Weekend Photo Fun 12-13-13-??

Here are some pictures showing the fleet of engines on my railroad. 

Two Cousins-Pennsy and Conrail 

Resting at the station awaiting orders....

Another photo from my trip last weekend to the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA. This is the power on the 130-car freight train (counting the caboose) in the morning. Later in the day the two AT&SF units would be replaced with PRR units.

Note the Lionel log loader, operating milk car and platform,  and station platform. Several classic Lionel Post-war accessories are scattered throughout the layout.

I posted this shot which was on my I phone yesterday while I was at work:

Now here's a photo of the prototype from my home computer that I found this morning.  I can't say I was shooting for an absolute precise match, but to generally capture the area.  Contrast the poor condition of the road ca. 1960's-70's to today which is much better.  And today, the center line is yellow, not white as in the 1960's.  Also note the tracks (hard to see) off to the right.  There are just two tracks sitting on a four track right of way:

Masterful work, guys.  One has to look hard to see that it's not real.

That is so cool, PRRMiddleDivision!  How did you make your road?  Matt

Matt, thanks for your comments.  My roads are made of 1/8" thick hardboard (Masonite) painted with flat gray primer (for asphalt roads, khaki colored for concrete). The tar on the cracks it made using a fine tip Sharpie.  Pavement markings are created by using a white pencil from the craft store.  Shoulders are made of fine (N scale) ballast.

And believe me, when Ray Shaffer and Milton Shapp were the governors of Pennsylvania, this really is how the roads looked in the commonwealth! 

One of my latest acquisitions, the MTH Electroliner. I saw this on Alan Arnolds (The Adman) layout and been looking for it ever since, very pretty.

jim r

New camera. Trying it out.

 A look at the Christmas train this year around the tree on the top 2 pics.

 I have been collecting the Hallmark Lionel engines and didn't realize that this one ( the bottom pic) would be (near?) HO scale? I bought a couple as gifts. I hate to say, I'll be keepin' them.

Hello Ddurling,  I just matched some grey paint as closely as possible to the color of the balast, and painted the center rail in a blotchy manner.  Since this scene is only viewable from a limited angle of view, I looked at it from there and left some darker portions of the middle rail show through where the ties would be seen if the third rail was not there (you can see this best in the photo on the center rail to the left of the road in the top photo).

I don't know if I will do this everywhere, but I like it in this scene where you can only see it from this limited view angle.

Thanks!

We posted in another thread but wanted to add these to WPF

The club set up at a local realtor on Main St. The building was an old bank and is very pretty.

There will be caroling and a bell choir this evening after hours.

The National Capital Trackers are having their annual display at the College Park Aviation Museum, the oldest continuously operating airport in the world, also known as the "Field of Firsts" for the many innovations and experiments and "firsts" that took place here in the early years of aviation. The Wright Bros. flew here, among others. Wonderful place. The runway is right outside the windows.

We are here twice a year; Labor Day weekend and the week before Christmas. We set up this morning and will be runnin' trains until next Saturday, 12/21. 

Have a Great weekend everyone. Looks like a couple of my grandkids are having fun today in Chicago

Joe,

  Thanks for the comments.  I have not updated my site lately and will try to do so over the holidays.  The Genesis was easy except for the snow plow.  I eventually just glued it.   Here is another Heritage photo. 

www.toytrainsontracks.com

Took a trip down to Pittsburgh yesterday with my nephew to see the Standard Gauge collection and layouts of John DeSantis.  All I can say is WOW!   The TM video, while great in its own right, pales in comparison to actually seeing it in person.  Here are some pix I took:

These trains were all crafted by hand by one man (who was a master metal worker):

After the visit to the John DeSantis house, we were supposed to go to Kennywood to run trains, but the weather caused Kennywood to cancel, so we went to PatrickH's Christmas party with some of the other Pittsburgh Independent Hi-Railers to run trains:

Andy

Here's my 1958 Marx 666 pulling a Lionel 234W tender and Christmas special around the tree.  This locomotive is still going strong after 55 years.

George

Christmas 2005.

Saturday was the "Downtown on Ice" winter festival hosted by the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department (our landlord in Angels Gate Park). As we've done every year since the festival started four years ago, we set up a few loops and ran a few trains. A good time was had by all.

In our never-faltering respect for child-labor laws, we immediately handed the remotes over to 11-year-old Nicholas when he and his mother arrived so everyone could run to get something to eat.  

Jack Kemph showed off one of the best vintage scores I've seen. A pre-way O Gauge American Flyer set he picked up for $20. And they're in pretty good shape. The FasTrack rails were a bit low for the flanges, but the set runs pretty well.

As I did last year, I ran a scale-wheeled train in a toy train setting just for the heck of it.