WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-18-16-??

Photos From Patsburg & The Free State Junction Railway

Not done yet but this little project has been a lot of fun. Needs some landscape and paint touch up and some detailing. Only modern touch is a relay for the signal and crossing gate in the isolated track section.

Another good weekend. Great photos everybody. My finger sore already..  Here's mine

 Honey, I am going to be late.

Christopher2035 posted:

Started working on the mountain/tunnel for the lower level

Was able to get the plaster done & painted

 

Also went to a train show on Saturday & picked up a few goodies
Got a few more construction equipment flatcars for Lorenzo, so we now have enough for a whole train. He loves them - his 2 favorite things - trains & construction trucks!

Another show find was this 2028 (I added the fuel tank) & a few cars to make set 1529 from 55 -

Running the Skylark from 54 -

The kids enjoying the trains -

On the way back from the show, I got lucky & caught A trio of NS widecab GEs leading 76M through Blythewood, SC on the R Line

With NS sending their B32-8s into storage & scrap, thought I would dig through the old photo archives & find a pic to post. When I lived in Chicago, they were pretty common on a few trains out there. Here's NS B32-8 3561 leading eastbound 34J through Otis on 10/25/08

NS Dash-9 9369 leads 21J out of Altoona w/ a bit of Fall color still hanging on the trees - 11/7/15

NS Dash-9 9456 leads 21M past Altoona Pipe & Steel in downtown Altoona - 11/8/15

Chris,  I've been following your layout progress and it's looking really good.  I have a new respect for postwar trains since joining this forum.   After I'm done with my layout I'm going to build a small postwar layout.  I also appreciate the Altoona/Cresson pictures!  

Yonder comes my train. 

Worked on a Williams shell painted and decaled in Missouri Pacific  and mounted it to a Lionel chassis 

 Try weathered couple cars, here are the results.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Try weathered couple cars, here are the results.

Fabulous, frankly, every bit of what you have shown in this posting, epitomized by this photo I am singling out here. Everywhere one looks in the four shots, there is something good to enjoy.

FrankM.

Here's a corner of the layout I am particularly happy with - it may be my favorite spot. It is called Grange Road corner and is something I have been refining for several months, now, when I have had the inclination to get creative again with Moon Township.

A couple close-ups of the same area are posted...

...in the thread, "What did you do on your layout..."

I hope you like what you see.

FrankM.

Moonson posted:

Here's a corner of the layout I am particularly happy with - it may be my favorite spot. It is called Grange Road corner and is something I have been refining for several months, now, when I have had the inclination to get creative again with Moon Township.

A couple close-ups of the same area are posted...

...in the thread, "What did you do on your layout..."

I hope you like what you see.

FrankM.

FrankM,

Your scenery work is outstanding. I just hope at you can use your magic hands also to our layout. 

-Johan

Moonson posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Try weathered couple cars, here are the results.

Fabulous, frankly, every bit of what you have shown in this posting, epitomized by this photo I am singling out here. Everywhere one looks in the four shots, there is something good to enjoy.

FrankM.

FrankM,

What else i can say to you than: Thank you very much, i really appreciate your kind words.

Johan

Union stationin Nashville.

#97 at the Valley Railroad in Essex, CT. A lovely Consolidation:

This would be make a nice 3rd Rail model.��

Station stop on the Santa Fe El Capitan

Yardman:

Absolutely beautiful model of Union Station in Nashville.  My wife and I stayed in the hotel there several years ago.

Neal Jeter

Yardman, That station is beautiful!! It would be great to hear how you built it and the other buildings in your city. 

This Union Station is on a friend s layout. He had a model builder from Pa. come down and take pictures of it then he built it. My friend then went to Pa. and brought it home. When he first got it, it was on display in the real station where he used to work for the L and N RR.

Went to the NMRA all gauges train show in LaGrange, IL today. This is always a great show with some fantastic layouts on display and the Illinois Railway Museum and other clubs come to promote their events. This show is always packed with tons of families dispelling stories from those who think this great hobby is losing steam. 

The Midwest TCA guys had a nice layout set up with an accessory section for hands on fun where kids could operate the forklift oil drum loader, the milk car, the log loader and the barrel loader. The guys even brought a bunch of nice bar stools for the kids to sit on. First class operation!!!

