TRAIN THEME THURSDAY : close up shots around the layout......

Awesome modeling talents on this forum.  Great vignettes. 

My first attempt at chain link fence.

KCS JAYHAWK SPECIAL

Heading up to Lawrence Kansas to pick up the team, then off to San Antonio for the Final 4.

Supply train making a second run.

Good luck to all 4 teams.

Here's some pix from my layout for Train Theme Thursday .

Teo quick shots from today  

Had to crawl through the weeds to get this shot before the old TMB station was demolished.

Up close sshots from around the layout.

Here's a few from my collection.

Opening day at Sporting Valley Stadium. 

Jim Battaglia posted:

Opening day at Sporting Valley Stadium. 

Fabulous, Jim. Love your O Scale baseball field.

Long live the Phillies.

Arnold

MDMIKEY,  your pics are exquisite, very nice layout.  Only problem, you used up 3 months of participation in one day!!!  

I guess I'm poling the group for an opinion on these?

Here are a few close ups from my layout.

p51 posted:

I guess I'm poling the group for an opinion on these?

They are fantastic. Fit right in to your era. Your layout is amazing Lee as are  your modeling skills.

trumptrain posted:

Here are a few close ups from my layout.

I love your scenes! So few layouts give you the feel of a real place populated by people doing things. All your photos speak of a place where we'd all like to live!

Great hack shot, Joe!

Oops!  I didn't know there was a limit.  Thanks for letting me know TedW.  Well, that's all the closeups I have of this layout, which was in OGR #220.  It has moved on to another home who I hope is getting as much pleasure running it as I did building it.  Thanks so much for all the "likes".  My  current layout is still a work in progress, so it will be at least 3 months (maybe 3 years) until  I will have some new photos to post.  Trumptrain, the poles look great!  Are you planning on adding wires to them?  When I painted my poles, I put a subtle dab of black every here and there to represent the creosote still left after the poles have aged.  You can see one in my last photo.  So many great pictures on here.  Good job, everyone!

MdMikey posted:

Oops!  I didn't know there was a limit.  Thanks for letting me know TedW.  Well, that's all the closeups I have of this layout, which was in OGR #220.  It has moved on to another home who I hope is getting as much pleasure running it as I did building it.  Thanks so much for all the "likes".  My  current layout is still a work in progress, so it will be at least 3 months (maybe 3 years) until  I will have some new photos to post.  Trumptrain, the poles look great!  Are you planning on adding wires to them?  When I painted my poles, I put a subtle dab of black every here and there to represent the creosote still left after the poles have aged.  You can see one in my last photo.  So many great pictures on here.  Good job, everyone!

MdMikey - thanks for the compliment about my poles.  Thanks too for the tip about painting a dash of black here and there on the poles.... great idea!  Eventually I will attach wire to the poles, however, not any time too soon. 

I really enjoy your photos!!

p51 posted:

trumptrain posted:

Here are a few close ups from my layout.

I love your scenes! So few layouts give you the feel of a real place populated by people doing things. All your photos speak of a place where we'd all like to live!

gandydancer1950 posted:

 

They are fantastic. Fit right in to your era. Your layout is amazing Lee as are  your modeling skills.

 Thanks very much! I'd taken that for another forum where people were asking to see power/phone/telegraph poles on layouts. It also partially shows the 'new and improved' Stoney Creek Road to the right...

FYI, those are HO scale track spikes as lineman steps on the nearest pole. The transformer was scratch built with styrene, as I'd yet to find a good pre-war-era pole transformer kit/casting in O scale.

P51 - Why thank you so very much for such a wonderful compliment!!  It feels good to receive your kind words and appreciation!  

I guess everybody went to the brewery for the tour

Here are some pics I took last night of the Red Lion Train Station Model Railroaders' layout.  If you are at York you should go see them tonight from 6 - 9 pm. Nice layout. 

Up close around Patsburg.

          that is pretty cool Ted !!!     is that MTH or Lionel...

briansilvermustang posted:

          that is pretty cool Ted !!!     is that MTH or Lionel...

The Lionel version, but here’s the one that’s cool.  You posted it many months ago.  One of my favorites.

Time to delivery the Milk;