Weekend Photo Fun 3-25-22-??

Fantastic shots Scott I especially like the trestle and the Blue Comet coming through the cut. Is that the museum layout that you work on?

Wow great photos Scott.

Some pics of old trains at our train club. Members of our club wrote a book on the history of Canadian prewar toy trains. And showed a number of these at a recent train club meeting. Link to the club website and book details; https://www.canadiantoytrains.org/

I had to empty a cabinet while a floor was being laid in my soon to be Tinplate Room.

Continued work on the TW TrainWorx kit......Adding the lintels and painting the doors....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

The last 'x' number of weeks I've been showing the various mini-scenes on the plateau.  The images today aren't 'ON' the plateau but are 'Part' of the plateau in that they hide the gap between levels.

- walt

Here are some pictures of my layout in PA prior to our move to CA about eight years ago:

This week I moved my Coal yard for better access for the Hoppers to get unloaded and took a few pics of the Layout as well. Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Rivals, then partners, finally merged into the same  system the Baltimore & Ohio  and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads were and remain a major presence in American railroading.  First came the Chessie System and then CSX but even before their union became "official" it was common to see a mixture of equipment. Here then is a mixed freight train featuring such a mix headed up by a trio of  GP30's.

I love Postwar and I really love NW2 Switchers. They always scream out Lionel PW to me.

One of my favorites, the 6250 Seaboard Switcher, just got back from being serviced and having an overall tune up. It runs like new again.

Enjoy this short video!

Great photos and videos everyone!    Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine weekend!  Here are my photos of the fund kind.

Scenes of the railroad as seen by a traveler through a passenger car window.  

Westbound on track 3 our traveler observes a vacant track two, passengers on the platform and a standing Pennsy  train on track one while a trolley whizzes by on the elevated line.

Mighty is the Mallet!

Fence to be mended

Busy activity at the tower.

Across the yard a Pennsy A5 takes on water.

How about some Chicago and North Western Steam. Recently found this PS2 C&NW E-4 and absolutely love it. Pardon the dust, I recently expanded my layout to double O60 loops so I finally finished the track work.

Red Rock National Park is fast approaching its peak season:

Jim

Not too long ago I posted a video of my MTH GS-4 #4449 in American Freedom Train colors pulling all 21 of my AFT cars (with a little help from a MTH GP-40).  Here are a couple of stills from that run.

Here is a much older image of it with the add-on fantasy tender.  I still have the tender, but because it is a fantasy scheme it is currently in storage.

I tried pulling my AFT set with only the GP-40 but it just sat there glaring at me with hatred in it windows.

@pennsyfan posted:

Fantastic shots Scott I especially like the trestle and the Blue Comet coming through the cut. Is that the museum layout that you work on?

Opposite view of the canyon; this one with a 400E Blue Comet.

The layout is the one I have built in the basement of the museum. The Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club has 7 layouts in the basement. We own the basement layouts and the museum allows us to use the space for free. We are open Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:00 and for special museum events. If anyone on the forum wants to visit the club on a non-scheduled night I can arrange it; I have a key.

Scott Smith

March 2021:

March 2022:

Scott Smith

Stuck in a garage....somewhere near the swamps of Jersey.  

Mike, Turkey swamp? I’ve been told my community is built on a cranberry bog. There was also a Wild West town with a hotel. It’s also less than a mile from where the Blue Comet passed; and about 2 miles from a station stop.

Well the floor got done. I moved the tinplate back in the case except for a few sets which are now on the wall. I added a 224e to the case and a 226e to the wall. I can hear the questions already; why is plastic Kusan on the tinplate wall? Simple neither runs on the Gargraves / Ross trackage; so the table in this room will have Tubular O gauge and 2rail DC.

@CAPPilot posted:

Not too long ago I posted a video of my MTH GS-4 #4449 in American Freedom Train colors pulling all 21 of my AFT cars (with a little help from a MTH GP-40). 

I tried pulling my AFT set with only the GP-40 but it just sat there glaring at me with hatred in it windows.

I've always been a big fan of the Freedom Train, having saw it right before my 7th birthday, with 4449 on the head end. Got to tour the train as well.

I got to ride behind 4449 a few times over the years, once when she'd been repainted in that scheme for a little while after 9/11.

