Weekend Photo Fun 11-1-24-??

Thank you, Scott………this is one of the things I look forward to each week!

Last week, we were on the western side of the Catskill’s, deep in O&W country. This week, we’ve traversed the Catskills to the east side, along the Hudson on the O&W’s Kingston Branch. There (in Kingston), we meet up (again) with the West Shore of the New York Central and a branch line mixed freight and passenger train which is its way…..

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

One extra pic this week…….crossing the James River, west of downtown Richmond, is the CSX line south.  I’m in the passenger seat while my wife drives us north over the I-195 Bridge…….a beautiful fall scene….

Peter

Photos and video show my Boston & Maine 2-8-0 Consolidation #2403 pulling freight cars and a B&M caboose on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The locomotive is a Weaver die-cast model of a Baldwin Consolidation. Atlas O recently announced a production run of these engines using the tooling developed by Weaver. The models will have PS3 electronics and are scheduled for delivery later this year.

B&M #2403 was the last 2-8-0 to be retired by the B&M. It remained in passenger service around Boston until at least September 1954 and was scrapped in June 1955.

MELGAR

Hi, everyone.  Well, it is not quite Friday yet and still Halloween night.  So....

From a National Capital Trackers display at the 2017 KidsFest event in Fairfax.

Running with the SGMA a couple of weeks ago in the Black Hall at York…

Some of you may recall back on the March 29 Weekly Photo Fun I announced I decided to build a model of the F.A. Straus Worsted Yarn Mill in Hamilton Township NJ.  I took about a hundred photos of the complex, and pasted a montage of my planned building

I decided to buy a laser cutter and scratch build the whole thing my self. Seven months later, I have gotten as far as the lower part of the clock tower:

The basic walls are from Monster Model Works, but the rest is cut or engraved from various thicknesses of thin plywood.  This includes the arched lintels above the windows and main door, the two horizontal rows of multilayer brickwork along the top (including the dentil work), and the windows.   Even though the windows look like simple double sash affairs, they are distinctive because they are quite big: 7 ½ feet high and 2 feet wide.  Each window is made of seven laser cut pieces. The mullions are .020" wide and made from .028" thick plywood.  Making them this way makes it obvious they are made from separate pieces.

The glass block effect is made by scribing 1/8” thick Lucite.

There are seven LEDs in the lower part of the clok tower:

Enclosed aluminum lined light boxes ensure uniform ensure uniform illumination

At this rate, I should be done before the decade is out