Weekend Photo Fun 4-18-13-??

Just another shot of steam in action. Don

Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

 

Sunlight creating interesting shadows on the layout....

 

Here's a pre-York opening pic at the Hot Dog Fest.

Thank you, Mike and Michelle, for organizing this!

 

 

Peter

Caught the 1069 again leading 337 through Fort Mill, SC

 

 

Took Lucia to see 630 -

 

Lumber storage shed.

Ran into Johnny Jimenez the toy expert from Pawnstars. Great guy answered questions and was having fun.

BY THE WAY.............

Although I posed for this picture........

It was taken with a cellphone (Which are not allowed in the halls), There are no trains in the photo, and no TCA members were harmed in the taking of this photo.

I DID NOT TAKE IT!!!!!!!! 

 

Thank you to Ben, Jim, John, Rick, Peter, Farmer Bill, and of course my WONDERFUL wife!  It was a blast!!!

Refinery has been moved to this location as part of my renovation project. What you see in the photo below will double the size from the old location when complete.

 

Nice variety of photos.  Good stuff.

 

Looks like everybody is having fun.  

Looks like everyone's having a great time, even loading up on crop dusting ammo.

 

Invasion of the "Flamingos"

Thanks for the photos everyone. I can almost taste the dogs from here.

A little something for the F A R M E R S . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man those hoppers look nice, Even the Girls Money & Overtime

Thanks Mike.

I went to order these cars for my own collection and Weaver is out of DC trucks & couplers to make them...

 

What a way to run a Railroad!

Great pictures everyone!!

 

Brian...the renovation / rebuild is coming along nicely...

 

Alan

 

Here is a recent picture of part of the refinery...

The Maine 3 Railers club set up at Camp Kieve in Nobleboro, ME. on 4-18-13.

 

 

I've bought and aged a few pickups for the layout!  I think they turned out pretty good!

Nick, the Star Grill is one of my favorite buildings. This is it when I just finished it on my work bench. Hope you find one soon. Don

Thanks Amigo!  Where did you find yours?  It looks great. I'm jealous.

nick

Here a few finished shots of my weathered READING car on the Micro layout.  I think will  repaint the trucks, not crazy about the red rust.  Nick

Great photos everyone!

I just bought this MTH Railking C&O American Crane off of www.modeltrainstuff.com 

A new Sidetrack Laser outhouse for my layout.

 

Brian from this angle I can better see your expansion area for the refinery. It should make for a fine addition to your layout. Keep the progress pictures coming.

Nick, I got it on E-bay about six months ago. Don't remember how much though. I love deco buildings so I would have paid what ever for it. Wonder what happened to the company and how many they made. I think they only made two different kits. Don

OGR Ameritown structures.  Painting detail.  Click on the underlined phrase to link.

tackindy:

 

Wait till you see what I did with my METROLINK engine. It sure does not look like the one you show in your picture anymore.

 

Bill:

 

The picture I posted does show the expansion area for the refinery. Not shown is an area to the left that will be included as well. This has been an exciting part of my renovation project. I LOVE REFINERIES on a layout. Yours is one of the best I have seen and Allan did a fabulous job on it. Your efforts and those of LeavingTracks have been an inspiration for me to make mine better.

Spent Thursday chasing 630 on her ferry move to Asheville,NC for this weekend excursions.

Brian you are going to have a good size area for your refinery. I am sure it will really be a gret addition to your layout. The suggestion I would offer is to consider going HEAVY ON THE REFINERY LIGHTING. It will make a big difference as shown below.

 

Bill:

 

We are working on the lighting based upon your efforts.

Brian that sounds good to me!

In April of 1957, the Nickel Plate Road began receiving 20 SD-9's from Electro-Motive that would serve on the Wheeling District, mostly pulling coal. This month, 56 years later, my railroad took delivery of it's own NKP SD-9 to pull coal trains. I know many wouldn't get too excited about an almost 20 year old locomotive with outdated electronics, but this is the one locomotive I've hoped to add to my fleet to represent my loose interpretation of the Wheeling district. I found it on the forum too!

 

 

 

 

 

Work continues on my Berkshire Valley Crew shed, The Grant Line windows are nice, but they require you to cut the upper AND lower sash “glass” and install them 1 at a time – Gees Louise! Glad that there were only 3 windows. 

 

The floor is from a Home Depot paint sample. Drilling the hole for the doorknob then gluing it in place made me, a grown man, cry. The weathering on the bricks came out good. I still need to Dull Cote it.

 

Hopefully tomorrow I will continue with the many pewter detail castings, and the roof and lean-to, Next week I’ll work on the utility poll, lights, and wires. I won’t have to build the steps from scratch because I have some sections from my Crescent Locomotive Works icing platform that some little hands damaged beyond repair, but the pieces are salvageable.

 

This was a good diversion from the Boston Massacre 50 miles north: awful stuff.

The latest additions to the WIHABL Railroad roster...

 

MTH Guilford (ST) GP35 powered and non-powered units.  Awesome amount of detail in these Geeps!

 

 

Ah...Heck....Bill and Brian!!  Now you got me "refining" my thoughts!!

 

Here are a few of my refinery some time ago.  It has since expanded so I need to take new pictures....

 

Alan