WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 1/10/14-??

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

A Dec. 1961 issue of The Railroad Telegrapher with a toy train theme on the cover.

 

junk yard pond.

B&O Crossing the Afton Creek. Viaduct heading to Garfield.

 

 

 

Looks like I can now start using my standard '2013 Christmas Layout memory' phrase: Deconstruction underway:

 

- walt

 

 

My 'Black Cloud' entry into the tin-plate world continues with this Baby Blue Comet.  I bought it new at York in October and it, and it's tender, have needed REPLACED twice already.  I'm on the 3rd one and now this:

 

 

 

as you can see it's a one-piece assembly and riveted to the base of the engine so it's not some simple repair, and certainly not one that I can undertake myself.

 

Looks like another $26.50 in postage

 

- walt

Night time

They just showed a Star Wars movie on TV, is this what R2D2's career has come to now?

 

As for your pick up issue Walt, maybe that fiber board snaps out?

Lima: thanks for the suggestion but it's an all-metal fixture.  The metal isn't all that flimsy so I can't figure out how the piece just broke off.

 

- walt

Walt... that truly is a shame. You must really like the engine.
as myself like baseball 3 times your out.
I would call and ask nicely but firmly for a prepaid ticket for shipping back for repair should have been offered the second time.
I do enjoy your Christmas memories photos.

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Have a great weekend Everyone!!

Alan

Hi Richard,

 

This is an absolutely beautiful scene, AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks,

Alex

I understand the pick up is an all metal spring, but isn't that black part an insulated material of some sort so the pick up/center rail "+" doesn't short to the motor side/wheel/outside rail "-" ?

 

Been a while since I tinkered with premanywars stuff but thought it popped out some how. They could send a replacement.

Nice work. Atlas O units?

 

Picked up a PWC 2341 & now I have set 2270W

Running some classics -

little guy can operate the controls now!

Look out!

train room fun on a rainy Sunday afternoon -

Here are a few shots of CNJ GP9 #1532 (AtlasO) coupling up to its train on the W.I.H.A.B.L Railroad...

 

Alan,

 

Is that a Corvair convertible you've got there?  Where did you get it from?

 

Joe

Yes Joe....it is in fact a Corvair!!  I have a local wholesaler that buys tons of these cars.  Nearly every auto you see on my layout came from him.  The cost...$3.00!!  Unfortunately several forum members have tried to get him to ship and he just won't do it for some reason...

 

Alan

GP-7 B&M arriving

AG.

Thank you.... they are MTH PS2 Dash 8's, -2 models with fixed pilots. I don't run the scale wheels though, they get swapped out for 3 rail wheels. Atlas still hasn't completed their Dash 8 project.... going on how many years now?

Here is three picture's of couple 1:64 Scale John Deere Tractors. I got these yesterday and very nice tractors.   

Chris,

 

Always like photo's of your layout, a bonus showing your wonderful family.  Oh, I almost forgot, thank you for the shot of the 2245 TS (my favorite of course) on the shelf in background.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

This is how my layout sits today. It looks lonely and I'm needing to get out there and restart my work on the layout. I am finaly starting to get my upper body strength back then yesterday I came back from the prosthetic DR with an infection in my knee. so another set back. So hopefully I'll get back soon to the layout.

Laidoffsick beautiful weathering on your Santa Fe's.

 

Lima thats a great night shot, nice simple detail on the interior.

 

 

GREAT PICTURES EVERYONE

 

 

Railroad history in my own back yard. These signs are within a couple of miles of our home....

 

 

 

 

Added some denizens of the desert:

 

 

 

Last weekend, we took out the club's mini-modular for a local show.

 

 

... probably the world's smallest O gauge modular - 2 modules for a total of 66" x 74".  Then again we did have 3 trains running, full DCS, and lots of excited kids.  I particularly liked opening the back coupler on the switcher, circling the track and connecting to the front coupler for a few loops in the other direction.  We also ran two trains on one track - worked great until I got to talking and rear-ended one train with the other!

 

Ed

Some New York Central action.....on the Put, of course! 

 

 

 

 

Peter

junk yard pond.

 

AUBV:  This type of small common scene adds so much to a layout. Very well done. Do you care to share how you did it?

Amtrak City Of New Orleans on the ICG

 

 

       
John,
Thank you. The "pond" body is made with tinted Sculptamold. Once the sculptamold dried, the bottom of the pond was painted w/acrylic paints to achieve the sense of depth contours and icky rusty water. I glued the tires and barrel in place as I was not sure if they would float. The "water" is Envirotex poured into the pond depression. Then I placed the jack stand and the bicycle into position.
Junk yard gate.
  

I was hoping that I could just email you like I did with Earl but you don't list an email address in your profile.

 

When I look at the piece, including that Lionel nameplate, it all looks like metal to me.  It's not an old engine, it's one of the new LCT ones just released.

 

- walt

 

 

 

Have a safe abd GREAT weekend everyone!!!