Weekend Photo Fun 3-17-23-??

Thanks for starting us each week Scott with interesting pics. And looking forward to everyone's creations each week, always a great selection of train pics.

Setting up for a model train show at our railway museum this weekend. I have a 4x8 switching layout set up for 2 teens to run at a time. One side they unload logs, move to other track and reload them, then load a couple of ice cars. On the other side of the layout the other teen needs to figure out how to move 2 cars from the siding with the grain elevator to swap with the cars at the other siding with the barrel shed. They need to figure out that they have to pull out the cars from one siding and run around them to be able to put them in the other siding; takes them a while to figure that out. The white box car has the QSI breaking glass sound module so if they hit it to hard you hear the sounds of falling cases of glass bottles breaking!  I have a couple of teens from our train club that select teens outside the fence to allow them to do the switching. For the little kids I have the LionChief controls mounted on control boards on the fence. Some shots of my Spencer, Gordon and Henry creations. Have been collecting some 3D buildings and figures to build up the Hogwarts display.  And some shots outside CN switching across the street and view of the museum train yard.

@Scott.smith enjoyed the Reagan photos this morning

all great pictures today guys

My model of Boston & Maine Mogul 2-6-0 #1455 was made by Lionel (6-38019) with TMCC and a Pittman motor. It was listed in the 2005 Volume 1 catalog at MSRP $599.99.

I had wanted to buy a TMCC version of Lionel’s Mogul for years. It’s perfect for my 10’-by-5’ layout which represents a single-track New England branch line that passes by riverside mills, rural countryside, and a small town, the types of places that were served by B&M Moguls.

In 2021, a Lionel Mogul was listed “new-in-box” by Forum sponsor Trainz. It was on its way to me the next morning. It was packed well and, as best I could tell, had never been run. The pickup rollers were unmarked and the traction tires had no flat spots. The locomotive looked and ran like new, so the Trainz description and rating were accurate.

The Boston & Maine Railroad rostered 137 B-15 class 2-6-0 Moguls. They were built by Alco in Manchester, New Hampshire and Schenectady, New York between 1903 and 1910 and were used on branch line mixed trains, in local freight service, for switching, and on commuter trains around Boston until 1956. Moguls hauled wood sided passenger cars on the B&M into the 1950s.

As built, the Moguls were not superheated but some were modified around 1918, as can be seen on the Lionel model by the circular cover plates at the fronts of the tall steam chests above the cylinders, where piston valves replaced the original slide valves. A B-15 class diagram indicates an engine weight of 142,500 pounds and a tender weight of 89,000 pounds. Superheated engines had a tractive effort of about 25,000 pounds.

Lionel’s model closely resembles the prototype B&M #1455, which is preserved at the Danbury Railway Museum in Connecticut.

The model is pulling three wood sided passenger coaches and running at 24 scale miles-per-hour in the first video.

MELGAR

Going back to my sophomore year at Manhattan College…….circa 72-73……driving across the Bronx on Moshulu Pkwy, I saw this train……

It was on the Harlem Division going south……..I suspect this load was headed for the Bronx Zoo…..

The giraffe cars are three of the common 3376s and two of the less common 3386s. The 3386s usually are found in uncataloged sets. I got one of mine from set X-574 NA……an uncataloged set from Abraham & Straus.

Here is the complete set….

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

A 2022 Christmas Layout memory

Last week I showed the Howard Johnson building that a friend gave to me.  That same friend, who by the way before retirement was the sports director for a local TV station, also gave to me this TV (or is it radio) building.  Thank you Mark B.

- walt

Thanks Scott for getting us started!   Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!   Wishing everyone a delightful weekend!  

Atlas O RS 1 with a local freight.

B&O passenger train exiting a tunnel.

Busy-ness as usual in Patsburg.

Locomotive servicing facility shows a Washington Terminal Co. RS1, and a B&O passenger equipped GP9 on the service tracks.  In the background is a Pennsy P5a modified.  

It is mid-March, 1949, and the MoW foreman decided it was time to move the snowplows from the MoW ready track to the storage tracks.  The warm weather convinced him they will have an early Spring and he needed the MoW tracks for his track maintenance cars.  While the mild winter did not do too much damage to the mainline tracks, they still need to be inspected and ready for the summer traffic.

Lionel NW2, MTH plows

At the D3R Train meet at my home this past Saturday night we presented @clem k with a custom painted Adrian and Blissfield GP.  It can be seen in the video at 1:42.

Charlie-Nice video and smooth running trains. Love your choice of music.

Steve C.-Wonderful scenes.

Dave

Here’s some of the layout I move some stuff around I think since the last time I posted here it’s been awhile. Have a great weekend

A few pictures of the layout this morning;

Caught on the fly as I was leaving town this morning; The Chesapeake and Delaware Dover and Raritan River is now running on what used to be called the Conrail Secondary. It branches off NJT tracks in Redbank Nj and runs south through Lakewood. This is the same right of way that the Blue Comet ran on.
I’ve also seen it referred to as Delaware and Raritan River. This train is running North through Farmingdale.
I think the Black River and Western is now part of that conglomerate.

New livery.

Just in...

@Putnam Division posted:

Going back to my sophomore year at Manhattan College…….circa 72-73……driving across the Bronx on Moshulu Pkwy, I saw this train……

It was on the Harlem Division going south……..I suspect this load was headed for the Bronx Zoo…..

The giraffe cars are three of the common 3376s and two of the less common 3386s. The 3386s usually are found in uncataloged sets. I got one of mine from set X-574 NA……an uncataloged set from Abraham & Straus.

Here is the complete set….

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Peter, pull the DeLorean to a stop at the second light on Mosholu, I'll hop in and you can drop me at Manhattan in '82.

@coach joe posted:

Peter, pull the DeLorean to a stop at the second light on Mosholu, I'll hop in and you can drop me at Manhattan in '82.

👍🚂👍🚂👍

Peter.

@dk122trains posted:

New livery.

Love the Belllville & Schenectady  colors.

@SIRT posted:

Just in...

Just in and already well used.

@stangtrain

I know now just where the “OGR” is printed ☺️

Lots of talk about the new MTH Shays, thought I would show a movie of my Lionel Shay…

• Craig,

Here is my MTH N&W Shay (first release) running at the VMT.

Scott Smith

@scott.smith posted:

• Craig,

Here is my MTH N&W Shay (first release) running at the VMT.

Scott Smith

Very nice, Scott.

Ran the Lionel BN coal train today.

Happy Weekend everyone!

Rixster nice train.  You must have an awful lot of flashing billboards on that layout.

@coach joe Actually, they are LEDs I have strung around this multi-level table I have in the center of the layout, pictured here.  I need to remember to turn off the flashing mode when taking video.

Painted this NS ES44AC. 🎨

Nice wall art Rixster!