WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-4-16-??

Number 90 posted:

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

No trains in sight as a bright red 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang races west on PA Route 103. 

 

 

The tires on the Mustang hiss on the hot asphalt as ,,,

,,, running fast out of a time capsule from 1951.

Masterful. Every word of your entire essay, the photo, and the modeling. A real  treat.

FrankM.

bigtruckpete posted:

The Hi Rail Modular Train Club in Griffith, Indiana has an amazing steel facility in addition to their huge layout. Check out the storage tracks!!

As represented by these three of your photos, of course, the whole mill is fabulous and a wonder, but I especially appreciate the accurate sky, with its black smoke from the stacks represented and the true coloration of the sky, which is how the dusk, night, and twilight skies, for example, always looked above the steel mills of McKeesport, PA during the1950's. Somebody sure knew what they were talking about with that whole vista. Congratulations on such successful modeling and remembering!

FrankM.

I concur with Frank. The scenery on the PRR Middle Division is fabulous.

Alan Graziano

It's been a long time since I've had any time to post here, but I finally got some time to grab a quick shot of the GGD Slumbercoach that arrived in February.  For me this car is the Holy Grail of passenger cars as I rode them many times on 40 / 41, The Broadway Limited, from 1987-1992.  This car is just another step forward in how good GGD cars are getting.  Can't wait for the Amtrak El Cap to go into production to go with my ATSF version.

Moonson, you are absolutely correct, that is exactly how the sky looked over the mill (National Tube Works) in McKeesport.  I lived in McKeesport when growing up and the view thru my bedroom window was exactly how pictured.  The yellowish sky was kindof eerie looking.  Too bad, those days are long gone.

Rick

I grew up in Port Vue (a 'suburb' of McKeesport).  Not only was the sky orange on certain days, so was 100% of the air around those poor souls like me that had to drive thru it everyday on the way to work!  I'm amazed that at 67 I'm still breathing and alive !

Fabulous modeling.

- walt

Kids and I crashing trains.

RICKC posted:

Moonson, you are absolutely correct, that is exactly how the sky looked over the mill (National Tube Works) in McKeesport.  I lived in McKeesport when growing up and the view thru my bedroom window was exactly how pictured.  The yellowish sky was kindof eerie looking.  Too bad, those days are long gone.

Rick

Hey RickC, Good to hear from you in this regard. My parents and I were born in McKeesport, but we lived in Duquesne. We worked at National Tube, too!

FrankM.

Hello Bruce, can you tell me where you got the square clamp used at the bottom of the building?

John

maint posted:

Maint, nice pictures! The GG-1 in the center, 2nd row of G's, is that from MTH. I think they made a Railking one in that paint scheme sometime in the 90's. If so how does it run? Thank you.

Bill

Moonson,  small world isn't it?  I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Duquesne, on Grant St I believe.  My father-in-law also ran a business in Duquesne.  When I worked for the Union RR I worked a few times in the Duquesne works.

My grandfather worked at National Tube as an armed security guard.  Sometimes he would work at the entry gate and my mother would take me there when I was a youngster and he would let me push the button to open and close the huge gate.

Rick

Walt Rapp,  yeah, we got a lot of that crap also.  I remember my grandfather just bought the first new car he ever had, a 1966 Olds F86 and one morning he saw it was all covered with a blackish soot from the mill.  And, we were all breathing that for how many years?  We are all lucky to be alive.

Rick

Paul Moore posted:

Haha, I thought the car sound in the background of this vid was the sound of the train when I first watched it....... Perfect timing.

RICKC posted:

Walt Rapp,  yeah, we got a lot of that crap also.  I remember my grandfather just bought the first new car he ever had, a 1966 Olds F86 and one morning he saw it was all covered with a blackish soot from the mill.  And, we were all breathing that for how many years?  We are all lucky to be alive.

Rick

And one could not simply run out and wipe it all off with a dry cloth. You would scratch the paint significantly if you tried dry-wiping it off, or even flicking it off with a cloth. Even rinsing it off with a hose meant a lot of water being involved. And Simonizing the car - ha! ---forget it - not out in all that soot percolating down. You had to apply the wax under cover, such as in a garage, but then if you brought out into the car into the open air to buff away the wax, the particulate matter would fall on the car before you had a chance to buff it all off by hand  = more prospective scratches. Remember?

I never even saw all-white snow until I went to college in Columbus and Springfield, Ohio. In the metropolitan Pittsburgh area, snow was always deposited in alternating layers of grey and white, like some absurd filth-cake, all of which melted into a multi-hued grey slop.

Bed sheets hung on lines outside to dry often caught a coating of soot before they could dry sufficiently. The smart laundry-person knew when to schedule to washing between emissions from the mills.

RICKC posted:

Moonson,  small world isn't it?  I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Duquesne, on Grant St I believe.  My father-in-law also ran a business in Duquesne.  When I worked for the Union RR I worked a few times in the Duquesne works.

My grandfather worked at National Tube as an armed security guard.  Sometimes he would work at the entry gate and my mother would take me there when I was a youngster and he would let me push the button to open and close the huge gate.

Rick

Well, you and I will never likely meet face-to-face, but we have a bond, don't we. There was something sacred about that life there, then, filled with so many hard-working, decent, honest people who made a living the hard way and who gave lives of future prosperity to their children, aided and encouraged with a huge, strong work ethic, IMHO.

FrankM, DHS'62

Putnam Division posted:

Christopher2035 posted:

Happy Friday!

Started working on the upper tunnel this week. - Should have it finished by this weekend

 

Picked up a postwar 746 & the cars to make set 2545W from 1959

2350 New Haven EP5 pulling some freight on the inside main -

The 746 running down the main w/ nice open throttle

Lorenzo wanted to run his Lionchief Polar Express & race the 746 

Lucia watching the race - ( The 746 won!)

Christopher.......love the PostWar feel!

The kids are really growing up fast!

Peter

 

Thanks 

They are growing up fast!  Hard to believe in about 1 month I'll have another one  

Serenska posted:

Christopher2035 posted:

Happy Friday!

Started working on the upper tunnel this week. - Should have it finished by this weekend

 

Christopher:

Would you please post of photo of the time machine that you've developed that allows you to get all this done?

I.e., the time machine that allows you to be the father of two small children with another on the way, renovating space in your house to make new layouts, and building the new layouts, and working at a job all at the same time?

Thanks in advance for your help on this.  

Steven J. Serenska

LOL.  I have no idea how I'm getting all this done.  I'm also painting my daughter's new room, as she is moving in there & the baby will take her old one. I'm very tired!  I have a very understanding wife

Rapid Transit Holmes posted:

Christopher 2035 - GREAT SHOT!

Thanks!  Got her 'rods down' too

Christopher2035 posted:

Rapid Transit Holmes posted:

Christopher 2035 - GREAT SHOT!

Thanks!  Got her 'rods down' too

I'll second that - this is a fantastic shot!

-Dustin

My sincere Thanks  for "Likes" to the following for my photos of Homer & Cortland, NY, as possible inspirations for layout modeling:

trumptrain; Andy Hummell; Lionelbill; jcovert; Alibatwomble; Mike CT; drodder; Number90; Keystone; sp2207; L.I.TRAIN; SC Shagger; Pat Kn; Serows1.

FrankM.