THIS Photo is one of the best adverts for MTH Scaletrax out there..

Lionel N&W J No 611 on the club layout

Here are a handful of images I made at Pete Lerro's Strasburg "Great Western" charter earlier in February. 

Rob Davis

Some really wonderful photos this week!  Just the other night I finished up on a concrete station platform and also received the lights I needed for it from forum member Andre Garcia (AG).  The lights are made of brass and very well made.  I think they really work well with the station scene.  I really appreciate his making them available.  Below is a photo I took this evening. 

Have a great weekend and if you get a chance visit my website Bo's Trains at http://www.bostrains.com   Bo    

Amazing photos this week real and models thanks so much all for posting.

Really looking forward to another visit of the North West Trunk lines the few photos posted do not come close to showing off the overall size and detail of this layout!

Lets see some more Dave! or a full magazine issue full of articles and photos!

Got a couple of more cars for the Turbo train so took it all apart and added a few more passengers and fixed the light issues by swaping locos shells front to back. Looks and runs great!

Enjoy!

Zach

Now arriving!

UP 2918, a big Legacy Lionel Unit, is right at home on the basement layout.

Heres some pics from the Nationl RR Muesum in GreenBay WI. 2-1-2013. Boy the big boy is huuuggge eh! And the GM Areo was cool! Then we went to the port of GreenBay and took couple pics of St Marys cement plant. Stoped by GB Train Shop p/u couple cars.

Dave Hikel, please post daily.

thanks!

Thank you all for allowing me enjoy the these great photos.

Thought I would share a video my son and I made in late 2006.  I just posted it to You Tube since it's been in hiding as a google video for several years.  Hope you enjoy it, we sure had fun putting it together

Go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be

Shipping Chevy Vegas by rail 70's style.

The Story:  http://www.autoblog.com/2013/0...egas-price-in-check/

Great video, love the ride!

It's early Saturday morning and we are already on page two, very cool!  Great pix everyone.  Russ

NICE,IS THIS CUSTOM OR DID IT COME THIS WAY

WBG PETE,  looks like a very nice layout.  Can you post some more pics?  And what are the dimensions?

Thanks, Rick

The maintenance area of our layout is spread out over 18’X12’ area with 5 shops and with both transfer table and round table. So we decided that our Yard Control Tower should be incorporated into one of the Shop facilities to help view around the hart of the operations.  

Steve C.

Dave, nice job. Is that picture of you a mock-up of your Mt. Rushmore? Don

Great picture. Just this week I thought my name should have been vega_gt_73.

first new car lasted 17,000 miles  and was burning oil! They should have put the forks in the window and brought them directly to the scrap yard!

MPC wasn't just a model train era.

Bought 2 new rail cars friday .

This piece is the Sample MTH created about 13 years ago before they ran the actual car. Cost me a pretty penny, but i only took it out for pix. It will never see service..

Caboose Hop on the Boston & Maine in the 50s. An Alco S-4 is in charge

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Dave, nice job. Is that picture of you a mock-up of your Mt. Rushmore? Don

 

Don

Thanks for creating that picture.  Now we have a photo with both Hikel Brothers on Mt. Rushmore.

And you have a hint at how the Roosevelt Junction series of ScaleTrax layouts were named.

T.R.

After helping Jack re-align the turntable, we decided to weather a half-dozen lighter-colored cars, including a pair of bulkhead flats I got this week. The bulkhead flats ride so low (at least the 2-rail ones) that I had to take the trucks off and shoot them separately. All in all, a pretty productive day. I still have to paint the wheels.

Weathered Trainman Covered Hoppers with one waiting in the queue.

Hi Matt!

Have you gone two rail?  Nice "subtle" work on the weathering.  The cars will blend right in and look very natural.

My Railking Triplex.

R/

Galen

I just finished my first ever proto 2 upgrade. I installed it into a SF F3 unit thats been setting on the shelf the last few years because it was a slave unit. Here is a short video of it on point in my Super Chief consist on the DKK&S Railway.

Not yet. I've gone more hard-core 3RS (as have a couple of other AGHR members) since I have a huge investment in 3-rail equipment that would be impossible to find/replace in 2-rail or convert. Also, since I like big steam, but can't see myself with enough space for 72" radius (O-144) I'll need to retain 3-rail capability in the future.

Bill....that Yard tower that Alan built incorporating it into your diesel facility is just beautiful!!!

Everybody...get pictures this weekend!!

Alan

Alan thanks. Alan did a great job on it for us. Jim r. aLSO DID A GREAT JOB on the LOGO'S for us ! Thanks Alan & Jim.

First car done with Kadee couplers!

My layout expansion tunnel project.  Hope to be finished in a few weeks?  Full story and more photos soon.

They should have put the forks in the window and brought them directly to the scrap yard!

bptBill - Very funny now, but not then.  At that time, GM didn't have the technology to produce an aluminum block engine without steel cylinder sleeves.  It was too bad they came to market too fast.  I still have insecurities about owning aluminum block engines.  The distrust comes from those Vega days.

As disappointing as the Vega was, the aluminum engine was (over the long term) the right idea, but didn't have the technology at the time to really make it work.

My old 2002 Supercharged V6 Nissan pickup is spending it's "retirement" with my son in Las Vegas and still running strong at 370,000 miles on an aluminum block without steel sleeves. Nissan coated the cylinders with "nickosil" which is so hard and smooth that the rings barely wear. Usually some peripheral component gets the engine after a while.

I always questioned shipping cars racked upright like meat in a reefer.