WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 12-18-15-??

Hope everyone has a great Christmas week.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas everyone. Just a few photos of the turntable and roundhouse.

Merry Christmas from New York City. Last weekend, my son and I made our annual holiday season pilgrimage into Manhattan.

Having arrived on our North Jersey Coast Line train, we took a few minutes to admire the decorations around Penn Station. Amtrak has provided a tree complete with trains under it. Front and center was an O gauge Amtrak consist of Williams P40s and Amfleet cars. The trains have been provided courtesy of Bachmann. We then proceeded uptown to Grand Central Terminal to visit the Transit museum annex and its wonderful holiday exhibit featuring a well done O gauge layout and a splendid collection of trains displayed around the wall. Lastly, Saks has an HO layout in one of its Christmas windows this year.

New York City's holiday railroading tradition is alive and well this year!

Bob 

Jarrod's photos of a GP38 and hopper cars he is custom painting at RJ Corman Project.***UPDATE*** remind me of a M&StL publicity photo on an Audio-Visual Designs post card:

nice picture guys!

here is my contribution.

   Lumber delivery...........

Another Vision Line Challenger joins the roster!!  

Union Pacific #3989...do you read me...over...

And a very special thank you, to fellow forum member...Leaping Larry!!!

Great weekend everyone!

Michael

This is a scratch built model of my childhood home.

Any of you have a model of your house?

the Caped Crusaders check in, and shoppers pick out their Christmas tree.

Here's the Korber sand house I just finished for someone 

As I've mentioned I'm out of 'not-yet-used' 2014 Christmas Layout Memory photos, so I'll wrap it all up this week with some overall views.

-walt

Great pics so far......Merry Christmas everyone!

Here are some pics showing Lionel's effect on mid 20th century American culture.

The Coke ad and the picture in the kid's Christmas book (my wife's from 1958) show Lionel track and the ever popular Santa Fe F3.

Peter

Creating 2015 Christmas layout memories   Where I'm at after the 3rd week.  SHould be able to finish up the 4th week since all of the wiring is done and the track has been tested.

- walt

The AIU - and it's only being used for switches!  But the power leads to the tracks originate here too.  I also have the wall-wort transformers for Miller's 4.5V and 3.0V signs under there.  WHAT A MESSS!!!  BTW: that brown long thing is a power strip which I will remotely turn on and off.

Here's two OGR America-Towne 1st national banks.l, I just finished two more to go !!! 

Santa, Coke and Trains!

Ron

2 Rail O in the California Foothills

Here are two of my Santa Fe engines on the old TMB Layout. Merry Christmas to all

Lots of red and green in this photo, so I figure it can count as a Christmas pic.  Lionel Silver Spike on Atlas 2-rail o-scale track with N gauge center rail added.

The G&O Garden Railway (a division of the San Leandro Historical Railway Society) holiday open house was the weekend of December 5 & 6.   Here are a few photos.

Working in the yard(at least that's what I told my wife).

Awesome pictures.   Merry Christmas to you all.  From Mililani, Hawaii 

We removed the old tubular track and replaced it with simpler Fastrack oval.

Maggie waiting for her afternoon walk.

Bottom-feeding - 2 train show finds last month. The Revell plastic tanker is someone's abandoned project that I will paint, I imagine. The Lionel O-gauge 817 caboose...not so sure. There seems to be a roof issue. It may become part of a work train. It was $5.00.  PW trucks would be interesting.

Cost, combined: $8

An oldie but goodie!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Paul

Have a great weekend.

then our Heroes walked over to Lou's shop.......

NH 0-8-0 switching the lumber yard.

Richard E posted:

This is a scratch built model of my childhood home.

Any of you have a model of your house?

That's a beautiful  model you have there, Richard E.  Are you able to share any other vantage-points of it?

I have a model of my wife's childhood home (that is she as a little girl in the red coat at the front door, and I as a jogger metaphorically coming into her life further down the road) just behind the trolley.

Also, our present home is included in the broader shot of the suburban neighborhood on the layout. Ours is the 2-story, gray and white-trimmed, angular house with two cars in the driveway and an old green pickup truck parked at the curb.

Incidentally, that 2-story house at the right front corner of this shot is a model Alan Graziano can tell you about.

FrankM.

..and as my contribution for this weekend's photo thread, here are a few more shots of that happy little brill trolley making its way around its suburban neighborhood...

Moonson - A Great modeler!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of photo opportunities this week at the College Park MD Aviation Museum with the National Capital Trackers display. Here's my favorite so far. 

GG1 is a Lionel MPC repaint (not by me) that I bought used around 1985.  It was pretty worn, and the late Boxcar Bill reconditioned the motors and added TMCC and sound.  Runs great now and is a good match for K-Line Streamline Fleet of Modernism cars.

Great photos thanks for sharing all.
Finally got the Sunset 3rd rail 10 car Canadian set running, here on my longer passenger loop around the ceiling. The passenger set and powered A and dummy B came out a year + back, but the powered A unit would not pull the set and they at that time did not offer the B in powered engine. After a year + the powered B unit arrived this week so I could finally run my train. However the B unit stalled out on all the longer turnouts, I rewired with a plug between A and B connected to the pickup leads. Could not get the TMCC Lashup to work properly so just set both engines to same engine # and runs OK now. The B was a gloss paint and A was flat so tried swamping the B bodies from the dummy to powered B but different styles so would not work. So just sprayed some of the glossy B powered unit parts with flat coat to try to take the shine off. After a week of work just ran it for the first time. A great looking set, details are excellent on the passenger cars and engines.
And with all my Christmas trains at our museums Polar Express display we just have an old battery operated animated set for the Christmas tree.
I made up another car for my custom painted Santa presents train. Have been looking around for a suitable flat car loads of presents from Santa's workshop, could not find anything close to scale for Kiddie Cars (anyone have a source of smaller Kiddie cars??) But the Hallmark ornaments will do for now, over size but looks cute. Will add this to my Red train at the Polar Display this weekend, hope the engine can handle the extra weight.
Have a Merry Christmas this week.

The Vicksburg Historical Society has a few people set up an O gauge layout in the Township Hall at the Historical Village.

Here's a couple I took down at SD3R last Friday.

An abbreviated Train of Sin made a brief appearance on the modular layout today. This is about 1/3 of the complete train.....

FALCONSERVICE, what is the large white building in the second to last pic?  Looks like it might 3 separate buildings joined together.

Rick