WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 1-20-17-??

With videos and announcements about delivery of Lionel's Legacy-equipped gantry crane, I decided to dig out my postwar 282R gantry crane and give it a little workout on my layout. A gondola of steel ingots arrives to be placed in a trackside bin, but the bin is too far away for one crane motion. Enter a twin-bin dump gondola to act as an intermediary. And what are those spherical steel ingots, anyway?  With this video I'm celebrating reaching 1000 subscribers on my video series; the next subscriber will push me over the mark. Thank you for your continuing interest.

https://youtu.be/XdczuIgYHsk

Here are some photos of my K Line 2 bay die cast hopper with custom coal load. Weathering to be added at some point.

Don

rail posted:

chessie1971 posted:

Here is another item i just bought from the OGR Forum. K-line Clinchfield Die-cast 2 Bay Hopper.

These are very nice cars. I picked up a PARR Coal Goes To War hopper that I plan to use for a diroama I am planning for the Huber Breaker Preservation Society. I hope to acquire one of each from the five class one roads that served Ashley PA. I just finished making some coal loads for this and an MTH war emergency hopper.

Don

 

Thanks Don! 

rail posted:

Here are some photos of my K Line 2 bay die cast hopper with custom coal load. Weathering to be added at some point.

Don

Nice car and coal load Don!

Some older shots of a RK Scale RS1.  These are real gems with some of the best sounds. Alcos had distinct sequences in startup and shutdowns. Smokes too

I like this one from the Apple Valley MR Club in Hendersonville NC.

SIRT posted:

Snow Rotary #1274................

Cool rotary plow, but what powers the blades? I don't see any exhaust stacks or tender.

Motor is behind the blades. It has 2 pickup rollers. I guess the tilting panel behind the blade is used to direct heat exhaust on a real unit? Hard to believe its a Rail King!

I used a Williams PC GP-38 to push it around.

SIRT posted:

Motor is behind the blades. It has 2 pickup rollers. I guess the tilting panel behind the blade is used to direct heat exhaust on a real unit? Hard to believe its a Rail King!

I used a Williams PC GP-38 to push it around.

The panel that tilts side to side right behind the headlight does deflect the snow from one side to the other. I have one of these and it is well worth the cost. 

PS....it needs a tender behind it!! 

your work is great

Lots of good stuff! Been a few months since my last contribution.

Added some details to the sawmill maintenance buildings.

And more to the loopback.

Made a transformer station.

A few city shots.

Added a new closed pilot to these Lionel  E5s. ..

Some shots from this week.....

Paul

LIRR DE30 number 421 passing the St. James train station this afternoon. The station dates from 1873. 

Here's some weird looking freight car loads I made up this afternoon. Been buying super glue gel in these fancy bottles and thought they were just too cool looking to throw out. So I figured they would make cool looking gondola loads. I will probably add some kind of warning signs or something.

I painted the "gills" on the sides with a metallic copper paint and tops are acorn nuts, screws and plumbing washers. But what exactly are they? Maybe they are some alien spacecraft technology headed for Area 51? New hi tech electrical transformers? Warp drive engines? Some new friends for Dr Who to play with?

The new Atlas SOO LINE and ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF modernized 50' double-door box cars.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Spent the Day at Dynamic Hobbies running my Military Trains

Christopher2035 posted:

Drilling the factory between passenger trains

Where did you find this CNJ trailer? Custom made? Very cool looking!

Shots of the farm.

Working on a couple scenes. First up are some rock climbers on the second mountain cliffs of the second access opening, needs some more work.

Next is my Dead prison scene, lots of work left on this one.

Still looking for a good casket.

handyandy posted:

Here's some weird looking freight car loads I made up this afternoon. Been buying super glue gel in these fancy bottles and thought they were just too cool looking to throw out. So I figured they would make cool looking gondola loads. I will probably add some kind of warning signs or something.

I painted the "gills" on the sides with a metallic copper paint and tops are acorn nuts, screws and plumbing washers. But what exactly are they? Maybe they are some alien spacecraft technology headed for Area 51? New hi tech electrical transformers? Warp drive engines? Some new friends for Dr Who to play with?

Wow, Now I know were the penguins of Antarctica originated from.  Alien race that adapted to our planet and no longer needed the suits.

Handyandy - They look like the 2.0 upgrade of Daleks. I hope Pennytrains sees your post.

I've done some more rock work on the backside of my layout. It's not 100% done but it's getting there. If you want to know how i make my rocks, I carve them out of dental plaster and paint them using acrylic paint. 

Aside from doing work on the layout, I've been running trains. Here's a shot of my Lionel Boston & Albany Berkshire. 

I also uploaded some new content on my website, including a layout update and new photographs. Here's a picture I took while photographing the Valley Railroad in December. If you didn't know already I love photography and the Valley Railroad is one of my prime locations. 

https://greenmountaintrains.wordpress.com/ 

P&LE train 261 rushes passengers back home from their jobs in Pittsburgh. The black and gold on 1501 is appropriate for the big Steeler game tonight!

Also here's one more I took the other night that I thought came out really good.

El Capitan Hi-Level

Not O gauge, but I ventured into the American Flyer side of things last week upon purchasing the locomotive I needed to complete a partial set my grandparents got me from an estate sale a year or two ago.  It had everything except for the locomotive from what I could tell.  

I'm not sure how far this venture into  the other world of postwar trains will go, but so far I think it's pretty cool, even if it's a fairly simple set.  The smoke unit in this AF 282 puts even some of the most modern fan driven units to shame