Weekend Photo Fun 12-15-17-??

Panoramic view 

Happy Weekend to all!

This weekend our interurban group will be running  vintage Christmas trips bringing the families for a short ride from the station down the line and back into the car barn to see "Father Christmas Workshop".  I set up my 2nd model railway for the holidays, a 8x12 foot layout with 3 loops of O and 1 of On30 some cardboard buildings and a couple of animated accessories.  The outer loop has a Great Northern Steamer similar to what ran on the Great Northern Rail Line that originally ran nearby and had a station next to the Interurban line as a connection to the valley. Trying to keep the early 1900's theme. Santa's elves are working on wooden trains on the work benches. There are now 4 Vintage Interurban cars in the fleet; details on the website for the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway. Click on a photo for larger views.

https://fvhrs.org/

More progress on the Pam Am building 

Wow!  Alex that is a cool and impressive project.  Can't wait to see the results.

Art

Hallmark collection and Thomas on the tree.

And a dog in real tree.

Vignettes around the modular layout....

Peter

Well, since we seem to have started out with a few "show the whole layout" shots....... here you go!  

Some recent scenes from the TMB club layout. Great photos so far,

Happy Friday!!!

Santa came early for me this week  Picked up a restored 2332 & a trio of LTI Madison cars. That original horn on the 2332 leaves a lot to be desired. Even w/ the single motor, this engine has some pep.











681 w/ the 2671W tender leading freight & passenger consists through town 




628 NP 44 ton switcher leading 1956 set 1545


616 Santa Fe NW2 working the factory




NS SD40-2 3357 (ex CR 6409) leads a power move into South Yard in Roanoke, VA



NS SD60M 6798 (ex CR 5560) leading 188 through Northfork, WV on the Pokey 


NS SD40E 6325 (ex CR SD50 6715) shoves 17G under the PRR signals at Latrobe, PA


NCDOT/Amtrak F59PHI 1755 brings up the rear of Raleigh bound Amtrak 76 as it heads through Lexington, NC

A 2016 Christmas layout memory

A couple of not-yet-used images.

- walt

Alex that Pan Am/ Met life building is going to look great on the NJHR layout.  That sure is a lot of work.

Peter, what's up with the guy in the box?

John P, nice layout.  What's the size of the layout and the room?

Christopher that sure is one shiny, newly shopped GG1

On Monday December 18, 2017 the new Amtrak Station will open in Tacoma.  The old station is about the size of a Burger King, it opened in the 1970s to replace the iconic Union Station which still exists but re-purposed to a court house.  The new station was built in a section of an old Milwaukee Road freight house that was near the old Milwaukee Road Station that is long gone.  The new station is on a new route through Tacoma that will allow Amtrak to save about 10 minutes of time between Seattle and Portland. Unfortunately, the route no longer will go along the water route along Puget Sound but that was also an area highly congested with freight traffic.   The other part of the project was to replace the 100+ year old Milwaukee Road Trestle, which was being used by the Sounder commuter train between Seattle and Tacoma.  That ride coming into Tacoma was better than any Disneyland ride with all of the rocking and rolling on the trestle, especially if you were on the upper level of the train.  The new trestle is a double track and also extends the length of the new passenger station so it can accommodate the longer Amtrak trains.

Here are some pictures:

This is the area that had been opened up in the Freight house for the station.

Part of the old Milwaukee Road Trestle, part of the new trestle is behind the old one,  it was made operational before the old one was torn down so there there was no major disruption to the Sounder Train which was still using the line. 

Here is a rendering of the new trestle that was expanded to include the passenger platforms

A Sounder entering Tacoma, the work on the far side was to create new passenger platforms. 

The front of the new station has a huge mural.  

Here is the other part

This is what the station looks like on the street side.  If you arrive in Tacoma by train, you can take the light rail directly to downtown Tacoma. The light rail station is right across the street.    

The station can accommodate two sounder trains.  The one on the track is heading north to Seattle.  

This is a peak inside of the new station. 

From the A.T.&S.F.

I am finally constructing/upgrading the buildings to be used in the town of Port Royal. First is an MTH corner pharmacy. First photo shows the stock building, and the next two show the building after the clunky base was removed, and the brick painted and mortared, lintels painted, and window shades added. Roof detailing was also added, but isn't visible in these photos. The structure was also weathered, and I have yet to install a new interior, including floor and details.

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Masterful!

What a beautiful restoration Christopher. I still have one that came to me in my hobby shop years ago. It was a true basket case that was included (along with a 2356 Southern ABA, an 0-4-0 slope-backed switcher and other O gauge items) in two cardboard boxes found on the dirt floor of an outdoor shed in rural Louisiana. My service guy George rebuilt everything and we painted the GG1.  Somehow, it got set aside before I could apply the Janice Bennett dry transfers I have for it. Seeing this one just may inspire me to finish the old gal after all!  You'er right about the operation with the single motor and 'rat tail' horn. My horn triggers often on its own as the unit encounters voltage hits somehow..

Neal PRRMIDDLEDIVISION, the building sure came out a lot better then the way it looked. What did you use for your mortar.........Paul

In and around Havre, Montana

The Spokane Portland & Seattle running on S&Y RR rails

Happy Friday to all.

Wonderful photos guys! 

Once upon a time long, long ago, I bought an MTH set of PRR Premier heavy weight passenger cars and added 2 more cars for a 7 car train.  You may be able to see that they were dark green!  This was long before I became more focused on more realistic and accurate PRR trains.  I eventually sold those to a party who wanted to run them with a S2 steamer or a GG1.  I now have some K-line heavy weights, a couple of weaver B60 express mail cars and an MTH RPO and an MTH passenger baggage combine.  I found this photo while searching for another photo.  This photo was taken before I added a siding in the area shown and before I planted some trees and changed a lot of scenery. This train was hauled by a Lionel PRR Pacific that I gave to one of my brothers. I now have a K-line scale Pacific and a Lionel scale Atlantic for passenger trains.

   #1453............

The big Decapod is rolling out with a mixed freight in the 1950s.  The picture is not dated, but the Merchandise Service boxcar in the phase 2 scheme behind it dates the picture to after January 1950.  The Pennsy built 598 of these big engines, and they lasted until the end of Pennsy steam in 1957.

2016 Hallmark Planes,trains, automobiles theme Christmas Tree.

2017 christmas Tree.

HONEY, I Shrunk the Christmas Tree!

CAPPilot posted:

The big Decapod is rolling out with a mixed freight in the 1950s.  The picture is not dated, but the Merchandise Service boxcar in the phase 2 scheme behind it dates the picture to after January 1950.  The Pennsy built 598 of these big engines, and they lasted until the end of Pennsy steam in 1957.

Ron, who manufactured that Decapod? It is really nice.

The Atlas O Grand Trunk Western war emergency gondolas arrived recently. 

Andrew

This years Tree aka "The Lionel Shrine" as my Wife calls it

Mason's Alaska train.

Have a great weekend 

Nick

MERRY CHRISTMAS

pennsynut posted:

Ron, who manufactured that Decapod? It is really nice.

It is from MTH's second run of this engine with the short tender.  I normally say what the model is in my posts but forgot here.  I sold the boxcar many years ago and forgot what make it was (the phase 2 scheme was too new for my layout's era).

Have a great weekend everyone.

John-

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