WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 10-10-14-??

Terrific photos everyone.  Thank you all for sharing with us.

Last weekend my family spent the day watching trains around the Altoona area.

At Horseshoe Curve we caught this 60Z steel slab train with three engines on the head end, and two helper sets aka "a four-banger" shoving on the rear.

Heading down to Altoona, here's a shot of the 18N derailment site with ALTO tower in the foreground. In September, 18N derailed 17 auto racks at CP Altoona, fouling all three mains, and causing significant delays.  You can still see several of the wrecked racks dragged to the side of the right of way.

Moving to the east side of Altoona, here's a view westward at ROSE interlocking where a crew van arrived and six helper sets were lined up on the track closest to main #2.  Track work was ongoing both east and west of Altoona, so we never saw the parade of west bounds the six helper sets foretold.

While at ROSE, this scene caught our attention.  My wife asked me why they had a junkyard in the railroad yard.  Interestingly, all the wrecked cars were shiny, clean Hondas and Acuras, and white GMC vans.  Apparently this is a staging area for the vehicles involved in the 18N derailment.

Finally we stopped by Cassandra, only seeing one train; a Herzog work train headed east. 

Great photos this week as usual !!!

will be here sooner than you think.....these people are just getting a jump start before the snow falls....at least if they cant fit it in the trunk they could put it in the backseat lol

Like the Hills Brothers car. The MJB car is a Weaver that was done for OGR Magazines 24th Anniversary. I've been trolling eBay for more as up until 2 weeks ago I didn't know they had done that many anniversary cars.

Thank you for all the "Likes" (I love 'em all !) to the following for my "A Few Mini-moments" posting for this week:

Alibatwomble; Walt Rapp; Chugman; lehighline; leavingtracks; Andy Hummell; Spence; boin106; Roger Wasson; Putnam Division; Mike.Caruso; BAR GP7#63; Laidoffsick; Rex desilets; Rixster; C. Chancey; TRK; K.C.Jones; trainroomgary; L.I.Train; David1; railhead53; CAPPilot.

FrankM

This weekend's photo is courtesy of my 4 1/2 year old grandson. We let him take some photos yesterday on our trip to the Smithsonian in DC, and he loved it. Today, down running trains, he wanted to take train pictures "like at a train show." So, here's 4 1/2 year old Floyd's view of the layout.

Boin106, thank you for the compliment.  Much appreciated!  Bo 

Here are some photos taken on Sept 20 and 21 at the G&O fall train show.  We had a major crash.

It hurts to look at this.

BANDOB, your grandson has quite an eye for photography!

Thanks for the kind words.  Means a lot, especially coming from a fellow modeler who's been "banished" to the garage!    Like you said, we make do with what we have.  I keep telling myself it's better than nothing.  

- Mike

I almost forgot there is a Chessie System Hi Cube car from the same MPC era that also has the MEC reporting marks. It is navy blue with a blue door ( unlike  the similar Chessie Hi Cube number 9600 navy blue with a yellow door) and numbered 9629 from 1983-84. At least someone at Lionel was consistent in their mistakes.

A string of Lehigh Valley coal hoppers rattles off into the distance.

Although I haven't posted on this thread lately because I've been busy, this is  my favorite thread.

When I take photographs of my layout, I try to get the perspective of someone actually photographing a real train. I also use a Single strong lighting source for deep shadows and secondary bounce to mimic sky lighting.

The engine in the photo is a Railking RS-1 repainted Rutland.

Be sure to check out my weekly thread O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle posted Friday mornings.

I was at the Great Midwest Train Show in Wheaton, Il today and had a great time browsing the aisles and came across a vender who was enjoying all the attention her big pile of tinplate trains was getting! The weather was excellent today and there was a good turnout.

franktrain

I'm assuming that the NTSB has been called and the crews are going to be drug tested..... Damaging a locomotive that is listed as a National Historic Landmark should carry additional penalties. 

Gilly

Frank - That's a great picture.  I noticed her too and she was having a lot of fun.

Art

I feel blessed living in Memphis, TN where we get PLENTY of BNSF and NS all day long.  Then there are the UP and CN lines too!  The mainline that goes right through the center of the city has a train every 15 minutes (mainly BNSF with some NS and a few CNs).  The Union Pacific stays downtown with Amtrak I think.   

Thew SGLR has a great color scheme. The job can't be too bad if you can railfan once in awhile...

I'll take this one, and this one, and that one over there.......

glad I wasn't in the tower!!

Hear are a few shots of the action at The OCTOBER  Great Midwest Train Show in Wheaton, Ill . All these photos wear taken before the show opened to the general public.   Scot