WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 12-11-15-??

Looking forward to everyone's great photos this week. Thanks for starting Scott the families must enjoy your display at the Church. Inspired by your shots of the trains at Church, I was thinking of doing something like this for the families that come by to run trains sometimes, thought of setting up trains at Church for them to run one day. It got a bit bigger and we filled the upstairs in trains one Saturday and invited the whole neighborhood great turnout; thanks for the inspiration. Will post some shots of the event one day.

Here are some more photos from our Polar Express event at our Railway museum.  The Royal Hudson kids get to climb in the cab and ring the bell.  I have a Lionel Sound unit from many years back with the recording of the Royal Hudson sounds mounted in the  cab, when they pull the Whistle cord they get a loud blast of the Whistle sounds with the speaker mounted in a round shipping tube it really amplifies the sounds.  While I lube the engines and grease the gear boxes this one seems to have run dry and you can see the gear shavings as a result bad news but a good lube and clean and it still runs well. Trains especially the big Williams engines that pull long trains run fast and get a lot of wear running all day on the layout. Shots of the kids activating the animated stuff and running the trains. Third to last photo of my set up hung from the roof that turns slowly and the planes and Santa and reindeer hang from and fly. My layout here is about 34x20 feet and 13 trains running.

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Great thread, here are some updated pics from the TMB club layout town scenes

Another great start to the weekend photo fun!

KJ356, just curious, what gave up the drive gear?

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Country Road at dusk

A few from last Sunday....

Peter

Took the monster out of storage!  Hard to believe I've had her for a year already...time sure does fly! 

Happy Friday!

After sitting in a 5 hour meeting yesterday, I came up w/ the idea to add another level to the layout! Something to run the traditional stuff on. I already started a major reworking of the track in the rear section. Stay tuned!

Finally had the floor done. Also had track lighting installed & the garage door fully sealed. Wish I could remove it, but HOA says no
Still really excited at how far it has come!

Yard power waiting for the next assignment-

NS 8104 , the LV heritage unit is leading a coal drag on the main -

Heritage unit # 16 arrived last wekend - NS 1065 - the S&A

Lucia & Lorenzo enjoying the trains -

Some more October PA pics -
NS Juniata Shops in Altoona -

Ex Conrail SD60M 5538 is on the point of 21E as it heads through South Fork, PA -

NS SD70 2538 leading Z5K westbound through Tipton, PA-

NS Dash-9 9788 leads 16N under the PRR signals at Pittsburgh Line MP 225-

NS 25T heads westbound towards Altoona while Amtrak's Pennsylvanian heads eastbound towards Harrisburg at PITL MP 225-

What would wind up as my last shot of a Roadrailer was a good one - Former CR SD70 2578 leads another SD70 as the lead 261 westbound past MP 225 on the Pittsburgh Line -

John Sethian posted:

Country Road at dusk

Great shot, John!

Finally had one day to work on my layout. !!!! Installed all the cases under the layout. Three cases are on rolling wheels. 

Mellow Yellow.............

DennisB posted:

John Sethian posted:

Country Road at dusk

Great shot, John!

agree - really nice shot!

Great picture everyone.

John Setian, my hat off, sir.

From me and my grandson...have a great weekend everyone!!

Alan

Great photos as always Chris! Are you using an HDR filter on those?

As I mentioned last weekend, I'm out of 'not yet used' pictures of my 2014 Christmas layout so I think I'll highlight the main areas for now. This is "Waltburg" consisting of the model houses that I made of my family member's houses.  

- walt

Happy Friday everyone! Here are some pictures I took this week...

Helpers!

Here is my almost complete scratch built Chicago Union Station.  I still have to add clocks and interior.  I'll do a whole tread on it once I am done.

x

Be sure to check out this week's Motor Vehicle Chronicle.

This weeks subject is weathered Motor Vehicles

https://ogrforum.com/t...cle-chronicle-dec-11

Building towards creating 2015 Christmas layout memories

- walt

Christopher, I always enjoy your photo posts.  That 5 hour meeting must have been pretty boring, so you had time to daydream about your layout improvements!!

SIRT, you never cease to amaze me!!  Your weathering techniques are phenomenal as are your modeling skills!! 

