Weekend Photo Fun 12-14-18-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Model Train Scavenger Hunt: On a Warm Winter Day & Night • December 9, 2018

CN Container Yard • Ferndale, Michigan

The process • All photos shot with a Canon DSLR - T6i. • Lens: 55-250mm • Image Stabilizer: On • Auto Focus: On to auto tracking • Shutter Priority: 1/125 of a second • IS0: Auto to 400 • Processed & enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.

Wait there is more…………… After a long day out on a M.T. Scavenger Hunt. Made a stop on the way back to The Man Cave.

Note: The City of Ferndale, Michigan has a no whistle / horn ordinance and a maximum speed of five miles per hour for all trains, even the Amtrak Wolverine.

Have a great weekend: Gary

Usually, I take pictures of my layout or the modular layout.....this picture of me was taken by a friend when I decided to take a short "exercise break" while working on the layout.....

Have a great weekend, my friends.....

Peter

Some of my Maine Central collection on the tree layout.

                                                        RUT #1635...……

                                                    Potatoes from Johan 

                                                    Bin from Winchester 

Just finished an upgrade on this 3rd rail NYC ESE. Love the super chuffer driver work lights on / off option 

So Peter you're training for your next career, you can Dr. P instead of Dr. J!

Sirt, nice collaboration with Johan and Winchester.  Love the LI Potatoes sign inside the car.

Alex those upgrades a pretty cool. 

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory

Running out of not-yet-used ones so thank goodness it's only 11 days until Christmas!

- walt

A bit of a broader view from almost the same angle:

Great photos and videos guys!!  Here is my fun for this weekend.

Interesting trestle and bridge just west of us on NC 74

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Happy Friday! 

726 Berkshire leading set 2145WS from 1948 


Just back from the L&L shops, freshly restored 6250 Seaboard NW-2 leads a work train past a field of cows.


Found some time to do a little work on the layout this week - Changed up the track on the inside loop so it wouldn't follow the outside loop for the entire run. Also decluttered the town scene a bit. It was bugging me lol! 


Ex N&W SD40-2 6119 is in familiar territory as it works a snowy Radford yard.


NS Dash-9 9916 leads 194 through Narrows, VA on the western end of the Christiansburg District.


Pickens B40-8 5960 (ex CR 5086) is working hard as it leads a long freight through the outskirts of Anderson, SC in the pouring rain. 


NS AC44C6M 4019 (ex NS D9-40C 8811) leads a westbound coal drag through East Conemaugh, PA.


N&W 611 prepares to enter Montgomery tunnel during one of her last excursions on the Christiansburg District.

I like to put together Postwar Sets. Not as easy as just buying one all together but it's fun and can often come out ahead price-wise.

Here's the Lionel 1611 Alaska Set from 1959. All pieces in great shape. Even though not part of the set will likely add a 6464 box car.

scott.smith posted:

It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

REALLY like the evocative nature of this shot! Well done Scott (or whomever) on the scene itself and the photography!

Andre

SIRT posted:

                                                        RUT #1635...……

                                                    Potatoes from Johan 

                                                    Bin from Winchester 

Steve: Thank you very much. The car and load looking amazing. 

Johan

johnstrains posted:

I like to put together Postwar Sets. Not as easy as just buying one all together but it's fun and can often come out ahead price-wise.

Here's the Lionel 1611 Alaska Set from 1959. All pieces in great shape. Even though not part of the set will likely add a 6464 box car.

 I do the same exact thing Sometimes I think it would be easier to just get the whole set, but where's the fun in that  

Mike McCutcheon posted:

Some of my Maine Central collection on the tree layout.

Mike, if you have not already done so, you might want to connect with Leroof on the Forum, also from Maine. Leroof and his wife, Susan, who came to the Forum luncheon in White Plains, NY this past Sunday, are lovely people. Arnold

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

 I do the same exact thing Sometimes I think it would be easier to just get the whole set, but where's the fun in that  

Great pictures. I'm the same as far as piecing sets together. The fun is in the hunt! Currently trying to finish this one. Need the State of Main and the wheel car.

MTH's live showroom feed M-F 9-5 during this holiday season:

Scott Smith

Roman posted:

 Great pictures. I'm the same as far as piecing sets together. The fun is in the hunt! Currently trying to finish this one. Need the State of Main and the wheel car.

Absolutely! It's all in the hunt.

That Milwaukee Geep set has great eye appeal. Very colorful.

Will have to post some pics of another I just completed. One of the Wabash GP7 sets (#2275w).

Cool photos everyone.

I'm making progress on the east end of the main yard.  Just moved some cars up from the staging yard below to see how things fit on the new ladder tracks.

With tremendous help from this forum, my just opened, brand new 700E gunmetal NYC Hudson has SOUND!  Yes, it's six years old but NEW.

