Weekend Photo Fun 2-23-18-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Bill

Here is my scratch built build for this month. It will end up on a On30 mod as a barrel factory. Owned by Clyed Keg and his wife, guess who is the CEO. 

                                    New arrival....................

Finally back to work on the Pam Am building , all glass is in another week and it will be sitting on the NJ Hi-Railers layout 

Am building a roster of D&H diesels as it's always been a favorite road. This Lionel U30C in earlier this week from a Forum member in FL. Lionel did a good job with these scale U boats from the early 2000s. I have the Freight Santa Fe, the Red one, and now this handsome D&H.  They all three have distinctive and different horns. Good detail for the age too.

Here are a pair of RK SD45s on Steve Maier's layout and a RK C628 on the club layout

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory

An explanation of the meaning of this scene: My grandson is a boy scout and LOVES camping, thus the camping seen (which in this scene is located in the back yard of the model of their house).   They live in a rural area so there's always animals visible too.

- walt

FM Front End Friday!

Chris

LVHR

Showing the Texas Special over the trestle. Hope you all have a great weekend.

c.sam posted:

Here are a pair of RK FP45s on Steve Maier's layout and a RK C628 on the club layout

SD45 maybe??? FP45 is a cowl loco.

Sirt, "new arrival" not squeaky clean but not yet old and rusty.  Just the right amount dirt.

Alex, I think you will have to call a house moving company to get the thing to NJHR.  Excellent job.

Happy Weekend to everyone. This week i weathered my Straub reefer car and the LIRR sand hoppers waiting RS1 at Cape Shark yard,

Pennsy Centipedes pulling a coal drag.

coach joe posted:

Sirt, "new arrival" not squeaky clean but not yet old and rusty.  Just the right amount dirt.

 

Thanks Joe!

I wanted to keep it as new paint since it would have been new in 1977 on my layout. No modeling past early 80's.

After looking at it a dozen times, I had to tone down that glow in the dark bright BLUE color. Just looked horrible especially under bright lights. Pretty color, just not convincing.

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Great pics, everyone!

Peter

@Bill T Who made those FedEx boxcars? Cool looking......

Started building another layout

Update Finished lower main table this AM 

Mysterious Groom Lake train late,at night

Making slow but steady progress on the Bordello...

Fast-forwarding a few years in the company archives, I find a set of photos from the early '40s.  These shots were taken of a short "main train" carrying troops and equipment.  As such photos were not permissible under the wartime ban on such things, they were buried deeply in the files and have only recently come to light.

The train, pulled by White River Division regular MoPac #1310 whose design was a product of the previous War to End all Wars, this train rolled off the NYC (Big Four) rails in St. Louis and is on its way to California for movement overseas in the PTO.  It is taking a fairly circuitous route to free up the MoPac and Frisco mainlines to handle the nearly constant flow of oil in tankcars avoiding shipment by sea because of the pressure Hitler's U-Boats are putting on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast.

We see the train here as it rounds the curve at Notch Junction (Tower NT) heading toward the tunnel under Roarke Mountain.  In the 4th photo, Notch yard can be seen in the background.   I wonder if the company photographer got in trouble for taking these:  I'm sure both Hitler and Tojo would have loved to know about this movement.

This weekend's fun photos from Patsburg's Daily News roving photographer.

palallin posted:

Fast-forwarding a few years in the company archives, I find a set of photos from the early '40s.  These shots were taken of a short "main train" carrying troops and equipment.  As such photos were not permissible under the wartime ban on such things, they were buried deeply in the files and have only recently come to light.

The train, pulled by White River Division regular MoPac #1310 whose design was a product of the previous War to End all Wars, this train rolled off the NYC (Big Four) rails in St. Louis and is on its way to California for movement overseas in the PTO.  It is taking a fairly circuitous route to free up the MoPac and Frisco mainlines to handle the nearly constant flow of oil in tankcars avoiding shipment by sea because of the pressure Hitler's U-Boats are putting on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast.

We see the train here as it rounds the curve at Notch Junction (Tower NT) heading toward the tunnel under Roarke Mountain.  In the 4th photo, Notch yard can be seen in the background.   I wonder if the company photographer got in trouble for taking these:  I'm sure both Hitler and Tojo would have loved to know about this movement.

Beautiful looking train,what brand and scale are your Cannon,they look Great.

Mikey

At a meeting in DC this week....just have some shots from the old layout....this layout exist from 1993 to 2003. It was 14x26. It was in the attic of our former home.

Peter

I put this sign on the Lionel diner when they announced the move of manufacturing to China....

I do miss all the space!

A favorite view into the heart of the layout, a past project which took quite a while to complete...

FrankM

The MTH Rail King Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range steel caboose and the Williams by Bachmann (from K-Line) Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range ore car arrived in the past weeks. 

Andrew

Falcon Service

mikey posted:

what brand and scale are your Cannon

Thank you, Mikey!

All the equipment you see on the flats is built from old 1/48 scale Bandai kits:

M3A1 Halftrack, M13 Halftrack, M4A1 Medium Tank (Sherman), M30 Cargo Carrier/Artillery Tractor, and M1 155mm Long Tom Gun. 

As time, money, and distractions permit, I intend to add another gun and tractor, and a few 2 1/2 ton trucks (from the newer Tamiya kits) as well as perhaps another passenger car or two.

Moonson posted:

A favorite view into the heart of the layout, a past project which took quite a while to complete...

FrankM

Fantastic scene, Frank!  I never tire of admiring your work.  You have an amazing eye for detail and creating it on your layout.

Art

My Lionel PRR ALCO FA2 had been "ill" for quite a while and I finally got aorund to getting it repaired.
This is the 1st version with Odyssey. Great looking and running loco and I'm falling in love with it all over again.
Stills & Video.

trumptrain posted:

This weekend's fun photos from Patsburg's Daily News roving photographer.

Well done!   Its just not all about the trains, is it?

Lou N

A small addition to the layout.

"Being watched"...

looks like a fun project

The 759 and 763 moving through town with freight. 

I also ran across this photo from my old layout. I don't think I ever posted it on the forum, as it was taken right before the whole thing came down, but I enjoy it so here it is: