Its time for Weekend Photo Fun!!
I am starting this week’s photos while being on the road in South Carolina. Unfortunely my computer is dead so the only photos I have access to are a few in my phone.
Let’s see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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CN Yard • Pontiac, Michigan • January 4th, 2019 • 41°F, Sunny, 3 hour walk prior to sunset.
All images shot with an iPhone 7 Plus & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.
Fine Dining • Let’s get dinner before going back to the Man Cave, they even have an OGR Forum Reading Room. We are now 1.7 miles east of CN Pontiac Yard. • Like to see MENARD’S manufacture a White Castle.
I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • • Gary: Have a great weekend.
Some Niagara milk train pics......have a great weekend, folks!
Peter
Happy weekend all! Hope everyone stays warm if your in a cold part of the country, I know in northeast Ohio where I am it’s been freezing.
Photos shot on gold IPhone 7
Around the turn table. Have a great weekend.
A 2018 Christmas Layout memory 
Halloween, Christmas/winter, Easter
- walt
Just a slightly different angle
walt rapp posted:A 2018 Christmas Layout memory
- walt
Just a slightly different angle
Another excellent job Walt!!
Happy Friday!
Busy week on the layout. Made a bunch more changes. Decided to get a few more realistic buildings & replace the Plasticville. New signals & crossing signals arrived as well. The farm is being relocated at request of my cow/horse crazy kids to a new spot w/ a new Woodland Scenics barn & more grazing area for the cows.
While not a big fan of 60's Lionel, I do have a few items from that decade. 230 C&O FA-2 leads 1961 set 1643 through the rural countryside 
Decided to keep the 132 station ( albeit in repainted form) as I needed something to tie in w/ PW Lionel. It was relocated close to it's original spot, but I added a spur on the rear for REA shipments. With the layout of the station, it works well. The new signals stand guard looking north.
Built a small hill to act as a scenic block between the 2 tracks 
few more shots of the station & hill - 
Added an MTH farm house in the back corner. Having a farm house was on my list of must haves. 
With the land left vacant from the farm move, urban development quickly moved in & added a road & country post office. The grain bin & corn field will stay put however. 
2046 gets a highball as she pulls out of the station w/ a set of 2400 series Pullmans. 
My new kitten Beto loves hanging out when I'm working on the layout & running the trains 
Lorenzo & Lucia watching some trains in TN - 
A chilly Fall morning finds NS SD60E 7017 (ex NS SD60 6640) departing Roanoke's South Yard with coal train 820
NS AC44C6M 4074 hustles the NS geometry train westbound through Richland, PA on the Harrisburg Line
NJT ALP46 4627 leads a mid day local bound for Long Branch through Red Bank, NJ on the North Jersey Coast Line
NS ET44AC 3630 brings a westbound coal train through Glen Lyn, VA on the western end of the Christiansburg District
My last train photo of 2018 was a good one! A pair of ex Conrail EMDs lead a short local past Jersey Pike in Chattanooga, TN on the last day of 2018.
Great photos guys! Here's some photo fun from around Patsburg and the Free State Junction Railway.
A short Niagara video......
Peter
Putnam Division posted:A short Niagara video......
Peter
Got to love those milk trains! Very nice Peter!
My son made this some years ago for my birthday. Truly one of a kind.
Busy day at the Rail last fall. Have a great weekend and stay warm.
Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators. It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions. It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.
Ralph M posted:My layout AKA "Jasper's Rock" turned 20 years old in December 2018 (Dec 1998 to Dec 2018). Here are some early shots from 1999. I no longer have these locos / cars and today this area of the layout looks nothing like it does in these photos.
I have enjoyed watching your videos of your layout.The trains look real good and the layout makes forget your looking at a model train layout.
briansilvermustang posted:
Hi Bryan, I must ask, is there any motive power you don't have in your stable'..
I have yet to see one that you've shown, that wasn't a delight to look at'..''
SantaFe158 posted:Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators. It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions. It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.
looks great to me!
2 unit trains, as different as they can be......
Peter
The new MTH Premier SOO LINE 40' box cars arrived. They will be coupled with the Atlas O SOO LINE 40' box car.
Andrew
Last week of Christmas running with new, albeit late, MTH lighted Christmas cars. No problem with extended Christmas season!
Had a great find to add to the MTH Ma & Pa rolling stock.
Our pair of Lionel Penn Central U33C's showed up earlier this week. My son Steven got them unpacked and into service along with a Conrail U30C from a few years ago. Here the trio is heading westbound towards Altoona as they slam across the grade crossing at Anderson Road along the heart of the former PRR Middle Division. You can bet that except for shortly after delivery from GE, these things never were this clean in real life!
falconservice posted:The new MTH Premier SOO LINE 40' box cars arrived. They will be coupled with the Atlas O SOO LINE 40' box car.
Andrew
Nice!
I made 2 versions a few years ago, tired of waiting and also found a rare Weaver.
Such a common scheme that took many years for MTH to finally offer. Very odd. Now you need the other SOO scheme. MTH just cant shake using those ugly superior doors on everything.
PRRMiddleDivision posted:Our pair of Lionel Penn Central U33C's showed up earlier this week. My son Steven got them unpacked and into service along with a Conrail U30C from a few years ago. Here the trio is heading westbound towards Altoona as they slam across the grade crossing at Anderson Road along the heart of the former PRR Middle Division. You can bet that except for shortly after delivery from GE, these things never were this clean in real life!
Nice Neal. I think we are the few that like the PC. On another note: Did you ever think of using frost spray on parts of your background to simulate fog? It might push the scene further back and add some more interest. Just a thought.
Steamer posted:SantaFe158 posted:Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators. It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions. It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.
looks great to me!
Thank you. I really like the patina that it's obtained over the years that it sat waiting for its next life.
Finished putting together another Postwar Set. This is the Lionel 1523, "Gandy Dancer" set from the mid-50s.
Seaboard switcher, flat car with pipes, LV hopper, crane car and work caboose.
Looks and runs great!
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