Weekend Photo Fun 12-20-19-??

A (final) 2018 Christmas Layout memory

Time to wrap up 2018 memories.  Some broader images

- walt

I haven't posted anything on here for a while, so figured it was about time. Here's a model I'm scratchbuilding of the PA Route 75 bridge over the NS (ex-PRR) tracks at Port Royal PA. The bridge is a scale model and primarily built of styrene.

Here's an image of me standing in front of the prototype a few months ago...

And finally, here is a historic image of the same structure...

  SCL - finally found the hopper!

Now if MTH offered a U36B, I woud be able to run another road.

                                            Warmer weather ahead!

Great job Neal! Post more pictures when you get it weathered.

Trainchief

🎅🏻 A Christmas Memory from “The Train Room” • Three Years Ago 🎄

My train crew, Noah & Adam are planning their railroad schedule.

Hey Santa: I need a haircut.

Hey Grandpa: My locomotive is going too fast.

These photos were shot with a Canon DSLR, with an external flash.

Thanks for taking a look & Merry Christmas 🎄 Gary

          have a great weekend 

St. Niklaus Station stop along the matterhorn railway

rat

Salzburg Lash up

The ICE TRAINS in Munich. You would have to pay extra to get them to pose like this

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

I haven't posted anything on here for a while, so figured it was about time. Here's a model I'm scratchbuilding of the PA Route 75 bridge over the NS (ex-PRR) tracks at Port Royal PA. The bridge is a scale model and primarily built of styrene.

And finally, here is a historic image of the same structure...

Neal,  Your modeling is fantastic!  I especially like the comparison of today's scene vs. the vintage photo.

NH Joe 

It was pouring rain during the San Leandro Historical Railway's (SLHRS) winter train show the weekend of December 7 and 8, 2019.  We did manage to run some trains on the G&O during breaks in the down pours.  The SLHRS is located just across the bay from San Francisco and bordering Oakland, CA.  NH Joe

This is the train sale on the Depot's front porch.  The SLHRS is in the process of replacing the front steps.  Rotten redwood was taken out at the bottom of the steps and replaced by concrete.  This is a $4,000 project.

This is a Lion Chief engine pulling a Lionel Christmas car train across Norris Falls on the G&O.  This engine has been converted to battery power which makes it good for running in the rain.

The G&O usually has a dramatic holiday scene out for our winter show.  This year we had to limit the decorations to ceramic buildings that could withstand the rain.

We did get a few visitors.

This train from a Lionel Christmas Story set.  It is track powered and running in the rain.

This is part of the flooded walkway on the G&O during the rain.  The metal railings leaning against the fence will be reinstalled on the front steps once more of the redwood is replaced.  The 30 year old fence to the left is scheduled for replacement in 2020.  The estimated cost is $5,000.   The walkway which consists of granite fines (crushed granite) is scheduled for replacement by pavers.  The estimated paver cost is $25,000.  Although the SLHRS only pays $1 per year rent to the City of San Leandro, maintaining the Depot and the surrounding grounds is a big and expensive task.  The SLHRS most likely does a better job at this than the City would do if it was responsible for the upkeep.

Stuck in a garage....somewhere near the swamps of Jersey  

looking down on the funicular from above in Salzburg

Some photos of New York Central equipment on my 12’-by-8’ layout; P2B electric motor #223; USRA Class B-62 0-6-0 steam engine #231; heavyweight passenger car #1991 – all MTH products.

Photos by:

MELGAR

Thanks for the nice comments regarding my bridge model. After I looked at the post again, it struck me that I should take a layout photo from about the same angle as did the photographer who shot the historic photo around 1910. I posted both a color and black and white version. Please note that the appearance of the left end of the model reflects the changes made in 1937 when the bridge was modified to connect to a new steel truss bridge over the Juniata River. Since this section of the layout is set in the 1950's. I modeled its appearance from that era. It still looks like that today as can be seen im the photo in my original post where I am standing in front of the real bridge.

I'll post new photos when the bridge is finished, painted, and the scene is completed.

Jewelry store window in Salzburg

MELGAR posted:

Some photos of New York Central equipment on my 12’-by-8’ layout; P2B electric motor #223; USRA Class B-62 0-6-0 steam engine #231; heavyweight passenger car #1991 – all MTH products.

