Weekend Photo Fun 1-11-13-??

Are we still in 2012? 

Our friend, Al Clair, wanted me to post this updated photo of the Wednesday morning breakfast bunch here in Springfield, MO. We have met every Wednesday morning for over 5 years now to talk trains. It is a great break in the week and also very interesting to find out what everyone has done to their layout over the past week. Also we all share about products & new ideas that enhance our layouts. Great friends.

Motley bunch, wouldn't you say ?

Yes and here is how we got back here!!!!!!

Look forward to this thread each week, always some great pics.

  Now THAT would be a great locomotive to see in the next Lionel catalogue! 

Back to the future? Here's pictures of River City 3 Railers very first run together at the Chesterfield County Fair back in 2008. We were guests of a train club out of Crewe Va and hadn't even thought about picking a name, yet.

as paul simon sang ...."a mother and child reunion,is only monents away"!!!!

Steve C.

Are we still in 2012? 

No I meant 1912--show me your really old pictures.

Scott Smith

Well, it looks like I can now start using, again, my preferred sentence "A 2012 Christmas layout memory "

The EL passing thru the Coal loading yard

Dang, Scott! Did you bring that back from the dead? Thought sure I recall seeing a cemetary plot in the yard for that one!

Dang, Scott! Did you bring that back from the dead? Thought sure I recall seeing a cemetary plot in the yard for that one!

There were a few dead and buried trains. If you know where they are you can always dig them back up.

Scott Smith

The night shift loading cars at CC storage.

do you actually bury your trains? i think if you used an air tight box, like one of those pelican case's, with a silica packet..... might work....

And I always thought that MerrMac was named after a scottish mermaid. 

Here's an 'old' steamer we caught coming around a curve and under a bridge awhile back...

My wife is scheduled for some surgery next week, so the gang got together to wish her well.

New depressed center flat car load.  As you can see I used tie down straps instead of chains because this cab is on its way back to the shop to be used on an engine that was wrecked. 

Pretty cool, huh?  LOL

Rick

The weather is turning nasty at Lincoln Park

This week my engine facility had a visit from an unshrouded J that traveled all the way from Roanoke.  The engine is owned by non other than Scott Smith.  A very impressive locomotive.

JIM I love the coal yard

Walt, is the liquor pictured bottom left, to help ease the pain of putting it all away?  It was a nice layout, looking forward to seeing the next one.

I got this phone about a year ago from an online company called oldphoneworks.  They have an incredible selection of original refurbished phones and reproductions.  This one is an original Western Electric 302, prewar version with cast metal base.  This phone was designed by Henry Dreyfus.  I'm thinking of getting another one, a bit newer, like something from the 50's.  For an additional fee, they install a device inside that converts the rotary to tone.  I really enjoy using this phone and was sitting here on the phone and  thought some of you would be interested in this kind of thing.

Happy Weekend !

I'll take some better pictures this weekend, but here are a couple.   My New Daylight is in the foreground

The boys are having fun with the Mic on the DCS

Nice background Flat I bought from Patrick here on OGR - fits in real nice with the Chimney I just built from Clever Models.

Texas Special departs Tuxedo Junction at twilight.  Observation car by Ready Made Trains, good stuff!

Pete

Built and placed some sidewalks under a few buildings today.

This is what I used to talk to my high school sweetheart in 1959. Since we only had one phone, I had to sit in the kitchen closet for privacy. Wonderful in the summer in a non-air conditioned house.

Festivus morning -  My Son checking out his new Lionel Legacy CSX SD80.

MBTA commuter rail train.  MTH F40 with 4 Atlas Comet II cars.  Also a Festivus Gift.

The T commuter train zipping past the amusment park.

Commuter Rail heading into the new closet expansion.

One of our Forum members inquired about the GGD 1948 20th Century Limited passenger set. Here it is.

That's awesome, Mike. *I* got a Legacy CSX SD80 for Festivus also. Love that locomotive.

Why do some photos not show up?

I can't view any from Richard E, Marty F, and SIRT's......

I was quite excited about the K-Line boxcabs a few years ago . . . but they never performed as well as I would have liked. So, I took the cab and put it on a Beep chassis. I guess RMT is eventually going to do the same thing.

Here some pictures I took while running trains over the Holidays

A Classic meet on the New York Ontario and Western as a westbound passenger train, pulled by an ABBA set of F3s with the 821 in the lead, meets a mainline freight powered by Mountain 458. Camelback 249, a 4-6-0, waits in the hole for everything to clear before proceding.

Chris

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