Weekend Photo Fun 4-28-23-??

My granddaughter hanging out in the train room. Age 3.

She likes Lionel Trains. No pink Lionel locomotives needed. Just a pink train hat.

After running trains she goes to grandma’s kitchen to bake railroad cookies.

Thanks for taking a look & I hope to see you out rail-fanning: Gary 🚂

This week I have a few images of my engine service area at East Altoona which show a classic PRR M1 Mountain sitting under an upgraded and detailed Lionel coaling tower. I took these with my cell phone and after spending lots of time with it, I can take pictures as good if not better than with my DSLR. And it’s a heck of a lot easier to use!

That’s’ it for this week…enjoy!

A 2022 Christmas Layout memory

A part of Waltburg not shown yet,

And one more closeup this week

- walt

                                                       Trackside...

                                                  Coal - fuel Co. finished!

Looks like the many months of dwindling activity and forum participation has shifted over to F.B.

Times are a changing.

The rest of the pictures from York......I'll divide up by topic.

1st group is the traditional Friday evening gathering at the Olive Garden......not gourmet food, but a passable food experience because the major focus is the camaraderie of being together and the Olive Garden takes reservations for large groups....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

The S Gauge group in the Purple Hall

Well done, guys!

Peter

Thanks Scott for starting us going once again.  I'll have to check back later in the day or tomorrow, it's off to a great start this fine Friday.  Trainroomgary, I really love seeing pictures of your granddaughter, mine is 5 and she loves Thomas the Tank Engine, she gets a big kick out of running him around on my layout in the clouds in my train/work room.  Neal, great pics as usual, I'd sure love to see your layout in person but I'm satisfied seeing what pics you put out.  Walt, good shots and I liked your sign.
Here's a shot of my granddaughter running Thomas.  She also loves to ride the trains too.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

The O Gauge Eagle Line RR

A short Army train video.....

Peter

The O Gauge StillMeadow Church Group RR.....from the York area....

Bob (RRdoc on the Forum) doing a selfie......a few years or so ago, we spied each others name tags and realized we knew each other. Bob and my wife were 1981 graduates of the University of Maryland Med School. I was in Internal Medicine resident there and started dating my future wife a few months before their graduation......we hadn't seen each other since then.

Peter

The Standard Gauge group in the Black Hall......get ready to see some spectacular custom locomotives.....these fellows are AMAZING!!!!!!

Peter

Have a great weekend everyone.

Finally, some from the RC3R display......I am proud of our work on the D-27 module.....it worked flawlessly.....no derailments!

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

Pouring rain in Richmond, today......a good day to build structures indoors!

Peter

Thanks Scott for getting us started today and for sharing the photos of that gorgeous layout!!  Here are some photos of the fun kind from around my layout.    Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Brakemen Ponzi Amos and Mason Jones ride the front step of the local way freight.  

Busy rails at the junction.   Brakeman Lex Larkins rides the platform of an RS 1.

On an overnight hike, here is the view from my tent flap this morning!

The morning commute has begun.

@SIRT posted:

                                                       Trackside...

                                                  Coal - fuel Co. finished!

Looks like the many months of dwindling activity and forum participation has shifted over to F.B.

Times are a changing.

That looks Spectacular Steve! I always liked these set ups. Yes FB has stolen the show on many forums I’m on so sad I don’t have FB never wanted it. Thanks for sharing your pics

Thanks Lee.

Same here, F.B. & Texting, not my choice. Like Rush said, “conform or be cast out”

We lost a lot of modelers along the journey.

It's very sad to see members change over to FB, I hate FB with a purple passion, more power to them but sooner or later they'll figure it out about FB and they'll come back.  This is where its at and always will be, we have some really great modelers on this forum and I truly hope they stick around.  Peter, I loved all your pics today, great stuff.  Lee Drennen, your and I need to talk, I'm thinking you might be a MoPac fan, I'm mainly SP, but I also like the SF, UP and the T&P, later MoPac.
Steve, I agree with Lee, your work is just outstanding, I loved what you did and they way you did it.  Great modeling, I guess I missed your original post but I'm sure glad that I saw Lee's Post about you, did you post this those shots today, if you did I don't see them.

