WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 1-23-15-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Only new views of the same this week........monster week at work, unfortunately....

Have fun fun at the Big E....but with the weather forecasted, please be safe.

Peter

I don't remember if I shared my new workbench (it has a better light over it now)

Well, when I came home from Trainstock, I found a large box sitting in the kitchen. It was the Gargraves Test Track I ordered!

Happy Weekend to all!

Scott for always starting this great topic.  I always look for it on Friday.  Thanks to all who add their photos too.

A small section of town going in ...

Sulley's tavern was a good fit here...

Here's another one of the Fast Fish Express:

Peter

There is lots of speculation regarding Charlie Nassau's post of new tooling for Lionel streamline passenger cars. Let's hope that whatever comes out of this, the finish is as good as these K-Line CZ passenger cars.

Peter, who doesn't love jade green?

Engine servicing at Lincoln Park

Views from CONUS Lines.  It's Thanksgiving weekend in 2013.  In the first view, downtown Cumberland's town square is being decorated for Christmas.  Santa has made an appropriate appearance outside Engine House Hobbies.  In the second view, the Norfolk Southern Office Car Special slows for the grade crossing at Cumberland.  In the following three views, the OCS meets a westbound Wheeling & Lake Erie freight just beginning its assault of the 2.2% grade to Armstrong.

Some shots of the little folk in "action"...

Some work getting done in the yard. Happy weekend!!!

I had posted this on another thread.  My wife did some backdrop painting on the layout.   Trying to get an Appalachian Mts. look.  We were using pictures from the Great Smokey Mts. National Park.  Coal tipple diorama.

Added pictures.

Another shot from my new city section.

Chris

LVHR

Here's a few shot's around the farm and the produce stand .

Guy

From a few years back. 

Lionmaster TMCC BB and JLC Legacy BB

Very nice!

Having some fun with Lionel's incredible die-cast ES44's:

My grandson's choice for running this week....

Paul

Peter, who doesn't love jade green?

Scott Smith

Friends are gathering to celebrate the grand opening of a new family business--the Toad Hollow Distillery.  Yes, I know that the sunflowers look silly.  I do have an idea for a more realistic screen, but hand-making a row of corn stocks will have to be a future project.  My one and only beer reefer--the exceedingly handsome Apache Beer insulated refrigerator car.  For those of you not familiar with it, let me introduce one of Arizona’s finest, a fund raiser for the Desert Division of TCA.  This colorful Atlas car was manufactured five years ago.

It's 1960 and the Super Chief is pulling into Ruthven, Iowa.  It looks like the hip crowd hasn't fit in too well and is leaving for the west coast.

Art

A 2014 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

Looking at this group waiting at the station in Ruthven, I'm not sure they are up for the fare on the El Capitan. Perhaps the townspeople got together and have paid there way out of town. 

A view from the engineers seat

Don Kane custom MOW load in Weaver B&A gondola.

Don Kane custom coal load in Atlas war emergency 50 ton hopper

Don Kane custom coal load in Atlas 55 ton hopper

Here are three custom loads I just received from Don Kane.  They look super, and are very reasonably priced.  

They are sitting on some Fastrack I am test fitting on a new sheet of Foam that is on the card table I had the Christmas layout on.  I will share what I come up with once there is more to see than this!  Ha, ha!

An MTH car that New England Division of the TCA is offering.

Stu

Wow-o-Wow-o-Wowee, Ben, you guys have done a lot since I was at your club last. You have helped lead them well, IMHO. Congratulations to all of you for your good decisions and success.

Much respect,

FrankM

I know a few instances where relatives gave a freeloader a one way bus ticket out of town. That says a lot about the person receiving the ticket.

Thank you Frank  Your very modest because this scene is all you

And you are being gracious, Ben. Thank you. I considered your interest in my work to be my honor, and since then I have been pouring over photos you have posted, from time to time, to see if I could catch a glimpse of them all together and situated somewhere. Thanks again.

Frank

This isnt really much, BUT... its a start maybe?  This room was a "I dont know what to do with this or that, just throw in in there" type-room up until last night.  Now it is organized with all of the all of the trains I own, which are patiently waiting for this (small) room to have some track laid down!  The table (old door) is temporary and where I'm going to setup a test track until I can finish purchasing all of the Realtrax I need and of course the lumber.

great photo's this week