WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 11-21-14-??

A sign of things to come.

Scott; I feel your pain.

OMG Spence, ouch! What happened?

Never mind, just read your other thread.

Southern No 1395 heads out on a run with her consist in tow...

These shots help to illustrate the appeal ScaleTrax has for many of us. As you can see the size of the rails doesn't overpower the locomotive!

Scott, what trainsets are those?

wow

wreckend photo fun?

here is my contribution.

GP-7 arriving to Ayer, MA station.

I have not used Shutterfly for a long time so this is an experiment.  Here are a few reefers.

Atlas Trainman Gondola, Intermountain Trucks, shower curtain rod pipes, bass wood cribbing, Grandt Line nut/washer castings, Des Plaines Hobbies Hayes Bumper painted with chalk/alcohol mix:

John:

Very nice work!

Neal Jeter

Sam,

I absolutely love this shot.  What loco is this?  It looks amazing!

Been a busy week setting up the Christmas model train display for the Polar Express at our our railway museum.

 They cleared out all the other exhibits from the room I am in this year, so lots more room to work and set up much easier. 32x16 feet here is some of the set up.

First step was to build a long fence 2 foot high for the kids to lean over. Bracing it to walls and post so it is sturdy and hanging some spot lights.

The biggest effort so far has been 2 days figuring out how to fly Santa and some of the stars from the Disney Planes movie just released on DVD. Kids love that. I used an old rotary motor from a barbeque and a large long bolt with an adapter to fit the motor hanging above. The bolt runs down through a lawn mower wheel,  which was mounted on L brackets. The center of the wheel has a bearing so the bolt can hang off it and turn, below a few strips of wood mounted to the bolt and plastic rods radiating out with thread hanging down about 4 feet to the figures. It took a lot to design work to build and figure out how to hang from the roof but it works great. Planes and Santa very slowly rotate just over the layout.

We spent a lot of extra time building the base for the upper level and ensuring that the bridges are stable and level. Used some carpet underlay and sound board under the upper level track to keep the track noise down.

Used the K-line Super snap track large radius loops for the most part for long runs around the layout. Trains to come next week. And a lot more figures and buildings and trees etc. snow fill etc. over the coming week.

The Polar Express train ride has huge #'s of people coming to ride over the 3 weekends.

The buildings tend to be in clumps as the light strings for the buildings come in sets of 5 bulbs and easier to run the wiring to the power bars in sets.

Now THAT is a great photo.....beautiful.  Here is another oldie of mine....

Hard to believe it's a K-Line.

#868 now on the bay

Scott, what trainsets are those?

That is a Lionel Century Club Berkshire pulling Irvington cars from Lionel's Celebration Berkshire set.

Scott Smith

CSX Al; you can read about it here.

https://ogrforum.com/t...79#38314880307831879

A few structures I'm working on

A B&O way freight passing the tower at the busy Lincoln Park Junction

Sam, these are excellent photos!  I was glad to see some photos of the Southern Crescent in this thread this morning because the Southern Crescent is my favorite passenger train.  I have this engine in my collection too.  Thanks for sharing.  Ken    

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Alan

Arriving on track one....the Daylight!!

Alan

The Daylight...one of the most beautiful trains in the world!!

Alan

the latest MTHRRC one gauge club car

A 2013 Christmas Layout Memory

- walt

Jim

Building towards creating 2014 Christmas Layout memories.  End of week #5

- walt

OH, and LUCKY ME!  (yes Ken the black cloud found me for a 3rd time this train season )

As shown above, I had the entire back 4'x10' plateau finished and track-tested.  I was making great progress until I had to waste 5 hours debugging why ALL OF A SUDDEN, after successfully running my trains on the lower level, one engine started hitting something under the plateau.

And as black-cloud luck would have it, it wasn't hitting up front where I could easily debug it and fix it.  Oh No, that would be too easy!  It was hitting something DEAD CENTER in the VERY BACK of the plateau.  I tried using a flash light to see what was being hit but couldn't see it. 

So this is how I spent 5 hours as my last task in week 5 - removing a section of the plateau.  Track, scenery, everything.  But I guess I got lucky in a way.  After I was able to step in there I saw what was being hit and was able to reach it without further damage.

- walt

John - Great picture and modeling!

Art

Winter is coming soon in the Midwest as John "Leak" Johnson is collecting some black iron pipe at the Menard's Plumbing Supply before loading his truck to head out to repair widow Jones furnace.

Art

Just a wonderful photo, Sam. One of your best.

Alan, impeccable taste in passenger cars. That Daylight K-Line set is a stunner.

The last of my pics from Allentown.

The best thing was the pretzel-wrapped cheesesteak!!!

Peter

Hopefully it's all sunshine for you now Walt!!

That cooling tower is fantastic!  Has quite the presence on the layout. 

Speaking of leaks, makes one wonder what Menard's Plumbing Supply is using for fertilizer to get turf that color.

Some of the photos on this threat this week are truly an inspiration.  Recently, there was a thread about OGR Magazine and what was liked and disliked.  For me, I like seeing photos published just like the ones on this weekly thread.  I don’t care a hoot about how a modeler made his bolts look rusty, but do care that he went to the trouble to do so.

The Spokane Portland & Seattle RR on the Seattle & Yakima RR

John Sethian, I've long admired your work! Could you tell me the part or model number of the Hayes bumper? I need a couple to finish off a display I made for a museum last year.

Thanks, take care,

Artie

Lionel STD O boxcar (old LCCA car, I believe); trucks are old-style solid-bearing type,

too early for this car, but don't blame me - blame Lionel...