WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 3-6-15-??

My son and I popped the town of Duncannon out of the layout last weekend to complete final detailing.  Here are a few photos of the work. The first shows the entire town sitting on a pair of sawhorses in the workshop. The second and third are close up views at street level.  Once the detailing is done, all of the wiring below the town has to be finished.  Then the module will be put back into place for the last time.

Great photos this week!! Very inspirational

Fort Pitt High Railer's Scenic Express Module.  Click on the underlined phrase to link a slideshow.

Order a Scenic Express Catalog. Click on the underlined phrase to access the on-line order page, or see any of the Fort Pitt High Railers at the Pittsburgh Home and Garden show this week for a paper order form.   

While the log loader installation was proceeding on the lower level this week, heavy Union Pacific traffic continued across the upper level. (also see Weekend at the Movies.)

Wow some really fine modeling here...what a treat!  Great work everyone, and thanks for sharing your photos.

Our club is set up today at the WNCMRRC 25th Annual Train Show near Asheville NC. A really good show with over 200 vendor's tables and 6 operating layouts - our being the 'Hit of the Show' with the kids!

If you are anywhere in this area drop by - a good show with a lot of 3 rail. A fella named Tom has 6 -8 tables of excellent + Postwar items

Not much new for me this week, lately my budget has been going towards my other hobbies.  I did pick up a WS General Store building, so my downtown is slowly coming along.  This was one of Woodland's first releases and didn't come with lighting, so I installed a Evens Designs mega chip LED.

I love this scene! I have driven by Duncannon on Rt. 15 when traveling to Sunbury, but never been in town.  Great detailing on the streets.  I love all the pictures that you have been posting.  Please continue to share your fine modeling skills.

Here's one of my recent finds from the Monroeville, PA Greenberg show a few weeks back:

I don't know how I ever missed seeing these before.  Now I have to hunt down the rest of them, providing I can find sellers who don't want an arm and a leg for them (there is one on that auction site now with an asking price of $149! ).

I just love the Chessie graphics on this.

Andy

Picked up a few nice PW cars.

Erie Cop and Hobo Car. Always a favorite.

Operating Aquarium Car (actually a PWC remake).

Andy, nice find.  I never saw those either.  I'm not really a C&O person but I do like the Chessie cat and I do collect Chessie B&O.  Good luck finding the rest.

Rick

Johnny (WMTrainnut99), thanks for your comments.  The real town indeed has a turreted building and a bank right on the town square.

Here's a few more pics.  The first shows the hole in the layout that will be filled by the scenic module once completed.  The two others are a view west up the Juniata River Valley showing a Conrail autoparts/auto rack train headed east.

Neal.....

Your layout has always inspired me. I am building a triple track PRR influenced layout that I hope will be half as nice.......

This photo REALLY hits the target I am shooting for. My layout is set in the 50's but I have modern equipment that will get run too. I LIKE this!!!!!!

Been real busy at work for a while but I found time here and there to work on part of my small city.

Neal, Awesome photo and subject matter!

man! you got ripped off, I'll be right over and give you a $20...you can keep the change...

As someone (who shall remain nameless....Mario ) referred to these as "Just Another Warbonnet"

19LABC

Many hours of modifications went into this 10 year old TMCC set of F3s. Toy train curves need not apply

$50, and I thought that was high, but I really wanted it.

Andy

And this is what passes for art these days...

From the Scope Art Fair in NYC this weekend.

Photo credit Gothamist.com

Bruce E. nice shots and detail. Thanks for posting. Don

Old school Saturday.

I had converted these to TMCC with an LCRU including a dummy board in the non powered A many years ago. Decided to go back to its roots and put the old E-unit and horn & relay back in. These trains are what the hobby is about.

Double coincidences in less than 48 hours:

Friday: I'm starting to wonder about my MTHRRC RailKing ES44, seeing that the shipping month on the site showed February. Normally I would have brushed off the delay, but I knew my CC number had changed sometime within the last 18 months, and was unsure if the change had occurred before or after I put down the deposit on this loco.

I had composed an email inquiry to MTH when I thought to check my CC statement online (I usually do this just before the due date in order to pay off purchases that arrived after the last statement). Lo and behold, there was the pending charge from MTH for the balance of the purchase, dated 3/3.

Then the second coincidence. Normally Saturdays are the designated "eat out" day. As we left the house for the local Five Guys, I noticed a USPS truck a few doors down the street. I mentioned that reminded me that I should have a package arriving soon, but didn't think to stick around to see if he had anything for us since I knew MTH ships via FedEx.

It wasn't until about 3am that night that I remembered "FedEx SmartPost," where the USPS takes over for the "last mile". And that I didn't look up at the front door upon our return since we left and returned via the basement door (our house has the basement at ground level--the main entrance is at a porch one flight of steps above street level). I go and stick my head out the door, and there it was, propped up next to the doorway. Oofah.

Out of the box and onto the workbench for inspection. I found something that looked like a lift ring inside the inner foam wrapping that I determined was one of the coupler lift-bar rings. A few seconds of fiddling with a pair of tweezers fixed that.

 Now cranking it up for the first time. At 4:11am. Hope I didn't wake the neighbors--there were no volume issues with this PS3 unit:

 I noticed that the model designation on the side sill says "ES44C4" I wonder if that's a sly reference to the RK truck block, which only powers 2 of the three axles

The chase lights are more subdued than on earlier ES44 hybrids. The look more electroluminescent than LED. The effect is more subtle, closer to the real-life demonstrator than MTH's previous incarnations. I forget whether the "ground light" is a feature that appeared before or after PS3, but it's a welcome sight nonetheless.

And here is a clip of the start-up and lighting effects. This test is in conventional. When I get a chance to put it on the test track, I'll pair it with the MTHRRC SD70ACE from 2011.

---PCJ

Some Great photos again this week. Here's a pic from our layout this week.

My son Mason got a job lot of 00 Gauge cardboard buildings for £10 at a train show and has placed them on the layout while playing with his army men. So that explains the odd buildings!

Have a good Sunday

Nick & Mason

Another grand shot!

Thanks Neal.

Nice. Looks like you're building another layout. Any more photos?

Found the appropriate signage for this short wall. Now I have to figure out how to cut some more GDS shelves to put a short one next to the thermostat and a couple more below the SP caboose(s)

Thou art "The man".

Good job!

Dave, LOL! It was originally priced at $20, but got $2 off since I paid cash.  

you dog! talked him down on top of everything!

Another fantastic weekend of photos!

Peter

Another cool weekend of photos!

No video yet Sam... the layout is a mess again. My Dad is working on the back side tunnel liners and rock walls to get that finished up. Main lines are out of service at the moment.

B&O Bob, what's with all that Armour Yellow stuff?  

Neal, though I'm Virginian born and raised, I'm still a softie for the Pennsy.

*dang* I hate this autospellchecker that's always getting things wrong!