I hope everyone has a terrific weekend.

JEM

Here are  a few pictures from a prior layout in PA:

@Putnam Division posted:

The O Gauge Eagle Line RR

Peter

I love the Dinosaur Park.  That is creative modeling.  NH Joe

Guys I am really enjoying the posts tonight…

Sharing something short an simple this evening.  For some reason I like this☺️

Seth

@J. Motts posted:

It's very sad to see members change over to FB, I hate FB with a purple passion, more power to them but sooner or later they'll figure it out about FB and they'll come back.  This is where its at and always will be, we have some really great modelers on this forum and I truly hope they stick around.

JEM

I have been registered with Facebook pretty much since the site was started, and really only stay with it these days to share select things with family, friends, and other hobbyists. FB (and similar sites including YouTube and others) are so large and fragmented that a whole lot of good information gets overlooked and/or lost in the vastness of cyberspace. That does not really happen with a topic-specific forum like this OGR Forum. I do glean a good number of layout and how-to article ideas and possibilities for OGR magazine from FB posts made to specific FB special-interest groups I belong to. There are many such groups devoted to O gauge and O scale. Truthfully, some of the best modeling I see on a regular basis--almost daily, in fact--is demonstrated on the various On30 FB groups I also belong to.

We have a great group of very talented people right here on this forum. There really is little need to go elsewhere for the most up-to-date and easy-to-access information relating to our segment of the hobby.

I am putting together a 1947 Friendship Train (FT) by making most of the cars myself.  Most cars just has slogans painted on their sides, but a few cars were repainted just for the occasion.  The FT at times had 3-4 passenger cars to carry workers, but only two were painted for the FT.  Fortunately, Lionel made the cars but unfortunately they used an observation when neither one was an observation.  Nicely done cars.

IMO, the photos in this thread are so good that I wish there was a 2nd button to tap on, next to the Like button.

The 2nd button would say Spectacular, or Amazing, or Fabulous, or maybe Bravo.

Arnold

@SIRT posted:

Thanks Lee.

Same here, F.B. & Texting, not my choice. Like Rush said, “conform or be cast out”

We lost a lot of modelers along the journey.

Hello Steve. Your pictures this week are extraordinary. Wow. And that’s coming from someone who looks forward to your work every week. Thanks for your weekly contribution!

Photos around the city of Christopolis.

@CAPPilot posted:

I am putting together a 1947 Friendship Train (FT) by making most of the cars myself.  Most cars just has slogans painted on their sides, but a few cars were repainted just for the occasion.  The FT at times had 3-4 passenger cars to carry workers, but only two were painted for the FT.  Fortunately, Lionel made the cars but unfortunately they used an observation when neither one was an observation.  Nicely done cars.

Ron, please post pictures (maybe a dedicated thread?) of your completed FT set. I have the six boxcars Lionel released, along with the two passenger cars.  I want to expand it to include additional boxcars and would welcome some ideas.

@trainroomgary posted:

My granddaughter hanging out in the train room. Age 3.

She likes Lionel Trains. No pink Lionel locomotives needed. Just a pink train hat.

Gary 🚂

She's adorable, Gary!

You are SO wise to enjoy her to the utmost and be a part of her life. They grow up SO FAST!

All the best!

Andre

                                                   GTW #2310...  

My recently completed HRM Laser Models Milwaukee Road Wausau Wisconsin depot. See the posts in the Scenery & Structures forum for more pictures and information.

https://ogrforum.com/...6#173456840892964606

This latest makeover, Colorado & Southern SILVER BOWL was done on a GGD observation. It is stuffed full of new Evans Designs lighting.  
I had once stated in a previous post as how I always wanted to do a remodel on a GGD car…I have that desire completely out of my system now.

The makeover on the left is a Lionel 21” and it is not finished.

