Weekend Photo Fun 2/5/21-??

This week, I have been running Central Railroad of New Jersey #107, an Atlas O model of a USRA 0-6-0 steam engine. This well-detailed scale model has excellent steam sounds that can be heard clearly on these videos, in which it is pulling two refrigerator cars through the tunnel, over the truss bridge, past the town, and over the trestle on my 10’-by-5’ layout. Although the layout is small, so that it can easily be disassembled and transported, I tried to build scenery that would make it interesting.

MELGAR

Looks nice Scott. 

A few pics of a area I am working on.  Ballast, scenery work.

Great photos everyone!   My photos of fun for this week show Patsburg in both night and day. Have a wonderful and safe weekend everyone!  Be safe = Be well!

At nightfall.

View from my hotel window I see a B&O F3 A&B units. s

Early evening reveals a RDC car at the station ( not seen ) at the station.

On the street where I live. ht

Dawns early light

Zeke the brakeman on the rear step.

Heading downtown for the weekend...

@MELGAR posted:

This week, I have been running Central Railroad of New Jersey #107, an Atlas O model of a USRA 0-6-0 steam engine. This well-detailed scale model has excellent steam sounds that can be heard clearly on these videos, in which it is pulling two refrigerator cars through the tunnel, over the truss bridge, past the town, and over the trestle on my 10’-by-5’ layout. Although the layout is small, so that it can easily be disassembled and transported, I tried to build scenery that would make it interesting.

MELGAR

Wonderful locomotive, train cars and layout, Melgar. The train sounds are terrific.

@trumpettrain posted:

Great photos everyone!   My photos of fun for this week show Patsburg in both night and day. Have a wonderful and safe weekend everyone!  Be safe = Be well!

At nightfall.

View from my hotel window I see a B&O F3 A&B units. s

Early evening reveals a RDC car at the station ( not seen ) at the station.

On the street where I live. ht

Dawns early light

Zeke the brakeman on the rear step.

Patrick, your photos are marvelous as usual. I can't remember the last time I did not click on the heart in the lower left corner  ("like,") when seeing one of your photos. Arnold

Newest addition to the roster...

A UP MU on the rails at Kodiak Junction.

Back to running trains.....commuter service this week......

The repaired New York Central 4-6-6T is doing great......

2 short videos:

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

What was wrong with your NYC tank engine if you don't mind me asking? I have the same one. Looks great! I like your roadbed - is that Ross?

Peter, thanks for the video shorts.  I'm not sold on sound for the most part, e.i.  "This is the tower.  You're clear into the station, over".  Over?  Over where?  Even after hiring on with Cotton Belt in 67, Santa Fe in 68, in TX, we didn't end radio messages with "over"!

Love the mellow sound of the whistle.  How do you rid one's self of goosebumps?

Joe

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This week I have something different. I took a break from working on scenery for a while to do some minor repair projects and msotly get the train room cleaned up. While doing that, I came across my very first "control panel" that I used to temporarily control the layout while I got far enough along to build the real thing. Here it is....nothing but a piece of scrap plywood with an "Atlas selector" to control power to the tracks:

Not much of a control panel, now is it? The real one had to wait until I built the third phase of the layout which was the center peninsula where the panel would be located. It has in fact been finished for years, but when I thought about posting the picture of  my temporary panel, it occurred to me that I never posted any pictures of my real panel. In truth, its not really a control panel, but a power distribution panel to turn off power to individual blocks and yard tracks to prevent trains from consuming power while idling and for the purpose of short isolation. I suppose these days, your command control handheld is really your "control panel." But it is still cool, with very heavy duty wiring and toggle switches, and it folds down for access. I also tried to keep the wiring as neat as possible.

Here is one other picture totally unrelated to the post above. Just an image of a box car being unloaded at my scratch built LCL platform at Mifflin, PA. The figure is by Artista, and I believe the boxcar is an Atlas Trainman item.

