Weekend Photo Fun 11-11-11-??

Veteran’s Day 2011 – Vintage military vehicle collectors and emergency service personnel assemble at the old depot to prepare for the annual parade in honor of all those who have served.

- Mike

Sir T Excellent weathering!
Well you should be knighted for work on the O gauge front.
James

Scott Many THANKS for getting us going each week

I got tired of taking pictures with my trains sitting on the deck railing. I grabbed a piece of scrap plywood and some Fastrack and went to work. This is my first time weathering and scenicing FT and I'm not entirely happy with it. However, it is better than the deck railing.

Great phot's everyone...Here are some oldies of mine....

Burger anyone????




Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

Great Pictures everyone. Thanks again Scott for having this great thread. Please keep the great pictures rolling.

I always enjoy this. It ends my week so well. Scott are you overcompensating again?

It’s Saturday morning and the residence of Garfield are out shopping and running errands

Zacharyy

Woolworth's, Western Auto and Rexall -- There's some memories! I can remember errands to all those stores in town while I was growing up, plus Grant's five and dime and S.S. Kresge's -- that one we all came to know as "K-Mart" later on...

-Eric

Great work Richard....love this street scene!!! And your choice of cars!! Hudson, Studie and I think Packard.....Love them orphan cars!

In honor of all of our veterans, past and present, UP #3593 "Desert Storm" makes a visit to the Eastern District to haul a timed freight from Cheyenne to Omaha.

Thanks for keeping us safe.

Donald

Our monthly meeting of the local chapter of the NMRA is coming up, and I made some models to enter in our monthly contest, "The Bring 'n Brag". This month's category is "Hopper Bottom Cars". Here is a photo of one of the models I built, as well as the prototype inspiration:

Prototype:



Model:

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Scott are you overcompensating again?

The Brute-Because size does matter!!

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Scott Many THANKS for getting us going each week

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Thanks again Scott for having this great thread. Please keep the great pictures rolling.

I want to thank you for the encouragement; I haven't run any trains and I really didn't feel like starting the thread. Owen's passing really has me bummed.
Scott Smith

Can you believe the Brute can run on a track with under 72 inch radius? My bottom standard gauge track is Gargraves 63 inch standard gauge. With the articulation it looks really neat to run on that tight of a raduis.


Scott Smith

Thank you veterans for your service.

Say hello to Western Maryland Scenic celebration 11/11/11



Ed Mullan

Southern Pacific used 0-6-0 switchers to assemble their Daylight and other passengers trains. You too can assemble a Daylight train if you have deep enough pockets. Nine of the old two-tone orange cars are available for purchase. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad wants to get rid of them. The only auction bid was from a scrapper who wanted to be paid $7500 to remove them. The Lake Pepin plus another that I can’t remember the number of, are on a siding alongside the historic Italian Swiss Colony Winery in Asti, California---not junk but less than cherry.

I am converting this Williams F3 to TMCC this weekend and have her out for a test run

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I want to thank you for the encouragement; I haven't run any trains and I really didn't feel like starting the thread. Owen's passing really has me bummed.
Scott Smith

Scott; You did the right thing. I'm shure Owen would not have wanted it any other way.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zach:



Uh-oh! I may have to build this one, I like this loco. What is it and do you have side shot photo?

Thanks, Malcolm

Great Photos everyone!

Donald/3rail your layout is OGR train magazine worthy- great layout and photos.

George

Week 4 toward building 2011 Christmas Layout memories

I have 2 AIUs. This is the mess of wires around them. Figure: they control 20 switches and 30 Accessories (yes, some are doubled up out of the AIU port) so there are a LOT of wires coming in to them and going out from them. The AIU in the 2nd picture has only 1/2 of the things wired into it so it'll be a LOT messier.




I usually try to hide the wires some after testing. Even though both AIUs will under the plateau and hidden from view, I do take movies of the layout by pushing a flat car with video camera. I don't like seeing all the wires so I try to cover them from view of the camera.


The front 4'x6' part of the plateau being put in place.

When I retired, I was given a gift certificate for a hobby store in my area. They don't carry much in 'O' and I had a hard time spending the $100. I landed up buying 6 backdrops at $10 each. Don't really like the way that they look but with no permanent benchwork to attach them to there wasn't much that I could do to improve how they mesh together.

I'm getting there, albeit slowly.






- walt

Thanks to you Scott.This thread is like a weekly magazine and everyone looks forward to it.It helps to brighten our spirits even when we aren't in the best of sorts.

I was hoping someone had some pictures of Owens layout.It'd be nice to see them posted this week.

David

Got the Whitcomb finished, I am working on the matching cab now. Malcolm

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Richard E:


Great scene Richard. Can you tell me where you got those buildings? Are they kitbashed? Woolworth's looks like OGR/Ameritowne? Is it? I don't recognize the others. Thanks.

Jerrman

Nice pictures everybody!





VETS!

Jack

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Can you tell me where you got those buildings?

The far right building is a Walthers kit....not sure on the others.

Jerrman
The Woolworth’s is an Ameritown Burke Building with a storefront from an Ameritown Plain Jane Store, The two on the left are Walthers Cornerstone kits and on the righe is a MTH corner building. They all have been airbrushed and have custom signs done on a computer.
The Walthers buildings are no longer available. A few weeks Back I posted a thread to lobby Walthers to re-issue them.


Jack Smith
I like your building, very original.

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Originally posted by Zeke:
I got tired of taking pictures with my trains sitting on the deck railing. I grabbed a piece of scrap plywood and some Fastrack and went to work. This is my first time weathering and scenicing FT and I'm not entirely happy with it. However, it is better than the deck railing.

You have amply demonstrated that Fastrack can look very good when given the treatment.

this is from christmas 2009 i think....1947 2025 pulling my fav. streamlines..the two tone green northern pacifics....

A bunch of great photos guys, love the weathering on all of them.

Happy Vets day to all of you Vets out there yo deserve nothing but the best.
A special thank you to my son who severed more then his share in the Sandbox during the not so safe times there.

John

Pinnacle Peaks is progressing.

Using plaster gauze would have been too expensive for a project this big, so I went the plaster-dipped paper towel route. I had forgotten how much "fun" that was.




Two 50 lb bags of Structolite later:







Next step - lots of rock castings and the styrofoam "pinnacles".

Jim