The Weekend is finally here and it is time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!!
This past Monday my church had Candy Land on the Mountain. Yes I ran trains during the whole event;
We did have a couple of mishaps with the 200 series standard gauge cars.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Here are some shots from the PIHR setup at the Castle Shannon VFD train show this past Sunday:
One of the highlights of this show was a long train with 4 sets of Vision reefers. The sound cars were spaced as far apart as possible and it was impressive. 
It will be even more impressive when some of the PS-1 sound cars are thrown into the mix. 
We will have to try and get some video next time around...
Andy
I have 3 sets of York layout pics, one each for the next 3 weeks......1st off, the fabulous Tracker layout in the Black Hall:
All of us who attended the show appreciate the energy and effort it took to do this!
All was much appreciated, guys!
Everyone, please enjoy......
Peter
A 2015 Christmas Layout memory. The one guy is 'floored' at all the great veges
- walt
Here's my latest acquisition, the long awaited MTH Norfolk Southern ES44 (black). It is the two rail version running on my 3-rail track as usual and its slightly weathered.
Good photos to start.
I got the first 3 parts of the build your own Mallard kit from UK. Includes the Cab boiler front end and skirts. Have been wanting to build Spencer to go with my Thomas trains. I used the Lionel LionChief Albert Hall, (same as Hogwart's) chassis and tender and did a quick build to get it going for a show. It sits a bit high for now as the side rods will not clear the side skirts, will have to tinker to see if I can figure a way to get more scale sized drive rods to clear the skirting, and get the body to sit lower. The face is from a Lego Spencer, think it will be good enough for the kids to enjoy with the other Thomas characters by Lionel. I sure wish Lionel would consider doing a Mallard, and a proper Spencer for the kids trains. I think it would work well on the basic Hogwart's chassis with a few minor modifications.
A young Thomas fan running trains LionChief controls mounted to the board, with special covers I had made so they can not make the trains go too fast or snap the dials off. Keeps the trains only going forward less chance of a derail at the model train shows. I have now added a few sound units; chopped up some of the smaller wooden and die-cast Thomas and friends toys and put larger speakers from them into a speaker tube to get enough volume for the kids to hear the sounds at a noisy train show. With these mounted on the control board the kids can press and hear the talking engines where they are standing. (I cover the LionChief sound buttons, as the little kids get all 10 engines with bells going and drives you nuts and they cannot tell what sound button they are pushing.) Now have 10 Lionel LionChief engines for the kids to run at shows, and several other animated accessories I mount the controllers on boards on the fence for kids.
A really healthy train!!!!!!! Relative brought this along for a family dinner for me!! I love it.
A recent show set up I do with the 3 foam boards at the front with track mounted over the green carpet, have the trains and accessories that the kids control.
Andy Hummell posted:Here are some shots from the PIHR setup at the Castle Shannon VFD train show this past Sunday:
One of the highlights of this show was a long train with 4 sets of Vision reefers. The sound cars were spaced as far apart as possible and it was impressive.
Andy
I like the farewell to steam banner. An interesting detail I've never seen modeled before. I also enjoy the movie car car show on the layout, I might have to steal that one in the future
Here is my contribution for this week. Enjoy!
Recently completed WbB Dash-9 loco. Started life as a C&NW unit. I detailed the repaint in my thread. Tamiya and Dupli-color paints. I designed and printed the decals. Added a A/C unit, widened the fuel tank and applied a light weathering. Ready to pull a Intermodal train on the layout!!
awesome job AMC Dave
Industrial growth.
When my wife Vicky was young she always had this fear of ending up living in a run down trailer park so of course I had to build her one. It even has a lighted pool. Don
Here's some musings from Patsburg.
Have a great weekend.
Double track curved plate girder bridge(prototype 0-72/0-80)
Finally got a depot put up so my trains will have someplace to stop.
My least favorite part of the hobby is airbrushing/weathering the track. I had two long stretches of track on the layout that still had not been weathered, which I always do before building any of the scenery. I was basically out of weathered track around which to build new scenery, so I finally faced reality, and weathered the last two sections of the railroad. Pictured here is Mifflin Interlocking looking towards the east. Now I'm ready to start building scenery again, though also working on weathering more engines (I posted a photo of a pair of newly weathered PRR GP-30's last week) and more freight cars. A pair of very early Protosound 2.0 NS Dash 8's can be seen in the right hand photo.
scale rail posted:When my wife Vicky was young she always had this fear of ending up living in a run down trailer park so of course I had to build her one. It even has a lighted pool. Don
I'd say you did a good job taking away those fears, but..... if she saw those big cats swimming and it was in your pool, she may have had bigger nightmares!
a little local history
My wife renamed my town today!
Bridge construction
Letting my Rail King Alleghany do some mainline running............Paul
Nice pics everyone. Hey Neal, any chance of getting a better shot at the Amtrak Roadrailer in this pic, esp the end?
Also curious as to what is up at the front of this train too!
Andy Hummell posted:Here are some shots from the PIHR setup at the Castle Shannon VFD train show this past Sunday:
One of the highlights of this show was a long train with 4 sets of Vision reefers. The sound cars were spaced as far apart as possible and it was impressive.
Andy
Two thumbs up for the PIHR group! That's a very fine modular layout. Thanks for posting this, Andy.
Just received Derek Thomas's book on The Madison Hardware Co. I could not make it to York, but I got it in the mail yesterday. I have thumbed thru the book and the info and photos are unbelievable.
Looking forward to reading and spending some time in this great book.
PRRMiddleDivision posted:My least favorite part of the hobby is airbrushing/weathering the track. I had two long stretches of track on the layout that still had not been weathered, which I always do before building any of the scenery. I was basically out of weathered track around which to build new scenery, so I finally faced reality, and weathered the last two sections of the railroad. Pictured here is Mifflin Interlocking looking towards the east. Now I'm ready to start building scenery again, though also working on weathering more engines (I posted a photo of a pair of newly weathered PRR GP-30's last week) and more freight cars. A pair of very early Protosound 2.0 NS Dash 8's can be seen in the right hand photo.
Beautiful work. Would you please share what switches those are and if you are using under the table switch controllers? Or were the controllers just removed topside during airbrushing?
Thanks.
Bryan
My newest old engine, a MTH Proto 1 Jersey Central Train Master which did not work at first using an MTH Z-1000 transformer. After posting my problem here on the forum it was suggested that I try to run it on my old Lionel ZW transformer and it works great with the ZW.
Scott Smith
Had a nice visit this morning with Paul Johnson, formerly of Catoctin Mountain Trains. I purchased from him the last piece to my "must have" Postwar collection a 726RR with original boxes. In a few short months, I've gone from no interest in Postwar to 4 engines and a half dozen cars. Many of my pieces still have the original boxes.
Ridgerunner,
The switches are Atlas 7.5 turnouts. The diverging route is shortened to narrow the track centers from 4.5" to 4". I do not use the switch machines supplied by Atlas. I remove them and instead use switch machines mounted below the subroadbed, mostly Tortoise's.
Mark,
I will try to post photos of the Roadrailers later this weekend or if I don't get a chance, in next weeks Weekend Photo Fun.
scale rail posted:When my wife Vicky was young she always had this fear of ending up living in a run down trailer park so of course I had to build her one. It even has a lighted pool. Don
That trailer park looks exactly right, a judicious use of the space allotted, and every element has purpose, all resulting in a charming realistic feel. Cool. IMO.
frankM
I'm going to buy this Menards Chessie Hopper within next week and very sharp looking hopper car.
chessie1971 posted:I'm going to buy this Menards Chessie Hopper within next week and very sharp looking hopper car.
I could have called that one! Jeff that Chessie hopper has your name all over it. It will be a great addition to your Chessie fleet!!
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