SIRT,  Just a Fantastic scene with the coal dock. The bent rail being used as wheel stops caught my eye. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that modeled before. Nicely Done. The mailbox in front of my house resides on a similar piece of bent rail found in a scrap pile.

@SIRT posted:

                                                       Trackside...

                                                  Coal - fuel Co. finished!

Looks like the many months of dwindling activity and forum participation has shifted over to F.B.

Times are a changing.

SIRT, your new layout looks great! Beautiful photos. And you sure work fast.

I wonder what the sign used to say under FRANK BROs COAL Co., FUEL                OIL was definitely a later addition, but that seems to be an awful lot of blank space on the original sign.  Maybe the type of coal, a catchy slogan>  It doesn't look as if there are any provisions for an ice business.

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

SIRT, your new layout looks great! Beautiful photos. And you sure work fast.

Thanks Neal

@coach joe posted:

I wonder what the sign used to say under FRANK BROs COAL Co., FUEL                OIL was definitely a later addition, but that seems to be an awful lot of blank space on the original sign.  Maybe the type of coal, a catchy slogan>  It doesn't look as if there are any provisions for an ice business.

MRR OCT 69, always wanted to do this in O...

Steve like you say, When you're ready for real.  But in my mind, real still has me wondering.   The different font, which you captured so well, and the spacing still make me think fuel oil wasn't originally on the sign.  One day my mind will settle on a back story for the Frank Bros.

CA-1 repainted for QA&P

There is another on the workbench (I messed around and wound up buying two CA-1’s). Two different makers, and the comparison could be rather surprising.

@laming posted:

She's adorable, Gary!

You are SO wise to enjoy her to the utmost and be a part of her life. They grow up SO FAST!

All the best!

Andre

Hi Andre: Thanks for the kind words and checking out my Weekend Photo Fun Photos.

Gary 🚂

@Rider Sandman posted:

Ron, please post pictures (maybe a dedicated thread?) of your completed FT set. I have the six boxcars Lionel released, along with the two passenger cars.  I want to expand it to include additional boxcars and would welcome some ideas.

Most of my Friendship Train items are boxed up as I redo the layout (again).  MTH did several but mostly the same roads as Lionel.  MTH's cars are a different car number, so you can have both.

Here are my X-29s that I have on the layout.  On the real train, there were 4, maybe 5, marked like this.

Here is what I am working on.  The left side has the banner that is on the side of the car, and then the type of O scale car that is available to match the real car.  The ones with the * are the best match.

People of Sacramento - AtlasO UP "Serves All The West" 1937 AAR 40' 8559-X

*People of Sacramento - AtlasO UP Steel Re-Built USRA Boxcar 6485-X

People of Sacramento - MTH UP AAR Boxcar 20-93208

Lancaster County - AtlasO PRR X-29

Hoboken's Food car - MTH 40' Lackawanna USRA Single Sheathed Boxcar 20-93365

*Employees of PRR - MTH X41b 50' PS-1 MS boxcar 20-93582

*Employees of PRR - MTH X41b 50' PS-1 MS boxcar from set 20-90722

Ashtabula and Lake Counties - PFE 66370 steel reefer- Orange reefer with brown top/ends double hearold-color

Ashtabula and Lake Counties - PFE 66370 steel reefer- Atlas O 40' steel reefer 3003916/8513

Ashtabula and Lake Counties - PFE 66370 steel reefer- Orange reefer with brown top/ends Lio 6-11657

Ashtabula and Lake Counties - PFE 66370 steel reefer- 6-11874

Raisins from Fresno - PRR 50' boxcar

Oklahoma Millers Association - ATSF steel boxcar/El Capitain Coach Streamliner

Ft Worth Lions - C&O wood Double sheath boxcar

Oakland CA - New Haven by Weaver (NH script, tuscan)

Cleveland OH - NYC

Bakersfield - Atlas O SP (black logo) 40' Single Sheathed (wood braced) Box Car

Cheyenne, WY  X-29

Des Moines, IA - CB&Q "Everything West",  Weaver has same car but C&S (burlington).  Can substitute.