Weekend Photo Fun 11-6-15-??

The Train Room also set up a Halloween display at the local Western Sizzlin in Hagerstown.

 

Scott Smith

Before

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

 

 

York Pictures.....starting with the wonderful 3 rail layout in the Orange Hall annex by the group from Houston.....Thank you so much! Your time and effort was much appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

This layout was "action-packed". Old JLC would have been very proud!

 

Peter

Here is a B&W picture to contribute!

Happy weekend to everyone.

 

Abandon…

 

 

Love the bullet holes SIRT, nice touch!

 

Here's my contribution this week, my current favorite engines.....

And a few tank flats I picked up from Mernards, love that place!

 

Paul

 

 

Start of a new section

Well, tomorrow I find myself back on the road to PA & NJ for 2 weeks, so there goes the any layout work! I was able to get all the cork roadbed laid down this week though.
I'm all set to ballast when I return. Was also able to hook up most of the signals & the crossing flashers.

Some yard power at the fuel racks -

light power running past the station on main 2

Picked up this new SD80MAC -

The N&W Heritage ES44AC on the point of a freight -

Had an incident w/ my operating gantry crane , so I replaced it w/ a shed from Menards. I think I actually like it better there than the crane. A little bit of custom signage & BAM - Altoona Pipe & Steel!

Lorenzo was all about trains this Halloween -

Amtrak 07T hustles it's consist of Amfleet cars westbound through Mexico, PA - 10/10/15

NS SD70ACe 1142 in on the point of 21T as it heads westbound at Mexico, PA -

NS SD70ACe 1010 splits the Pennsy signals at PITL MP 131 as it leads eastbound 66W out of the early morning fog - Newport, PA - 10/11/15

With the light fading fast, we were able to beat 10N to Johnstown & catch NS 1700 coming into CP C for a set of rear helpers - 10/18/15

I think I said a while back that I would let you guys know why I decided to take down the postwar layout in the spare room & spend all this time finishing out the garage & building a new layout. Well this is why

NATTY BO anyone?....

 

My primary interests are mostly northeast coal roads but I've always been a fan of The Milwaukee Road

 

 

Very well done SIRT!!!!!   Great job!!!!

Scott, Thanks for posting the pics from The Train Room as it's a memory jogger for me. I've known about it but have never been there and have had on my list of places to visit. Bonus is I can get up there in less than an hour.

 

Maybe tomorrow? 

More York photos.   I'm missing York. 

Put on a new consist...

And the M1a finally returned from it's "repair".

Congrats Christopher!!!!!

Christopher:

 

Congratulations on your very fun news.  Here's my experience with going from 2-3 children:

• Going from 0-1 children: There's nothing else is like it. Your universe is permanently changed.
• Going from 1-2 children: Ok, we got this.  We can do this.  This is good.
• Going from 2-3 children: This is where you and your wife go from "man-on-man" to "zone". At this point, you don't have them, they have you.  You get a little overconfident at the 1-2 step and don't realize that 2-3 is almost as big a change as 0-1.  You're a dead man walking.  
• Going from 3-4 children: Like falling off a log.  Easy-peasy.

I am told that going from 4-5 children is like stepping on the third rail and is the very definition of insanity.  I will never know.

 

Congratulations again.  Enjoy them, enjoy them, enjoy them.

 

Steven J. Serenska

 

 

 

Steve

 

I like this. Looks like someone used the old caboose for target practice. My only suggestion is you make them a better marksman. Why not a cluster around the "0" in 5001

 

Here's a few photos while we were in Boston last weekend!!!! We had the chance to ride the rails !!!!!

 

 

Because target practice at a caboose is normally performed while liquored-up.

I made the man to man/ zone defense comparison too. I know I'm in for some trouble!!!

Thanks Joe!

A 2014 Christmas Layout memory

 

I'm just about out of pictures of 2014.  HEY, no cheering from the gallery

 

- walt

 

 

Thanks guys.

Perhaps viewing it from 2” away isn’t the best choice.

 

Unfortunately with this application you have to over compensate the markings and holes in order to see them from a normal viewing distance.

I have tried in the past to just use a black marker for holes and rust spots but they tend to fade away on the final result.

The customer in Mass. didn’t request graffiti, but it could have used some as I think about it now.

 

 

Christopher,

Everyone there is in for some spectacular changes

Congratulations to all of you, and hoping you receive a healthy tie breaker!

A drive-by visit to the Winchester & Western's Locomotive Shop in Gore, VA:

 

 

The new Legacy switchers sure do smoke up a storm (this is on "low" setting):

 

 

Andy

We'll give it a try tonight at the Greenburg show should be set-up and running by 5:00.

 

Jack

Mail-Lady just dropped these off.

 

A pair of 54 Willys Jeeps.

 

 

Ron

How many track volts Andy?

Just a few shots "around-town" of places I enjoyed making...

Happy Weekend!

 

 

Congrats, Chris!

 

 

Peter

Can't help but be excited for the National Capital Tracker's show at the Rockville Senior Center next weekend. This is a fundraiser show of all DC area modular clubs to help the Rockville Lions Club. See the flyer below and please come out if you are in the area - nothing to buy but lots of layouts to see and a fun show and support a good cause. Also, here are some photos from years past. This is my FAVORITE show of the year! 

 

 

Around 18 or so.  It is running in command, and this shot was at the farthest point from the transformer.

 

Andy

All set up and ready to go for the weekend:

 

 

And,

Further proof that you never know what you will see at a train show...:

 

 

Andy