Weekend Photo Fun 2-25-22-??

Wow, I've never been 2nd!  Must be my day.

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

Still a couple of more scenes to show closeups of on the plateau.  The pavilion in this scene is one that I scratch built and had, and still has, special meaning to me.  I met someone that I should have and could have married at a picnic there but didn't, something I regret to this day.  We're still friends though.

This pavilion, as with all of my scratch builds, takes no comprises.  The number of posts in the railings, the number of floor boards, the spacing on the roof, etc all match to the real one.

- walt

Penn Central GP30's.

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Thanks so much Scott for getting us rolling for this last weekend of February 2022!  

Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!   I had BIG fun in creating these scenes to be photographed in natural light.   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Bathing in the yard floodlights, a gondola filled with scrap waits to be switched into its' train.

The night crew.

Morning work train trundles through Butler Junction.

MOW workers, their train, and pickup truck.  Always lots to be done to keep those rails in place.

The inaugural run of my PRR L-5.

Here are couple of my favorite views of the layout:

More Postwar fun...

Texas Special A-B units pulling the correct "red letter" passenger cars.  I put these together one car at a time but this is essentially the Lionel 1520w Set from the mid-50s.

Yard work.

I plan to have an ash pit on the inbound track to my turntable.  I wanted a way to mechanically remove the ash from the pit to a gondola, but there are very few options in O.  Luckily, Paul (forum member Apples55) had a Crescent Locomotive Works ash conveyor he no longer needed, so he sold it to me.  These are no longer made, so I was very happy to get it.

This is a very nice manually working model.  I will not be using the working aspect of it, but it is very well thought out.  The ash from the engine is dumped into the pit on the left of the tower, is hoisted up the tower in a bucket, then dumped into a waiting gondola.

The tower operates by turning two dials on the end of the house, which in turn raises and lowers the chute and bucket with wire or chain.

Raising and lowering the chute is pretty straight forward.

The mechanism to raise and lower the bucket is really neat.  The bucket starts down in the pit, follows up the track in the tower, and then dumps whatever is in it down the chute.

Unfortunately, it is really difficult to use the dials and it is 3 feet from the edge of the layout.  So once installed it will be a static display.  Maybe I can install micro motors in it?

Around the freight yard:

Jim

Felt like a CNJ day.

I love the Camelback. I need one of the MTH Premier Reading ones. I really like your weathering too, particularly on the 4-6-6T engine. Very nice look.

   Maine Central

Scott Smith

@corsair29 posted:

Felt like a CNJ day.

D

Great looking CNJ diesel engine.......is that a Baldwin?

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

Great looking CNJ diesel engine.......is that a Baldwin?

Peter

F3

The most recently produced Atlas O Trainman SOO LINE PS-2-CD 4750 cu ft 3-bay covered hoppers.

Andrew

Falcon Service

The Lionel production of Denver & Rio Grande Western 60' insulated boxcars from Pacific Car & Foundry that they call "Beer Cars".

The number font seems to be more like a CONRAIL or UNION PACIFIC font.

Andrew

An appropriate end to February.

Hopefully I will have this car finished by the end of May.

                                                              JM's #2141...

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

Finished up this car this week, then went back to add the reflective sheeting. Need to get the sizing fixed, a little to big.

Awesome pictures and videos this weekend guys.  They are very inspiring and the work is just outstanding!  I'm already looking forward to next Friday.

My brother set up my dads trains for Christmas. Magical.

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@MartyE posted:

My brother set up my dads trains for Christmas. Magical.

Now my dad would use oil dry for roads and put over sized lead people.  Nothing was scale.  My brother was pressed on time because of some home projects so all of this didn't get done but this was close enough.  It really was cool to see his trains running again.

It’s great to hear about memories brought up by trains.

Here is an older picture of how dad did it...

Trackers at the Annapolis WB&A TCA show 2/27/22

Early evening downtown

Nice. You have a great collection of vehicles!

Marty E - All I can say about your Dad's Christmas layout is WOW!!!  Thanks for posting...oh yea and your brother did a really fine job this year as well.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Marty E - All I can say about your Dad's Christmas layout is WOW!!!  Thanks for posting...oh yea and your brother did a really fine job this year as well.

Best Wishes

Don

Thanks Don.  My brother is all PW and does a pretty good job recreating the feel we had as kids.  He just ran out of time this year but it was enough.  We lost dad earlier this year so it was a nice reminder of who gave us our start in the crazy hobby.

Marty, what a great way to remember your farther. I'm sure he was smiling looking down from heaven.

MartyE :  I agree with Jim, what a great way to remember your Dad, sorry for your loss.  Small personal story...in the middle to late 1950's my Dad and Mom worked for the same company but Dad was senior so he had 3 weeks vacation to my Mom's 2, so what to do with the "extra week".  Well most years he took the week just after Thanksgiving to "decorate the house (outside lights) and put up the trains (all Lionel at that time)"  I can remember helping with both tasks - sometimes to just hold the ladder and / or pass him tools under the layout as we worked.  Sometimes (Mom supposedly didn't know - I even got to skip school to work on the trains).  We had a pretty big layout at that time, something like yours with multiple tracks, switches, and lots of lights.  I remember the 0-22 switches were the toughest things we wired and we never ever really got them right the first time.  The neat thing was in those days if you were having trouble, you just went down to the local hobby shop and they set you right.  

Best wishes

Don