SJC posted:

In keeping with my recent plan of reducing my command control collection of PS2 and PS3 engines and going conventional, I sold my nearly brand new MTH Imperial PS3 CSX ES44 and just purchased a Williams/Bachmann CSX SD90 from Mario. As of now, I plan to keep 4 (maybe, maybe, maybe 5) command control engines. One, the ES44 has been sold. Another, an MTH PS2 F3 is at my tech for conversion to Williams True Blast Plus electronics and sound. Another MTH PS2 steamer will likely follow. 

I don't understand why you would sell PS2 engines or convert them to Williams since they will run under conventional control.  They have way better sound and detailing.  Williams is great, and I own quite a few.  But, I wouldn't think of downgrading MTH engines to Williams.

You must have your reasons, and maybe you could explain that to me.

Thanks,

Alan

Lionlman posted:

Looks like some new 1968 Mustang GTs are headed to the local Ford dealer.  The auto loading/unloading ramp is scratch built by Stu Gralnik.  

Neal Jeter

 

Neal,  looks good on the layout.  Thanks for posting the picture.  Love the Verners truck, I grew up on it.

Stu

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Try weathered couple cars, here are 

Nice cars. But how about a few more pictures of the white building on the background of the first photo?!!!! That looks awesome too. 

bigtruckpete posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Try weathered couple cars, here are 

Nice cars. But how about a few more pictures of the white building on the background of the first photo?!!!! That looks awesome too. 

BIGTRUCKPETE,

Thanks. The white building is only picture but i can put more pictures from that next weekend. 

-Johan

Well they didn't need these for any big snow this year in New Hampshire.

My weekend fun was today, at the WB&A Chapter TCA Train show in the Annapolis, MD area at the Elks Lodge in Edgewater, MD. I put my new Menards American Power & Light structure on the modules, and it was really impressive.

I started to add lighting to section 1 of 6.

Yardman posted:

This Union Station is on a friend s layout. He had a model builder from Pa. come down and take pictures of it then he built it. My friend then went to Pa. and brought it home. When he first got it, it was on display in the real station where he used to work for the L and N RR.

Thanks Yardman! It makes it even more cool that he worked there and then had the model made.

I saw a lot of roadswitchers on the Slaton division in the 1970's that looked much like this:

I am ready to get these off the floor and running on the club layout.

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

I started to add lighting to section 1 of 6.

Good to see your layout coming along, John. See you at York in three weeks.

Heres some photos of my reworking of Patsburg industrial area.  

AGHRMatt posted:

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

I started to add lighting to section 1 of 6.

Good to see your layout coming along, John. See you at York in three weeks.

Really looking forward to seeing you guys.

John

Panther97 posted:

Christopher2035 posted:

Started working on the mountain/tunnel for the lower level

Was able to get the plaster done & painted

 

Also went to a train show on Saturday & picked up a few goodies
Got a few more construction equipment flatcars for Lorenzo, so we now have enough for a whole train. He loves them - his 2 favorite things - trains & construction trucks!

Another show find was this 2028 (I added the fuel tank) & a few cars to make set 1529 from 55 -

Running the Skylark from 54 -

The kids enjoying the trains -

On the way back from the show, I got lucky & caught A trio of NS widecab GEs leading 76M through Blythewood, SC on the R Line

With NS sending their B32-8s into storage & scrap, thought I would dig through the old photo archives & find a pic to post. When I lived in Chicago, they were pretty common on a few trains out there. Here's NS B32-8 3561 leading eastbound 34J through Otis on 10/25/08

NS Dash-9 9369 leads 21J out of Altoona w/ a bit of Fall color still hanging on the trees - 11/7/15

NS Dash-9 9456 leads 21M past Altoona Pipe & Steel in downtown Altoona - 11/8/15

Chris,  I've been following your layout progress and it's looking really good.  I have a new respect for postwar trains since joining this forum.   After I'm done with my layout I'm going to build a small postwar layout.  I also appreciate the Altoona/Cresson pictures!  

Thank you!  In my opinion, you can go 2 ways with them - either try to make a realistic environment & run them that way ( which is a lot of fun & looks great - I've done it) or embrace the fact that they are toys & go w/ something that would look at home from the time they were first produced.  Either idea works well for what it is.  I like the history aspect of it & trying to create a window into the past so to speak.  At some point, when my kids are older & I have more time to devote to the hobby, I'd like to try my hand at a hi rail pike again.  What I'm doing now though is pretty easy & allows the trains to be operating & get a finished layout product up in a short amount of time. It also places the emphasis on fun w/ the placement of accessories & so forth