Rufus: I think that building you are asking about in Scott's third photo is the Hotel Roanoke.
Mr. Gilly is correct in his response
THe pic is of Wachovia Tower Jefferson St.
Wachovia, was quite the rage, of banks in the Carolinas and Va, back in the 60-70's
and very competitive buildings as was the case of the tower skyscraper sitting right
next to the RJR building in W-S, NC
When the tower was built it was Dominion Tower (Dominion Bank)...then it became First Union Tower,Wachovia Tower and now Wells Fargo Tower. I think it was comedian Michael Feldman that called it the world's tallest homeless shelter.
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Erik, your Harley pictures look like they were taken in front of Dave's, Mercer Junction Train Shoppe. Nice pictures everyone.
Jack
Erik,
The Harleys look good next to the Hemi GTX
Alan Graziano
Originally Posted by RJT:
Rufus: I think that building you are asking about in Scott's third photo is the Hotel Roanoke.
This is Hotel Roanoke. 
A terrible photo off my cell phone, but another GG1 was acquired for my roster. One of the three Weaver GG1s I didn't yet have
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Jonathan...looks like you have some MTH catenary installed!!! Looks great!
Alan
Jonathan
I like the catenary - - a lot!
Alan & Charlie,
Thank you! I am about 4 towers short of completing the loop on this layout. While the MTH system is a little over scale, it still makes a huge difference on how the electrics look. I am pleased. I am tempted to see if I can get enough tower bases and wire to do the inside loop and then make longer cross beams for the classic PRR two track look.
Originally Posted by pennsyk4:
Matt
The picture is of my ho western town diorama. The figures and wagons are pewter casting that I painted. the cattle some fifty are both plastic [Walthers] and metal.
I also made a large G scale western town with many figures that I gave to nephew's two young boys.
It is was not easy for me to find western figures, wagons and such in O scale.
There are plenty of great old western town structures available in kits.
Think that might be my next project.
here are couple more of the ho
Thanks, Charlie. I know Scale University used to have a couple of cowboys and a gold prospector with mule in O Scale, but they went out of business.
I live in the little town of Brisbane, CA. It is on the southern border of San Francisco, in a valley, up against San Bruno Mountain. Brisbane was the home of the Southern Pacific Bayshore Rail Yard. It closed in 1986. They tore up all the track and razed all the buildings except for the roundhouse.
There is a big indoor arena and livestock pens near Brisbane in the town of Daly City. It was built in 1936 and is called the Cow Palace. It is owned by the California Department of Agriculture. It's original purpose was as a quarantine station for livestock arriving in this country from overseas. The arena was designed for livestock expositions and rodeos. Every year they have the Grand National Rodeo there.
The Cow Place is on Geneva Ave. Geneva Ave. ended 6 blocks east of the Cow Palace at the entrance to the SP Bayshore Rail Yard. Every year, when they would put on the Grand National Rodeo, they would close down that section of Geneva Ave. and cowboys would have a cattle drive right down the middle of a city street! The cattle would be off-loaded from stock cards in the rail yard, for the Grand National event. At the time, I was a patrol officer for Daly City PD. I would assist with the traffic control at the time of the Geneva cattle drive. The bottom pic is the Geneva Ave. Cow Palace Cattle Drive.
The Cow Palace is also home to many rock concerts, dog shows, gun shows, boat shows and...the 1964 Republican Convention.
Matt
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pennsyk4 - You mention that "There are plenty of great old western town structures available in kits." I haven't found many in my searches. Could you provide some pointers to suppliers? Thanks.
Bob Anderson
Originally Posted by pennsyk4:
Matt
The picture is of my ho western town diorama. The figures and wagons are pewter casting that I painted. the cattle some fifty are both plastic [Walthers] and metal.
I also made a large G scale western town with many figures that I gave to nephew's two young boys.
It is was not easy for me to find western figures, wagons and such in O scale.
There are plenty of great old western town structures available in kits.
Think that might be my next project.
Originally Posted by jdstucks:
I have had youtube videos posted for quite a while but havent posted many photos on here. So here ya go! My nearly complete layout and a link to my latest youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSWe5T25Uw
Great photos of a nice looking layout. How did you do your crossings?
Originally Posted by boin106:
Where was this? By the Cow Palace also?
Christoper love the Postwar, and I gotta get a 6518.
Originally Posted by Apple & Spud Line:
Originally Posted by boin106:
That is Geneva Ave., just east of the Cow Palace. Matt
Where was this? By the Cow Palace also?
GREAT THREAD EVERY WEEK!!!
A BIG shout out and a even bigger THANK YOU goes out to Barry & Cora Broskowitz for letting my wife Louanna and I spend the afternoon with them this past week.
Also a big THANKS goes to Marty Fitzhenry for setting this up for us. We really enjoyed talking with Barry and Cora.
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Originally Posted by Alan Graziano:
Erik,
The Harleys look good next to the Hemi GTX
Alan Graziano
Alan,
Anything looks great beside a hemi.
D500:
That is a wonderful photo. Very realistic.
Originally Posted by BANDOB:
Trackmobile at work last weekend on at the MD O-Gaugers meet.
I really like This thing. where did you find it?
Layout Control Panel
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Originally Posted by leavingtracks:
Sirt....the weathering on that hopper is gorgeous!
Alan
Ditto, Steve. Just incredible.
Jonathan....I did the same thing with my MTH catenary.... I used the poles and just combined the arms. I some places I just used one arm and used two poles making it look like a PRR-like catenary...not perfect but at least it gets the idea across...
Alan
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Alan
that is one nice coal drag laying in there.
Great stuff everyone!
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Well this is my little test track SuperSnap layout and it was Bangor and Aroostook day. Plus this 1990's Lionel 2-4-0 in Jersey Central paint I bought bc it was odd and 15 bucks. Here we have both my BL2's #51 (Williams) 54 (MTH) and 1776 (Lionel). I just started this layout.
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Greg, Trackmobiles are a Lionel product and can be found at your local hobby shop or a train show, found mine for a good price at York, check the ads in OGR, or at the top of this page.
Jack
Just getting started but enjoying every minute.
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Bubba's Barbeque opened this weekend servin' up heapin' helpin's of Eastern NC goodness! LOL
New gas station opened last week.
