WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 2-27-15-??

Laidoffsick - nice video update

Can you tell me the brand of turntable you used?

The River City 3 Railers had a membership meeting this AM....About 3 hours to plan our activities for the rest of 2015.

It was a breakfast meeting......here are some pics.....

Pancakes anyone?  

I think Gilly@N&W and Kanawha are dealing!

My wife is amazing! This is her chocolate chip/walnut pound cake.....that she made us.....

Anyone want to ice skate on the lake?

Kidding aside, we got a great deal accomplished......we have our venues set through January 2016....

Peter

 Man, you guys eat like that at all your meetings???  Yum!

Better late than never, I suppose...Happy weekend everyone!

"Flour Power"...

I bought a Lionel "Train-O-Rama"display at the last Wheaton train show from Berwyn's Hobbies.I never saw one for sale at a train show before.They look better in person than I thought they would.Now I need more from the series.

Dan

Nice freight car.I made a Three Stooges beer car too.

Dan

Dan986  Great Stooge Beer car.  Here is the engine that is on your Train-O-Rama.

It's a Millhouse River Studios.. 34"

Here's an interesting little item. We had a new member join last month, Ron Curtis. He's a big fan of Postwar kit-bashing and buys some of those unfortunate Lionel steamers that attempt to fly, but land on the basement floor. He dropped by the club today with a 2-10-4. He used two motor units tied to a single E-unit. On one unit, he mounted it backward to get it to fit right and ground off the flanges on a pair of drivers so he'd have three blind axles. He joined the side rods on the third driver axle.

He's also working on a 4-8-4 Northern built from a stretched Hudson. No Mint/Near Mint postwar locomotives were harmed.

I like that, love to see it in person.

Matt, how did it run?  Very good looking work by Ron.  I would love to see a video.

It ran pretty well, albeit fast. Unfortunately my cell-phone battery was getting low and I couldn't shoot the video. Next time he brings it down I'll get video.

Really missed seeing our honorary club mascot "Max"

Gilly

Neal,

   That photo struck me as well when I first saw it, tell your son great job!  Its alluring because of the composition and the little things like the prototypical wide curve, the details with the houses, telephone poles etc, weathering, and the realistic imperfections in the ballast and ground cover.  Its good to see you are running other road names, prototypical or not.  Any road name would look great on that layout.  It would be great to see some MTH fixed pilot modern Norfolk Southern/Conrail consist running on that curve.  Maybe I'll bring mine over!  Keep up the good work!

Rich

The new Norris Falls G&O Railroad O gauge bridge is taking shape:

A couple of pictures from two years ago at the Meadowcroft Historical Site of a mysterious heavyweight passenger car that was due to move to a museum in California. https://ogrforum.com/t...anishing-heavyweight 

Matt: Tell Ron Curtis that I immediately thought the engine was a Bob Gale creation. Looks terrific !!

Great stuff everyone!

A few depicting summer.  Can't wait for warmer weather.

I own the Lionel GP30 dummy in Chessie System paint and you can run it with any engine you can couple it to. Basically, a dummy engine can be considered another piece of rolling stock. Features of this engine can be found on the Lionel website.

I'll snap some pictures of my dummy when I get home from work tonight and a couple of my TMCC B&O GP30 for comparison. Nothing has jumped out at me as far as exterior detailing.

Lionel's I-12 caboose is one of the finest pieces of rolling stock produced! Every time I pull one out, I have to sit and marvel over it before I put it on the rails. I'm glad I got mine when they were first released.

The bridge looks great. What is the ETA on getting it operational?

Ron,

Nice work on the engine. Can't wait to see it run.

Guys, Love the 3 Stooges box cars. Can you tell me who makes these cars? Thanks and have a great weekend.

David

New addition to the fleet. Legacy Dash-9 with dummy unit. 

David   l made the Hicube Stooge Car The reefer was made by another Forum   member. They have never been made for sale.

That is really cool! I saw a video of one similar on youtube. Thought it was a great idea and might try it at some point in the future. Looks amazing!

I had the decals made for my beer car.I had quality issues with the decal maker.I will post a thread when the decals are made right.

Dan

First:

MY thanks to all participants and especially Scott for Keeping this going Every Week. Certainly my favorite thread.

Dan986;

Please contact me about the decals. I have the Billboard and would like to make a car like the reefer.

Doc;

Nice car.

Joey A;

Very nice unloading scene. Are the Flour bags molded or actual bags of something?

They look very realistic.

Thanks, Russell!  I made the "flour bags" from mint snuff pouches.  They look like Skoal Bandit smokeless tobacco pouches, but they're filled with finely ground mint leaves instead of tobacco.

Doc and Dan986,

Thanks for your responses. I love the 3 Stooges and was wondering if they were ever made. You both did a great job on them and yes would love to see how you made the decals.

Thanks again,

David

Great detail on the Flour Power cars. Nicely done

Dan,

Great job on the Stooges Car

Dan,

How did you apply the decals?