Weekend Photo Fun 11-16-18-?

First O gauge train run in almost three years. Moving out of my condo,helping my mom get her house fixed back up and then buying a house left no time for any train fun,until now. The tinplate trains my dad left me are back in operation. I wish he was still here to enjoy them too.

The parking lot is filling up. 

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR.

   Bill T.

Gotta keep the switches from freezing in Jamaica!

                                                 PRR #1628...………..

I've been busy this week populating my passenger trains.  I put over 275 in the Amfleets, around 150 in the Alaskan Vistas, and maybe 60 in the Flying Yankee. 

The video is good but the train is a little blurry going by.  But you can really see a great difference the people make inside.  As it passes by you get the sense that people are there and it makes the layout feel more alive.  

A view of the people going into the Amfleets.  I was going to do LED lighting but the existing incandescent was actually better than I thought.  I used the cheap "WeHonest" Ebay people.  In such small windows I didn't feel the detail was needed.  These run about $13 per 100 people.  

The Amfleets (yes two differenct phases) going over the river near the restaurant over the river.  The seafood/steak place is not quite done yet and there is no bridge on the near track yet either but those are future projects. 

The Alaskan Vista Domes in the yard.  I used a much nicer grade of people in them because they would be really visible inside.   These people were more expensive at an average of .50 per.   Behind the car you see the recently completed COTTON BELT boxcar I repainted, aged, etc...  Next to it another recent work is the DT&I.  I'm no SIRT but they came out ok.  

For the Flying Yankee I used "Beeple".  All these trains required the surgical alteration of these poor people's legs as usual.   I also painted the walls and chairs a bit to add some more detail.  These are not finished yet as I may be adding LED lighting to these since the overhead system is very weak in these. 

A 2017 Christmas layout memory

Actually this week's entry could have been from any of the previous 22 years!  Ever since I started hosting my annual Family Train Party I have always had what the kids have christened as a "candy train".  Here's 2017's menu.  Not shown are all of the other goodies I set out.

- walt

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Sparks fly from the third rail shoes of the BMT train.

Fun photos for this weekend!

Lightly weathered some PRR GLa hoppers:

Working on my next scene:

Hmm time to put that road crossing in:

Happy Friday guys... Still running my York stuff... running trains at least a couple hours a night!

Bonus pics from this past weeks team track Tuesday...

Bobby Ogage posted:

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Very nice circuit design Bobby!

I cheated and installed an old Vivitar FLASH unit inside the tunnel with a push button. Kids love it!

Took the Berk out for a spin around the layout last night.  Lots of work still to do on the layout, but here's a decent shot of it crossing the lift bridge.

Lee French sent me this picture for our Pre-Thanksgiving Day WPF.

Scott Smith

Happy Friday!!!

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.

Worked on the farm scene & back corner this week - 







cleaned up the control panel a bit & added a spur-


2046 leads set 1473WS from 1950 - 




Seen through the eye of a 20mm lens, NS ES44DC 7617 leads eastbound M8M into the siding at CP Kumis on the ex VGN Whitethorne District. 


NS Dash-9 9321 leads Chicago bound 23M through Hummelstown, PA on the Harrisburg Line.


After numerous delays, the Lehigh Valley heritage unit gets moving westbound out of Harrisburg, PA with 19G


MARC MP36 13 brings the last train of the day in Brunswick, MD.


NS Dash-9 9569 leads 189 past MP 273 in Wabun, VA on the Christiansburg District.

Forum member KJStrains had his Milwaukee Road Northern #261 visiting my layout and pulling a fast time freight recently.   Everywhere it went there were excited rail fans watching.  Here it is seen climbing the interchange track in Iowa toward Spencer and Ruthven.  The 2% percent grade is no challenge for this big Northern as it doesn't even break a sweat on this section of track.  Beautiful engine, Ken, thanks for bringing it over.

Art

Subs.…….

It's spring 1950 in Mc Cook, Il, a western suburb of Chicago. Hudson 3463 (an MTH Premier model) with it's stack extension up blasts by at 70 mph on Santa Fe's Fast Mail Express towards Dearborn Station in Chicago. Meanwhile on the opposite track an ABBA set of F3s (Postwar Lionel 2343s) flies by at 90 mph hustling the El Capitan towards Los Angeles.

This would make an interesting model scene.  Yes, they actually cut this house in South Dallas to move it past the utilities.

Here are a few new photos of my layout:

No new pics to post. Unpacked all my Plasticville last night doing the snow storm and found stuff I never new I had. I found a lot of Bachman Plasticville still sealed in the plastic in unopened boxes. 

Getting ready for the Ashland VA VTC meet in the AM where we are bringing our 12x15 layout.....just bringing an assortment of Christmas trains to run....

More pics from the show tomorrow......

Peter

snow on the northeast corridor,need helper gg1 for the trip  

Got the Flying Yankee put together,gears greased, and electronics sorted!  Only thing I didn’t do was replace a blown speaker as I didn’t have one (coulda sworn I had a few).   

Downtown was too pretty all lit up not to post a gratuitous shot!

Good progress this week towards creating 2018 Christmas Layout memories 

Got all of the track in place, screwed down, wired, and tested!

I'm 'inventing' a new ground cover .  The orange will be the Halloween section of the layout.  I'm not done with the lilac "ground cover" but it will the Easter section.

- walt

Running trains in Ashland Va at the VTC train show.Peter

Peter is that the new small layout?

One of the coolest steam locomotives ever made....

coach joe posted:

Peter is that the new small layout?

Yes it is.........we haven’t finished the scenery yet......this spring.

Tomorrow we set up this layout and the 20x42 one for the annual Science Museum of Va annual show next weekend.

When not running trains, I walked around the show........I think I got a good deal. It runs fine, and, I didn’t haggle over price......

Peter

Peter, I think you got a terrific buy on that.  thanks for sharing, the layout looks like it's a good one for running on.

The new Lionel Chicago & North Western ore car sets have arrived in stores. The colors are much more accurately brighter or lighter than the 2006 CNW ore car from Lionel. They put die-cast trucks on the new CNW ore cars. The logo is only one color on the ore cars in the 6 pack. 

Andrew 

Falcon Service

Might seem a bit on the early side for me to be doing this yesterday, but since it's in the very back center of the layout it will soon be unreachable.  So up it went!

- walt