Weekend Photo Fun 1-18-13-??

The LCCA tinplate set finally made it onto the layout:

Steve C.

A (not so happy) 2012 Christmas layout memory

This is from cleaning only the wheels on the rolling stock (88 pieces) and engines (9), and only from this year's accumulation since I clean everything each year before storing it.  Track cleaning remains.  UGH.

- walt

Wanting for the morning commuter train at the St Paul Depot

LIONEL SOUTHERN CRESCENT

Happy Weekend,  Man its really cold out!

From our fun night this week.

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Patrick,

WOW! Great layout!!!

A late one from the holidays.

We had a young visitor that made setting up the trains around the Christmas tree really worth while this year.

She spent a lot of the visit looking at the trains.

As the caboose headed around the back she would wave goodbye, then look to the other side and say here it comes and cheer and clap as the engine came out from behind the tree. Click on each photo for a larger view.

Not quite talking yet she was told what all the cars were on the train so in broken todler talk pointed at each car as it came around;

Eng, tender, Can cane (green flat with Candy canes), pres (2 Lionel gondola's with presents), hot choc (we told her the tank car had hot chocolate), boos.

She also took great delight in all the buildings and noticed the details pointing out look at the horse or dog or toys etc. (were many more buildings above this on the table).

Loved it! The best part of the trains and holidays is the delight of the children.

The crew is getting ready for the next two arrivals for servicing.

Walt, how well does the beer work as "cleaning fluid"? 

Truly a magical time. It does not get better than that.

Thanks for the Post, It made my day.

And Thanks to Scott for keeping this thread happening.

It's my weekly favorite.

Have a great weekend everyone!

This is a view from the "EL" downtown....

Alan

Here is a pic of my MTH  Chessie F3A dummy engine. I bought on ebay a few days ago. This engine matches my MTH Chessie F3A powered engine. 

Some of you that have lived west of the Mississippi may have seen these. This is one of 11 Travel Trophy Bells that BNSF have in their safety award department.

And here is a closer view of the Brass Bell:

Richard, great photo.  I would love to see more.

The PRND&L Porter finally has a tender.

Great job Mikey!  Any pics during fabrication?

Joe

My Son got home from school today and the first thing he said was "Can we go upstairs and play trains?"  So here's a couple pictures from the play session.

My standard gauge from the Christmas tree layout is now packed away, and I put the Lionel - Hallmark Christmas ornaments on display for the time being.

First up is actually an outsider.  Restoration Hardware tin Dreyfuss Hudson ornament, followed by the first Lionel Hudson ornament, and then 2 Santa Fe F3s.

Next up is the Pennsylvania GG1, N&W 746 and the Western & Atlantic General.  This brings us up to the 21st Century.

The Modern Era was represented in the Chessie System T1 no. 2101, and the next year, the brass plate era train of the 400E Blue Comet was dominant.

Not exactly caught by my camera is the scale Southern Pacific 4449 and passenger coach.  Then the standard gauge (?) Hiawatha and the 1930s scale Pennsylvania B6 switcher and freight.

Skinny trains were the order of the day as diesels came back to the Lionel ornament roster in the mid 2000s.  The UP veranda turbine and American Freedom train PA1 took hold for a couple of years.

Then it was back to regular width ornament trains with the NYC FT and 2400 series passenger cars, the 2007 Christmas train made into a 2009 ornament, and 2010's City of Denver--- coupled by magnets instead of regular couplers.

For this current decade, we have the Century Club 726 and caboose along with the Nutcracker Express.  What does 2013 hold for the ornament hobby?  It could be new or old, but it will definitely be colorful.  

A shot from the new layout..... all the track is down but there is a lot more scenery to go.....

Mr. Muffin the layout is looking great!

Wednesday was a slow night. Did a "consist test" with a pair of scale-wheeled ATSF C40-8W's with a few Berwick Excess-Height cars. The cars are going to get weathered eventually; still trying to decide how I want to weather the diesels.

I was able to locate a second Proto-3/Scale-wheeled CNW C44-9W, #8727. I weathered it (with Jack's guidance) Saturday. Here it is after the first misting of dust. The dust paint may be light and thin, but it quickly knocks the shine right off an engine.

We're going for a look to match its stablemate.

Also did some dry-brushing on the truck side frames and put a coat of surface rust on the wheel faces of #8717.

I bought a couple of those to go w/ my PS2 set I have. I had one of these before that! So I took a thin black sharpie on these two, and made one into the "4324" with a change to the last "1" on the sides, and made the other into a "4821" by changing the "3" on the sides.

The number boards are not worth fooling with for me, most people probably don't notice the changes to the side. I probably could have pulled all 3 w/ the 4321 and they never would have noticed!

And Mark..........................

The Lionel's in that snow scene look great, but your ability to make the snow scene appear quite "realistic" is uncanny!  ;-)

I need your help on my Christmas garden I put up each year. (And I was beaten to the punch on the beer comment for Walt!)

Greg 

It's the ONLY thing that helps me get thru that process!!!!  BTW: this brand of beer "cleans" me out pretty well (disgusting comment, huh? )

- walt

Here are a few shots of some real trains I took this week.  I hope next week to get some shots of the layout posted, as a lot of work has progressed just not a lot of photographs.  

GT 4907 waits on a passing siding in front of the old Mt Clemens Depot for another train to pass.

CN 4916 runs light in Fraser Michigan as the sun sits low on the horizon in a cold snowless January Day.

There really wasn't much to it. The body is actually a Lionel piece. When Lionel MPC introduced the plastic four-wheen dockside engine in the early 70s, they put it in a set (Pioneer Dockside Switcher). For some reason, they felt it needed a tender, so they created this little thing. They are hard to find. (I had to buy a whole set to get this one.)

My K-Line Porter came with both traditional and scale couplers. I put the scale coupler on the rear of the loco, and on the front of the tender. Then I attached the traditional coupler on the back of the tender (easy work, just two small screws and a thin plastic shim). 

I made the coal load out of an old K-Line two bay hopper load, with a lump of wood putty and covered with black paint and coal glued on. 

Feeling a little E R I E today!

SIRT to carry your theme back to an earlier time.

 Matt, I'm going to have to install an engine wash bay to keep my engines clean! Don't want them all dirty like that! (very nice, I just don't have the cahoonahs)

Some city shots and the Bridgeboss El and my modified MTH Amtrak Genesis

Rich

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My crappy basement layout is getting better.

A few shots from the Pittsburgh Independent Hi-Railers set up at the Greenberg Train Show in Monroeville, PA:

Andy