If I were a 3-rail (or standard gauge at all) modeler, I'd for sure have to have a model of this train!

Trains in the rural landscape of Maine.

Hi Everyone and Happy Friday! I thought I would post a few before and after shots of a project I'm working on with Dave Bennett of Train Installations a forum sponsor. This rock work was one of the things I worked on for my contribution to this project.

As pictured I start with spray foam, on top of a felt material, and then it is left to cure. Once it's completely cured it is then carved to look like rock. Then it is painted a base color and highlighted. Lastly ground foam is added. The first layer of ground foam is simply laid on top of the paint used for the highlights. Then more coarse foam is added and secured with wet water and a glue/water mix. This is Dave's technique and he actually trusts me to execute it, lol.

I have done quite a bit of work with Dave and plan to begin a series, on my YouTube page,  of some of the projects I have been part of with his company.

Thanks,

Dave

Incredible job! That's a heck of a transformation from where you started. More realistic than how it looks outside haha.

@stangtrain posted:

Here are some pictures of my layout in PA prior to our move to CA about eight years ago:

I’m intrigued by your coal operation. I realize the layout is gone, but do you have more pics of this area you can share? Or maybe a description of two tracks flanking the lower level and what their purpose was. Thanks!

Jim P those were some awesome rock formations you had in the park.

Scott that's an awful lot of urban development in one year.

Dave nice work on the foam outcrops.

Bigtruckpete:

Here are two more photos of the tipple - one is from a layout prior to the one above:

The tracks on either side of the tipple are for a speeder line that I ran around it. The tracks disappear under the layout, circle around and re-appear.

The tipple emptied to a large funnel underneath and then to a container “hidden” under the table. The container was large enough to hold coal from 3-4 of the Lionel rotating coal cars.

That was a fun layout to build and my first one using Mianne Benchwork. We moved to CA before the layout was completed - never did build the big mountain I planned. The Mianne Benchwork was taken apart, packed and moved to CA for my first layout here, then taken apart again a few years later and again use for my current (smaller) layout. I had enough components left over to build a display unit for my trains and gave away enough for a 4X8 layout base for my brother and also another for my neighbor.

Stan

There is another topic on upgrading the Lionel scale T1 from 2000 in part to get better sound.  I have that T1 and I always thought the sound was pretty descent.  Maybe not Legacy great, but really good.  I did need to put in cruise control and 4 chuffs/rev (actually 4 double chuffs).

@Jim Policastro posted:

Red Rock National Park is fast approaching its peak season:

Jim - You really captured the beauty and feel of the Utah parks with your modeling.  I took these photos at Bryce and Canyon Lands parks.  Great modeling.  NH Joe

Joe,

Thanks for the kind words and for adding those photos.

The Utah red rock country is my favorite place to be!

Jim

@stangtrain posted:

Bigtruckpete:

Here are two more photos of the tipple - one is from a layout prior to the one above:

THANKS STANGTRAIN! Those scenes add a lot of interest. Nicely done.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Trains in the rural landscape of Maine.

Great Model work and photos, I love these!

@p51 posted:

Great Model work and photos, I love these!

Lee,

Thank you very much.

Johan

Some Hillbillies have some beer and throwing chairs around,

With my stepbrother and future sister-in-law’s wedding commencing at 4:00 this afternoon, I’d love to show you my pictures of the Novi Train Show with my mother in Novi yesterday.

                      March - April, LIRR layout action... 7 Trains, no waiting!

                                                           With, 5 sound cars!

Went to the train show at the Manalapan Veterans Center.

@Jim Policastro posted:

Joe,

Thanks for the kind words and for adding those photos.

The Utah red rock country is my favorite place to be!

Jim

Jim,

My wife and I love the Red Rock country too.  That is me and my wife under the arch bridge.  I found it interesting that the area was developed as a tourist attraction by the Union Pacific Railroad.  A model of an early UP tourist train is displayed in the lobby of the Bryce Canyon Lodge.

This is a display of the early china and silverware used at the lodge.  It is very similar to the china used on early Union Pacific dinning cars.  

The dinning room.

Union Pacific tourist train model.  

UP train at the Bryce Canyon Lodge.  This scene is long gone.