Weekend Photo Fun 10-11-24-??

Mapleton construction photos

I don't usually post images of areas of the layout under construction, but I am currently building the last section of the layout (the town of Mapleton) which is highly detailed and taking a long time to build. Here are images of the town under construction, a view of the prototype street (the eastern end of Main Street which is residential) and the Pa Route 655 underpass which I did post a photo of a few weeks ago. Guessing another 4 months (give or take a month) to finish. Note the Talus Rock slope both on the the prototype photo and which I painted on the backdrop.

More to come as work progresses...

Last week we were on the New York Central’s West Shore Division, where the NYO&W has trackage rights into Weehawken. This week we’ve turned off the West Shore at Cornwall onto the NYO&W’s main line and are in Middletown, NY.

We can see their crack passenger train, the Mountaineer, run through town. A NYO&W Mountain takes a revenue freight through town, while a 44 toner delivers a hopper of coal to a customer.

Have a great and safe weekend, folks………and, to all York attendees……..safe travels to all!

Peter

Two quick videos showing the Mountain-pulled freight running through town…..

Have a great weekend!

Peter

On my weekend posts, I usually focus on locomotives rather than my layouts. So, for a change, here’s something about the stations on my layouts.

First photo shows the station on my 12’-by-8’ model railroad – built from a plastic kit by Atlas O around 1999.

Second photo shows the station on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad – built from a wood craftsman kit by Banta Modelworks around 2015. It’s a model of a station on the two-foot narrow gauge Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad. The railroad ended in the 1930s but the station still stands on Depot Street in Phillips, Maine.

Both layouts are free-lanced to resemble the terrain, towns, industries and bridges of New England. I prefer free-lanced because, in my opinion, it allows for more imagination and creativity than building to prototype.

MELGAR

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine weekend!   Here are my photos of fun!l

Here’s from this week after I finished replacing all the side frames on the passenger cars and adding the common strap to the axles.

Scott Smith

@MELGAR posted:

@MELGAR Who makes the baggage wagons you have?

@Putnam Division posted:

Have a great weekend!

Peter

Peter

I'm not sure about the new avatar.  I can't tell whether your mad, sad or what!  LOL!

Lately I've been showing images of the 5'x7' "plateau" where I placed models of 6 family members houses that I built.  I've shown closeups of 4 of them and today will be my sister's house: it's the 3rd one on the right side of the street.

Some closeups:

These next few images obviously are not taken on the layout but I like them so I'll show them.  The one with a figure standing in front of the house: that's a picture of me that I took to correct scale and carefully cut out.  Makes things look a lot more realistic I think

sorry about the glare in these next to but these are pictures of printed pictures.

- walt

Had to come back and edit this: I just noticed the downed telephone pole and wires.  I knew that it happened but I couldn't get to that part of the layout any longer to fix it.

The Northern Michigan pulp wood train is growing...

Wlat, you have some very detailed houses on your layout...looking good...

@NJCJOE,

Joe,

The baggage cart was made from a kit by Bar Mills Models in Maine. You will find it on their website listed under craftsman structure kits - O scale details - kit selection - twin baggage carts (HO-O). There are many O scale detail kits from which to select, so scroll down to the bottom.

MELGAR

Running with the Trackers at the Brunswick Railroad Days Fall Festival last weekend…not far from spooky Burkittsville…

@MartyE posted:

Peter

I'm not sure about the new avatar.  I can't tell whether you’re mad, sad or what!  LOL!

I am deep in thought, my serious look……..

Peter

It’s Monday morning and the dock secretary is heading in for a long day. The dock foreman is reminding her of the overtime for the workers last week. She’s seems a bit annoyed, like she doesn’t know this already.

Gene

The Pennsy received nine ABA sets of their BP20 Passenger Sharks in 1948.  They originally led Pennsy's "Blue Ribbon" passenger trains, but reliability issues with the engines soon sent them to inter-city and mail/express trains.  Later, some went to commuter service or regeared for freight service.  A few may have lasted until 1964 on the New York and Long Branch commuter runs.

Weaver.

Have a great weekend. Playoff baseball season.

This is the best I can do for the next couple of months. We’re wrapping up a home remodeling project and everything had to go into storage. My oldest suggested I capture a few pics of the “fun”.

@bigtruckpete, Pics aren't showing.

@coach joe posted:

@bigtruckpete, Pics aren't showing.

Thanks Coach Joe!

It should be fixed now.

@Craignor posted:

Running with the Trackers at the Brunswick Railroad Days Fall Festival last weekend…not far from spooky Burkittsville…

Another fine video Craig!  QUESTION: the layout, at least the part shown, has the protective glass.  I'm wondering how you got this LOW angle shot.

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

Another fine video Craig!  QUESTION: the layout, at least the part shown, has the protective glass.  I'm wondering how you got this LOW angle shot.

- walt

Thanks Walt.

There is no glass on the inboard side of the layout.

Service station details.

@Putnam Division posted:

Peter; are those some sort of milk cars??? I’ve seen the “butter dish” type, but those look very unique.

@Apples55 posted:

Peter; are those some sort of milk cars??? I’ve seen the “butter dish” type, but those look very unique.

K-Line regular production……they also did them with OJ containers.

I'm always on the lookout for them.

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

K-Line regular production……they also did them with OJ containers.

I'm always on the lookout for them.

Peter

Thanks Peter… another car to be on the lookout for!!! I think I’d prefer the OJ version.

The "Chief" loading up at the North Main Street Station last night...

Just setting out some Elettren Orient Express passenger cars. Now I have to decide what locomotive to use to pull this very heavy consist.

Miketg

So we had a little issue this week. Engineer is still currently out of service.
***Derailment under investigation****
So last night around 1745 a engineer/conductor running remotely had a incident. While running said operator was shoving back at a high rate of speed and unprotected. Said operator dropped the remote and through a switch to the other main line. While the remote was on the ground the train went over the switch and hit a string of GLa’s. Due to the speed the train was going caused a side swipe as well. The GLa’s side swiped a couple of NH Bradley’s that we’re occupying the other switch. The side swipe caused one GLa to end up on its side. And two other GLa’s ended up on the ground. This is still all under investigation. Information will be provided once more info becomes available.

Ha! Every once in a while you get one of those derailments that seems almost too realistic! If I had a dollar for every time I misaligned a switch, especially during a switching move... I could go back and buy PC out of bankruptcy! Though this is making me glad I run in conventional control.. usually I have to either actively forget to change the switch or else the switches anti-derail (aka auto derail) feature kicks in, I can't just butterfingers it.

@Trainwreck nate first of all you have the perfect moniker, at least pertaining to this post. Secondly, your engineer is looking mighty proud of herself.

Mikki