WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-13-15-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

some pics of my detailed Rico Station

Getting ready for Going Electric, Part III:

Peter

Nice job Scott, I use the same molding for shelves too, makes life a little easier.

Here's my contribution for the week, been working on a little scenery the last couple of days.

Paul

Preparing for Sunday's Open House at the club. It's Spring Training time so let's have a NY Yankee Train.

This week I was honored to receive the LCCA #7 Switching Tracks traveling boxcar. I thought I might share a few photos of this boxcar on my layout.

Busy Week!

Here are a few of this n that...

great pics guys

A B&O GP30 & GP35 slowing down at St Paul to pick up Train orders

With all the talk about Menard's new building I thought I'd post some of mine.

Scott - Many thanks from ALL of US here for your dedication to starting this thread each Friday. As many have expressed - this is a favorite and displays a wealth of visual delights for us all!

Here's a couple of shots of the area below the towering Hellgate Bridge with the waterfall into the gorge. There is an incline line (yellow girder) behind the bridge and a level lower line that are difficult to see from most angles.

A 2014 Christmas Layout memory 

Where's Waldo Scott?? 

- walt

There was a thread this week about motivation for train purchases. This photo reminds me of my personal motivation. Who doesn't like beautiful passenger cars? What's not to like here? You have color, great road names, and simply beautiful passenger cars, most in the photo, K-Lines.

PLAY BALL!!!!  The sandlot, where the REAL GAMES are played!!!

Because it's not on the tracks to get power Scott!   Duh.   

It's all about the white plug!

Decided to run the Alton limited this week -

NH 232 on the upper level -

scored a bunch of sweet cheap deals off the bay this past week -

Just a note - for everyone ( myself included) that complain about the insane prices of new trains, not one of these cars cost me more than 15$. Most have them have the boxes as well. Deals are out there. The used market is a GREAT place to pick up cars or engines if you are in to traditional style trains. It allows you to grow your roster & not break the bank doing so.

This one was a little more than 15$, but I always wanted this. I remember it on my Uncle's layout when I was a kid

Lorenzo's new favorite thing in the train room is the milk car -

This is what happens when train time is over - my wife says I created a monster, lol

Westbound NS 17G has a set of helpers on the rear as they pass Pandora Road in Latrobe, PA - 1/23/15

The same helpers returning eastbound to Altoona, seen in Derry, PA -

With DST in effect, we were able to go the NS line that's 1 mile from our house & catch 337 in good light again this past Sunday -

What moulding is that? Some sort of beaded casing? I'm thinking of building some train shelves too.

For years I was buying molding from Home Depot and the molding was getting much thinner and more expensive. I found this white molding in the window and door molding section at Lowes. It was under $6.00 for 7 feet. The finished side looks like this;

When you flip it over you will see this;

It's thicker than the Home Depot stuff and the white sides look nice as well.

Scott Smith

This is my first pic posted to WEEKEND PHOTO FUN after years of waiting to have something remotely worth posting.  I have to apologize for the quality of the pic, however:  I don’t own a decent camera and wouldn’t know how to use it if I did.

Anyway:  It’s not too long after sunrise on a day in early October, 1935.  The Frisco local from Springfield, MO, to Fort Smith, AR, has just crossed the White River bridge that the road shares with the MoPac system.  The engineer, J.T. Nagle, whistles for the macadamized grade crossing as Ten-wheeler #719 drifts lazily into the curve at the Wrenchmueller farm just before hitting Notch Junction where the Mopac and Frisco mains come together to cross the bridge.  In the distance, you can see the headlight of the Texas Eagle behind T&P 4-8-2 #907 emerging from the portal of Big Indian Tunnel which runs under the plateau on top of which sits the town of Marmaros.  You can see the back wall of the narrow gauge Frisco Silver Dollar line’s square “roundhouse” through the upper girders of the Warren Truss bridge over the White.

There is a great deal of work still to be done, but I’m finally at a point where I can show some scenes from selected angles without looking too bad.

Trains are ready for this weekends Open House at the NLOE.

 Feeling  blue...as in B&O blue!

Happy weekend everyone!  Here's a Weaver N.H. PS-2 covered hopper that I weathered with acrylics and powders in an attempt to make it look like a car used in cement service...

