Great Stuff Last Week…Everyone!
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Building towards creating 2014 Christmas Layout memories. End of week #4
- walt
What I'm doing here is trying to somewhat hide the wires. All of what's showing will be covered and unseen, except for when I take a movie by pushing the camera around on a flat car. This will, hopefully, block the wiring from being seen.
This shows the area shown above after I put the top layer of Homasote on the "benchwork". I call these "plateaus"
Great idea Mike....hey Brian and Elizabeth, come on downtown and we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony to open your new elevated line!!
Alan
Weekend Photo Fun is here!!
Wednesday I took out the old Halloween layout at the VMT and started on Christmas:
Here are some pictures from Lionel's Warehouse sale last week.
I hope we see lots of Allentown and Trainfest pictures on this thread. So let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
We can't have an event without the hat!
Thank you for all your help.
Al Kolis
"Great idea Mike....hey Brian and Elizabeth, come on downtown and we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony to open your new elevated line!!
Alan"
We are already talking about this.
Scott do you have any money left?
I spent around $1800.00. The American Express bill is coming; not a good thing.
Since I was helping out all weekend with the LCCA I got to be in the building before and after each day. I got to see Lionel's president Howard Hitchcock interact with his employee's without his customers being around and that was a real treat. I am 100% convinced that there isn't better man for the job than Howard Hitchcock. He wasn't the boss, he was a leader, a rare quality in today business world, the type of leader that you would want to work for.
Howard's son helped us at the LCCA booth, and signed up more members than the rest of us. He spoke passionately about his love of the hobby and that reflects back to his father. Rest assured Lionel is in great hands. I left the event very impressed with Lionel.
Scott Smith
I noticed he was wearing a Steelers jersey...good man. Anyway, here's a few pictures from Memorial Day earlier this year.
Andre (AG), I love the door and the detail in the brickwork. Simply amazing!
Alan (leavingtracks), Nobody does city scenes quite like you! Beautiful!
Here is my photo contribution:
It's mid-morning and a fog is still present as Pennsylvania Railroad Mikado #762 works it's way up the High Line and over the bridge above North Bend. Soon our train will pass through North Tunnel and interchange with the Norfolk & Western a few miles up the line. After the job is completed, it will be an easy trip back home to the Maryville Yard.
Have a great weekend everybody! Bo
Where in this world did the blue water deep mountain scene backdrop, come from
my gracious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ed, you have been holding out on us. What a great look. Now I have to see it in real life.
Marty
My wife and I were chaperones for a high school language club trip to NYC this week. We took the ferry from Liberty Park on the Jersey side to Ellis Island, then across the harbor to Battery Park. We finished our visit by walking to the 9-11 Memorial and then boarding the bus for home. As usual, I had my eyes out for train related photos.
The old CRRofNJ terminal at Liberty Park is not used by the ferry. Apparently all the damage from Super storm Sandy has yet to be repaired. The Harbor front façade still looks pretty good, though. The train sheds behind the station are taking a beating.
We took the Holland Tunnel to get out of the city. I found this maintenance facility and lift bridge along the way.
Chris
LVHR
PS The next day was when the window washers got stuck outside the 69th floor of 1WTC.
After burning down on December 5th 1958 the National Hotel and the JC Adler Co are back in business in Joliet! Well, they are on my layout at least. The National Hotel was world class during its time. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Van Buren stayed in the Hotel. The first floor was home to the JC Adler Co which was the place to go for fresh meat.
i still have more work to do on this but it's coming along.
Thanks Marty.
That is about the only scene that is halfway finished. This working full time gets in the way of building the layout. I was very humbled but inspired by your layout. After our visit I really wanted to get to work on some of these scenes. I was also impressed by what some of the guys did with their Atlas turntables. Since I already had one I decided to use it and spruce it up a bit.
I finally figured out how to post a picture but couldn't figure out how to write a caption with it. That will be my next project. I wanted to write how much I love to see the smoke come out of the steamers. I spend hours in awe looking at what guys on this Forum do with their layouts!
Hope to see you and Dotty soon.
Ed
Scott do you have any money left?
I spent around $1800.00. The American Express bill is coming; not a good thing.
Since I was helping out all weekend with the LCCA I got to be in the building before and after each day. I got to see Lionel's president Howard Hitchcock interact with his employee's without his customers being around and that was a real treat. I am 100% convinced that there isn't better man for the job than Howard Hitchcock. He wasn't the boss, he was a leader, a rare quality in today business world, the type of leader that you would want to work for.
Howard's son helped us at the LCCA booth, and signed up more members than the rest of us. He spoke passionately about his love of the hobby and that reflects back to his father. Rest assured Lionel is in great hands. I left the event very impressed with Lionel.
Scott Smith
I noticed he was wearing a Steelers jersey...good man.
I believe that is a Clay Matthews Green Bay Packers Jersey.
Where in this world did the blue water deep mountain scene backdrop, come from
my gracious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Above is a Plasticville tower that we've painted and detailed, while below is our tug boat and a repurposed flat car.
We rigged up our water tower so that when the button is pressed to lower the spout the floodlight also comes on.
I finally completed my palm tree project... Added additional detail and more realistic colors to those ones you can order from china in lots of 10-20. Some of them I bashed into shorter and taller trees so there was a realistic height distribution. 51 palm trees have taken root on our layout.
Pizza Planet truck makes a delivery, and bikers cruise by. Hot wheels motorcycles with riders are darn close to O scale. I'm slowly working on detailing these guys out.
-Dustin
Here are some scenes around the layout.
Reminding every one about the OGR DVD Special of $10 off the DVD set.
Absolutely great stuff this weekend!
Peter
Andre (AG), I love the door and the detail in the brickwork. Simply amazing!
Have a great weekend everybody! Bo
Thank you guys for your comments and likes!!
Andre.
Zett; great looking buildings.
Hi all. Great photos this week.
Mind if I bore you with some "real train" photos (since I don't go to the "Real Trains" forum)?
First my wife in front of the "Panama Canal" Train a little while ago
Next the Panama Canal passenger trains.
Then the Keleti station in Budapest last month (Think beginning of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol)
Inside the Keleti station (we took a train from Budapest, Hungary to Timisoara, Romania)
The next two were local commuter trains running from Timisoara station (where the pics were taken) to somewhere in Romania. I thought it was interesting that these were running Diesel despite having electric trains also running (like the Intercity we were on). The last picture was a switcher I saw going through the station shunting passenger cars around.
Have a great weekend; hope you enjoyed these "non-toy trains."
Bruce
Sorry, forgot to include a couple:
First, getting some "new shoes" in Hungary
Next, waiting at a train crossing near the Romania-Hungary border.
Sorry about the quality: moving train, iPhoto, you know...
Too good not to share, even with iffy technique.
Enjoy!
Bruce
GEF I have to say you are doing some incredible work on your layout. The melting snow and tree work looks outstanding.
Thanks for the comments Art. Here's a shot of the real thing. This was way down on my list of buildings to make so it was nice to see woodland Scenics release it. it was close enough to this building so I went for it.
Building towards creating 2014 Christmas Layout memories. End of week #4
- walt
What I'm doing here is trying to somewhat hide the wires. All of what's showing will be covered and unseen, except for when I take a movie by pushing the camera around on a flat car. This will, hopefully, block the wiring from being seen.
This shows the area shown above after I put the top layer of Homasote on the "benchwork". I call these "plateaus"
Don't know what happened to them - I KNOW they were there when I signed off Friday. Thanks for letting me know. Here they are (I hope)!
- walt
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