Weekend Photo Fun 1-24-19-??

First two photos show Maine Central 501 on my 10’-by-5’ layout (model by Weaver). Second two photos taken on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Somewhere in the Bronx

I just installed these on a layout this week.

Mounted to the facia  -RBG LED's in a 1/4 round aluminum track w/ plastic opaque cover...using a fade 7 pattern

And over head multicolor light string at the lake

A 2019 Christmas Layout memory

The last 2 weeks I showed on overall view, one from the front left and one from the front right.  Today's is front center looking right and left.

I designed the scenery for the layout keeping in mind the number of youngsters that were expected to show up. 

On the left, there's a winter scene with Santa's house, a dino park that many kids called Jurassic park, and in the back a bum camp.

In the center is a zoo of sorts: snake pit, petting zoo, wild animal zoo, and a walkway for viewing.

On the right is a small Easter Bunny village with drive-in movie showing "The easter bunny is coming to town".

The plateau will be another week.

- walt

Great pics guys!   Here is my photo fun for this fine weekend.  Have a splendid weekend everyone! 

Rexall Drugstore area

The photographer caught GM's Train of Tomorrow departing the station heading to its next promotional stop.  It is mid-1949 and the train's 2-year U.S. tour is almost over.  After a few months in Chicago and at the Chicago Railroad Fair, the ToT will spend 2 months in Canada then return to Detroit where the cars will be sold into railroad service.  The E7 will return to the UP and be re-painted in UP yellow.

Love all the images everyone! 

Weathered logging train.

The Lionel Rio Grande SD40T-2 diesel engine locomotive in operation.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Shots from Kids Day in the Garden which means our 7 week run with our modular layout was over.....until next November....

It was estimated  that there were 700-800 kids and their families at the 4 hr event....

Have a great weekend.

Peter

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Johan I'm glad you posted these photos of the interior.  I didn't realize the complexity of the load from the photos posted on the other thread.

ratpak posted:

Somewhere in the Bronx

RP, was "Somewhere in the Bronx" located inside "Somewhere in the Bronx" or in on of the other buildings of the BBG?

Postwar meets modern on my friend’s awesome layout. 

Lionel's new 'Pacemaker' set on Steve Maier's beautiful home layout

Let's start today with a dramatic shot of a detoured NYC wartime passenger train bursting out of the tunnel and cut under Roark Mountain and storming the dual-track truss bridge over the White River headed toward Notch Junction.  The pic was taken from a sandbar in the middle of the river:

The next shot is more sedate, taken from a distant bluff as Frisco #719 trundles a peddler freight across the same bridge in the opposite direction:

Earlier that day, another photographer caught the same train crossing the deck girder bridge over the confluence of two local creeks; the train is drifting toward Notch Junction:

The same photographer that caught the peddler freight on the White River bridge also caught a Silver Dollar line freight pausing at the Roark Mountain Junction Tower to pick up orders while the crew accepts parcels and passengers at the Marmaros depot:

You'll have to overlook the mess around the layout:  I'm getting to the point when I can finish the fascia and add paneling for skirting to clean up these views, but we're not quite there yet.  And it's time to do some more backdrop painting.

Briansilvermustang, you always do such a good job of making your equipment look HUGE as if photographed from the ground next to them!

The reissue of the Lionel 128 Animated Newsstand in the new catalog inspired me to get mine out. Have had it for years but made a space for it on the layout.

Wired to a #90 button. Simple but fun.

Amtrak Downeaster 

Pan Am Railways yard in South Portland, ME.

O gauge layout at the Amherst Railwsy show in West Springfield, MA.

Anyone ever model one of these??

Great work all. I spent Saturday driving down to my LTS to put my order in, but took no pictures. Spent Sunday out to breakfast but no trains around(too early). Hopefully next weekend I get something running, even if it's the same thing.