WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 4-3-15-??

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

What I have been working on this week.  Underneath my upper level wanted to do a seedy part of town.

My wife's Easter Basket....

Happy Easter, everyone!

Peter

Great photos everyone!

Here is SP #4294 switching off the main-line after a long day's work:

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Easter and Passover Everyone. This was taken at our open house on March 15.

Bryan, you've done a nice job of creating an underbridge -- damp -- look.

The thing you've done the best, in my opinion, is to rough up and paint the pilings in a way that makes them look reasonably good. They also look proportionally correct t the size of the automobiles, at least to my eye.  All too often I see a photo of a similar spot on someone's layout and a little voice in my head says "...oh, nice...some dowels...".  Half the time, the dowels are left as unfinished wood and are way too thick.

Would you mind letting us know:

• The diameter (or circumference) of the dowels you used?
• How you finished them?  Is it just semi-gloss black paint, or did you put something on to give them texture?
• The dimensions of the little block at the bottom (H x W x L)?
• How far apart the dowels are from each other moving away from the camera?
• Anything else you'd care to tell us.

Thanks.

Steven J. Serenska

Waiting for its TMCC command upgrade.

Happy Easter weekend everyone!  Here's a Weaver Central Vermont 40' boxcar just out of the "weathering shop"...

It has been unseasonably cold in Maine this Spring and the Snow Bunnies are still hanging around. This morning they decided to take advantage of an open gondolas car and hitch a ride.

Happy Easter, everyone.

NS Heritage units on the Lehigh Valley HiRailers Layout at the Allentown Spring Thaw Train Meet.

Chris

LVHR

Menard's Hobby Shop.

Nice job Joey, looks like Ray has some competition now.

Here’s another special color aged yellow car I have available on the bay.

Weathered car # 954

All have a great weekend!

Loved one coming home to his final resting place.

Check out my weekly posts “O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle”.  It is a discussion about 1/43, 1/48, and 1/50 scale model cars used on our layouts. Often it’s about model manufactures and occasionally about real the real thing.

The May 2015 issue of Classic Toy Trains is on news stands now. It contained an article revisiting previously featured layouts by Pete Vollmer, Rich Battista and myself. It is a real honor to be included with those two.

Nice scene, Bryan. You have a nice Hummer model as well.

Happy Easter Weekend !

Picked up the LCCA 1608W reissue set a few weeks ago & finally got it on the layout for some pics

Even got the add on B Unit & 2 extra cars -

M&StL GP9 2348 leads a long train of MPC era billboard reefers around the layout-

Lionel 628 NP 44 Tonner leading 1956 set 1545 on the upper level -

2018 leading Set 1579S from 1958 -

Added a few more shelves to help get some engines out of teh closet & on display -

Lucia & Lorenzo help run the NH set -

Caught the NS OCS (2 different sections) heading to the Masters & the Circus Train this week -

Sure like the architecture styling of this structure. Beautiful addition, Spence.

Throwing in a few videos for fun!

Rio Grande is on the upper loop pulling a short tank train. 

Purchased these at Catoctin Mountain Trains a week or two ago, the neon signs are cool!

Since I pulled up my yard, I added this short "display track" to one end of the layout to store some extra cars. 

Chessie SW1 is on the inner loop.

C&O Yellowbelly is on the outer loop.

A few photos from the last few weeks at Catoctin Mountain Trains, which closed this week after 25 years in business. Without a doubt, the best train store I've ever been in and shopped at.

There he goes again.

Happy Easter and Passover to all, great photo's as always. some pic's of the club coaling tower and harbor scene which is still under development. The club has been having some difficulty with a member not keeping his dues current and we had to deal with him accordingly (Picture #2, gotta love those Homies)

Man that looks fantastic, Spence!

Nothing like some big steam power!!!  Great videos!

Found this chopped-up diner at a swap meet, and it is going to find a home under the el. It is nearby the village office building and police station, so it should not be getting any graffiti.

This piece also came from a swap meet because it would not work for the original owner. I find that Lionel's mechanisms are delicate but fixable.

It's a busy workday at Woodside Station where the IRT El crosses the Long Island Rail Road. No "Rail Road" is not spelt wrong, it is the Long Island's way!

End of the line for a New Haven F3. Kudos to Lionel for their great operating accessories.

This boxcar, after making a 40-inch dive to the concrete, was dumped into the Hobo Camp and quickly became sleeping quarters shelter for the immigrants. The Connecticut Birney in the background is a recent acquisition of the Steinway Company that was pressed into service before getting a new pint job.

My most recent purchase. Lionel's JC Penny exclusive, 1985 Wabash GP9

Sweet. Thought about getting that a while ago, but got the postwar 2339 instead.  

Start of Trout Season here in PA.

I love this photo that I stumbled upon while browsing the RR Pictures Archive.net website. the photographer is James Gillin. The location is McKeesport, PA and the year is 1964.

More B&O scenes from Jasper's Rock:

Nice work Joe. Where did you get your backdrop from? I'd like to do something similar for photographing my loads.

Don

Well done Steve.

Don

Great idea Peter; you could probably sell those loads!

Don

Yellow bonnets for Easter....

Baggage carts at the station platform with new lighting.

Ralph M,  O M G  I was raised in Mckeesport, PA.  My family and I used to take the B&O from McKeesport to Gary, Indiana almost every year to visit relatives.  That pic really takes me back.  I don't live there anymore but I'm just across the McKeesport border.

The McKeesport train station is just to the left in the pic.  Directly behind the left windshield on the engine is the STAR restaurant.  That long diagonal thing on the building is the 'S'.  You can see the 'T' and the top of the 'A'.  My mother would take me there to have lunch when we were in town.  When the train would pass that old building would shake really bad.

Rick

Here are photos of my FRISCO Mikado,,,,she sure does smoke !

@RickC: Hard to tell from the photo but was that a freight or passenger train?

What sort of speed did it come through town at?

A little weathering this week, but in N scale.

Can you give some details on your great looking shelves??? Material and how you mount them??? Good stuff as always!