Weekend Photo Fun 4-15-22-??

@scott.smith posted:

It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Scott enjoy these images of the museum layout but were are the shots from your own layout at home like you use to post?

Ron

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@PRRronbh posted:

Scott enjoy these images of the museum layout but were are the shots from your own layout at home like you use to post?

Ron

My layout at home needs a lot of work. I had a short and couldn't find it. I ended up disconnecting most of the lights and I haven't been able to rewire.

Scott Smith

@scott.smith posted:

It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

@scott.smith posted:

My layout at home needs a lot of work. I had a short and coildn't find it. I ended up disconnecting most of the lights and I haven't been able to rewire.

Scott Smith

Sorry to hear this>. Sure did like seeing it.

Ron

I finished this Lionel TMCC S1 project last week:

Thanks Scott for getting us started!  Hope you get your electrical problem resolved on your home layout.  Here are my photos of fun for this fine weekend!

Everyday railroad  busy-ness.

Rural railroading.

Boyhood exploration down by the railroad tracks.

More rural railroading.

HAPPY EASTER!

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

A few more scenes in the back area of the layout.

For perspective purposes, the bum camp is shown here but hard to distinguish.  The manger was not yet put in place.  It landed up where you see those white whatevers in the bottom of this image

The glass manger pieces were a small gift from my son and DIL meant to be placed on the layout

Last year I built a temporary Easter themed layout so that I could display ALL of my Easter stuff together, something I couldn't do on my Christmas layouts.

I join Craig in wishing you Happy Easter.

I have tons of closeups but I'll spare you

I put lights in those houses at the top

- walt

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

I finished this Lionel TMCC S1 project last week:

Norm neat, really neat.  But one thing the PRR S1 having four cylinders each exhausting to the stack would have some cadence of eight depending depending on the sync of the two driver sets.

Ron

York, April 2018.........

Jim......we miss you!

Marty, I know you'll be there in spirit!

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

@PRRronbh posted:

Norm neat, really neat.  But one thing the PRR S1 having four cylinders each exhausting to the stack would have some cadence of eight depending depending on the sync of the two driver sets.

Ron

I hope you understand that this engine is using vintage early 2000s Lionel TMCC/RS4 and Lionel did simulate phased duplex chuff in this particular soundset. I did not film a full suite of this engine running at different speeds, perhaps I will if I can locate a proper set of classier passenger cars for it someday.

I was at the C&O Heritage Museum in Clifton Forge this week and I was able to run one of their mini locomotives. Some of our club members will be in the process of restoring a donated layout on their site.

Scott Smith

@scott.smith posted:

I was at the C&O Heritage Museum in Clifton Forge this week and I was able to run one of their mini locomotives. Some of our club members will be in the process of restoring a donated layout on their site.

Scott Smith

Neat!  Sure wish they would have let the M-1 coaling towel standing there.

Ron

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

I hope you understand that this engine is using vintage early 2000s Lionel TMCC/RS4 and Lionel did simulate phased duplex chuff in this particular soundset. I did not film a full suite of this engine running at different speeds, perhaps I will if I can locate a proper set of classier passenger cars for it someday.

That sound set sucks!  It sounds like a stumble!  I have the PRR S1, T1 and Q2  in MTH so can set rate  as you know.  But have thought about readjusting one set of drivers on these so that the two engine sets would be in sync.

The fleet of Modern with a fantasy front end box car plus the baggage car not imaged here.

Ron

Just another new GG1 in my collection.  This one a Sunset 2 rail one photographed in my back yard with my cell phone.

Utacolzona & URR.  On30.

Utacolzona Railroad in On30 (2 years in the making, 2020 - 2022) Update 4/10/22 w/ video

@PRRronbh posted:

That sound set sucks!

Thumbs down buddy.

Custom Caboose's - cabeese? lol

Here are a few (more) pictures of my last layout in PA before moving to CA:

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thumbs down buddy.

Go to Tou Tube you will find one short video of the S1 and many of the T1 and some of the Q2.  Judge for yourself!

Ron

Here are two photos provided by my son who is a NJT Engineer.

What do we have here?  Oh...just another GG1 posing for its first photographs.

@GG1 4877 posted:

What do we have here?  Oh...just another GG1 posing for its first photographs.

But in 1981 NJ Transit painted this Motor red with 5 stripes.

Ron

Happy Weekend.

@PRRronbh posted:

But in 1981 NJ Transit painted this Motor red with 5 stripes.

Ron

Yep.  I rode the last ride of the GG1 behind the Tuscan 4877 in October of 1983.  I also got a non-accompanied cab tour in 1982 when it was on display at the Hoboken festival as NJT didn't lock the doors to any of the equipment and my brother along with two of my cousins toured the cabs of lots of equipment and in the case of the E8 the engine room. 

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

I finished this Lionel TMCC S1 project last week:

I saw your video of this right after you posted it. I love this model and understand why you'd want one.

I'm not into 3-rail, so some of your tech stuff is meaningless to me, but the videos are really interesting to watch anyway.

Johan, those are wonderful Maine Central/Boston & Maine layout photos.

Have a great weekend.

Jonathan, is it my imagination or can you actually see the green of the DGLE in the bright sunlight?

Johan the backdrop blends in seamlessly and your photographic skills on display in the backdrop  give incredible realism to the layout photo.

Is that Hooper or The Bandit flying that car over the 44 tonner?

K-line scale K4s pulling mail express train.

Edit: I recently acquired the 3 PRR x29 boxcars in the photos that are not accurately marked as railway express agency.

@Number 90 posted:

Johan, those are wonderful Maine Central/Boston & Maine layout photos.

Tom,

Thank you very much.

Johan

@coach joe posted:

Johan the backdrop blends in seamlessly and your photographic skills on display in the backdrop  give incredible realism to the layout photo.

Joe. Thanks a lot. I am also very pleased with the LED lighting that runs all the way above the layout.

Johan

TOFC:

@coach joe posted:

Jonathan, is it my imagination or can you actually see the green of the DGLE in the bright sunlight?

I can definitely see the green in it.  One thing I've never quite gotten used to out here in AZ is just how bright the sun is during the day.  When I get further north natural sunlight just doesn't quite feel as intense.  If I had photographed the locomotive indoors, it would have looked a lot darker.