Larry

Christmas train and Christmas ale.

It's that time of year, Christmas time is peak season for our hobby. Christmas means family and traditions... These have been in the family from the mid 50's when my Dad was a boy. This is my version of the artist Angela Trotta Thomas' :

"Three Amigos" ..... on the OHIO & SOUTHWESTERN

And this is how it began. Brand new Lionel 2344 NYC's with a four car set of 2500 passenger cars. My Dad, around 1954 or 1955, in his basement, that his Dad dug out by hand with shovels. The house was jacked up, the basement was dug out, and the concrete walls were poured. Above the concrete is either stone or dirt walls the rest of the way up.

All for the purpose of toy trains! Although we have no reason to go that extreme, our layout resides in the formal living and dining rooms of my parent's house today. 60 years after this photo was taken:

I just had time to sit my Herman's Sauerkraut Factory on the layout. Will have to add a few more people and vehicles to complete the scene. Sorry for the poor camera work.

Don't forget to come see the National Capital Trackers at the College Park (MD) Aviation Museum in College Park MD. We'll be running trains from 10-5 starting tomorrow, all week until Saturday 12/19. This is the oldest continuously operating airport in the world. The Wright Bros. taught the Army to fly here. The airfield, particularly the historic end of the airfield where the Rex Smith Company and Wright hangers (the 1919 Hanger is used by the Prince Georges County Police Department for their helicopters) is right along the B&O Railroad.

For extra savings off the already reasonable museum admission, see the link for a Groupon below!

https://www.groupon.com/biz/co...park-aviation-museum

My favorite video so far in this "holiday display season".

Peter

Henry wrote; "just curious, what gave up the drive gear?"   Williams F7.  Was sounding a little noisy so took it apart and found the one truck was out of grease and wearing the gears.  Lubed it up and it is running well.  Just wish that there was a much easier way to grease the internal gears on all engines. Lionel smaller LionChief are a lot of work to take apart. Pulling the bodies of some engines off when they are run a lot can lead to body damage etc. I keep my stuff greased on a regular basis, just this one truck set somehow was looking a bit worn. Would be nice if all models had an easy to access grease port or easy to remove replace gear covers.

Sunset 3rd Rail originally produced the FP7A powered but only offered the F7B in a dummy not powered. So could not run the matching 10 car passenger set with it, the 1 A would not pull it. Finally a year + later they did  the powered B units, just arrived. Darned they did run 2 in a weird high gloss paint, the 1st run was flat/matte. Now will have to buy back the dummy B back from my dealer lucky he has not had it sold yet and swap over all the running gear to the dummy B then try to resell the 2nd run B unit as a dummy what a hassle. You would think a company could match paint as this is supposed to be a matching set.

The new B unit will not run through the longer turnouts drops power. Will have to wire the A and B together to be able to run the train on the layout. Otherwise a nice looking set for the very high $.

Putnam Division posted:

My favorite video so far in this "holiday display season".

Peter

 

Very nice Peter, neat trains.  "As the Army goes rolling along!"

Some MPC action, around the tree.

Some favorites, out of the stable, running around, getting some exercise, and posing for their close-ups...

Love the video GEF. 

Trollies in Seville late October.

A first for me a neon sign & an Australian 1940's Ford that weighs in at a whopping 11 oz's.

This Frat house arrived today complete with bins overflowing with empty beer bottles

Sorry can't seem to get all photos in one post, so here's a close up of the Barbie.

A couple of my favorite Weaver upgrades.  E8's and C630.

Morning sun.

E8's leave early.

Our fancy local garden/home store (upscale type of stuff) has tons of Christmas decorations and such for sale, along with a O scale Polar Express running in a loop around a bunch of Dept56 houses/items in the layout, here's a few pictures and the address.  The layout isn't impressive enough to drive out of your way to see it, but if you are in the area it's a nice little treat.

Homestead Gardens, 522 Ritchie Highway  Severna Park, MD 21146

Note:  their other location in Davidsonville Maryland has an extremely impressive G scale layout.  I'm going to try to get there one day before Christmas and I'll post pictures when I can.

Best...Rich