WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 1-16-15-??

Taxis wait for the train to pull in to the station.

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

My favorite thread......thanks Scott for doing this! I have a lot of different themes this week.

first of all, this appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch midweek:

Now, some stills of Gilly@N&W's Train of Sin:

A shot of our yard and then one of my all-time favorite pics, recycled from earlier this week:

Peter

Now to showcase a new addition to my fleet:

The pics don't do it justice!

Peter

It was Thomas & Friends Week on our railroad.  We made two troublesome trucks, a percy out of cardboard and a Fat Controller.  The troublesome trucks got O-gauge wheels and have been quietly taking laps behind our work train.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Last theme is another unit train.........my Tropicana Juice Train.......which is seen coming through Richmond regularly.

Unfortunately, I could not fit the entire train on our 4 track departure yard. I had to use a lane of the receiving yard. So, I used an E33 to pull out the end of the train by the caboose and push it to hook up to the rest of the consist.

31 Tropicana reefers.........that's a lot of juice!

Peter

UP No 604/605 rolls through the mountains

Around Town

From photo album 53 Layout Module 4

13 of 263 photos...

Seems like yesterday my son and I where riding the 1:1 scale trains.

Happy Friday everyone.

Peter, all these fabulous posts in one week!  An embarrassment of riches!!!  

- Mike

My new favorite locomotive, a Williams 746 J that I replaced the smoke unit with a Lionel fan unit from MTTP.

Paul

Here's the end of a westbound freight just west of Duncannon.  Our weathering efforts continue...

Mike.......i've been doing office-only for 2 weeks.....got plenty of time in the evenings.......Monday, I start back in the hospital with a daily census of 25-30......I won't ever see my house in daylight, much less turn on a transformer.....

Sorry, Gilly and I are missing TrainStock.......but when our Christmas display got extended, we had to stay.......Next year we will plan for both!

Have fun Saturday.

Peter

Fantastic pics, everyone..........SIRT Steve and MiddleDiv Neal........your stuff looks so real!  It's amazing!

Peter

Jim

Awesome, Jim!!  

Beautiful, Jim!

Peter

This is not an accurate model, but here is my version of a Niagara Junction E-10 electric locomotive.

Here is the real thing

awesome pics guys

The start of my series of 'A 2014 Christmas Layout Memory " photos.

If you have 6 minutes to waste......

(I think I say 2013 instead of 2014 in the video)

- walt

Have a great weekend!

A favorite scene and car on my layout.  As always, the photos that you guys share are terrific.

Great photos some nice layouts.

Sirt really loving the details of the city on your modules.

Scott the Monopoly trains should be popular nice display.

Renovating my 2 rail O scale switching layout.

 This has been up many many years and been great for switching. The main part of the layout is 6x10 feet has 2 main loops I can just let trains circle then there are 11 sidings of various lengths. All really old Roco 2 rail snap track using the manual turnouts. Works well. Sits on a 2x4 frame over the 3 rail layout below, and 3 rail loops over top along the ceiling for the long trains with 0-120 curves.

Running heavier engines I found the foam base sagging so I added  a few more cross supports, a thin sound deadening foam under the track and will ballast. In the middle on foam blocks on top of the various sidings I have a 4x8 foam sheet on this goes 3 loops of HO track for running ON30 and a loop of road for cars and buildings in the middle. The train runs out around a loop over the washer dryer to a 16 foot 5 track sorting yard along the wall.

It is fun to operate can have 3 people running on this small layout. 1 sorting trains on the yard tracks another switching the main layout for various industries under the city and another operator running the trains over many miles of the Rockies between the sorting yards.

Been removing the dust buildup from many years next to the laundry and will ballast and add scenery when I get the City back in place.

Just got new Atlas O 50' PS-1 boxcar, Minneapolis and St. Louis

Happy Friday!

Lucia wanted another general, so I picked up this 8004 RI&P General & passenger cars this week -

The NKP Berk pulls a string of woodside reefers around the layout -

Couple shots at Mount Union, PA from 11/15/14
Amtrak B32-8WH 513 is on the point of the westbound Pennsylvanian as it heads over the Juniata River towards Pittsburgh

With a Dash-9 on each end, NS MOW train 911 heads westbound towards Altoona -

Since I never got around to uploading pictures from the Christmas layout I'll do it for this weekend's photo fun.  I hope you enjoy.

Got another MTH high cube and I really like it. Also I was trying to get further ahead on my MP15AC build. She's running too!http://youtu.be/pQo0ZgcZlRo?li...xZM9pcZwOpkZrcdHggpg

My grandson learning to be a tower operator at the Union Station Interlock.  He has become my most reliable and most enthusiastic too.

Art

Great pics everyone!

--Greg

Richard E -

Niagara Junction electric. Very cool.

Man after my own heart. Very convincing, after all. I've always liked the looks of

the Lionel (and clones) "44T" loco - not as a 44-tonner model (wrong loco - it is actually a fair evocation of a GE 80-tonner), but as project-fodder.

I like electrics; now that's what I need - another project...

Peter I love Gilly's train of sin

Here are some of mine

Art; great photo of your grandson.

2 or 3 years ago, in Mobile; CSX (L&N) Sibert Yard; old Louisville and Nashville turntable, still used to turn diesels. Roundhouse was torn down in 1980's. L&N 4-6-2 152 now in excursion service in Kentucky was stored there for years; offered to city of Mobile but turned down (!).

L&N used to operate their J4 Mikados (USRA Heavies) in and out of here; so, do you think

that Lionel got an order from me for the the new Legacy L&N Heavy Mike...? Do ya?

Took these last weekend. Ran the units around the club layout for a while. I've ordered the pilot spacer blocks from Shapeways using the files I got from Mario (CentralFan1976) for the Lionel GP30. I figure I can file/modify them to fit the MTH chassis. The coupler sleeve is too small for Shapeways' printers so I'm trying to track down another source to print those. Will probably get a 3D printer of my own in a few months. Will post progress photos to the photo thread as things progress.

Blueline that bridge is very cool!