Weekend Photo Fun 4-6-12-??

Scott,

 

Thanks for starting this a bit early! I can actually contribute!

 

The shot below is from fellow LVHR club member Rich's layout.

 

Chris

LVHR

 

Downtown.....

 

Have a great weekend everyone...

Alan

 

 

Have a Happy Easter Everyone.

 

 

 

 

Meeting engagement in the South Bronx from the 50s:

 

Peter

 

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After YEARS of contemplating, this arrived yesterday:

Amazing locomotive!

The crew of this beautiful C&O ten wheeler are taking their passengers on an Easter weekend excursion.

 

 

 

 

 

Great photos everyone!

 

Mark..(Kunde)...I don't remember if I have ever commented on your layout so just to let you know that I think you have done a beautiful job.  Everytime I see your pictures it makes me feel that I am somewhere familiar..a good feeling! 

 

Alan

Its a NYC Hudson sort of morning...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a sneak peak of what I'm working on today. I have 4 arch sections to cut to length. If I keep this up, I just may have a layout someday!

 

This shows 90% of the train room bench work. Next will be a connector to a wing wall to the left (not seen) and two bridges spanning the stairwell. Then a 2' around the room shelf in the unfinished area on the other half of the attic. This will connect the left to the right side of what you can see here.

 

 

 

 

Gilly

Just finished my schoolhouse diorama. A few first's for me.

The trees are rope trees. A stick from the back yard with rope

spackeling and steel wool. 

The school is a laser kit church that is now a school.

Of course the Lionel playground accessory...

 

Now it's time to work it into the layout....

 

 

This is gorgeous!  I can't wait to infect the N&W with some New York Central power!

 

Peter

Gilly:

 

One of the nicest jobs I have ever seen for benchwork. You have the start of what surely will be a beautiful model railroad and train room.

Scott....great pics as always.  Thanks for being custodian of this thread!

Chris....great pic...a pleasure to see you in Allentown.

Alan....amazing, as always.

Joe....I love how you blend the different gauges and era.

Mark....super as always.

Grp24...enjoy your new engine

Brian....that 10 wheeler is sweet, isn't it?  I have the NYC one.

Christopher....that PostWar stuff evokes many fond memories!

AUBV...love that sidewalk scene.

CSam...always love those elevated shots!

Stoshu...those pastel colors are great on Easter weekend.

Tom....I cannot wait to bring some of my motive power over......

 

What a great start to the weekend pics!  I hope to see many of you in 2 weeks!

 

Peter

I've got the train room cleared and the carpet down and I'm ready to build!

 

Before:

 

After:

 

MOW around the terminal…

 

 

 

 

 

More photos here -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/190662106755?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

 

Inspired by a Lucius Beebe photograph, this week’s post celebrates the craftsmanship that goes into a modern 1/48 scale steam locomotive model.  In Beebe and co-author Charles Clegg’s book, The Age of Steam, they refer to the valve motion this way:  "is a reciprocating ballade in classic meter of verse in four-foot, eight-and-one-half-inch dimension."  Happy Easter, Jim

  

Happy Easter!!

 

 

Gilly! Amazing benchwork, the bridge effect really dresses it up! How is your layout going to top the benchwork? LOL

GREAT PHOTOS EVERYONE

HERE'S MINE FUN PROJECT BUT STILL LOTS TO DO

THANKS ALEX

Great photos all. Some nice looking layouts in all stages of development.

 

Last night our train club attended an open house at one of our members homes. Mark is making some great progress on his layout. The last bridge is in place and all main lines now completed and operating. The basement layout is on 2 levels you step down a few steps walking under a couple bridges to the lower part of the layout. I think there are about 10 different complete loops around the layout room. Where you see scenery up top there are 3 or 4 levels of loops and staging sidings under each of these sections. All track is Atlas. Lionel TMCC control most TMCC equiped locos a few odd MTH.

Scenery work continues adding details etc. buildings backdrops etc. Ballast will come at a later date.

Mark mentioned that he carefully planned the layout before the basement was finished and was able to hide the air ducts to the upstairs and place lighting more so you could easily reach up to change bulbs, instead of having them above the layout not accessible.  As I was trying to change a ballast and tubes a while back I was thinking this would have been an excellent idea as I spent a couple of days moving a light where I could then access it having built the layout up and adding things over a  few years making the light well placed for light on the layout but imposible to reach to replace a ballast after many years of use.

