WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 12-12-14-??

Yes, it certainly is Scott - What nice images to start the thread.

 Always nice to see a Warbonnett!  or two...

Working on a second level diorama.

Scott, really like the trestle above.

Well the sawdust is still flying around here in the Highlands.

My trusty Bucyrus is helping me install the "High Line" over my passenger yard.

Meanwhile the 765 is traversing over the High line to tap down those bridge pylons.

The 0-8-0 is coming up from the Low line to supply more supports for the elevated structure over the yard....

Here's the progression of my town of Plateau from 2000 to today.

Below is a 2006 photo of my prior layout

2009 photo with farm section removed

2011 photo on new layout 35 miles away

Recent photo with no milk stand, dairy and factory moved further back

 Walther's shed with interior detail added

Here's one from last weekend:

The 20th Century Ltd

Peter

Great photos to start and looking forward to many more.

Good to see the Christmas Theme layouts.

It took me 3 weeks of work to get it all ready but has been great fun running a large 34 x 16 foot model Railway Christmas village with 10 trains running over a 100 buildings with lights and lots of animated accessories. LionChief remotes and push buttons for sounds and to start activate animated accessories. Santa and planes flying. Located just above the Royal Hudson Steam engine at our Polar Express event. After an hour train ride with the actors from the movie and hot chocolate and cookies the kids come to the roundhouse to visit the cab of the Royal Hudson, my display, visit with Santa, mini rail ride and many crafts. Here is the main link to photos and just a few below.

https://ogrforum.com/t...ess-train-experience

 Click on photos for a larger view.

Scott, really like the trestle above.

The trestle is my favorite part of the VMT layout.

Scott Smith

Lehigh Valley FA,FB-1 consist crossing the Afton viaduct.

One of the best looking F Units out there.

Have a great weekend Everyone!  A few pictures from Richard Gonzales' and Bill Norvell's layouts....

Alan

Sam, this is a wonderful photo. And the Sante Fe, can't get any better.

Work continues on the town of Duncannon.  Here's a view taken from under the eastbound home signal at "View" interlocking with the station at the left and the town in the distance:

Neal - Great picture and progress on your town.

Art

Here is a picture on my friend Stan's layout.  I love how he has added the clothes lines. 

Art

A 2013 Christmas Layout memory

This was the 1st year that I strung line on my telephone poles.  Like the look and will do it again, for sure.

- walt

Neal- Looks like home, with the station and hotel. Who made the station?

Here's the above photo cropped and posted as I had originally intended...

Lee,

In answer to your question, the station is a stock Atlas Suburban Station, repainted into PRR colors with some additional detailing.

What Brand/Model is that Santa Fe #20?

I rally like this photo, Walt.

I can’t control the shutter speed on my Kodak camera, so seldom get to see smoke in my photos. It seemed to come together in the one that I’m sharing today. Beautiful photos this week--thanks for posting.

Here's one for my friend Passenger Train Collector........getting ready to move a regiment of armor this weekend........it is a passenger train, kind of!

Peter

If I may add this one here as well (I put it in the Christmas thread, too), but here is one I just snapped of the Christmas setup in my department at work.  The train and lighted village were my contributions.  The docksider has been performing beautifully!

Jim

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Switching the oil field.

Another angle

I finally got to Menards today after a DR's. appointment. This is all I picked up today 

2 Menards vans

Chip,  that's an Atlas F2/3 from several years ago. I sold the cab and replaced it with an Atlas GM&O unit and painted the chassis black. After several years of hunting a mate to a dummy GM&O I finally received a cab. Greatly detailed and a smooth runner...

Jim,

I see in the first photo some of your foam rock formations.  Excellent photos!  Here is as good a place as any to say I really enjoyed the article on the Wurlitzer Gorge in Run 275.  I remembered the article a few years back on the twin pinnacles and went back to reread it. Those of us who live in the Appalachians usually only think of formations like that out west.  However, I have been several places in Virginia and West Virginia where there are limestone formations that resemble your rocks.  I am thinking I may like to follow your instructions on my next layout.  Are there formations like that up in New York state as well?

Yes, NYC/Pullman did have a car (sleeper) with this name and paint scheme. The model

is Lionel, smooth-side aluminum, so old it was made in Michigan ( "Imported from Detroit...more or less."). I replaced the silhouettes with plain plastic. It really needs

an interior, and in the case of a sleeper it could be pretty simple (view block) unless one goes in for compartment detail.

I did not paint or decorate it; I just replaced "Hudson River" with "Mobile Bay". The NYC

had a "Bay" series of cars, and this was one of them. I'm always working my local angle; part of the fun.

Started doing a rock wall on the back & have been enjoying running the new trains that have been coming in as well. Kids love them too!

NS SD40E 6319 ( ex NS SD50 5427/CR 6749) and another SD40E drift past ALTO tower as they head back to Rose Yard.

Hi Mark,

I'm glad you liked the scenery articles. The rocks in that photo today are similar to the Palisades along the west bank of the Hudson River. Being a NYC kid, they were my first encounter with big cliffs.

Rocks similar to the Pinnacles and Wurlitzer can be found in some places in the Adirondack Mountains. But, among the places I have visited, they come closest to the formations in Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona.

I had used some photos of Chiricahua for a guide, but it wasn't until I actually visited the place on a trip last spring that I realized how much they were similar. Now if the NM only had a train running through it!

Jim

Neal: outstanding! ,as the rest of your layout photos are. any chance we could see a 3rd feature in ctt or ogr?-jim