A 2020 Christmas Layout memory

Sticking with the back middle of the layout.

Last week's entry:

A closeup of one area:

And closer yet:

- walt

The new Lionel O scale Santa Fe PS-1 40' box car with flat wheel spot and scraping wheels sounds.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Lionel traditional O gauge New York Central/Merchant's Despatch two-tier auto carrier with Mattel HOT WHEELS Ford automobiles.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Picked up one of the special run Carling Beer Reefers. These 36 ft. reefers by MTH (Premier, #20-XXXXX series)  are really nice looking and come in a variety of beer names and have added-on detail.

0-6-0 Switcher moving some beer reefers. I think I need a few more!

@Randy_B posted:

What was wrong with your NYC tank engine if you don't mind me asking? I have the same one. Looks great! I like your roadbed - is that Ross?

Faulty board, bad smoke circuitry and disconnected pilot steps......right out of the box.....repaired by Lionel in just over 3 weeks.....which is pretty good for this time of year....

Runs fabulous now! A great engine. I want to see how it looks with the smaller Altas NYC 60' cars....they're packed away right now.

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

Faulty board, bad smoke circuitry and disconnected pilot steps......right out of the box.....repaired by Lionel in just over 3 weeks.....which is pretty good for this time of year....

Runs fabulous now! A great engine. I want to see how it looks with the smaller Altas NYC 60' cars....they're packed away right now.

Peter

Glad to see it's fixed.

MELGAR

Finally got a Christmas 2020 present installed on the layout; a pair of Tomar crossing signals with Azatrax signals controllers for two main line tracks. Here's my NYC 20th Century Limited, pulled by K-Line J1e Hudson 5344, passing through a small town on the way to Chicago.

It's a noodle-factory below with all the wiring, but it works!

Tom

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

@NJCJOE posted:

Nice Silver Bullet!

@Putnam Division posted:

Back to running trains.....commuter service this week......

The repaired New York Central 4-6-6T is doing great......

2 short videos:

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Really like that magneto-crane.

Peter the tank engine looks great.

Sirt, I'm once again in awe of your modeling skills.

Andrew, how do you get so many of single version of Hot Wheels cars to populate your auto carriers? I don't usually see more than one copy on display in any of the stores.  Are you buying in bulk of the internet?

  Thanks Coach Joe.

        SPEED SERVICE CABOOSE, weathered item #1,937...

Early morning sleeping layout. All great photos everyone. It’s nice to see member photos rather than ones “plucked” off the interwebs.

Came across these on my hard drive.  The Lionel Open House in Canfield, OH many years back.  I think this is one of the first looks at the ZW-L.

More snow today so brought out the snow birds. More snow expected Sunday

@t8afao posted:

Looks nice Scott.

A few pics of a area I am working on.  Ballast, scenery work.

Looks great. I like how you buried the Fasttrack in ballast. Where did you get the retaining walls?

A few more 4-6-6T pics:

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

A few more 4-6-6T pics:

Peter

Looks and sounds nice Peter. I wished I would have purchased one. I did have the old K-line model but sold it years ago. 

@Heartdocmannino posted:

Looks great. I like how you buried the Fasttrack in ballast. Where did you get the retaining walls?

the block walls I purchased of ebay. they are made of foam, either rigid or flexible your choice. different scales. These are for O and G. The sizes are 8by 14. For this area I used the rigid pieces and cut them to height. I then carved the top layer of blocks in and painted to the color I wanted. I like them, they look great and easy to use.  

Video of running trains around this past Christmas

A little trans load facility I’m working on this weekend.

The Frisco GP7 roster continues to grow.  Number 564 finally got the steam generator stacks it lacked.  Numbers 546 and 569 still need 3-chime horns, although a study of cab roofs for these locomotives will show it could be almost any horn style in any location.  Flared smoke arrestors would make these projects complete.
Some day there will be a fourth and final (famous last words) GP7 in mandarin orange / white paint.