Weekend Photo Fun 4-17-19-????

LIRR  ACTION!

Switching over to NYC  / PC next!

I was able to take the new buildings over to the club yesterday.

Scott Smith

Fun photos for this fine April weekend!

A G5 is heading out with the afternoon commuter train.  The Pennsy had 90 of the these 10-wheelers, the largest production 4-6-0 engines made, the first one being built in 1924.  This engine was used on milk trains, branch lines, work trains as well as commuter service.   While not liked by its crew due to its rough ride, this versatile engine lasted to almost the end of steam.

The G5 is MTH, the P70 is GGD.

I guess this is now Thursday Photo Fun...anyhow, last week, Norm Charbonneau's photos of his magnificent Insulbrick house inspired me to post images of somethings I like to scratchbuild...lineside relay cases.

At first, I began with commercially available models made by Life Like which I believe are GRS prototypes. Here is a picture of one, along with an adjacent cast metal Keil Line battery well and line drop. The case is just  lightly weathered as they kept them in pretty good shape on the prototype, even near the end of Pennsy and into the PC era:

They are very nice models, but after a while, I wanted custom configurations as seen on the prototype, so I started making my own. They are built from 1/2" thick MDF, cut with a slightly sloped top. They are strictly two dimensional with all of the vents and doors recreated with pencil, very fine tipped black and white markers, and subtle chalk weathering. Here are some examples:

Finally, here is a photo of a cast metal Keil Line relay case which in my opinion was undersized. To give it more "umphf", I built it up on a platform as I've seen on the prototype. I think I actually saw it on CSX, and it may not be correct for the Pennsy, but I figured it would look pretty cool, so I modeled and installed it on the layout!

Hope you like these images, and hang in there for another week of lockdown...the ONLY good thing I can say about it is that I'm getting lots of work done on the layout! Be safe!

Are any of you having issues posting photos this evening?

My photos have disappeared a couple of times showing broken links.

Scott Smith

To be spotted at Acme Plaster company every weeknight. 

Saluting our Armed Forces who are always there for us when we need them.....

Peter

Started doing a section of my layout, right in the middle, so I had to get up on table.

Kusan Army Train

Had lots of time to work on some landscaping and ballast. 

Yesterday's project. The Long Island Railroad's Deer Park station in 1973 and my representation it. 

G A R A G E

Off to a great start this weekend, lots of super pics and great layout to look at and grab ideas from.  Neal, I really liked your line side relay boxes and cases, that is something you don't really see modeled all that much but is a very important part of railroading, they were always neat to look at and when I was a lot younger, I always wondered what they were for.  Very nicely done, thanks for sharing those.

Scott, not sure about losing pics and stuff but when I get on the OGR, my download speed goes all to pieces, its funny, this site is the only place I have problems.  Usually my MAC just hauls A when downloading but when I get to this site, it goes into SNAIL mode and takes forever and a day to change from one screen to another, anybody else having this problem, like I said, it only happens on the OGR site.

Corsair 29, I like your weathering on your track, looks very nice.

Have a great weekend, stay safe and healthy

Indian Motorcycle Co

Some Pennsy power on ‘The South Fork Railroad’

A 2019 Christmas Layout memory 

Realized that my 2 images last week of my small Easter section of the layout weren't too good so I'm posting a few more this week.

- walt

Hello Jeff, that is a nice B&O stock car, can I ask who made it?

John

sidehack posted:

Indian Motorcycle Co

Ray,

Very creative use of space and nice build!

Dave

Recently completed Atlantis/Revell reissue Sinclair kit.

I got tired of dealing with the springs on my giraffe cars....I don't use the telltale poles.

Now my giraffes are always looking around.....

Have a great weekend and stay safe, folks.

Peter

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

Hello Jeff, that is a nice B&O stock car, can I ask who made it?

John

Thanks John!! The car made by O line reproductions!!  

CHOO CHOO

Putnam Division posted:

I got tired of dealing with the springs on my giraffe cars....I don't use the telltale poles.

Now my giraffes are always looking around.....

Have a great weekend and stay safe, folks.

Peter

 

Peter,  

Great idea.  I am going to convert my cars also.  NH Joe

Just checking out some new bridges. 

Around Town...

John,

The "O" Line items where originally RMT pieces.

Redball342 

I decided it was time to clean the basement. Spring is here, although temps don't agree, and the heating season is nearly over, we heat with wood , so I spent the day going from one end to the other dusting, vacuuming, wiping, and cleaning nick-nacks. I discovered a box of train parts and figures. I bought the figures for the outdoor shelf layout several years ago, so I decided today was the day the carpentry crew was put to work on the Wrong Way RR. There are three wood bridges that were built to be old and neglected, with a burned support post, and a lot of rotted floor boards on the walkways. Even though it was cold, one of the crew had to stop and wipe the sweat from his brow. A replacement post is ready to go as soon as the walkway is safe The guys kept a safe distance from each other while doing some repairs.

CN 3200 and Progress Rail 7201 pulling an Eastbound train over the Grand Trunk Western on Monday, April 13th, 2020 as the sun was setting in Vicksburg, Michigan.

Andrew

Falcon Service

The Lionel O scale SOUTHERN Railway auto carrier with Hallmark Ford Torino and Atlas O Volkswagen Beetle automobiles.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Just got this Lionel Class J for a great deal.

                  BUD...…….

This former CSXT SD70ACe diesel-electric locomotive was headed East on the Grand Trunk Western to the Canadian National Railway in Ontario, Canada. This one will eventually arrive at the Roberval and Saguenay Railway Co. in Quebec.

Andrew

Falcon Service

It's time to freshen up the equipment in service at Caprock, Texas, on the High Plains Division of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company.  I have three targets:

1. A reefer block;
2. A strawberry special with all available express reefers;
3. And a detouring Super Chief, all MTH cars.  This will be replaced with a heavyweight Chief next month.

While I was hauling out boxes, I came across a banker box of books, timetables, and assorted things, so all work stopped for the evening.    I got into a couple of my old time books from the 1970's, when I was a Santa Fe Locomotive Engineer, working out of San Bernardino, and spent over an hour lost in memorable trips with long gone railroad men and long since scrapped locomotives.  The memories were good, and the time spent was good for me.  Old days, old comrades, real, skill-based, railroading with a thin rule book -- it never hurts a fellow to remember good railroad days.

Well . . . as tough old Roundhouse Foreman Tommy Willis would have said, "What're y'all doing drinking coffee and daydreaming.  Git to work!  You've got both main lines tied up and each of those cars needs to be lubricated!"  I can take a hint, Tommy, wherever you are.

J. Motts posted:

Off to a great start this weekend, lots of super pics and great layout to look at and grab ideas from.  Neal, I really liked your line side relay boxes and cases, that is something you don't really see modeled all that much but is a very important part of railroading, they were always neat to look at and when I was a lot younger, I always wondered what they were for.  Very nicely done, thanks for sharing those.

Scott, not sure about losing pics and stuff but when I get on the OGR, my download speed goes all to pieces, its funny, this site is the only place I have problems.  Usually my MAC just hauls A when downloading but when I get to this site, it goes into SNAIL mode and takes forever and a day to change from one screen to another, anybody else having this problem, like I said, it only happens on the OGR site.

Corsair 29, I like your weathering on your track, looks very nice.

Have a great weekend, stay safe and healthy

Mr Mott,  No problem on my Amazon tablet, loads fast from page to page.

Dave