On the other side of the tracks in Spencer is Williams Motors and The Pershing Bakery.  Ever since they quit making Hudsons, business has been really slow.  The bakery though has the normal morning customers. 

Art

Exactly Chris! And some people call MPC Junk.....Crazy....

A few photos from just a few minutes ago, all taken on my iPhone (which has a pretty decent camera) so they aren't perfect. 

Tomorrow is my annual FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) recertification, annual training, testing and annual rules refresh. A very long day. We spend about four hours in the morning in the classroom going over the rulebook front to back, an hour for lunch, and all afternoon is spent working hands on in the rail yard demonstrating competency. After all that is done, tests are given. All required to stay current with the rulebook and federal regulations. 

From the layout:

 Running out of room again...not exactly the worst problem to have. Just trying to NOT have to figure out yet another spot for the LGB set (top shelf). It is so big, I generally can't find a good place to put it. It seems like it is always in the way. 

Catoctin Mountain Trains is closing on March 31. I was up there last week and picked up a few things. I will make one or two more trips. Last visit I picked up this die-cast MTH bridge for my upper loop. Some serious weight to this thing! 

A look at my yard (if you want to call it that....)

The MTH Bump - and - Go trolley in action. 

My "original" Lionel set was running on the inner loop - a 4-4-2 Pennsylvania Flyer Lionel set. Engine, air whistle tender, gondola, boxcar and caboose. I overheated the engine pulling three MTH Railking cars that were standard plastic with diecast trucks and couplers. Lionel claims this engine can pull 12 cars. Whoever thinks that is accurate is way off IMO. Regardless, it does a great job pulling a couple of all-plastic cars with plastic trucks and couplers. Paul at CMT has a number of MPC/older Lionel 0-27 cars for sale since he is closing. I may pick one or two up to put behind it. 

Amtrak was on the outer loop. 

The B&O F3 freight was on the upper loop. 

I know it's a little late for a Christmas photo, but I just download my very small train layout from my camera;

Back around 2009/2010, this was one of my favorite layout videos.  If you've seen this before, it's worth seeing again;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__pRxVSyyw

Happy Friday guys... just running my 1225 across the water.

I got my blinking  lights hooked up! Love the creaks and groans on the new Lionel 1225 Berkshire...

I recently did a post asking for options on train case/cabinet building. I recieved an enormous amount of help, and I am very apreciatve of all that gave input. Here is how the case turned out. 

Greg

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

The guys are joking.  They see the power plug not plugged in.

A couple of photos of the new Ghost town. Is there such a thing as a new Ghost town.

They see the power plug not plugged in.

But the guy that fixed my smoke unit didn't . I got the engine home and the smoke wasn't working...I called him up and he said "take off the shell and check the plug, I don't remember plugging it up when I finished."

Scott Smith

Fabulous start to the weekend! Outstanding pics!

Everyone has done a great job!

Peter

The final bridge support pieces arrived!

They are shown here extended to support an 8' temporary bridge mockup (final GN Rock Island, WA bridge main span is a ways off, and will be 8' 8").

The temporary bridge will simply be 2 pieces of 2"x2"x1/8" aluminum angle stock with a plywood deck joining them.

The car shown is sitting at the expected final rail height of 87", lowest point of the supports in 81.5".

West bound / South shore brackets (grey part free to slide in and out)

East bound / North shore brackets

Mockup bridge (bottom at approximately same height as final model, which extends 18" upward). Car at final rail height.

Link to a picture of the prototype bridge: http://www.railpictures.net/vi...&nseq=15#remarks

Here we go with the duplication photos again.

Don’t you people know how to use the forum properly by now?

pallalin -

Nice to see my Frisco 4-6-0, again. You bought it from me a couple of years ago. Great

loco.

I bought the same loco again in New York Central, as that is my thing (and it's a NYC

prototype). It runs well, also. One of Lionel's best.

Nope.  I've tried highlighting and deleting as instructed, but only the text disappears.  the photos stay bright and colorful as ever.

I believe Rich had commented on this a few weeks ago?

Not sure what's going on?

One pic would do, not all again from the original post for a reference.