Photos by:

MELGAR

Mel, what NYC passenger cars are those? They look nice. Love the small steam too BTW.

It is late 1949 and there is some snow left on the ground at the division yard.  A Brill 660, upgraded with a diesel engine as part of a safety mandate, leaves the yard with a R50 on the Pomfret local.  Lots of LCL on this run as last minute Christmas gifts are being delivered to residents along the route.  The conductor also expects to pick up many milk cans from the dairies today and is satisfied the reefer was adequately chilled.  Another good day!

These are 3rd Rail brass models.

Have a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

MELGAR posted:

Some photos of New York Central equipment on my 12’-by-8’ layout; heavyweight passenger car #1991 – all MTH products.

Photos by:

MELGAR

Mel, what NYC passenger cars are those? They look nice. Love the small steam too BTW.

Passenger car is from an MTH Premier 5-car Madison set 20-4026. It is an old model made in 1999 during the PS1 era, as was my P2B electric motor. The cars have been offered again more recently. Here is the observation car.

MELGAR

This week  the I've been running the MTH Rail King Amtrak Phase V P42 Genesis with RK Phase IVb Amfleets via the DCS wifi Explorer.   A big thanks to Mike Wolf for doing this current Amtrak scheme in Rail King size.   👍

Have a great and safe Holiday, everyone.

Thanks Mel. One thing about MTH, they sure do make great passenger cars.

Photos of Fun for this fine pre- Christmas weekend!  Have a wonderful holiday everyone!!  

The Pocono Mountain Garden Railways Club had another show last weekend. Had a great time with my friends while running trains 

Chicago Union Station is ready for Christmas!

Great stuff, everyone!

More from the modular layout......

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Peter

New MTH PREMIER O scale models of the Louis-Dreyfus Corporation, Illinois Grain, and Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative PS-2-CD, 4427 Cu Ft, 3-bay covered hoppers, leased from Pullman-Standard. 

Andrew

Falcon Service

GEVO pulls the Christmas Train.......

Enjoy......and Merry Christmas.....

Peter

coal area

Every year for the last several years members of the Virginia Train Collectors put up a train layout at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Va. The theme of the layout changes every year to try to match the theme of the gardens annual Christmas lighting display. This year the theme was "Something's in the Air" so the layout was decorated with an airport and airplanes. I got to run my tinplate last night. (sorry for the dark video but the lights are turned way down).

Ken

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr detour on North Western’s track in Marshalltown, Iowa due to bad flood on BN tracks at south of Iowa. C&NW locomotive on front needed because of ATC (Automatic Train Control).

          Santa's  summer sled... 

The last days of the Great Northern

This was taken at our club's Christmas open house this past weekend:

A few years ago I added a rundown section of the city on my home layout and wanted a graffiti covered boxcar to place on an empty siding.   Rather than add graffiti on my own, I decided to take a box car to my friend Gerry Morlitz' home during a gathering he held and I had everyone sign it to cover both sides.   The significance is one of the signatures seen to the top right of the door, above the PRR insignia:

As we all know, a beloved forum member and friend to all, Marty Fitzhenry, is battling cancer this holiday season.  If I would have expanded the photo into the foreground you would have seen me operating the coal tipple which was about 8 feet away from the scene above.   This was just my way of keeping Marty in my thoughts as I ran trains during the show.

-Greg

Greg Houser posted:

This was taken at our club's Christmas open house this past weekend:

A few years ago I added a rundown section of the city on my home layout and wanted a graffiti covered boxcar to place on an empty siding.   Rather than add graffiti on my own, I decided to take a box car to my friend Gerry Morlitz' home during a gathering he held and I had everyone sign it to cover both sides.   The significance is one of the signatures seen to the top right of the door, above the PRR insignia:

As we all know, a beloved forum member and friend to all, Marty Fitzhenry, is battling cancer this holiday season.  If I would have expanded the photo into the foreground you would have seen me operating the coal tipple which was about 8 feet away from the scene above.   This was just my way of keeping Marty in my thoughts as I ran trains during the show.

-Greg

Greg, I could not access the photos in your above reply. Arnold