Weekend Photo Fun 3-4-22-??

Running and enjoying my new MTH East Penn RS-1. Very impressed with this Railking engine, if I didn’t know otherwise I’d think it came in a purple box. Great sounds and smokes like crazy.

                                           No more PRR orange box cars...

Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson. The Biltmore House Estate is in nearby Asheville and is America's largest private home. Cornelius 'Commodore' Vanderbilt was the patriarch who founded the Vanderbilt fortune that built this estate. This Hudson was modified to honor the Commodore from #5344 that we all know and love as did JL Cowan.

Am offering this one for sale in the FS thread.

Running some old school engines!

The first engine I bought at York.

And my first steam engine, the Lackawanna 4-8-4 Northern.  I fixed the motor bearings on this a couple years ago.

Funny Photos from Michigan - “The Grandchildren Make a Man Cave Sign for Their Bedroom Door”

The grandchildren like to have grandpa read railroad books & they make a Man Cave Sign similar to grandpa’s man cave door & hanging out in the train room.

Thanks for taking a look & have a great weekend: Gary & my train crew. 🚂

@scott.smith posted:

...I decided to do something with tinplate passenger cars that don't have any passenger or interiors>

I hot glued the passenger figures to the bottom and side of the cars.

...

Scott Smith

That's a novel idea.  Very Dorfan-esque. Although I've never looked to see how they did it, I'm sure they didn't use hot glue a century ago.

I'm curious about how long the hot glue will withstand the vibration and jostling around during operation.  But that's the great thing about hot glue - if it fails, just do it again.

As many know Tom (Gilly@N&W) and I put up Glenn Snyder Display System shelves in my new attic train room.....here is the previously seen panoramic picture:

From the 73 six foot sections, we had less than 3 feet of leftover parts......what to do with them? They make great gondola loads......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

As many know Tom (Gilly@N&W) and I put up Glenn Snyder Display System shelves in my new attic train room.....here is the previously seen panoramic picture:

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Awesome looking train room Peter!  

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

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

Staying with mini-scenes on the plateau.

For perspective:

A marriage scene:

Springtime was always busy at Pinnacle Peaks State Park:

Jim

Chessie System 70 car mixed freight. SD50+SD40 on the head end.

It is 1948 and this HH1 is on its last run.  The PRR bought six Y3 engines from N&W in 1943 to help with wartime traffic, and gave them the PRR nomenclature HH1 (two "H" 2-8-0 back to back).  By 1947 these engines, built in 1919, were no longer economical and the PRR had them scrapped between 1947 and 1948.

This is MTH's version and one of my better running engines.

A faux-tinplate station project recently completed for the clockwork trains:

Brilliant to-the-floor scenery, Jim Policastro.

PD

Happy Weekend. More trains from Maine.

Running passenger trains tonight:

An MTH PREMIER O scale CP Rail flat car with a Schneiders trailer. Schneiders is apparently a meat company in Canada. 

Andrew

Just got his beauty in from 3rd Rail.

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

finally building the layout in a finished room but had to run/test some new trains to the collection

Looks fun Billy!

Dave

I just moved my New Hope & Ivyland passenger train set from the layout where it was running in a video posted above, onto the track behind my office desk over the credenza:

Trackers at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. this weekend (private show)

@MichRR714 posted:

Beer Reefer, 1st place winner !

Photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  Thanks Scott for getting us started this weekend   I hope everyone is having a most enjoyable weekend!

The adventures of a Washington Terminal RS1 .... shown here on the Mountain Division.

Here number 46 is on the point of a tank car transfer.

Number 46 with transfer caboose and crew.  

Great pics, everyone!

Peter

Here's an impromptu race between my Big Boy and another club member's GP-40 that occurred this last Saturday at the River City 3 Railer's first open house of the year. I would've been blowing the whistle if my phone wasn't pulling double duty as the camera recording this and the thing controlling 4014.

had my first running session in the new house. sadly these sections will not be around for long. starting to redo the basement soon so the layout will not work with the two old sections.

@Craignor posted:

Trackers at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. this weekend (private show)

Magic! Thank you for sharing.

This is an excellent and unique scene.  Very cool'..   Beautiful work;,,,