Weekend Photo Fun 3-16-12-??

Scott, Reverend  "Cat in the Hat", I like it!

Good one with the Kitty Scott! I like the Church too!

Top of the weekend everyone were railfanning on the Bellevue and Schenectady RR. Happy Railroading!!!-Don Klose

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My first attempt at a Sierra West kit. The "TOOL SHED"

My brother has been a "Wabash Guy" ever since his childhood #2337, so, for his 60th birthday, we got him these #2367 F-units. They're only three years younger than he is!

One of my favorite vehicles

A recent photo of two of my favorite Legacy engines

Scott,

   Thanks for the weekend photo fun it's one of my OGR favorites I look forward to it every week.
It was very nice to meet you and Josh the other day and once again thanks for signing the application . I faxed it per your advice and the nice gentleman at TCA said it should be here April 1st so I'll be seeing you at Fridays in York.

David

Little and big (clean and grimy)...

Wonderful photos this week.  The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) has ordered their first 12 cars from Nippon Sharyo USA in Arlington Heights, Ill.  The green and white slope-nosed, self-propelled rail cars will run in pairs.  The cost is $49 million.  Bodies will be made in Japan and the cars assembled here using 60% American made components.  SMART will share Northwestern Pacific track with the occasional nighttime freight train.  By the way, this state of the art car design will also be used by Metrolinx in Toronto.

Here's the PC Geep pulling a few 9700 series cars.

I've always liked passenger trains and only recently saw these handsome early wooden cars by MTH. Picked up this nice Long Island set this week and am pulling them with our recently acquired RK Ten-wheeler.

Scott,

I always wondered if you would ever have the nerve to put that Cat-In-The-Hat figure somewhere on your beautifully done layout!  Thanks for finding a place - at least for one picture!

- walt

Another 2011 Christmas layout memory.

I had all 4 seasons represented and this was what I chose for Spring.

Learning to add rock croppings - - - from a rather flat vertical wall to a bumpy one!

Alex

See my Hidden Pass Junction RR layout under construction here:

https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/2415514336550790

Some more pics from our last stop at Greenville, PA.

There is an active thread about the Lionel Grand Central Terminal. Some say it is too big and costs too much. Recent sales on the bay would dispute some negative comments. In any event, it is one beautiful terminal, a work of art, and I am sure glad that it is on my layout.

Brian, It looks A W E S O ME !!!! Thanks for sharing with us.

Harsh bunch on that "active thread"!

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here we go!!

Patrick,

Very nice!!!

Here are some photos of the Baldwin 4-4-0, 8-wheeler, the "Reno", which was built by Baldwin in 1872, for the Virginia and Truckee RR.  It located at the Old Tucson Studios,  west of Tucson, and has been there since 1970. 

Here's the first bend in Track#1, right at the foot of the stairs as one enters the trainroom. I like this spot because it sets the tone and standard, in my imagination, for what is about to follow during a walk around Moon Township...

My new 8516

A future hot dog stand?

The new station progresses

GREAT PHOTO'S EVERYONE

HERE'S MINE

Here's an old picture of the layout base section getting glued together. It is one-of-ten. FINALLY scheduled for painting and final assembly the first week in April.

My wife deserves an award for allowing me to glue-up in the living room!

This shows two sections (almost complete) that will go at one end of the 8x12 Island section of the layout.

Very nice of the crew of that fine steam locomotive to lend assistance to the Diesel crew.

GNK:

    I was in Old Tucson studios last week. I took the guided tour and was told that the Reno is "dressed down" as you see it in your photos. They add brass details and etc. for movies, and really dress it up!

    That engine goes back to the silent movie era and was once owned by MGM. It was also used in the movie "Oklahoma," among many others.

    I just saw the movie "Tombstone" and some scenes at the beginning were shot at Old Tucson, including the massacre at the old mission and Kurt Russell getting off the train pulled by the Reno!

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie

Man, while not in totally deplorable condition, she REALLY needs to go back the loving arms of the V&T Railroad in Carson City.

Rusty

MR. YOUNG'S FAVORITE ENG. HELPS THE CHERELVALLEY RR.

PRR 2-10-4

What happens when you start out above your ZW.

Rusty:

    As I mentioned on my reply to this thread, I was in Old Tucson last Saturday. I took the guided tour. The spokesperson said that they keep the Reno as you see it until they need it for a movie or photo shoot.

   They keep all of the dressy brass details, etc. locked away until then because, well, they are brass and they are concerned about those details being stolen during the night.

Remember, Old Tucson is out in the middle of a desert in Arizona, easy pickens as they say.

   The spokesperson said they can dress the Reno up as much or as little as its movie role calls for.

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie