you all do such great work!

@mike g. posted:

Sorry guys I am so far behind I just handed out a bunch of likes! I hope it doesn't drive you crazy, but you all do such great work!

Mike, I did the same as you.  Speaking for myself, I am not bothered by a bunch of likes.  I haven’t posted much on this wonderful thread myself, but I really like the photographs!

Well things are a little slow at Small Town station, but its late-morning and they will pick up soon around lunchtime as shoppers go into town to start on the Christmas shopping.  Looks like we have had our first snowfall of the season, just a light dusting on the trees, not much on the ground.  Its already melted off the roofs.  The local station looks like it could use a little paint, but its been here in Small Town since 1927 so I guess its due.

Best Wishes, Don

While going over some photo's recently I came across this one of my relatively new "Galloping Goose".  I thought that it fit in this thread as it portrays one railroad's concept of how to reduce costs yet sustain their service.  It was certainly a strange animal at first and would attract a lot of track side interest.  So here is my Goose taking care of a lowly evening run down the line to a little town with just a bit of freight and 4 passengers.

Don McErlean

Our wedding was so popular, they brought in a train load of guests.

Trackside to today:   As i sat on an old wood milk crate beside the mainline,  this mixed freight passed by.

Well here is a typical scene in the country.  One chap sits in the truck while his partner tries to repair the outhouse door by the freight station.  Absent repair, the fellas in the freight station office would have a hike and have to rely on the hospitality of the General Door and Sash company if they needed a restroom.   The Southern 44 Ton switcher moves a few boxcars around to get them ready to be made up in an outgoing train.

Best Wishes, Don

Nowadays, agriculture in Sonoma County is wine grapes, but the Gravenstein Apple crop was big a couple of decades ago.

  Well here we are just a week or so before Christmas and everyone in the village is out waiting for the passing of the Santa Train and the "guest of honor" himself may make an appearance...excitement is high.  To Max in the food truck, CoCoa sales are also good on this very brisk morning although "chubby" the bear seems to prefer Coke!

AND THEN...All of a sudden, here comes SANTA!  Riding along as the guest of the NYC and waving and yelling his HO HO HO! to everyone in the village , even the band strikes up a happy tune!  And of course, since we live in Waco, Tex we have to have the "Dr. Pepper" boxcar (Waco is where in the 19th century a lowly pharmacist invented Dr. Pepper).

Best Wishes to everyone and Happy Holidays to All

Don

Good afternoon OGR fans, and I’m hoping you all had a very nice Christmas and a happy New Year… This is one of my favorite topics and there’s a lot of beautiful scenes on this thread. Happy Railroading Everyone

Well I can't compare with the incredible detail of my friend @leapinlarry 's layout and trains so I am going to go in another direction.  Thought you might like to see what some of our ancestor's children might have been playing with just after Christmas nearly 100 years ago.  This is the Hornby M0 locomotive from 1930.  The M0 line was (perhaps similar to Lionel's 0-27 line) an attempt by Mecanno to offer a line of handsome and capable but relatively less cost than their regular trains.  These M0 trains were a full 0 gauge but they were to a smaller scale than Hornby's regular line.  To their credit however, Mecanno offered not only a full line of trains , but appropriate track. switches, cross overs  and line side accessories like stations etc.  Many of the M0 trains were offered in rather complete sets that included both track and buildings to set the scene in your (or your childs) RR empire.  Oh sorry, the M0 trains were clockwork.

The 1930 M0 #6100 tender type locomotive.  This came in both the red as shown here or in green.  You can see the obvious effort to meet a price point, there never were any drive rods, the front has no buffers and of course there is no front or rear truck.  (the "pin" sticking out from the side is where you attached the key to wind it up)

Here she is taking her little train past the McDonalds in "Small Town" on the Leonardtown and Savannah.  The freight cars I selected because of their size being about right for the M0 trains however they are Mettoy, another company in the UK, and they are from the early 1950's so they are some 20 years newer than the locomotive.

Here she is with her original 1930 M0 train, it consisted of 2 Pullman coaches named "Joan" and "Zena" (why those names...who knows the reason is lost to history).

Happy Boxing Day !!  Best Wishes and Hello to my friend leapinlarry!!

Don

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  "Night time crew change."

@Don McErlean, Wow, thank you for the kind words, you have one of the most colorful model railroad collections in Texas, and I can not compete with your vintage trains, and thank you for the kind words. @trumpettrain also has a super great collection and a beautiful layout, Happy Railroading Everyone

@trumpettrain posted:

Trackside for this fine Thursday!  "Night time crew change."

Excellent lighting for a night shot!

Lou N

For this Trackside Thursday here is a picture of Craig Park. There’s a golf course behind the shade tree, and a playground to the right.

Busy day for this hard worker.

Of course, my favorite thing is the rats carrying slices of pizza down the stairs to the subway in the lower left corner:

Arnold

@pennsyfan posted:

For this Trackside Thursday here is a picture of Craig Park. There’s a golf course behind the shade tree, and a playground to the right.

Bob, is that a slot car track I see?  Or is it some kind of trolley track I am unfamiliar with?

@Mark Boyce posted:

Bob, is that a slot car track I see?  Or is it some kind of trolley track I am unfamiliar with?

Mark, Thats K-Line EZ Streets track. The motorized cars and trucks run on there. A fellow named Lee used to post here; he had a fantastic layout with streets running  both directions. He disappeared; I heard one time that he moved on to wireless control of vehicles. I’ve always wanted to do street running; because I remember being in my Dad’s car near the docks in Brooklyn and he was dodging steam engines. When I installed the track I used a  small radius due to space restrictions. So I had to modify a tinplate boxcar to negotiate the curves. The  boxcar that came with the engine & caboose doesn’t work. Sorry more than you asked for.

Bob, that’s really neat you were able to recreate the street running you remembered from childhood!  I do remember Lee and his layout, including the EZ track.  Not too much information at all!

Officer Andy keeping peace on the streets

Police station

= walt

Still working on my 11' x 17' layout, but here a 2322 idles in front of a Marx Glendale Station.

Things are a little bit slow on the main this morning, it being a Thursday - historically a slow day on the L&S, so the fella's on old 6100 decide to do an unscheduled but quick stop to pick up a breakfast sandwich from McDonald's.  Old 6100 is so old and slow (but she keeps on running) that the dispatcher will never notice the very short delay.

Happy Thursday to All from a (still) raining and cold Thursday in Central Texas

Don

The scrap yard.

A long freight train rumbles past the engine service facility and rounds the bend to go past the harbor.

Early morning at the station.

Some scrap yard views

Trackside Today:  RDC at night and day.

Man with ax

@leapinlarry posted:

@Don McErlean, Wow, thank you for the kind words, you have one of the most colorful model railroad collections in Texas, and I can not compete with your vintage trains, and thank you for the kind words. @trumpettrain also has a super great collection and a beautiful layout, Happy Railroading Everyone

Just seeing your post today.  Thanks so much for the kind compliment Larry!  Your layout always looks terrific and you have such a vast array of rolling stock and engines too!   I always enjoy viewing your posts!

@Lou N posted:

Excellent lighting for a night shot!

Lou N

Thanks so much Lou!