Weekend Photo Fun 3-22-13-??

Scott:

Great meeting you today at that old guys place. I do love this thread you start and see you were at it very early this morning. Please email me the information we talked about.

 

Bill,

I enjoyed talking to you as well.I will more than likely send it Sunday before I send it,, I am heading to Concord, NC for the Red Carpet event in the morning.

Scott Smith

Scott:

 

Have fun and take lots of photos for next weeks thread.

 

 

 

Nice shots Frank.

 

Jack

Busy in the canal today!!

 

Alan

 

Nicely done, Alan!  Looks great!

Hi Bill

Looks great.  At least you have a layout to run your trains on.  You have nothing to be embarassed about - there's no competition here.

I don't have the space or time right now.  Life throws speed bumps in

the way and have to deal with those first.  I have this great forum

to look at several times a week and thank all of you for sharing your efforts.

I get my train fix here and helping out a modular group set up and run trains

at local shows. 

So keep them pics coming and have fun with your trains.

Bill

 

Alan:

 

That's my favorite of the Lionel tug boats. Looks great on your layout.

A busy day near the brewery.

 

 

 

 

Chris

LVHR

Thank you so much Allan!!

 

Brian....thanks my friend!!  I thought I liked the NYC boat the best but I think the B&O version is my favorite too.

 

Alan

Train time

Scott

 

That is a nice tugboat in the picture. Not sure how many boats the Virginian had but certainly one named for the Head man would be in the fleet. Whomever did the redecoration of the tug for the Virginian did a nice job. Very Nice

Whenever there's trouble rubberneckers are in evidence!

That is a nice tugboat in the picture. Not sure how many boats the Virginian had but certainly one named for the Head man would be in the fleet. Whomever did the redecoration of the tug for the Virginian did a nice job. Very Nice

Thanks,

It didn't go as well as I hoped. There are quit a few port hole windows with no glass in them. Taking apart the Lionel Tugs without breaking them is no easy task. The WR Coe is still in service even though it has been through a few owners and name changes. Here is a link:

http://www.tugboatinformation.com/tug.cfm?id=2819

Scott Smith

I bought a pair of Phase V Genesis recently, upgraded with some Evan Design LED's and ran them at the club today. Another great WbB offering.

Handsome engine Dave. Evans LED's make a huge difference!

They do Chris, and these locos have upgraded detail from previous locos, they are very nice, and I bought these on a blowout special for$109 for the AA pair!!!!

Hi folks,

Just thought I would post a couple of pictures of my layout Georgenstadt, with the Lenz 2 rail VT98 rail bus. again, another fine product from Lenz. I have also posted some video in the 2 rail section.

All the best,

Miketg

Postwar 2344 

Hi Folks,

 

We have started construction of the G&O garden railroad mountain division.  The upper tunnel is for the coast line.  The lower tunnel if for the G gauge line.  This section will be planted with live trees, etc.

 

Here are a few photos:

 

Last weekend away from the home layout. I did get to see some of the O-Gauge displays yesterday at Virginia Museum of Transportation, like this Polar Express. Then, today, the Cardinal left charlottesville, VA about 10 minutes late.

 

 

Mike:

 

Great work - love it.

Second bridge abutment installed.  (Posted left hand one last week)

  

 

 

 

 

 

I thought we should extend this thread further by posting a couple of mere iterations of the same pictures.  Is this really necessary ?   Please think before you post, EVERYONE!

The same with these - I love the layout and creative use of space, but I don't need to see five redundant positing of the same photos.  PLEASE BE MORE CURTEOUS HERE!

 

So reposting the photos an additional time was courteous how?

Awesome photos this week!

My New Kinlet Hall Passenger set.

 

Chris very nice.

Can we get a video?

fantastic as always guys!

Here are pics of my new SP water tower!  It was custom built by Alan right here on the forum!  Thank you, Alan!  It is awesome!  Matt

Here's a shot of an MTH Premier Greenbrier I was using for testing DCS on the upper most track on our layout at MrMuffin'sTrains I shot yesterday..... we had a big big crowd and it was a great afternoon of train running and train talking.....

 

Well, I had to make a run to Las Vegas and back to drop off a transmission for my son. About a year ago I found out that the old UP Kelso depot was still standing, so I took a detour (about 70 miles total) on the way back home. It is now the Kelso Visitor's center. The depot was also the site of the Cima Grade helper district during the steam era (the roundhouse was torn down in 1948). There is a wye about 20 miles north of the depot -- not sure if that is the original site of the wye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scott

 

Thanks for the info on the tug W R Coe. The boat was built by the Jacobsen shipyard in Oyster Bay New York. The shipyard is gone about 20 years now. Jacobson was builder of tugs, ferrys and yachts. The Lehigh Valley RR " Cornell" was one of group of 4 tugs built in the postwar period by Jacobson and survives to this day being active on the Hudson River near Kingston NY.

 

The WR Coe is currently owned by a company called Breakwater Construction whose business is piledriving and dock construction and having its Business location in Oyster Bay NY. In fact the WR Coe today is likely moored just about at the same place where she was launched in 1957 . Sort of ironic returning to its birthplace.

 

W R Coe family lived in a mansion which is part of a public facility at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Upper Brooklville . Coe had a large interest in Botany and there are an extensive collection of plant species on the property. This site is about a mile up the road from what was Jacobsons . The mansion had a large public room, sort of like a library. There was a large fireplace in the room and on the mantle is a Lionel Virginian FM in the Black and yellow colors . It was given to Coe and is still there on the mantle today, probably never having turned a wheel.

Matt,

Seeing that water tower in one piece on your layout makes me very happy.

 

Alan Graziano