Weekend Photo Fun 3-31-23-??

Scott Smith

I have been experimenting with using a diorama base for pics... Anyways, here are some.

Greg P

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Metro North Railroad commuter train slowing for station stop at Stratford, Connecticut Sunday March 26, 2023 5:38PM. Westbound to New York City between mileposts 60 and 59 on what was once the New Haven Railroad.

Photos and video by MELGAR

Went through a packed box of vehicles…….I believe that I last time that I saw these was when I packed them up in 2003……..always nice to find stuff that you already own…..it’s like getting something new. Two of the boxed K Line items were freebies given away at York’s long ago…..

Here  is something neat. About a week ago, one of the fellows brought over his granddad’s old Marx set. It was in great shape and ran well. The unique items were small retail boxes that were saved and used as gondola loads for likely 70 years….

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Have a great weekend. Piggybacks are probably my favorites of my rolling stock. Here’s some Flats that I’ve weathered over the years. I still have more to do seems it never ends.

TOFC...you gotta love 'em:

A 2022 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

And 2 views of the 2022 version of Waltburg

PLAY BALL!

It's that time again...

Scott thanks for getting us rolling again.

Mel were you travelling or railfanning at the Stratford Station?

Peter, I see plenty of vehicles that I too have boxed up.  Those Ford Explorers, F-150s, police cars even the horse trailer and the Chevy Suburban.  Road Champs was a good source of vehicles for us back in the 90s and early 2000s.  It's a shame toy cars and trucks don't seem as poplar today.

Sirt great looking subway you've got and a great train to start the season.  Do you think MLB will ever try a Subway Series to start the season?

Mich,

Would you have any more pics of that Bucyrus shovel?

Greg P

A little touch-up!

- walt

Steam Engines serviced and ready for today's run.

@EMD posted:

Mich,

Would you have any more pics of that Bucyrus shovel?

Thanks Mich - Very nice model!

Here's my photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  Thanks Scott for getting us started!   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Patsburg Westend neighborhood.

The great locomotive race.

Trains passing through Patburg.

Freight trains and a trolley.

The railroad crossing. The crossing gate is from my first round the tree layout when I was 4 years old.

It is late 1949 and our photographer picked up a 10-year-old RCA-Victor optical sound-on-film 16mm camera and took it down to the Pennsy yard to try it out.  He needs to practice with it some more to smooth out the transitions.

3rd Rail S2 with a variety of Golden Gate Depot, Atlas, and Weaver cars.

A CN covered steel coil gondola had a section of plastic sheet stuck to it on Thursday.

This CN covered steel coil car was in a Westbound CN freight train speeding through Michigan over the GTW tracks.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Hopefully in a few months my Standard gauge /O gauge layout will start construction 🤔

Here is a nice Legacy S2 I got from a pal. I printed some pilot fillers and the coupler draft gear using both my resin and FDM printers. I finished it right after the Union NW2 I showed last week.

@Putnam Division posted:

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Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Those Smith Bros.  Cough  drops must have made the trip south from Quebec?  😁

A few photos from my larger layout before downsizing:

I'm pretty late posting this week, in part since I was gone all day yesterday on an Amtrak train! I started taking my kids on the Pennsylvanian from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg and back every other year when they were young, and it has become sort of a family tradition. There is an hour and 45 minute layover in Harrisburg, so we use that time to have lunch. We didn't do the trip the past few years due to the pandemic, but finally went again yesterday. So here are some pictures of our journey...

Walking onto the platform in Pittsburgh:

Me and my daughter in the cafe car. Nothing like having a cup of coffee while watching the scenery roll by!

My daughter and my best friend Mitch (also a train fanatic) who joined us on the journey:

A view of the Horseshoe Curve as we headed east:

Here's the Susquehanna River as we crossed it on the Rockville Bridge:

And last, but not least, here's a model of Amtrak's Three Rivers which ran between 1995 and 2005 and was basically the replacement (sort of) for the Broadway Limited shown here crossing the Sherman's Creek Bridge near Duncannon on my layout (we went over the prototype bridge during our journey):

That's it for this week! Enjoy!

@stangtrain posted:

A few photos from my larger layout before downsizing:

excellent array of pictures this week,

Those ladies sure have 'God-like' powers

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my ends of the from kind for this fine weekend!  Thanks Scott for getting us started!   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Patsburg Westend neighborhood.

Patrick, are those push tacks??  very creative if so and they look great.

@walt rapp posted:

Patrick, are those push tacks??  very creative if so and they look great.

Walt - Thank you!  You have a good eye my friend!  Yes indeed they are aluminum push tacks that I picked up at an art supply store a few years ago .. knowing that somehow sometime there would be a use for them on my layout.    

As I'm currently redoing the west end of my layout, changing from the winter/Christmas scenes to a more spring/summer/fall look, I reintroduced the Smith Brothers Automobile Sales dealership to the Westend neighborhood.   As I used black foam board for the new car lot, I thought the aluminum push pins would work well for the edge.  

@mike.caruso posted:

Those Smith Bros.  Cough  drops must have made the trip south from Quebec?  😁

A good bet, Mike.....

Peter

I don't have an active layout at the moment, but every few weeks I choose some of my O gauge collection to display in the dining room.  Because Easter is in a week, I brought out the K-Line Hershey's 100th birthday train.  It was made in 1994, and is an awesome set.  Big 4-6-2 with five unique freight cars (four fit on the display chest) along with five buildings, several people and a whistle device to place in the train station.  One of these days, I should put it all on display.

Along with the Hershey's special set, I chose my Lionel 2035 from the 1950s to display with some local interest cars.

First in line is a Lionel boxcar made for the 1995 Grand Opening ceremony of Steamtown National Historic Site's museum complex, second is a Weaver "Lackawanna/Steamtown" commemorative boxcar, and then an RGS "Lackawanna/Burschel Dairy" milk car.  Lionel Erie Lackawanna caboose, also.

Tim, I love your Erie Lackawanna bay window caboose.

The LIONEL version of the SOO LINE RS-27 diesel-electric locomotives 416 and 415.

They both have lights and sounds.

The sounds seem to be the same as in the SOO LINE GP30s that were produced a year ago for LIONEL.

Andrew

ROUTE ROCK, AIRSLIDE 2600 cu. ft., 40' covered hoppers from Atlas O.

Andrew