WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-13-15-??

This weeks project. A oil storage tank. Made from a Hobby Lobby paper mache round hat box.  $3.29 plus a few cents for printed sheet metal from my Clever library. Less than 30 minutes work....decent model. thx

I've made a concrete base for it to sit on....will post later.....

And I'll bet that one of the regular bakery customers is the Road Foreman of Engines, who stops in most days and eats a bear claw with his mid-morning cup of coffee.  According to Trainmaster George Dado, you can identify the Road Foreman in a crowd.  He'll be the one with the large stomach and the blank stare.

Number 90 (Tom), apologies for contacting you on this thread (you don't have email address in your forum profile); but, contact me via the email address in my profile if you have any information on reproduction RR dinnerware vendors.  I've googled my fingers to the point of calluses w/o success.  Would really like to have non-railroad/model railroading friends to dinner with replica dinnerware, printed menus, etc.--if I could make the table and chairs rock to-and-fro I'd do that, as well.

To the OP; I apologize deeply for this off-topic foray in your thread.  Forgive me.

EDIT:  Good news; Number 90 emailed me this a.m.

LCCA Switching Tracks car #5 being pulled by my new LionChief Plus Pennsy Mikado on my temporary New Aberdeen and Antrim Railway.

Some pictures of European trains and stations from last Spring,getting ready to go again.

Vienna train station and the Majestic Imperator Train

Milan train station

Montecatini train station going to Florence

Milan train station

Next 4 are Munich train station

On the way to Salzburg

Last 2 are Salzburg trainstation

Mikey

GN 3390 and GN 2584 double head on the Oriental Limited.  A washout on the Great Northern has forced a detour over the Northern Pacific and Homestake Pass.

The locomotive on the point is 3rd Rail's model of the GN O-8 Mikado, the largest Mikes ever built.  The trailing locomotive is an MTH of the GN S-2 Northern, the first class of Northern ever built with 80" drive wheels.

The O-8 just came out of the Hikel Layouts and Trains backshop after conversion to ProtoSound 2.  With the upgrade the Mikado now speed matches beautifully with other Proto2 or Proto3 equipped steam, electric and diesel locomotives for consisting or running as a manned helper.

I can't wait to receive 3rd Rail's model of the Timken Locomotive.  It will definitely be the subject of Weekend Photo Fun pictures and more.   

Dusting off the G gauge Grizzly Flats trains my Dad left me.

Dan

Not a finished scene, but still fun. 

Have a great weekend

Tried a little art imitating life...or life imitating art...either way it was fun.

Kudos and credits to Sleepy Hollow for his great cityscape.

Have a good weekend!

Bryan

Sneak peak Sunday Showcase…

 I was looking for the new CR SD80MAC when I came across this one...

This is UP #4014....all clear ahead....

Old school "train" helix which was at the WB&A Train Show today in Annapolis, MD

The thing actually worked, the owner raised the elevator, the cart then rolled down the helix when it got to the top, pretty neat!

Picked up a new Lionel REA Operating Box Car. Very sturdy and this one comes with a can motor. Very smooth operation when unloading.

Very busy day today with the National Capital Trackers at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, VA. My new  Legacy ES44 got a real workout and performed well.  Here's a photo as it heads up a long stack train. Marines are disembarking from a helicopter in the background.

We're back tomorrow from 9-4.

Weathered GTW GP-40.   Thanks Steve ( SIRT ) for the GREAT weathering !

  Dusk on the Sleepy Hollow Railway...

On occasion, people donate trains. This morning (or the night before), someone dropped off some trains of various scales. This one was of particular interest as it's a complete Marklin Z-scale layout with a Plexiglas lid. It also had two complete trains. I'm going to clean up the track and test it. The thought is that it would make a nice end table since the club can't use it.

On the O Scale front, in response to a visitor's request, I brought down some scale-wheeled locomotives. The train initially consisted of six Atlas 89-foot flats and three recently-acquired Lionel 86-foot excess-height box cars headed up by a pair of ATSF C40-8W's. When I added four Atlas articulated auto carriers, the C40's started slipping, so I swapped them out for three CNW locomotives -- 2 C44-9w's and a C40-8. They handled the train well.

A few from last week.James

Here you go Ralph ...

Great photos Steve.   They are my favorite engines ! 

Something new to the layout, the Amtrak Turbo train.

The Turbotrain is really different.  Pops right out of the layout.  I wish I had the radius for it.

For those of you that don't look at the 2 rail section, you owe it to yourself to take a look at Erik Lindgren's Early Piggyback project thread, very inspiring.  He takes it to a new level.   https://ogrforum.com/t...ly-piggyback-project

So inspiring, it has started to cost me a few bucks.  I should also thank Roger Wasson for bringing the Weaver Campbell 66 Express TOFC to my attention, a nice one.

BTW - Tom it's in your honor, being near 66 and all.

Test shot with the new, much more complex camera: Dropped the old easy to use one...D'HO!

A followup on that Z Scale layout someone dropped off.

• The lighting works
• The turnout machines are trying to work.
• The track is filthy
• There were three locomotives instead of two -- a 1-4-1, a 1-3-0, and a 0-3-0 (German). Pleasant surprise is they all work.
• The buildings lit up when I plugged it in.

Looks like the two hard parts will be cleaning track you need a magnifying glass to see and cleaning up the turnouts. It's definitely a conversation piece end table as it's a bit too small to be a coffee table.

Made some more progress on my scenery.

And for those 2RS folks, how about participating in the forum beyond your narrow focus.  Put up a photo or two.

Here are some pictures of the finished restoration that Steve Eastman help me with on a kitbashed Ives engine and prewar passenger cars: