WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 1-6-17-??

Alex M posted:

Here's a Lionel TMCC  Pennsylvania turbine i just upgraded, with ERR cruise M and rebuilt smoke unit. Notice how this engine can crawl. 

 

In a word .... AWESOME!!!!!!!! and in another word .... BRAVO!!!!!!!!

Two old North Western Pacific electrics used for a trucking company office in Oakland, California. 1956. Don

trumptrain posted:

Happy New Year!! Great pics and vids so far everyone!!  Here is a photo a RR bridge that is a couple blocks from my house.  This bridge is decorated each Christmas season with lights and a bow.  I snapped these pictures tonight at dusk.  BTW - the bridge is the last surviving iron truss bridge designed by Wendal Bollman a 19th century engineer who designed many bridges for the B&O.  This particular design ( in the photos ) is of the first iron truss railroad bridge in the US.  This one, servings on the B&Os Patuxent Branch, carried the B&O across the Little Patuxent River in Savage, Md.  

Thanks Patrick,

  I recall you giving me the details about the Bollman Truss design.  Since then, every time I spot one in an old photo, which is more times than one would think, I'm reminded of the one on your layout.  The design suggests a truss within a suspension bridge.  It's great that the preservation also included keeping the track.  Every bit as historical as the Brooklyn Bridge IMO.

Bruce

More pictures from Bevell's

Scott Smith

Happy New Year Y'all!

Here are a few shots from my layout.

Thanks Rob L.

          11 DEG in Nashville, time for some inside training today................

          FUEL UP THOSE DIESELS!

Snowing in Midlothian, Virginia. Time to try out the plow!!!

Nice photo Tom, stay warm!

For this weekend:  the station says PRR, but the Lion Chief Plus A5 is B&O.

Last night I added some passengers to my MTH Hiawatha observation cars. Here's the before and after pictures.

War Bonnets and Eagles

Here are some shots from day one of the Central VFD Train Show:

Andy

handyandy posted:

Happy New Year Y'all!

what is the roadbed material?  does it help with sound dampening?  thanks

Here is my contribution. Some my get the first picture testing his Porsche.

773Hudson posted:

Putnam Division posted:

Getting ready to run my army train this weekend.......hope we're not "snowed out"!

 

Max is a good helper!

Be safe, everyone, in this coming storm....

Peter

Driving to Richmond from NJ tomorrow to drop my daughter off at UR.  Hope to stop by and see it.

Sorry, we were closed today and I won't know about tomorrow until the AM. I hope your travel was safe and successful.

Peter

Garrett76 posted:

handyandy posted:

Happy New Year Y'all!

what is the roadbed material?  does it help with sound dampening?  thanks

The roadbed is 1/8" Masonite. I don't think it does much for sound dampening. There's 3 layers of laminate flooring foam underlayment under the fleece blanket I used for ground cover.

Two pictures for this weekend... first two Rio Grande flats loaded with Humvees I just finished.

And second ..... meet Seth!  Born 12/27/2016 and already in the train room!

tackindy posted:

Two pictures for this weekend... first two Rio Grande flats loaded with Humvees I just finished.

And second ..... meet Seth!  Born 12/27/2016 and already in the train room!

God bless you and yours, John!!!

I didn't have any time to run the trains this weekend.  However; my buddy was in Ohio and I asked him to pick me up a Pepsi truck at Menards.  They were sold out of the trucks so he picked me up a flat car with the truck on it.  

Just having fun .

Lionel DT&I exterior-braced 50' double-door boxcar with the paint scheme of a DT&I High-Cube 86' Boxcar.

RailKing Detroit & Toledo Shoreline 40' double-door box car with the markings from a D&TS 50' double-door box car.

Andrew

tackindy posted:

Two pictures for this weekend... first two Rio Grande flats loaded with Humvees I just finished.

 

And second ..... meet Seth!  Born 12/27/2016 and already in the train room!

Congrats, John!

Peter

MDuppy posted:

Here is my contribution. Some my get the first picture testing his Porsche.

 

Some say he isn't machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve...

Good point about how they ignore the train crew, but I suspect the crew would have been in more danger drinking some of the stuff on that rascal truck! LOL

MDuppy posted:

Here is my contribution. Some my get the first picture testing his Porsche.

 

Some say he can run a Challenger single handedly and is the driving force behind behind the Norfolk Southern special paint schemes for the past decade.... others say Mike Wolf is just a "front man" for his hobby... 

Neal,

What paint did you use for the Pennsy colors?