WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3/14/14-??

I often need help with ideas and/or a helping hand. But I don't think that our little dog, Kasey, can help. I was positioning my new trestle and could not resist taking this picture of him behind the trestle.

ATSF 5009 leads S-KCRI through a grade crossing:

Early morning hours in Longhorn Flats, Texas.  Quiet and peaceful.

Steve, Lady and Tex

BNSF passing through the yard

Have a great weekend Everyone!

Alan

Work is well underway on "Section 7" of the Middle Division (Duncannon to Tuscarora Creek, just east of Port Royal).  Here, the contractor is busy at work removing by truck laminated pink foam, ah, er, tons of rock excavated from the construction site.  Thousands of cubic inches of material must be removed as part of this massive project!

Loading the reefers

SIRT that is some incredible work!  I am truly envious of your abilities and you make me wish I was at home in my train room right this moment to do some more work on my layout!   I love your pictures every week!  This picture below is just a joke that maybe only a younger generation will find funny but I had to do it!  

Last weekend of winter....hallelujah!!!

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams"

A 2013 Christmas, yes Christmas, layout memory

- walt

Shows where the scene is relative to the entire layout:

My first scale wheels fixed pilot F-units from MTH.  Two axle trucks don't do as well through hi-rail switches so I replaced the wheels with 3-rail wheels.  Its a lot of extra expense for a fixed pilot but worth it.  These engines look and run great. Have B-unit and passenger cars on the way. 

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The El Capitan is now ready to depart.

Its Friday... time to take that old car out on a weekend drive!

Roger:

Love dog & train photos. What breed is Kasey?

Wow! Talk about a dangerous crossing!  Great photos everyone!

Last weekend of winter....hallelujah!!! (by Mike C.)

Don't think so. Just look out our window this morning with another 10" of snow added yesterday and it will be a long time before we see what looks like spring. 

Here is my new Lionel SP Harriman Consolidation locomotive!  And...one other thing that is non-train related  This last Sunday my son joined 27,000 other racers and ran the Los Angeles Marathon.  He lives in LA while attending UCLA (he will graduate in June).  He trained for a year.  It was his first marathon...26.2 miles is along way to go.  He ran the good race...struggling the last three miles with sore and cramping calves.  My wife and I were spectators...cheering him on at Mile 18 and meeting him at the finish line.  In addition, runners had to deal with record-breaking upper 80-degree temperatures for the last third of the race.  So, congrats to my son, Anthony.   Matt

SIRT,

Your weathering and photography are awesome!  Matt

He is a Bichon Poo....which means lap dog. Which he is very much a lap dog. If you sit down, he is in your lap.

Posted by Matt:

Handsome family Matt.  Congrats to your son on a solid finish.... 

Nice Rich!  That scale sized coupler and the smaller coupler opening make quite a difference.

Here are a few recent photos of the layout. Also added a picture of me with the Amtrak Acela in NYC last weekend.

Jason

Enjoy your weekend & be safe.

Joe B.

Some phots around the soon to be gone farm:

Very nice trees and arrangement, Pete.  Are those all primarily from the same source....Woodland Scenics maybe?  Or did you make them?

- Mike

This is our only recent train addition......this is Loco.

Loco, good name for your dog, Joe. Needs an engineers kerchief for the photo though.

It's been ALCo week at my house

I've wanted this engine since I was a kid & saw it in my Dad's 1962 catalog. Even though it's a cheapie, it doesn't show up a lot -

Got a decent set of UP 2023's to pull my 1467W -

Also got a repro set of the 2031s & a Satellite Car -

layout pics -

Lucia & I caught the Wabash Heritage Unit last Sunday leading NS 156 -

Lucia running some trains before heading trackside -

waiting for the Wabash -

Jimmy- I wish that station was still there to visit.

Hi guys, here's a recent acquisition from the bay about a week ago.  G scale NS 100 ton hopper.

Now, a few diesels in 2 rail O scale.  Everything in the background is G scale.

FA-2 and FB-2.

F3 ABA

GP9 and SD40-2.

Rick

Look what arrived, from the paint shop, last night at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Scott Smith

She is one of the 19 confirmed cabs to be in Spencer for the Streamliners event end of May.

She is one of the 19 confirmed cabs to be in Spencer for the Streamliners event end of May.

She's a beauty; after watching her rust for over 20 years just outside of the museum I would have never thought any restoration would have been possible. I am amazed at the job they did.

Now I want an O-Gauge model of it.

Scott Smith

Lucia is just too cute for words :-)  May she have a love for trains for all time and serve as a beacon to draw other children to the magic!