Weekend Photo Fun 4-2-21-??

My latest purchase arrived on 4-1-21.   Lionel Legacy Maine Central GP7.

Photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  

New load of farm equipment arrives on team track.

Unloading action.

A boy on his bike explores the rail yard.

Big Hook assists with re-railing a hopper.

Locomotive service track.

Old Ford pickup.

The gritty industrial park.

Scrap pile.

Happy Easter/Passover:

Trump train,

Love the photo of the “scrap pile”, it looks great plus the pic looks as your layout goes on forever!  Beautiful photo.

Malcolm

A 2020 Christmas Layout memory.

Not much of one, but part of the town area.  I'll start it with showing an overall for perspective - the 'town' is in the lower left.

- walt

This is another, and final, week showing the temp 7'x8' Easter layout that I set up out of boredom being stuck inside.  A secondary reason is that I have so much nice layout stuff for Easter that I could never use it all on my 11'x14' Christmas layout and I dislike having to pick and choose which items to use for the years that I have an Easter section on it.  So I wanted a chance to see all of the items used.

Here's a reminder of what it looks like to give perspective to the closeups below:

the path to the bunny house:

@scott.smith posted:

It's time for Weekend Photo Fun!!

Back in 2018 I made an Easter layout for the VMT.

Scott Smith

Scott

Your Easter layout is WAY more colorful and 'Eastery' than the temp one of mine that I've been showing lately.  GREAT JOB doing that.

- walt

@Brother_Love posted:

Trump train,

Love the photo of the “scrap pile”, it looks great plus the pic looks as your layout goes on forever!  Beautiful photo.

Malcolm

Brother Love - I really appreciate your kind words!  Thanks!!  

I was playing around with the telephoto lens and came up with this image of a pair of Conrail wide cabs hauling a westbound east of Port Royal:

Spent some time checking out the DCS wifi on the large club layout:

Checked out the ballast repair/replace/refresh that was done by OGR Forum member Kanawha and myself:

Continued my clean/repair/refresh of major buildings on the modular layout.....

First up is a continuation of the work on Max Foods:

2nd up is a clean/repair/refresh of the General Electric Building which is a kit-bash of 2 Korber Factory kits which are out of production.......hey, MrMuffin....HINT, HINT.... please make these kits again.....they are great for urban industrial kit-bashes.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks......

Peter

                                                         S.I. History...

I watched the Amtrak Coast Starlight pass by high on a trestle along the CA Central Coast this week while walking on the beach and got inspired to put my version of the train on my upper level track:

Here’s a short video:

@trumpettrain posted:

Photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  

New load of farm equipment arrives on team track.

Unloading action.

A boy on his bike explores the rail yard.

Big Hook assists with re-railing a hopper.

Locomotive service track.

Old Ford pickup.

The gritty industrial park.

Scrap pile.

Very nice pics Patrick

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range tank car from Lionel

Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore car from M.T.H.

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range bay window caboose from M.T.H.

Andrew

Falcon Service

These are shots from earlier iterations of our layout through the years.

A winter evening.

The Hudson awaits its next assignment out of Terryville Yard.

Stopping for some farm-fresh produce.

Terryville Engine Service Facility.

Coming around the Disney Park.

The Terryville suburban station platform.

The engine servicing crew ready to go to work on the B&O F-3 diesel.

I dusted off my Orioles Train yesterday, I was excited after I watched the Orioles defeat the Red Sox 3-0 at their Opening Day.

Time to get on the 2021 MLB train.

@Craignor

Craig:

The Oriole train is great! I have one question being the architecture fanatic that I am. What is the building directly in front of the girder bridge in the foreground? I love the shape of the roof. Can you post a photo of the whole building?

Thank you.

                                              Old NEW HAVEN 50's MILK car #1967...

Had a little fun on the layout this afternoon Happy Easter.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Craignor

Craig:

The Oriole train is great! I have one question being the architecture fanatic that I am. What is the building directly in front of the girder bridge in the foreground? I love the shape of the roof. Can you post a photo of the whole building?

Thank you.

Randy,

I bought that at York, it’s a custom made Ice Cream shop made by Master Modeler Harry Heike. He always has a table in the Orange Hall with completed buildings ready for sale. This one grabbed my attention, it has a furnished, decorated, and lit interior and exterior and came with everything you see, except the Pepsi truck and picnic table.

Time to make the donuts...

@Craignor

Craig:

Thanks for the building photos. The shape of the roof caught my eye. I am familiar with Harry's work. He is outstanding! The building, with all of its detail and fixtures, is superb!

Who knows? One day we all be able to go back to York.

Gone fishin'