Weekend Photo Fun 11-9-18-?

                                              Three more MEC rare finds !!!!

Hobo camp by the engine yard on the S&Y RR.

    Bill T.

The long awaited Lionel TCA Heinz Box Car sample has been approved.

Stu

Getting ready for the holiday train season....

Oops, I forgot my favorite home made car.....

Peter

here are a few pics from my home layout, These are from a few years back and that very area is now under construction where I am fitting in an 8' x 6' L shaped expansion.. Great posts here every week, inspiring .

Quiet day under the el

                     have a great "VETERANS DAY" weekend everyone !!!

                         and a big THANK YOU to all our VETERANS !!!

My beer train with a couple of new editions. 🍺

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory.

I know these images aren't much to look at.  But after I sold my collection a few years back and bought 2 new MTH/Lionel tin-plate trains I've been trying little by little to find affordable, for me, tin-plate accessories or anything else that is tin-plate that 1) I want to spend the money on, and 2) would fit into my existing themes on my annual layouts.

- walt

Finally scored myself an elusive PRR N6A cabin car. Weaver brass.  I wonder if anyone here was the seller.

Fun for this fine Friday!  " Along the tracks .... views of a kid on his bike "

Putnam Division posted:

Oops, I forgot my favorite home made car.....

Peter

Reminds me Peter of one that I made a few years back but for whatever reason keep forgetting to use!

- walt

Beginning stages for 2018 Christmas Layout memories!

This is the way my living room looked during the first day of construction of the 11'x14' layout area.  Actually it was a significant start.

Got all of the Homasote carried up from storage to the living room.  That stuff when painted is HEAVY!

Got all of the needed "step 1 parts" boxes out of storage and into the living room.  You know, wires, tracks, electrical hookup components, etc

Laid down 2 feeder lines.

I DESPISE wiring and it's always the first step for me because it's a floor layout.  I lay down blue insulation board first  and put the Homasote on top of that.  I then leave gaps in the blueboards to run the wires thru so that they are hidden and not bearing the weight of the layout.  Kind of a shame that I HATE wires so much cause the start of building should be a fun and exciting first step, but it's dread for me!  Kinda like eating my peas first and saving the good stuff for later

- walt

CN 394 from this morning.

Sirt, 

Big thumbs up on the Maine Central.   Thanks for putting a smile on my face every week.   It's the railroad that ran through my town in when I was a kid in the 70's.

Here's a compilation of O scale action on my layout I call "Trackside November 2018". This video features B&O (freight and passenger, Western Maryland and Penn Central RRs,  Enjoy!

SIRT posted:

 

                                              Three more MEC rare finds !!!!

Nice! 👍

Started doing some scenery in the 5 minutes I was home last week 














NS SD40E 6303 (ex NS SD50 6523) brings up the rear of eastbound coal drag 590, as it descends down 'the slide' & into the New Portage Tunnel in Gallitzin, PA


A grazing cow hardly takes notice as NS ET44AC 3630 grinds up Christiansburg grade with a coal drag.


20MM overhead look at the Railroad Museum of PA collection. 


NS Dash-9 9955 leads 174 through Austell, GA on a late July morning. 

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

Thanks Guys!

I received a few more this week I forgot about. Weathered and sent into my collection.

  SAND SERVICE...

I have 3 more MEC different numbered mint OEM covered hoppers if anyone is interested. N.O.S. are 45 ea or 135 weathered. All have diecast LD T&C's. "RARE"

Main St. old layout. Don

Great pictures everyone! Hope everybody has a nice weekend. 

BAR GP7 #63 posted...

Is that a homemade ALCO HH660? That looks awesome. It's on my to-do list.

Here are some bonus pics from this past weeks team track Tuesday...

Chris Lonero posted:

SIRT posted:

 

                                              Three more MEC rare finds !!!!

Nice! 👍

Where did you grt your backdrop for your pics?

Back drop warehouse   

Do you have a one track mind 

Some Ironville Sporting Valley and Southern snaps

Last man standing!

Don

The Golden State, El Capitan, and The Chief waiting to take on passengers and baggage at Union Station. 

scale rail posted:

Last man standing!

Don

Hey Don!  I think that is Otis from Mayberry!  LOL!! 

A bit more progress towards the goal of creating 2018 Christmas Layout memories 

I have wiring laid down for switches and track power.  Based on my drawings I can project fairly well where on the layout things will be.  I leave a little slack in the wiring to allow for small adjustments.  Drawing follows for the heck of showing it.

- walt

                                                               TON-A-PHUN...…….

SIRT posted:

 

                                                               TON-A-PHUN...…….

 

Very nice rust weathering effect.

Mark Diff posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted...

Is that a homemade ALCO HH660? That looks awesome. It's on my to-do list.

Here are some bonus pics from this past weeks team track Tuesday...

Mark: Thank you. Yes ALCO HH660 is home made, I use also some Lionel S2 parts.

Johan

Haymarket, Lincoln Ne 

Around the RR.

The last of my York layout pics.......Orange Hall vestibule.....

I took a few "close ups" here because I think the modeling technique and the execution was quite good...

A big "thank you" to those who brought this layout to York for our enjoyment..... we really appreciate your efforts!

Peter

Guys....this is not a truck forum....so if you want to post pictures about prototype tractor trailer rigs, do so on another forum.....Let us keep the focus of our forum about trains and layouts.  The truck posts were nice but not appropriate here.....