WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 10-2-15-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

       Bill T.

Street View.

Photos from around the roundhouse. Hope you all have a great weekend.

Finally done.....the roof looks much better after painting. Wooden structures are certainly more challenging.....this is my 1st try at this type of kit.

Peter

Visitors from the great white north eh!

Those automobiles are not what they appear to be.

on the left is a '54 Monarch and the other is a '49 Monarch.

Monarchs are not Mercuries but a distinct make sold by Canadian Ford Dealers.

Be sure to check out my post "O Scale Motor Chronicle"

This week's subject is Unique Canadian cars.

Click Here for a link

https://ogrforum.com/t...otor-chronicle-oct-2

FEF-1 Progress

Scratch Built Side Rods

Fluting will be finished this weekend.

Scott, thank you to you and Joshua for all you do to promote our hobby.

Brad

A little MU Commuter action today............

Here's a photo of a farmhouse I'm building for a farm scene along the banks of Tuscarora Creek near Port Royal.  Foundation and weathering have yet to be completed.  Model is sitting on a cardboard box in the approximate location where it will be placed.

Have a great weekend everyone!  Here is a picture featuring the newest addition to the skyline (black reflective building in the center).  Click on the picture to get a larger view of the details.   I have more about this project in a separate thread....

Thanks,

Alan

These are some shots of the passenger westbound passenger platform at Duncannon.  I posted some construction shots of this a few weeks ago.  The model is now finished and installed.  I'm also reposting a comparison shot of the prototype and model that was created by my son Steven.  It was posted last week, but not until late in the weekend.  He did a great job with it, so I wanted to repost it for everyone to see.  Gives you a good comparison to the prototype.

Wow! You are your son are very talented and it shows on your layout!!

Custom painted MTH Chicago Great Western F3 ABBA units. Painted by CJB Custom Painting and Design.

A 2014 Christmas Layout memory

The station area shown below was WAY in the back and partially hidden so I didn't take the time to 'pretty' it up.

- walt

Happy October!

Here's an overview shot of the yard -

Motive power lineup - looks like the dispatcher has his work cutout for him!

The Lackawanna heritage unit leads a stack train on the main -

Here's the Y working a photo freight

New Reading Heritage unit arrived yesterday

Got this off the forum last week & it arrived yesterday. Could never have too many GP38-2s

Lorenzo checking out some NS OCS-

NS GP38-2 5311 (ex CR/PC 8128) w/ local ME2 passing the Jersey Avenue station in New Brunswick on the NEC. Traffic was rather light that afternoon, as this was the day after the Amtrak accident in Philly. - New Brunswick, NJ - 5/14/15

NS SD60E 6950 (ex CNW SD60 8038) leads Pulaski District bound 201 through a downpour - Christiansburg, VA - 7/27/15

NS SD70M 2628 passes the old N&W CPL in Christinasburg as it motors eastbound w/ a manifest. These signals have since been replaced w/ generic modern ones.

A pair of ex Conrail motors lead 337 down the old Southern R Line in Fort Mill, SC. NS SD60M 6788 is ex CR 5542 - Fort Mill, SC - 5/11/15

NS Dash-9 9923 leading a westbound train of Top Gons over the Pulaski District in Marion, VA - 7/29/15

Since NS 1700 has been repainted into EL colors, thought I would post a shot of her in black. Here she is leading the daily WPOI-16 into Browns Yard in Parlin, NJ back in 2012

Neal, 

Here is a shot I found of the Duncannon station

Christopher,

That's it!  Thanks for posting the photo.  In this area, there were line poles on both sides of the tracks, but I left them off the layout as I was concerned about them getting broken as well as interfering with layout photography.

Below is a side by side comparison of two of the photos.  Note how I modeled the peculiar railing with the triangular top.  The other end had an odd enclosure built of railroad ties and topped with cinders.

You clearly have the same railfanning interests as my son Steven.  You two need to meet!

Nice photos today fellas!

Here's a couple more  of our old layout,  the AT&SF

It looks so different today. Where the platform closest to the river was - you would never guess!   I'll actually be up that way next week for a few days, then to Altoona

Here's a few Korber models T background buildings

Two complete and one in progress

          EAGLE CINEMA TT2306

          FUN TIME DISTRIBUTING TT2305

          DOUBLE A PLASTICS TT2311

Wow some great photos this week nice layouts and details.

Here are some photos of the kids running the Thomas trains with the LionChief remotes and various push buttons for animated stuff. Perhaps a few of these kids will in the future become collectors or build nice layouts as featured in the above posts.

Do we change our layouts?

Ohhhhyeaaahhh...

I thought my fellow-hobbyists might find this interesting.

Here is the same real estate, as a suburban neighborhood, as it has changed through the years, seen from a variety of angles...

What do you think? Has change been good for Moon Township? (I'm not compliment-fishing, here, but interested in your viewpoints, yes, indeed.)

The pre-2006 version...

2006...

2007...

..and as of 2011...

FrankM.

I hope you have enjoyed this visit to part of Moon Township.

Neal,

That is just like photos of my parents' house when it was first built in the 1880s.  Yours looks great!  Later a brick sun porch was added on the front and a two story addition replaced the single story kitchen in the rear.  I built a model of it 25 years ago and have posted here before.  Trees in the front block the view a bit.

Happy unofficial start to the model railroad season here at our house!!

We're starting by getting all the windows clean before the bad weather sets in!

Have a great weekend.

I upgraded my o scale poles with black string from fishing line this week.

The string makes a big improvement, Chessie.

Around the RR

I finally was able to get these two Illinois Central freight cars and couple them together.

Illinois Central PS-2-CD 4740 3-bay grain hopper from Weaver

Illinois Central covered steel coil car from K-Line.

Andrew

Thanks TrainsRMe but that string was hard to get to glue even using super glue.

Converted some yard lights to LED illumination...really neat effect!

Great picture posts here again. Very inspiring. Many great layouts here.

I just got more track and the weather is starting to turn. So I'll be using the inspiration soon to start a new RR.

 Frank M, there's nothing else I can do but compliment your work!

Upon request of my dad, I took a picture of our M1b to compare to Chris's photo.

And a few more photos for good measure!

Old Lionel D&H C420s

Color Splash of the Conrail SD40s

This actually happened! Summer of 2014 in the Mojave Desert, to be specific...

Happy weekend everyone!

Every word of approval (and even suggestions for improvement) is much appreciated, Engineer Joe, so Thank You for your very positive comment. (I've even been known to take some kiddin' around, too, as Frank53 would confirm. ) FrankM.

My brother gave me this Lionel clock for the train room.

Mark, Great modeling!  It's wonderful that you saved this for so many years!

Fabulous pics this week!

Peter