Weekend Photo Fun 10-12-12-??

Finally, I can contribute some pics while actually being in the US.

Above is a glimpse of the late Tom Snyder's standard gauge layout now residing at the NJ Hirailers Club.

The NJ Hirailers have been invaded by aliens, monsters and dinosaurs. No, not the members! Real monsters! For the upcoming Halloween Themed Open Day this Sunday.

Get along, it promises to be great fun, with Vinnie's monster cooking as well.

I received this bait and tackel harbor front building from Alex Malliae yesterday.  Here it is placed on my layout in my Fish Town district. 

The Rock Island is visiting the Twin Lakes Central railroad.....

Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

Been busy on the bay this week and got 11 Ameri -town building fronts,great as I could never make up my mind which ones to buy.

I`m I the only one with a corner that I don`t know what to do with.

Lack of space!

Hudson

Here are some more pics of my layout for those who were curious last weekend.Thanks alot for the compliments. I was originally going to try and do a "four seasons" layout( good call Jeff) but I setted on primarily a  fall layout with with winter beginning in the mountains. A fairly basic track plan 10.5X 16, the "mainstreet area was initially a yard that I removed and extended the mainline out to the perimeter and trade for an inner loop to drop off the reefers at the icing station, alot less track and much more operating fun. I eliminated having to perfect "plain old" ovals. I suppose the "open center is wasted space but I wanted access to all points of the layout for building, viewing and whatever maintenance. I even went as far as to leave the back of the mountain open and covered with removable black felt so I can access the interior for derailments track cleaning etc. My wife painted the mountains on the backdrop and the "cartoony" clouds. I still have most of the scenery to do, obvious by the photos and the areas already "sceniked" still lack utility poles and other details. 

Heres a view of the small NYC service yard .






The inside passing track( behind "mainstreet") that allows access to the icehouse, the track the k4 is sitting on will be to store extra reefers.




Mainlines passing in front of "main street". The pennsylvania switch tower operator is in charge of throwing the mainline switch as well as the two "engine service track switches and the inner track switch not seen in this photo. I have only one switch between the two main lines to make sure getting reefers from the outside track to the icehouse is more work.





I put these engine service/ refueling tracks at the front so visitors could get a better look at the locos.




Snow comes to the mountains first,and the Christmas tree farm is already "rampnig up". I want to add more trees to this area, it is too sparse.



Icey creek that flows out to the ice skating pond.


Front of the layout from the other end north pole station in the foreground.



Last weeks photo coming out of the mountain.

Some real trains this week. On our way to Myrtle Beach I took a detour and came upon these units sitting at a small station in Chadbourne, NC. Spent a half hour or so just walking around the place taking it all in. Tomorrow is the Grand Strand Model Railroad show. It will be my first time attending this show. What a great way to start York week.

John S hosting Dave Allen at NJHighrailers this past Wednesday. Proof that Dave is really here.

Nice photos everybody. Ricko, your layout looks great. I like the way your track flows, we'll thought out. Keep us posted. 

Near Echo UT. Now if I can find one at York..

Can't wait for the Penn station to go with the GCT. In the background, you will see the 116 Station & Terrace that the Penn Station will replace.

On Tuesday night, my gracious host, Lionel Bill, took me to his club, "Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers", and what a treat. This is a magnificent layout, featuring bold mountain scenery, to great effect. If you ever get an opportunity to visit, you won't regret it.

I have this brown Chapelon pulling the Orient Express in Australia, too. It was nice to see. And check out the trestle bridge, one of the many works of art on this beautiful layout.

Ralphs

Getting ready to start creating 2012 Christmas layout memories

See if you can detect any SUBTLE hints in these pictures that give away that I'm divorced and live in this house by myself

Spare bedroom.  There's 2 single beds and every square inch UNDER them is also filled with train boxes:

The closet in that spare bedroom: all those boxes are rolling stock and you can only see 1/3 of what's in there:

The living room devoid of ALL furniture (see 2 pictures above for some of it).  This is only 1/8 of the total Homasote that I will be using.

The kitchen area.  Tables came from the living room.

My bedroom: track, some of the switches, and transformers:

Spare dresser downstairs.  1/2 of the stuff is upstairs already(see photo 1) and the remaining boxes I'll bring up later on - vehicles, people, houses, etc

My house is rather little so I have to scratch out places to store stuff.  Garage.

Laundry room shelves:

More laundry room shelves

If you didn't get the subtle indicator, it's the lack of a china cupboard

- walt

Walt I like the way you have everything organized, I use a similar system.

My first postwar loco.  I feverishly unpacked it and ran it even before servicing, and it does it all!  Runs strong, reverses, loud whistle and smokes very nicely thank you on mega steam.  Not bad for a loco whose age is at least 54 years, possibly more.  Yes, I know the tender is not the correct one for a 646.

Pete

Nice pics Walt! A word of advice......don't have any of your dates over for dinner!

Must take you awhile to locate a specific item when you want/need it.

Can't wait to see what you have in store for us as far as your 2012 master piece!

Here's one from the archives, though

I don't think this exact shot was ever

 posted before.  A pair of westbound

 BP-20's roll over the 6 arch stone

 bridge at Duncannon PA (about

 15 miles upriver on the

 Susquehanna from Harrisburg, PA).

  A family fishes down below on the

 sandbar under the two arches closest to town:

Alibatwomble,

I wish I had more corners--that's the best space I have.

My pumpkin picture up at the top is a corner.

Here is a corner from my son's shelf layout.

Scott Smith

New Eye Candy!

She wants the station wagon and he wants the V8 coupe.

Rick O very nice layout .... I love to see all Fastrack layouts .... one of these days I will post some pics of mine .... u are way ahead of me in terms of scenery ... mine is 5x11.... your scenery is excellent

Scott, Sorry to hear about your squashed camera; the image quality of your photos is always very good. What camera was it? I too am camera shopping and am a bit overwhelmed with all the choices. I have always been a Canon user but some new Olympus models are intriguing. Any recommendations?

regards,

Mack

Commuter cars (Lionel) to the big city:

Jim

I guess this guy loves Twizzlers?

and a couple of shots coming around the bend!

Scott, Sorry to hear about your squashed camera; the image quality of your

photos is always very good. What camera was it? ...I have always been a Canon user but some new Olympus models are intriguing.

I had a Kodak camera. My wife has an incredible upper end digital Olympus that I would serious consider it cost around $700.00. For me I would rather spend $100.00 for a camera and spend $600.00 on a new train.

Scott Smith

Another set of BP20's




The A/B set takes up some space.

Scott, the next time she threatens your trains, take her camera hostage.

Ralph I like your new old ewuipment. it sure looks very real. I thought I was passing over the local GTW YARD

Ricardo(RickO),

Your wife's contribution, her painting..., adds that special touch. There's a distinctive charm to her work.

There's a nice warm visual flavor to your layout.

BTW, I'm seeing a small Grinch figure perched high a top that steep little snow capped mountain(that's painted on the wall); fiendishly, scanning the valley below.

My compliments to you and your wife.

I almost forgot - the rock tunnel is a great feature on your layout. Perfect proportions!

Rick

Thanks  for the kind words David, Greg, and Rick B. Actually, I've been in the market for a scale yeti/abominable snowman figure for some time, never even thought of the grinch,hmmmm...................

Hi Walt.  I won't repeat all the pictures but...your home looks like a perfect use of living space and functionality to me.  I would say this is a candidate for a feature in, say, Better Homes or House Beautiful  !!  

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams

Walt and others in the same situation - don't give up on a wife. When I was dating mine (4 1/2 years ago) she was at my home while I was listing some things on eBay one evening. She asked "Why are you selling your trains? I like trains."

Little did she know that my spare bedroom and basement were FULL and I was 'out of the hobby'.

That was then,  this is now....

Wonderful photo's everyone. This is my bait shop building finally placed on the harbor scene.

Thanks, Alex