WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 4-29-16-??

Weekend non-fun photos.Packing up my train room before I move out.Hopefully,I will have a bit more room at my next place. 

Dang you Norman, I am green with envy, It does not get better then that.

Took this picture of my 4-12-2 running at the club, thought it was a neat shot:

drove over to the Ellicott City Maryland downtown area on Friday during lunchtime.  Didn't go inside the B&O station/museum, but will likely get back there one of these days with the family...

GEF, absolutely love the detail here:

Always love the kids pics, Chris!

Peter

Going through some of my old photos I came across my Mayberry Buildings. These were my designs that Andre cut for me. We have a lot of fun with these, and if time permits, I want to build the next building, which was the Hotel.

Mike CT posted:

Mike, great shot! Two questions. Is that passenger station from a kit. if so who made it? Is that a Lionel grain elevator?

Bill

To the surprise of all in a northern PRR yard, a NYC work train came through on it way to a derailment.  Unlike the politicians of the time, the PRR and NYC crews greeted each other with friendly hand waves and wished each other well.

The engine is my new LC+ Mikado that will pull this train, plus a few more cars, at future NCT shows.  It will alternate the duty with a LC+ NYC RS-3 that I've had for awhile.  At past shows, I let visitors run the RS-3 and they really enjoyed the simplicity of the handheld.  Who knows, maybe some of them went right out and bought a set for their family.

Countryside...

My lovely Marx gondola conversion, it should add some variaty to my freight trains from the normal Lionel shorty gon.

A joke from a friend who knows how much I like trains and the World Wars:

More York photos....this time the layouts in the White Hall:

A

A big "thank you" to all those whose time and effort made the displays possible!

Peter

LIRR - New Atlas O T-Man's go for a ride..............

Steve,

The truck scene is just fantastic. Great job.

Alan Graziano

Steve,

Do you know if the T-man passenger cars are new tooling or maybe the old K-line heavyweight tooling?

Joe

Joe, the Trainman cars have been around for many years and  offered in many roads. Atlas true "O"  60 footers. These have Stillwell trucks. Not K-Line HW's.

NSBill posted:

Mike CT posted:

Mike, great shot! Two questions. Is that passenger station from a kit. if so who made it? Is that a Lionel grain elevator?

Bill

Passenger station is an advanced BTS kit. Yes, a Lionel grain elevator, done by another forum member, (DaveJfr0).  Click on the highlighted link.

Here is a link to a photo file, slideshow on the Orbisonia Station model.

Great stuff everyone!  Love this thread.

Some Western Maryland in the yard:

My layout is getting to the point where I can start unboxing more engines. Here's one of my favorite engines, a 3rd Rail Decapod cruising by GB and NB towers. I finally fixed the number board as per Mr. Bartizek, but didn't do that great a job..

Well I wasted 1 3/4 hours  sitting waiting for trains.  The last photo is a former hobby shop at the Airport that closed due to the Internet & he sold at full Retail. I ran into the former owner at the Hospital we wear both there getting our lab  work taken care of. 

Another set comes down off the display shelf and onto the layout one last time before going up for sale. This week, the congressional.

Norm Charbonneau posted:

My layout is getting to the point where I can start unboxing more engines. Here's one of my favorite engines, a 3rd Rail Decapod cruising by GB and NB towers. I finally fixed the number board as per Mr. Bartizek, but didn't do that great a job..

LOVE it!!!  always good to see your work!!

Murnane posted:

drove over to the Ellicott City Maryland downtown area on Friday during lunchtime.  Didn't go inside the B&O station/museum, but will likely get back there one of these days with the family...

A bit more impressive looking than my station and caboose in Mars! 

Went to Fullerton Railroad Days today. Had a good time. Big crowd, mostly families which is good. A lot of trains passed by the Fullerton Depot -- seemed like one every few minutes. There were several layouts there from Z to G. Of course, ATSF 3751 was there.

This was a layout modeled after a long-gone Disneyland ride -- the Mine Train through Nature's Wonderland which used to be in Frontierland roughly where Big Thunder is now, It's well modeled, though compression had to be used.

This is one of the well-done Z scale layouts.

The Lego train builders never cease to amaze

Amtrak's Surfliners were passing through. By the way, those of you with the MTH Surfliner cars, they are now correct for one of the cars. They finally painted the Superliner they added to one of the trains to match the other cars. I suspect the ones in the other trains will get painted at some time. I wish they'd dust off the tooling on the K-Line cars and re-issue them.

Leaving the Isle of Denial for a few hours (like I really had a choice) there were a LOT of BNSF freights running through all day. The Fullerton Subdivision is really busy as trains headed East and trains headed down to San Diego all pass through this Sub.

Fullerton, Disney models and a busy mainline.......what a day!!!

I ride the SWC and Fullerton is my stop....so I know the place well. Wish I was there!!

AMCDave posted:

Fullerton, Disney models and a busy mainline.......what a day!!!

I ride the SWC and Fullerton is my stop....so I know the place well. Wish I was there!!

Took Metrolink from Riverside now that they have the 91 line operating weekends. Beats driving, traffic around the depot and trying to find a parking space. Fullerton is pretty popular with rail fans. On occasion I'll stop by there on the way home from the club.

Ride it and Surfliner when I visit......Buena Pack to Union is a great way to see LA!!!  did that Jan 2015