WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 2-3-12-??

Tex Special,

Thanks, I always look forward to this topic! Great job everyone.

Paul S

OK, The layout is pretty ugly, But I can run trains...

My Big Boy rolling thru town.

I haven't posted any pics in a while.

Here's some new additions to Linganore Lines.  Seeing if photobucket still works.

3rd Rail B&O T-3 and Marx tinplate:

T-3 only:

Close-up of T-3 engine only:

Jim

When we visited the grand canyon a few years ago

Dave Allen: Where are the photos you posted taken, great shots.

I couldn't tell you a model but I knew it was a Hammond under those trains when I saw the the drawbars.  I have a Hammond Sounder and what I have been told is an Aurora.  Neither of those are in the same league as the ones you guys mentioned but they are still neat.  The Aurora even has the built in Leslie.  Now if i could just play the organ   

Same here.  I have access to a 1928 3/10 Barton Theater organ and still don't know how to play much on it (except for some songs I know from playing piano).  Fun instrument though with all it's bells and whistles (literally)

Found one in the archives from this year's Christmas layout.

Lionel 2037 heading into the sun

This discussion about Hammonds/Leslies got me searching. The Hammond Company was separate from Leslie for decades until Leslie was bought by CBS Musical Instruments (also owned Fender.) Hammond bought CBS and now the whole thing is now Hammond-Suzuki. The fun part is that they still make the B3/C3 and appropriate Leslie speakers. My old 910 Leslie appears to have been replaced by a combination of the the 971 with a 525 auxiliary speaker setup. Keyboard Hammond Service used to set up Leslie 122's and 147's with 300-watt systems (like the 971 is now.) I feel like I've tracked down an old friend I haven't seen for 20 years.

Working on the new club layout today. it is 6X16, we are using fastrack and TMCC.

A few Lionel diesels on the layout ...

Do you have any photos of your whole layout , overviews?  Nice layout!

Here's some random SP shots of my modest and still under construction layout.

Thanks ClutchGuy! A couple fellas who contributed to the scenery forum quite a bit had a tutorial on making 'ghost billboards'. That was the effect I was going for; now that you put it in my mind, I think I'll have to try adding another one, and really getting it more 'ghostly' faded looking. 

Great pictures everyone!

The new Hammond organs and Leslie Speakers are made by a completely different company(Hammond-Suzuki Japan) and are different organs except for name and appearance than the original Hammond organs made in Chicago.They are all digital. Although they sound good,they just don't really have that "gutsy, authentic" HAMMOND sound we all know and love.They don't hold up very well and have all sorts of issues.The new Leslies have a electronic speed control which has a high failure rate the cabinets are particle board.I won't service or work on any of the new instruments as the parts are hard to get.The original B3's/C3's are now pushing 60 years old and just keep on going.They were built so well and over engineered.With proper maintenance they'll keep on going another 50-60 years.Plenty of original Hammond parts are available.I have a 1935 Hammond model "A" S/N #415 from 1935.It's in my brother's living room.It plays and sounds like new!!

A great book on Hammond organs is called "Hammond Organs - Beauty and the B"

By the way-Forum member "Billman" is one of my top suppliers of Hammond parts. Haven't seen him here in a while.

Great photos everyone, had a lot of fun seeing them all!

Chris N&W, I am still trying to convince myself that your photos were not real landscape.  Absolutely incredible modeling of those mountains, they are amazingly realistic.

Empire Builder Dave,

Thanks alot. I still have some work to do in the scene below the tracks and ballasting ahead of me.

John Korling,

I'm getting all "?" marks in the photo boxes for your post. I'm guessing maybe it is my browser, though.

I get the same thing, I think the photos aren't there for some reason.

That's weird, I uploaded the pictures on the photo album forum last night, linked them to here and they were fine at the time.  I noticed now that the post I made there doesn't seem to exist anymore, I wonder what's up with that?  I guess I'll try it again.

John, WHERE did you get that backdrop???

It's awesome!  I WANT !

Russell,

I ordered that from Backdrop Warehouse.   They have outstanding backdrops, but their website is a navigational nightmare, so I'll spare you the anguish of trying to find it and post a direct link to the specific one I used:  http://backdropwarehouse.com/S...tMtHillsGrp.htm#111M.

It's the one called "(Molas Lake) Silverton, Colo"

Here's a few of the previous shots cropped and altered to sepia (b&w)

Redshift   

the paper is by Fadless Paper , product code 0056468   called Clouds

Pacon  Corportation    at www.pacon.com  

I think the reason it might look  like material on my set is that I put a plastic on the inside roof first to keep the  dust  from falling on to the track,  it was after that I found the paper  so I just tacked it over the plastic, that is why you see waves or bulges   my son did not  give me the measurements  but I think it was 4 feet by  12ft  in length  each roll did three sections between the roof beams 

Robert

John Korling, great looking layout.  Love your SP stuff ( of course I'm prejudiced being an old SP guy.)  Are those cabooses still available?  I have the SP SD45T-2 models from MTH but the red light on front does not work anymore nor the ocillating headlight.  Lucky they at least stay on at all.  Like your backdrop too.  Thanks for posting.

Ray

Ok thank you Robert

MTH Rail King Santa Fe Northern no. 2927 (MTH No. 30-1465-1)

http://www.mthtrains.com/content/30-1465-1