Weekend Photo Fun 11-1-19-??

Spending Halloween 🎃 inside & outside the train room. • A Halloween album from Michigan 🎃

My railroad crew running LionChief Locomotives. Ages 5 & 4.

The crew is now wearing Michigan Flannel Shirts as they make Railroad Cookies.

Let’s go for a ride in a tender. Joke of the day. Q: Why couldn’t the steam engine sit down? A. It had a tender behind.

Waiting for the next train.

Happy Thanksgiving from my railroad crew to yours. 🦃

Camera: iPhone 11 Pro & Post-production: Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom.

Thanks for taking a look & have a great weekend: Gary

Have a Great Weekend Everyone 

Scott, If the tile on the floor measure 9"x9", you are correct. They are hot. Same with the adhesive, if it black in color, it is hot also.  Just for future reference.

Photos of fun for this fine first weekend of November.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

        awesome photos Patrick

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory   TIS THE SEASON!

The winter/Christmas section of the layout.

- walt

Clarence Siman posted:

Scott, If the tile on the floor measure 9"x9", you are correct. They are hot. Same with the adhesive, if it black in color, it is hot also.  Just for future reference.

 

 

With the age of the building, 101 years, that was my assumption. The basement was the Signaling Office for N&W's Shenandoah Division. I mopped the floor which may have been the first mopping in 20 plus years and still every time I knelt down my pants legs were black. Since I will end up under the table to do wiring and on the floor to build the table it was better to just cover it now.

Scott Smith

Thunderbolt and Lightning very very frighting.
On the way back from York I stopped by a friend's house.

Scott Smith

The "around the ceiling" layout is coming along nicely.  I installed some trestles this week and closed in the landscaping some more. 

My son was busy watching the N layout.

   that's pretty cool John !     looks good !!

I finally got my Lionel Rock Island E6 AA set fixed by forum member Alex_M.  Here are some pics of them and the matching K-Line Golden State set.

Alex also upgraded my two Weaver PRR K4 steamers so I can double head them, with the K4 Steamlined in the front.

ThIs week, the Trackers Layout in the Black Hall.

Thank you to the Trackers modular group for your time and effort....

Peter

The outside and inside of the recently produced LIONEL traditional O gauge Grand Trunk Western auto carriers. 

Andrew

Falcon Service

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Weekend at Grand Central Terminal/Met Life   on    THE SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Surprise!  Surprise!  611 is here in Spencer, NC at the NCTM.  All morning was hearing a big steam Whistle coming from the direction of the NCTM about a mile and a quarter    away as the crow fly.  So just went over there.  Today she is in service doing at the throttle driving at $611.00 a pop.  Unfortunately they are doing this on the back-side so could not see it from street.  Hear she may be here to or through February.

Had no clue she was to be here.  Apparently steamed in last Wednesday evening.

Ron

Northbound and southbound North Western trains meet in Marshalltown, Iowa

Putnam Division posted:

ThIs week, the Trackers Layout in the Black Hall.

Thank you to the Trackers modular group for your time and effort....

Peter

I didn't make it to the Black Hall. I'm sorry I missed it.  I stayed mostly in the Orange and Purple Halls. I did take a shuttle to the Blue and Silver Halls. After walking through those halls I was pretty tired.

chessie1971 posted:

Nice cars Jeff.

Thanks John!!!

My son took some photos with his new smartphone.  When I looked at them, I flashed back to the many photos I've seen taken in the 30's and 40's...he's a talented fellow, with a great eye for composition.  IMHO. 

Those are really great photos Ed.

It's been a while since I contributed here.  Videos from Saturday of my break in runs for the ATSF E6s and CB&Q E5 on the Paradise and Pacific Railroad in Scottsdale. 

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Those are really great photos Ed.

Thanks, Dave. I’ll pass on your compliments to my son. 

ToledoEd posted:

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Those are really great photos Ed.

Thanks, Dave. I’ll pass on your compliments to my son. 

All you need now is one of those detective figures from those novels that take place around the 30's & 40's to make a new scene. That is if you needed one. B&W is such a great medium to use in anything. My sister took a picture when her two daughters were 8 & 4 or there abouts in B&W and it was an amazing set of photos.

Dave, you are so right. I was sorting old photos to scan and ran across photos of my dad building our first train layout, well actually the bench work. They were taken in the late 40's early 50's and what amazing photos they are.  You gave me a great idea...the detective theme....here's a pic of a Cadillac parked in front of the Lionel Hobby Shop....could be a big diner..all I need is a few figures....one with a fedora and trenchcoat...and of course a beautiful "dame"...

Or standing out front of the barber shop....

Ed, make sure to get some crime boss figures as well as the cars to go with them. I believe in 1:43 they have Al Capone's car somewhere out there. I saw one at 2018's October York but didn't buy it(was a little pricey I thought and had limited funds since it was day 3).

I think it is cool to tell a story without really telling it. I have liked some of the layouts features in the magazine that sort of touch on a story with your mind guessing what's going on. Of course it also helps with a little background. I think one of the articles had the local drunk(figure was laying down in the alley) and the author had said something about his figure being down on his luck. You just got to love the feel of it.

ToledoEd posted:

My son took some photos with his new smartphone.  When I looked at them, I flashed back to the many photos I've seen taken in the 30's and 40's...he's a talented fellow, with a great eye for composition.  IMHO. 

 Ed, theses photos are excellent'.  Your son did a great job shooting these terrific scenes.  Please find out what brand phone he purchased'... I'm in need of a new cell phone'..... And of course I need a great camera on it'.......

Ted, thanks. Here’s the phone he used:  

LG G8 ThinQ