Ron L, without any Buzz even!

Roger - LOL!!! that cartoon is hilarious!

Happy Friday! 

BTW. I have crossed over to the dark side and I am enjoying every moment of it.

Roman posted:

 

 I do the same exact thing Sometimes I think it would be easier to just get the whole set, but where's the fun in that  

johnstrains posted:

I like to put together Postwar Sets. Not as easy as just buying one all together but it's fun and can often come out ahead price-wise.

Here's the Lionel 1611 Alaska Set from 1959. All pieces in great shape. Even though not part of the set will likely add a 6464 box car.

Great pictures. I'm the same as far as piecing sets together. The fun is in the hunt! Currently trying to finish this one. Need the State of Main and the wheel car.

This was my first train set, I currently have seven of them now 😊

Alex M posted:

Just finished an upgrade on this 3rd rail NYC ESE. Love the super chuffer driver work lights on / off option 

That’s a beautiful engine Alex... The owner sure has some good taste 😉.  You did some incredible work!

The new Canadian National late paint scheme version of the TankTrain intermediate tank cars from Lionel. 

The trucks have the current "Weaver" inspired couplers.

They still did not include the discharge valve on the bottom of the tank cars, but the left the spot blank if someone has the valve to attach to the tank car. 

Andrew

Falcon Service

In the basement , having a couple of beer's and putting up some more table frames from old layout.  Have a a start date by January to have the 1 main line running. Great pics/videos everyone . Nick T.

Great pixs and videos everyone! I look forward to this topic every week. I have become somewhat bed bowned over the last few years, But I can at least look & read this forum and YouTube, to watch O gauge trains.  Thanks, everyone so I can still have enjoyment in the hobby.

Here are a few photos from late summer, long ago.  In Caprock, Texas, most of the businesses are closed by 5:00 PM, but there are always people out and about, taking in a movie, or getting a sundae at the ice cream parlor.  Mila Swindle, on her way to see the re-release of Gone With the Wind, did a double-take as Clark W. Griswold and his family (and, yes, including Aunt Edna, bless her heart, secured to the roof rack of the Wagon Queen Family Truxter) tooled past her down Santa Fe Avenue, lost -- I mean lost!  Train No. 158, un-named in the timetable, but known to the High Plains Division crews as the Night Crawler, is performing station work.

No. 158 is no glamour queen.  Oh, the equipment is typically fine Santa Fe passenger stock, but the Night Crawler makes every station stop, either as a timetable stop or as a flag stop.  To accommodate the flag stops, there is quite a bit of dwell time in the schedule at certain stations, and Caprock is one of them.  Here, we see No. 158 arriving with a single Alco-GE PA1, the 70L as power.  You never know what type of engine will be on the point, as No.158 originates in Clovis and any passenger power on hand, steam or diesel, might show up.  The Artho kids rode their bicycles down to the depot after supper, to drink a Coca Cola and watch the evening train activity.

The Arthos are one of the big German farm families whose ancestors homesteaded the Panhandle and high plains of Texas.  Russell, Jerry Don, and Dale are accompanied by Ormalene.  Mama is not going to have her boys getting into any mischief, and having their sister along will keep them closer to the straight and narrow path.  They are looking into brightly lighted chair car 2914, dreaming about occupying one of the seats and leaving the plains for exciting far away places.

Wallace "Machine Gun" White has stepped down from the big Alco and walked back to the Coke Machine for two 6-ounce bottles of Coca Cola.  Fireman Homer Smith provided the two dimes for tonight's pause that refreshes.  He and Wallace alternate buying the drinks.  Homer takes the empty bottles home to his son, who redeems them for two cents apiece at the market.  Although the block signal indicates Proceed, the Caprock station departure time is padded, to allow for possibly making all the flag stops, and the 70L will sit, idling unevenly, for another ten minutes.  After No.158 departs, the kids will watch Dwight Keesling rev up Alco-GE S2 2357, kick a cut of cars in the yard, and then they'll head home.  It's safe for kids to be out at night on their bikes, in Caprock, Texas.

Hey! I've got some wienie train (HO scale) pics I can share!

This week I've modified/assembled four (yup FOUR) Atlas Classic "Gold" undec units for my upcoming layout: Two GP7's and two RS-1's. Ain't I sumpthin?

Here's a couple of them:

These will eventually be painted into one of the livery versions used on my "Kansas City & Gulf" theme.

Andre

P.S. Command control and sound is a wonderful thing!

VTC (Virginia Train Collectors) night at the modern at layout was this Thursday..... VTC members brought their trains to run run.

Peter

Thanks for the story and photos, Tom/Number 90--terrific.

Jdaddy that's a great looking set of boxcabs.  I see a middle rail so which dark side did you crossover to?

Peter, double-headed NY & Atlantic GP38s, welcome to Long Island!