Weekend Photo Fun 2-17-12-??

Nice job on the shelves Paul!  When can you come to Boston and build mine?

My Wife recently found a local online listing where someone was giving away three boxes of old Lionel trains.  We jumped on it and this is what we got.

An old 675.  It was very dirty and did not run.  After some cleaning and lubrication, it runs fast and strong.  It still needs a few parts.



Here are the cars.



Here is the track.  most of it looks un-salvagable.  There are several rusty switches in the bottom of the box.



Here is the ZW.



I have alot of work to do.

Love that Baltimore street car.      The colors look very similar to the old D.C Transit cars that ran in Washington.

The answers can always be found in my photo albums - http://classic.kodakgallery.com/sirt  See (Construction Album)

Over 3000 photos, ya might have to dig a little. LOL!

(Styrofoam)  and Linen Folk Art paint from Wal-mart.

Finally, A day with low humidity so I finished all of these.

B&O EE2a 2-8-8-2 formerly BR&P Class XX crossing the Cattaragus river viaduct with a northbound coal train in tow

Peek a boo

Here are a couple of older pics from my old layout...

Paul

That's a pretty cool kitbash!

Neat pictureRichard! Would you Cattaragus River be named after the Cattaragus Creek that runs through my home town of Gowanda NY?

Interlocking

Another weekend of great photos form everyone and lots of layouts I am seeing for the first time.  Thanks for sharing.  Here is an update on my Layout.  I hope to start placing buildings soon.

Woodshire Bill....great accident scene above!

Really nice photos from everyone!

Question for Rich:

Did you use a new method to make these rocks? If so, will you describe it in your next video? They look great!

Thanks to everyone for posting.

Alex

Work progresses on my Buddies layout

Here are a few shots of my new Rail King Nickel Plate ALco PA's that came earlier this week:

Great drumhead Brian. Its nice to see it lit up, looking forward to the installed pictures.

20 hours ago

 

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Finally ready to install this drumhead in the stairway going down from my train room to the first level. You will see it as you look straight ahead going down the stairs. I will post another photo when it is installed.

 

 

 

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For thoes that were wondering, this is a full size drumhead, not a "O" gauge drumhead.

Charlie

Wanted to give the new form of the forum a try with my favorite corner with one of my favorite new additions. Had trouble making the iPhone app get this same thing done. Hopefully the app will get an update/tutorial going soon.

Some action at the logging site

Rich Montaque:

That is a great photo. Love the back-light effect.

My first photo post. Layout still under construction.

Alan Graziano has made more progress on the DME COAL MINE. In the pictures below you can see from the layout drawing that the DME COAL Mine is on the right side of the layout past the power plant.

In the picture of the retaining wall and coal cars you can see that this is the location of the DME Mine and Loading Complex.

You can see the in the pictures that the Mine building is a multiple stories and the loading area is about 4 feet long.

Alan it is starting to come together. Thank you.

MTH's Silver version of 4829.

Spent some time last weekend with the Riverside Live Steamers

Thanks Alex!  No new method.  It is the same technique shown in detail in part 1 DVD and also reviewed in part II.  No mountain construction in next one.  These mountains were done before the DVDs came out.  The more I did, the better I got.  Part II shows some improvements by adding foliage to the face.  This next photo is the last mountain or rock face I did and shows these improvements.  There is a significant amount of art involved, particularly with choosing which molded rocks to use and where to place them.  I try to keep a "grain" or consistent slant of the rock layers as you would see in the real world.  Small things like that make a big difference.  If you have any questions, just shoot me an email.  

Rich

www.toytrainsontracks.com

This weeks scratchbuilds

The green transformers

The piping complex on the right with the red and white pipe's.

The white pump house there too

And the big tank on the right

a few more of my engins

My new WBB 4-6-0 painted and decaled for ACL by my friend and fellow forum member, Larry Kostka.

Ray

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I got an e-mail from another forum member (Skip). He was having some issues with posting photos so he sent then to me. Here are his pictures.

CHEVY TRUCK PLANT

This incident happened in the Oshawa CP Rail yard which ships out the GM vehicles. One of the railcar men who attaches and detaches the car haulers, accidentally unhooked a set of train cars without having the brakes applied.

The Oshawa rail yard has a slight incline to it, so when the set of cars was unhooked from the
engine it started to roll down the hill, it smashed through the stop block and then through the
fence and continued into the parking lot where GM stores the new vehicles
that come off the line.   Over 300 vehicles were damaged. 
I guess this is where the guy just takes his lunch box and goes home.