WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 2-13-15-??

great pics Andy! I've got to get to that show sometime,  but the weather made it a bad idea today.

Not all the trains at the NJ Hi-Railers in Paterson, NJ are on the main layout. Here's the "Soprano's" layout in an adjacent room.

Took my Valentine to San Francisco (only about 15 minutes away) for brunch on Saturday. We ate at one of our favorites in SF, The Bluestem Brasserie.  We had some great food and then walked it off downtown.  I snapped off some shots of PCC Streetcars, CalTrain and of course...our famous cable cars!  It was an unbelievable...and record-breaking 80 degrees in The City by The Bay.

Matt

One other piece made its debut on the test track after the Auto-Train rolled off the stage.

This '4000 is the heaviest loco to travel on it to date (nope, not a VLBB):

It had a bone of contention with a nearby lamp on the second curve, which can be corrected easily enough. The converted 2-rail Atlas switch on the yard lead give it a different kind of agita related to its pickup rollers, so that will need a little more tweaking, and I found that it definitely does not like variations in elevation while easing into a curve. Nothing insurmountable, but even after I finish adjusting my trackwork it will still look a bit...odd sitting on 027-profile tubular.

Pay no mind to what's hiding behind its tender   I couldn't keep the whole engine in focus anyway (don't recall how to fiddle with depth-of-field on this camera).

And, having sat in a box since I bought it at Spring York 2013, it's battery needs a bit of a charge--it forgot the first ID my TIU gave it and has been moving around under the ID of a C40-8 that I previously added. I'll have to pick up one of the 3v chargers, maybe from Allentown.

---PCJ 

Hope I am not too late to the party... Here is my scratch built hotel...

Here's my high tech control center! LOL

Just took down the Holiday layout this weekend.   Here's a pic taken of my 12 year old with the layout the day we dismantled. 

Taking a road trip to Houston. Mrs. AGHRMatt is going to be down at our place there setting up a new business and taking a closer hand at a couple of properties she has. The road trip took us through Las Cruces, New Mexico, so I dropped by the old ATSF Depot (now a museum) to get a couple of photos. ModelTechStudios makes a model of this "mission style" (stucco) depot, which when done in brick is referred to as "county seat style. It looks really good -- better than the photos show in the morning sunlight.

They painted a historical mural on the building across the street.

The caboose on the parking lot was placed there to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Santa Fe's operations in Las Cruces

An interesting little side item I spotted when we got off the freeway the night before was confirmed as a second ATSF depot three miles south of the Las Cruces depot. Apparently, there was a big land development there where professors and staff of the university lived. An area developed called Mesilla Park. Go figure.