WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-25-16-??

Here  is a picture of MTH Premier Chessie System Safety Brown Bay Window Caboose. I will be getting this in a week. 

a scene from unfinished layout Version 1, now disassembled and will start Version 2 after the move. Been without a moving train now for a month, it hurts.

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My new acquisitions are Beeps. A second Pennsy Beep and an US Army Beep. This will be my contribution this week.

Have a great weekend & Happy Easter!

chessie1971 posted:

Here  is a picture of MTH Premier Chessie System Safety Brown Bay Window Caboose. I will be getting this in a week. 

Chessie1971, I enjoy seeing all the "Chessie" acquisitions you post here.  You sure do live up to your Forum handle (screen name)...LOL!  Do you have a rough idea how many pieces of Chessie equipment you own?  I'm guessing it's a LARGE #! 

Have a great weekend, everyone...and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!  Here are a few shots of my "3-rail scaled" MTH R/K Jersey Central SW1 and a Weaver Reading 40' PS-1 Boxcar that I recently weathered...

Nice Pictures as usual.

Here is my contribution for today!

Andre.

These are tested and ready to get off the floor and onto the club layout:

Hope everyone had a good week!

I was busy for most of the week getting the bedroom ready for the baby ( about 3 more weeks!) but did manage to get some scenery done on the lower section

2331 VGN FM & 726RR Berk popping out of the tunnel & passing the stations

2331 VGN FM leading a freight past the mostly finished (scenery wise - still have to wire the accessories) portion

Here's a before shot -

2338 MILW leading set 2235W from 55

Doing some switching in the yard w/ the 613

2055 & 2338 meeting on the main lines -

My cool find last weekend while out looking for baby stuff at a neighborhood yard sale was this almost mint Coke set for $50. I wasn't going to get it, but Lucia really loved the colors of the boxcars. After a little cleaning, it runs great

Lucia wanted to help w/ some scenery -

For people who asked how I get things down from the shelves   - 

Lorenzo running his LC Polar Express

After getting home from church last Sunday, I got a H/U that NS 911 was leading 119 & was close to Charlotte. Still in my dress clothes, I raced trackside & beast him by about 10 min -

With a pair of head end helpers tacked on, NS 19G passes under the PRR signal bridge at UN in Gallitzin, PA - 11/8/15

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

did a re-edit of this one for my #TBT series on my photo site -
The CB&Q E5A leads the Nebraska Zephyr through Union, IL at the Illinois Railway Museum back on 9/20/99

Did someone mention 'Santa Fe'?

Our Lionel scale F3 set Train #18 was on the blink awhile back and is now repaired and back in action on the Appalachian, Tampa, & Santa Fe

New York Central USRA 2-8-8-2 dragging a coal train out of town and pounding the trestle.

NYO&W steam shaking the buildings on its run through town. Great smoke by MTH!

Lots of action during the rush hour commute to the Big Apple.

Pop Pop’s House – 6 Diesels, 38 hopper coal train. New GP-30 added to complete the lash-up!

Wall of GP SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Made a old k line bulding light up,happy weekend.

Looks like time for a doughnut break.

CNJ #1601 posted:

chessie1971 posted:

Here  is a picture of MTH Premier Chessie System Safety Brown Bay Window Caboose. I will be getting this in a week. 

Chessie1971, I enjoy seeing all the "Chessie" acquisitions you post here.  You sure do live up to your Forum handle (screen name)...LOL!  Do you have a rough idea how many pieces of Chessie equipment you own?  I'm guessing it's a LARGE #! 

Thanks Joe!! LOL I think i have about 60 to 70 chessie cars and several WM, C&O and B&O cars. 

Christopher2035 posted:

The CB&Q E5A leads the Nebraska Zephyr through Union, IL at the Illinois Railway Museum back on 9/20/99

GREAT shot!

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

Christopher2035 posted:

The CB&Q E5A leads the Nebraska Zephyr through Union, IL at the Illinois Railway Museum back on 9/20/99

GREAT shot!

Rusty

Thanks!!!

SIRT posted:

Pop Pop’s House – 6 Diesels, 38 hopper coal train. New GP-30 added to complete the lash-up!

Wall of GP SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful photos! I love the 60's/70's B&O era, therefore your layout is my dream! 

c.sam posted:

Did someone mention 'Santa Fe'?

Maybe not.  But then when did we ever need prompting?  #16 is new to the roster

Bruce

Newest addition. New/old stock from Mario. This is an original Williams loco, pre Bachmann. Runs like a swiss watch! Even better that the sale of my CSX Railking Imperial ES44 paid for this AND put a good chunk of $ back into my pocket!

SIRT posted:

Pop Pop’s House – 6 Diesels, 38 hopper coal train. New GP-30 added to complete the lash-up!

Wall of GP SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those B&O/Chessie diesels are so cool.  My Dad watched them tackling Sand Patch Grade as a kid.

Here is a short video putting a evans design battery power flashing red  led on top my lionel short ext. bridge.

I picked this up today.

Here is something from Patsburg

c.sam posted:

Did someone mention 'Santa Fe'?

I did.  I do that daily.  Several times.  

Well, I guess you have heard me more than once lament the fact that we do not  have a full service LHS (when it comes to O gauge) in the Memphis area. The Casey Jones High Railers were in need of more GarGraves track for this weekend's work session. We are starting on the curves on the  new dog leg modules.  One of our TCA Members, Bill Norvell who lives in Millington TN offered us an almost full case of GarGraves track at a price we could not refuse. Bill has a great layout that is 100% complete. Alan Arnold posted some pictures of Bill's layout a couple of years ago after one of his visits.

When I visited Bill in order to pick up the track, he insisted that we run trains for a while. Here are a few pictures of is layout. 

 Thanks, and happy Easter to all!

Richard Gonzales

Like I always look forward to Elliot's month updates on his insane layout build and I look forward to Christopher's posts on the weekend photo threads.

SIRT posted:

Pop Pop’s House – 6 Diesels, 38 hopper coal train. New GP-30 added to complete the lash-up!

Wall of GP SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent! Train them early.

This weekend I discovered that Google + is offering the Nik Collection of Photo Management software for free. I tried out the sharpening component on this photo from December 2015 of my Union Pacific ES44AC. I liked the outcome.  I guess my Weekend Photo fun this weekend will really be with photos as much as trains.

A 2015 Christmas Layout memory

My "family train" - one car each for me, my son, my daughter, their spouses, and the 4 grandchildren

- walt

jeffrey37 posted:

I picked this up today.

 

Nice car and graphics!  (I usually hate it when people repeat photo posts, but I couldn't help myself here . . . this was intentional and with merit!)

Forgot I had these pics.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 

At first glance I thought I was looking at the real deal, nice work!

John

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 

At first glance I thought I was looking at the real deal, nice work!

John

John Pignatelli JR,

Thank you very much.

-Johan

A few shots from a recent visit to the Kingston NY Model RR Club. Look for a full photo feature in OGR magazine this fall.

Their Hudson Valley Lines is a great 2 rail layout with lots of history.

Jim

Happy Easter.

This is the one time a year that I trot out my little layout I made for a contest here on the forum a few years ago. I posted more pics of my micro layout of the railroad that harvests Black Licorice Jellybeans, "Egg Island Transportation Company" in the Switcher Saturday thread. 

The layout base is about 18 inches square. The track is O-16 K-line Superstreets. The rock work is painted bark, the station is Buildings Unlimited, the water is painted crumpled aluminum foil, and the odd shaped landform is a huge plastic Easter egg thing.