Weekend Photo Fun 3-7-25-???

Scott Smith

Sorry to hear about your plumbing issues hope there is not much damage to the layout.

Looking forward to everyone's pics each week.

Mr. and Mrs. Muffin were out for a spring drive in the flowers to deliver some trains in their cool new delivery vehicle!

And here is one of their custom run trains the VIA engine added to a friends layout, looks great with the other matching VIA engines and a long VIA passenger train.

I ran models of two New Haven Railroad electric locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout this week – both MTH Premier.

The route of the New Haven Railroad was electrified between New York City and New Haven (72 miles) beginning in 1907. Before Amtrak completed its electrification between New Haven and Boston (156 miles) in January 2000, electric locomotives on passenger trains were changed to (or from) steam or diesel power at New Haven. The changeover was always interesting to watch from the station platforms.

New Haven electrics operated on Alternating-Current from overhead wires between New Haven and Woodlawn, NY in the upper Bronx – about 60 miles. From Woodlawn, the last twelve miles into Grand Central Terminal were run on the electrified tracks of the New York Central Railroad that supplied Direct-Current from a third rail beside the track. Therefore, New Haven’s passenger electrics had pantographs (for the AC zone) and third-rail pickups (for the DC zone) and could change between the two while in motion.

Consequently, the New Haven railroad operated nine types of electric locomotives before it was merged into Penn Central in 1969. MTH made models of several types of New Haven electrics including the EP-3 and EP-5 types it used in passenger service.

New Haven EP-5 #371 was the first model (20-2195-1) of a New Haven electric offered by MTH and was produced in the McGinnis red-black-white scheme with PS1 in 1999. Mine has been running on my 12’-by-8’ layout since then. EP-5s began service between New York City and New Haven in 1955 and hauled modern stainless-steel passenger cars.

My model of New Haven EP-3 electric #0360 (20-5631-1) was produced by MTH in Pullman Green with PS2 in 2008. MTH also made models of EP-3s in other paint schemes. New Haven’s ten EP-3s were built by General Electric in 1931 and hauled heavyweight passenger cars and “American Flyer” lightweight steel cars in the 1940s and ‘50s. The EP-3s were retired by 1961.

MELGAR

For today I spotted this Family Lines System Caboose in Bostic, NC. No idea yet what we missed as the little Bostic Lincoln Center was closed.  Our club has a 1:1 caboose like this on their Bison Ranch in Clyde, NC that looks new and is a Airbnb unit.  If you look closely you may see a cab of an old NW switcher in the background across the street to the right of the caboose.

Scott……hope everything works out…….

PostWar sets on the layout this week.

Set 1571 from 1957 pulled by a Lehigh Valley 44 tonner……

Sears Lionel Set 9674 from 1961, pulled by a 616 Santa Fe switcher……..these special uncataloged Sears sets usually were based on a regular cataloged set, but changed a little in order for the retailer to offer a set with extra value at a better price than the similar regularly cataloged outfit.

Here is the 1961 set it is based on, Set 2570. For Sears, Lionel switched out two of the cars and added an extra one. Since they got a “deal” from Lionel, they could usually offer it at a better price than the similar regularly cataloged set….

Here they are in action on the home layout…….

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Three very quick and short videos of this week’s action……

Have a great and safe week, everyone!

Peter

@c.sam posted:

For today I spotted this Family Lines System Caboose in Bostic, NC. No idea yet what we missed as the little Bostic Lincoln Center was closed.  Our club has a 1:1 caboose like this on their Bison Ranch in Clyde, NC that looks new and is a Airbnb unit.  If you look closely you may see a cab of an old NW switcher in the background across the street to the right of the caboose.

We are very familiar with that caboose in Clyde and the club layout. We have stayed with the boys in the "gray caboose" a few times. It is a fun adventure weekend.

That's it!

I’m at a medical conference today so I don’t have time to post much. I will add that several of the other physicians here are also model railroaders as is one of the regular posters on here, Peter Condro.  Anyhow here’s a picture of a quartet of early Conrail engines entering the western portal of Spruce Creek tunnel:

That’s it for this week… enjoy!

A 2024 Christmas Layout memory

- Walt

Last week I started showing the middle section of the layout - it's mostly a lumber yard:

Here's an overall view:

Wait for it…….

I love this scene and so much more to add to it!

Enjoy your weekend!

@scott.smith posted:

Scott Smith

@scott.smith - perfect selection for the train - the colors scream "EASTER"

- walt

Running with the Trackers at the TCA WBA chapter’s train show a couple of weeks ago…

Thanks Scott for the great start off for this fine weekend!  

Here's an arial shot of the layout looking toward the Westend section of Patsburg.  

The Brewtown neighborhood of Patsburg with the Patburg Brewery ( home of Pats' Blue Ribbon Beer )  as the manufacturing center.

Trains running this week on the Free State Junction Railway in Patsburg.

These caboose photos are from a motel in Lancaster County and they have been repurposed to serve as the rooms for the motel

A night run of the PRR A5 and track cleaning with LNE S2.

Gene

Heading out of town for the weekend.

The Southern Pacific and Western Pacific schemes were finally applied to the exterior braced 50' double-door box cars from Lionel.

I was hoping they would be produced in Southern Pacific and Western Pacific since 1993.

Andrew

Falcon Service

What do we have here?

More signals installed …

@MartyE posted:

What do we have here?

Some fine looking MTH tinplate repros, that's for sure!

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

I’m at a medical conference today so I don’t have time to post much. I will add that several of the other physicians here are also model railroaders as is one of the regular posters on here, Peter Condro.  Anyhow here’s a picture of a quartet of early Conrail engines entering the western portal of Spruce Creek tunnel:

That’s it for this week… enjoy!

Neil, I love that Conrail blue. Absolutely beautiful.