 

Here are some photos of Mark's layout;

Top level when you enter the room. There is a street car loop around the Dept 56 city scene street car runs on a dog bone loop around. Under this in the foreground is the passenger staging yard with many trains ready to roll. Freight sidings under the city on the opposite side. 2 loops of track connecting to the staging yards under this part of the layout.

 

 Sunoco Fuel siding with a neon operating sign bill board

 

 

 Top of the stairs looking to the lower part of the layout 2 bridges you walk under, 2 track mainline on Red bridge links around to other side of the room and under the city in the first photo. The lower bridge custom built metal to fit the space links to the top loop of track on the lower part of the layout.

 

 Power house for the Electric engine yard to the right.

 

 Storage for the electrics MTH Cantenary system. You can see the different levels of the layout here. Top along wall with backdrops is 2 loops of track 1 loop crosses the large metal curved bridge in photo 2 above this, these 2 loops are wide radius for the largest steam engines to run with broad curves. Electric loop below still need to figure what to do with the walls here. below this a freight loop. Below at bottom just visible is an end to end Subway line 2 tracks.

 

 

 

 City scene Weaver Garage and those nicely detailed Woodland Scenics buildings.

 

looking for the easter bunny.

 

Zett, to be honest I really don't know how the layout/scenery will top it. This has been an ongoing project since 3/08. Slow and sure, we'll just have to see how it turns out. I am 99% sure the bridges over the stairwell will have some major wow factor.

 

The area to the right is going to contain a John Allen inspired TimeSaver with Inglenook sidings. The theme for that section of the layout is going to be "The Story of Beer". Should be fun.

 

More to come. Thanks for the kind words.

 

Gilly

 

Finished the arches. I'll be posting more pics later this weekend.

 

This is what I started with....

 

Great photos guys!! 

 

Gilly...absolutely beautiful work...come on down to my place and show me how it is done!!!  WOW....gorgeous.

 

Alan

"Hey guys - Would you like to go for a ride on my turntable?"

  

 

Happy Easter!

 

Alex

I was going thru my pictures and found this. I picked up my daughter here last winter. She was coming home from Bard College for winter break. While waiting for a taxi I snapped this picture of Grand Central with my Droid phone.

 

Enjoy!

Mike R

Great minds think alike. This is the local pulling it's 5 Madisons.
David

..........with a little help from my friends


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Rick nice to see you posting Photos my friend!

Doing some safety valve adjustments on the summertime outdoor old school command control system. Takes fifteen minutes to come to pressure and you have to oil round. Keep an eye on that steam pressure gauge, then clear the condensate from the cylinders. Not exactly push button but it's fun. Every so often the whole works grinds to a halt for something DCS cannot do for you with all the modern conveniences ....dang..stop for more water.

 

 

Summer layout.clean up the spring washouts, check the bridge, clear off the right of way. Whew..who said model railroading was an armchair experience? I have some crew assignments for them.

 

She needs a little tender and a feed water pump.
Absolutely gorgeous though and I bet you don't worry to much about chuff rate on that one.
I still have my Jensen steam engines from when I was a kid .Two stationary engines and a traction engine I also have the mill set that used little springs to act as belts for the accessories .
Did you build it? Kit or scratch built? I'd be interested to hear more about it since we don't see alot of live steam here.

David

2007 and 2011 "Christmas" layout memories.

 

Figures were specially made for me by trainsformations.  Man, I miss her business!

 

Happy Easter

 

- walt

 

 

 

 

David,

Its an Accucraft Ruby 2 bought used although new ones run in the range of $500.00 which is a comparable cost to many "electric" engine offerings in O scale, although I don't want to give the impression that G scale is the only choice. Many live steam engines are offered in O scale as well. She is a good runner and since she is a saddle tanker I may add a small coal bunker to the end cab. The side tanks easily come off and could just as easily be replaced with running boards and a tender. It gives some variety so the traditional layout doesn't get stale as the outdoor is dormant during the winter months but its too nice to be holed up in the spare bedroom with the tabletop. At least for this kid. She runs on distilled water, butane, running gear oil and steam oil. Her cab simply lifts off as in the photo as I was running some safety valve adjustments using the pressure gauge. She has a water valve that allows adding additional water while under steam which helps. This is designed to run out of gas prior to running out of water and her running pressure is @ 40PSI with a max boiler capacity at 80PSI They can fairly easily be turned into Forneys. There are how-to articles on the conversion process and below is an example of a Forney. With some modification they can run under steam by radio control. Hope this helps..