Weekend Photo Fun 4-12-13-??

Here's a shot of the rear of a PRR work train on the MOW siding at Mifflintown, PA.  Note the typical Pennsylvania rock work...a layer of relatively hard sandstone projecting over the soft, weathered shale.

Around Town 1970's ...

I took my 4x4 O-27 layout out of storage recently, and put my clockwork Marx Mercury on the track.

I picked this up in Strasburg PA in February.

She puts out quite a bit of smoke!  

Good shot, hope your vent works! LOL

A 2012 Christmas layout memory

- walt

In case you missed it last week I added a video of the CN Tandum.

Neal, B.T.W Congrats on the CTT issue...your layout and scenery is looking incredible.  Keep up the good work. 

Rich

www.toytrainsontracks.com

Its Saturday morning and I have nothing better to do, I think I’ll go watch trains

Rich,

Thank you.  And I love the photo you posted today, and the shots last week of your "EL".  Hopefully I'll see you at York

What every "Crappy Basement Layout" owner does not want.....Water heater replacement on the Solid Rock Railroad.

Tim, that Marx Mercury is smokin'!  Thanks for posting

Here are two Reading FP7A units in the Steamtown yard

A wooden ramp connects the Steamtown yard with the Steamtown Mall. Near the doors to the Mall is this HO layout with a scratchbuilt model of Tunkhannock Viaduct at Nicholson. Crossing it is the PHOEBE SNOW.

Awhile back I picked up a Lionel Burlington E5 dummy unit with TMCC, smoke, et. al. for a project. We had it repainted as Southern E6 No 2800 and run it ahead of an old Lionel Southern GP7 and now recently the Legacy U30C both in the tuxedo scheme.

Am getting a Lionel E7 B unit from Forum member Dave F at York that will be painted to match.

Here is the E6 'firing up' on the bench a couple of days ago...

Uh oh...  I hear the CFO yelling "Turn that off".

Gotta go!

New Hawaii busses.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Alan

Hi Rich. Nice video. Very smooth operation. Did you use a transition car on the front of that coal drag?

New Roundhouse kit

Rich: very nice video! I just ordered your last installment - Part III of your Black Diamonds RR. BTW: what kind of video camera do you use?

Work progresses ever so slow on the new pike:

Hinged fold-down river section allowing access thru middle of layout. Track wiring almost completed!

Weetomoe Yard, Metacomet Central Railroad

Columbus & Greenville #606 , "where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog", sitting in the sun at IRM last Sunday. It's a Baldwin AS-416, built in 1950.

Roger, my water heater is in one of the corners of my layout also. Before I build in that area I'm having it moved and putting in a tankless one on a wall away from the layout. Just waiting to get our new kitchen started. Don

Renovation work underway in the area where the refinery has been relocated. The drawn lines represent the route of the new pipelines that will run from the refinery to the loading platform.

Shot this ex MC C. R.R.R. locomotive working on the Virginia & Truckee last year. Don

Don, I was going to go the tankless route, but with our water we would also have to have a water softener and the advised against it. But it would have taken up a lot less room and it would have been easier to install.

You might check your water to make sure about the "softness" of it. Just saying ......

My son took a break from the passenger trains and ran some frieght today.

Then and now on the McCloud Railroad. Don 

My first post to Weekend Photo Fun is not a model, but Paducah & Louisville's first new SD70, that I spotted on 4/11/13 at the Paducah, KY shops. This is the first of 16, with another expected to be delivered shortly.

Another new scheme for the model railroad industry to apply!

Dan 

Lionel 2358 Great Northern EP5 passes a makeshift yard filled w/ postwar rolling stock

2358 & 2056 meet on the main lines -

Overview -

Caught the Virginian Heritage Unit last Sunday leading P99 to Charlotte -

Originally Posted by PRRMiddleDivision:

Beautiful Neal!!!

Steve C.

Nice shots Chris!

Neal,

   I will be at York but don't have my own booth.  May share one with Jim at Bridgeboss.  Either way I will be there on Friday.  Hope to see you there

Matt,

  Yes, the first car is a transition car with Kadee on one side and hi-rail on the other.

Paul,

  Thank you.  It shipped today, hope you enjoy.  Its a high end HD camera I bought at Best Buy about 3yrs ago. About $1100.  It has digital stabilization which help with pacing shots.  The new cameras have both digital and mechanical stabilization.  It looks like a moving eyeball behind the lense.  Its amazing how stable the images are when free handing moving shots.  Perfect to video model trains.  I don't have one yet.

Rich

Nice job with that video segment, Rich!  But, then, I would expect nothing less.  You have quite a track record with nicely done videos.

Since I moved in 2004 to the new house, I was wondering where I stashed the wedding present my wife gave me in October 1984. I finally found it in a box of engine parts the other day!

Here it is my my Glenn Snyder shelving:

Peter

Thanks Sam!

Brian looks like good progress on your revised layout. Looking forward to seeing more of your progress. Keep up the good work.

Rich love the layout and those CN work horses. The Videl was excellent!! I was trying to count how many coal cars you have in that consist but I have to guess it might be 12?

Thanks for sharing with us Rich.

Milwaukee Road 261 at LaCrosse, WI, June 2002.

I was at my club today, here is our main street I originally built that has had a face lift.

Here is our finished READING boxcar.