The new station progresses. The roof's shingles are hand cut from card stock and glued onto an illustration board roof. The corners will be covered with more shingles when all four panels are attached to the station.

A work horse on the Cherelvalley RR.

Morning trash pickup with a Western Maryland Challenger idling nearby.

The local freight company eagerly awaits the powered B unit that is on order to join this Alaska F-3 ABA set.

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams"

Well, Jack "The Apprentice" Kemph has been busy. Yet another scratch-build. This one is a railroad velocipede. It's made from match sticks, brass and welding rod with H.O. wheels.

New Train Room;

The layout is getting close to where I want it. We are deciding how to do the mural on  the wall. My supervisor is very talented. So I thought the new Tinplate Celebration Passenger Set would be a good contrast to my modern layout.

The early morning sun rising on the layout just a few minutes ago.....

Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

At our local train show hosted by the local railway museum; I took a few trains to run, bright and colorful and lots of action is what the kids like.

Simply used the K-Line track snap track real easy to put together and some Atlas on the inside loops easy set up and take down.

Rolled out some carpets for a 12x22 running area. On the floor keeps it all level and easy for the kids to see. We had pretty good crowds all day and won best of show, (small show not many layouts)

The outside loop was All Great Northern Freight with Steam up front that the kids like the best and pushers in middle, California Zephyr, Great Northern Passenger, Santa Fe pulling a string of circus flats with wagons, GG-1 pulling a string of Bill Board Atlas reefers, Lionel Animated Circus cars, and Coors Light Silver Bullet the kids loved opening the doors on this. We walked around with the MTH handheld to let kids blow the whistle ring the bells and open and close the doors on the Coors train.

On the side I had a display of the Rocky Mountaineer Passenger Train.

Great weekend.

Click on photos for a larger view.

Another 2011 Christmas layout memory .

Spring is in the air!

- walt

Triple-ought precision?  You bet!  That’s a scale 81 inch drive wheel pictured.  All four drive wheels on a 4-4-2 needed to be the exact same diameter--side rod binding problems otherwise.  Under 200 tons of pressure, two rough wheel castings were pressed on an approximately 12 inch thick axel, then chucked up on a huge wheel lathe.  Turned as a single unit, both wheels were machined round and the same size.  A manganese steel tire was heated until it was dark blue, and then “shrink fit” to each wheel.  Back to the wheel lathe where a few thousandths of an inch was removed producing two drive wheels that ran perfectly true.  Have a nice weekend, Jim

Alan, I always love your morning sun light pictures.The Silo complex looks AWESOME. Thanks for sharing.

We're finally getting around to 'peopling' the layout and it really 'livens' thing up. Next will be to repaint a few of these folks to add some variety. These are mostly the inexpensive bags of figures from eBay...

The handsome black '59 Impala was generously donated by forum member Tom Shirey this week - Thanks again Tom! It arrived just after nightfall and the porter is about to park it behind the inn.

AROUND TOWN...

Here are a few pics of a area we just finished and Yard Master Buzz scolding out R2-D2 for blocking a crossing

Great Pics all,

Have a good weekend.

We went to York (no not that one) yesterday with my youngest and his cousin.

National Railway Museum.

 a handsome pair of vintage British sports cars arrived today - the TR3 and the MGA, both economical rides in their day with 4 cylinders of less than 2 liters. The Triumph was a much stronger performer however...

Still looking for a Red TR4 and TR6

An evening on the layout.

Lionel's new catalog lists CZ cars and matching F units. Here is a wonderful painting of this famous passenger train.

I don't know about the TR4 but for a TR7 just buy a wedge shaped door stop and put wheels on it. Ugliest Triumph ever made but that what happens when you let British Leyland touch anything.


David

Brian what size cars are the Lionel CZ cars? Thanks!

Trainwatching on the Bellevue and Schenectady RR. and we catch OGR stocking up on Doughnuts and Danishes at the local bakery.

GREAT PHOTOS EVERYONE

Here's mine

Thanks for the compliment Bill (Popsrr)......here is another one on the dock of the cheese factory...

Alan

Ha!  You are sadly correct David - the TR7 is one ugly automobile!

I meant to say "TR6" as my wife had one years ago. We're trying accumulate cars from our past. Much cheaper than collecting Hudsons!

Great shots everyone. 

I finally have something too add, now that my layout has been started.  I have the benchwork done and was able to run a train today.  I am still waiting on a few switches to do my inside wye and some sidings but I am able to actually run some trains now!

Here are some shots.

In that case Sam I'll keep my eye out for one in 1:48 as a kid I thought the TR6 was the coolest of the British sports cars. I later found out the were very dependable too. Sad to say they were out of production by the time I was old enough to afford one.

Ah yes The TR7 " The Shape of Things to Come"or the demise of a company.

David

Originally Posted by Jdevleerjr:

Nice train room and layout,coming along very nice

keep us posted.Sometime in the future you should think

about a second level, you have some nice wall space for

mountains. Looks great.

THANKS AGAIN, ALEX

The lumberyard got a new truck.

Stan is perplexed by the last move.

Steve C.

Happy Weekend everyone !!

made a y tube and put smoke unit  in the station.

double click for larger photo 

Originally Posted by Jdevleerjr:

Great shots everyone. 

 

I finally have something too add, now that my layout has been started.  I have the benchwork done and was able to run a train today.  I am still waiting on a few switches to do my inside wye and some sidings but I am able to actually run some trains now!

 

Here are some shots.

 

Nice train room and layout,coming along very nice

keep us posted.Sometime in the future you should think

about a second level, you have some nice wall space for

mountains. Looks great.

 

THANKS AGAIN, ALEX

Thanks for the great comments

I do plan to elevate the back part of the layout, with some grades and some hills, but I wont be adding anymore track. 

Bill:

I believe the Lionel CZ cars just announced are 18". I run K-Lines that are 21".

I loved looking at your work on your Photo Album. It was hard to get away. Could you give some information on this great station... kit, scratch, both?, work done to it.  I would love to know.

Thanks. Dennis

 

 

Originally Posted by SIRT:

Thanks Dennis.

The New Dorp station was custom built by B&O Historian, forum member and craftsman Ed Bommer at my request.

I added figures, weathering and hand painted details upon receiving this Master Piece.

The station has stained glass windows along with styrene and wood composition. It is lighted as with the platforms as well.

The original station resides in historic Richmond Town on Staten Island NY.

It was moved to the museum area during the grade crossing elimination back in the 60’s.

I frequently visited the station as a youngster with Mom during town shopping visits to the A&P and other stores on the Lane.

The SIRT (Staten Island Rapid Transit) still operates today as SIRR run by the MTA.

Other historic B&O SIRT photos can be seen on my album site here – http://classic.kodakgallery.co...ansit_history_photos

Preserving memories and history,

Steve

Here's a Lionel 253 I restored years ago...turned out well, but still need to find a nice set of 600-series peacock passenger cars to complete the set.

@jumijo

Great job on the station...looks really sharp with lots of bright color.  Hats off on top-notch effort.

PD

Early construction phases on the Alpharetta, Dawson and Dahlonega (ADD) line.  Our construction efforts seem easily distracted the nicer the weather!  My efforts to this point pale in comparison to the rest of you guys but I think this will end up a lifetime effort so slow, incremental improvements are planned.  Securing the right of way for this project took almost 13 years so I won't rush.

Thanks guys, what a great  thread to wake up to on a Saturday morning.

Hi Alan,

Beautiful work on the grain elevator.  It's a rare treat to see the trains appropriately dwarfed by a structure model in O scale.

Well done!