It's time for Weekend Photo Fun!
This week we took down the Olaf's Frozen Christmas Adventure and starting changing it for the Train Lovers Day event held the Saturday after Valentines Day.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Looking for a project for all your Weekend Photo Fun Photos, may I suggest a Railway Calendar. The images of the Calendar and Cover, where shot with a Canon DSLR • T6i, and post production with Adobe Photoshop. All the calendar pages were laid out using Adobe InDesign.
Below are several samples from the top part of the Calendar.
Hope you found this project interesting, we printed 10 copies at a cost of $9.45 each on a high speed digital press, (Heidelberg Digital Press) • Allen Park, Michigan. They have all been given away to friends & family as Christmas gifts.
Have a great weekend: Gary
My contributions for today. Overall shots of my layout. Hope you all have a great weekend.
Layout visit to my club members home of Steve Brown. A classic postwar feel!!
Steve Brown
The Train of SIN finally made an appearance on home rails yesterday. The outer mainline on my layout is 10' shorter than the club modular layout. That is a big deal. This train is on 4 corners all the way around, where on the club layout I would always have one side clear..
I'm running 94 cars + caboose. This is going to have to get broken up into a couple of trains for future runs.
Two MTH PS3 locomotives had no problem handling these cars. Despite 089 curves on the "small end", I had to fight string-lining. When pulling a long train, heavy cars with diecast trucks and couplers towards the front. Light cars go towards the rear. The first motion is to back up to take the slack out of the couplers. That way, when you start pulling you're not trying to move the entire train all at once.
A 2018 Christmas Layout memory 
Santa's little cabin hideaway when not at the North Pole:
Actually it's where he raises his next generation of reindeer, that hunter doesn't know what he's in for if he doesn't leave!
- walt
I didn't know hot dogs were considered sinful. But I guess they're the reason you need all that beer.
Happy Friday -
Here's some new Reading power on the layout - 
Work on the layout is being put on hold, as my wife informed me she may want this room for a kids playroom. Not really sure where that puts me lol. May have to relocate to the garage & then when time/money allows, convert it to a room. Not sure yet. We are still in the negotiation phase. It would be cool to get a bigger space, but I would have to deal with it being a garage for about a year till I can have it converted. IDK. We shall see. Never boring in my house 
Stopped at VMT this past weekend with the kids - 
NS SD70ACe 1157 and a couple of ex CSX units lead 821 westbound through Wabun, VA on the Christiansburg District
NS Dash-9 9159 hustles a westbound stack train past the 131 signals in Newport, PA. This would turn out to be my last shot of these PRR classics, as they were taken out of service a few days later.
A pair of ex CSX B40-8s lead the daily freight through the outskirts of Anderson, SC on the Pickens Railway.
On a dreary day, endangered NS SD70M 2610 leads 201 westbound under the signals at WB in Salem, VA
Roger,
If you right click on a picture and then click "open link in new window", you will get a full scene shot that will give a lot of detail
You'll get the same effect by simply clicking normally on the picture.
New Window allows one to zoom in even more.
I worked on behalf of the Lone Star Hi Railers, at the Plano train show, last Sunday morning, but, after my two shifts were completed, could not stay much longer, due to a family commitment in Denton. Here are a few photos I shot on the fly. And this only scratches the surface. It was a big show with a lot to see (and buy).
Richmond Controls was there with their excellent Mars lights, Gyralights, and vehicle lights.
The wonderful artist, John Winfield had a nice booth, and he sat and visited with anyone who wanted to talk.
North Texas' Lionel Modular Group was there with the O Gauge/Standard Gauge modular layout, the version 2 layout for this group. The first version had a loop of 5-rail track.
TW Trainworx had a modular layout set up. Roger Farkash and George Watson encouraged visitors to run the trains and demonstrated the fun features of modern O gauge model railroading.
I have forgotten the name of this O scale modular group. The had some pretty nice equipment on their layout, as they always do. In past years, they have had some Z-Stuff slow-motion semaphores on the layout, but those were not present this year. (I did pause for a minute to admire a gorgeous model of a Santa Fe 2800-series split-window chair car. In my opinion, those cars, purchased in 1953, were arguably the finest chair cars ever built for any railroad.)
trainroomgary posted:Weekend Photo Fun • Family Railway Calendar 2019
Looking for a project for all your Weekend Photo Fun Photos, may I suggest a Railway Calendar . . . Gary
What a fine idea, Gary!
Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for creative enjoyment of prototype and O gauge trains and cute kids.
Great photos and videos everyone! Here's my fun for this weekend.
SIRT posted:
C420...…………ACTION...…………
SIRT, those photos make me want to climb aboard those engines, get the train moving, turn on the sand, make the black smoke boil out of the stacks, and demonstrate what a pair of Alcos can do with a passenger train. Thanks for your many posts showing your realistic modeling and photography .
New passenger station from Menards this week.
Number 90 posted:trainroomgary posted:Weekend Photo Fun • Family Railway Calendar 2019
Looking for a project for all your Weekend Photo Fun Photos, may I suggest a Railway Calendar . . . Gary
What a fine idea, Gary!
Your personal record has been awarded ten merits for creative enjoyment of prototype and O gauge trains and cute kids.
Hi Tom: Number 90
Thanks for the compliment. Just a short note: There are a lot of on line company's that do this type of printing, They have templates to use, even loco companies that have digital photo labs can also do this kind of printing, like the big box stores.
Gary
Number 90 posted:SIRT posted:
C420...…………ACTION...…………
SIRT, those photos make me want to climb aboard those engines, get the train moving, turn on the sand, make the black smoke boil out of the stacks, and demonstrate what a pair of Alcos can do with a passenger train. Thanks for your many posts showing your realistic modeling and photography
Your quite welcome Tom. Glad to take you back to the 1960's! That's quite a write up.
scott.smith posted:It's time for Weekend Photo Fun!
This week we took down the Olaf's Frozen Christmas Adventure and starting changing it for the Train Lovers Day event held the Saturday after Valentines Day.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
Scott, You are really creative with the many wonderful different displays that you setup. I am impressed.
NH Joe
Gilly@N&W posted:The Train of SIN finally made an appearance on home rails yesterday. The outer mainline on my layout is 10' shorter than the club modular layout. That is a big deal. This train is on 4 corners all the way around, where on the club layout I would always have one side clear..
I'm running 94 cars + caboose. This is going to have to get broken up into a couple of trains for future runs.
Two MTH PS3 locomotives had no problem handling these cars. Despite 089 curves on the "small end", I had to fight string-lining. When pulling a long train, heavy cars with diecast trucks and couplers towards the front. Light cars go towards the rear. The first motion is to back up to take the slack out of the couplers. That way, when you start pulling you're not trying to move the entire train all at once.
All that beer must be going to Atlanta for the Super Bowl. I have never seen so many beer cars. Impressive. NH Joe
Have a great weekend!
Lots of pics from Kids Day in the Garden........here are a few.......
A short Army Train video....
Peter
Happy Weekend To Everyone.
How to screw up a great paint job.............................
Sad.... SO Sad!
Should have painted the PPLX in Red over Silver.
Picture taking on 1-16-2019 at the A&M shops in Springdale, Arkansas. A&M has more of these ex Santa Fe engines and still a few CSX engines near the shops.
These 2 BNSF engines are just at the shops after hauling in a unit train and most likely will not leave with Black paint over the BNSF.
just ran across this one the other day...
Great pics everyone. I am almost set on a track plan. Here are some pics of a small switching area , all curves are O72 and switches are O72 and O54. I hope to draw up a plan and post it on the plans part of the forum. If you see any suggestions good or bad please let me know. Thanks. Nick T.
looks GREAT Nick !! like it 
More pics......
Enjoy.......and have a great weekend!
Peter
Lionel 2343 F3s on El Capitan, Williams PAs on the Fast Mail Express. Both ERR TMCC converted by me.
Wow! Last time I saw passenger trains go that fast was on the North East Corridor. I like the camera angle. Nice shot.
Another short Army Train video.......this time with a Alco as motive power...
Peter
Was going through some old photos with my dad and uncle and found these wonderful shots of Christmas morning in 1951 from Astoria, NY. Brand new 2344! You can also see a 224e and the 616 Flying Yankee. I’m proud to report that all three are still in the family and still work great.
Meanwhile Post War Locos just keep rolling along the layout.
Family members keep sending me pictures of my dads old layout, but there are rarely any trains in these pics! I miss this layout.
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