Weekend Photo Fun 5-12-17-??

Explorer Sport loaded for the event.

Hand truck/cart loaded at event site.

Table set-up.

Oh the event, the toy train show in Spencer at the Old  Historic Southern Spencer Shops.  Held inside the 1905 Back Shop 600' X 150'. Today the 12th and tomorrow the 13th.

Will post shots of some of the modular layouts later.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND !!!!!

My latest structure build.....from a Korber kit. Next step, finish the sidewalks and grade crossing.

Peter

Pair of Reading engines come over a bridge on track one.

Old Woody, #1314.....................

Finished building my Twin Whistle Diner kit that I received last Christmas. Spent too much time perhaps on fitting out the interior with extra people, table / chairs, place settings, lighting... But, it came out well I think. Just need to position it near the layout's front for easy viewing.

For this week, here are photos of some new acquisitions, including purchases from York. First, inspired by a photo seen in Pennsy Diesel Years volume whatever is a Burlington GP-30 operating with a few PRR GP's.  This apparently was common in the early 60's. The Burlington unit is a Williams GP 30 which I consider to be one of Williams nicest models, that is ripe for production in many more road names. Since it does not have TMCC, we are using it here to push two MTH non-powered units. Man, I wish Lionel and MTH still did dummy units!

Next is something I hoped for and lucked out since MTH did their new WM circus scheme Western Maryland F units as separate units rather than a three unit set. This came from Mercer Junction Train Shoppe, not York BTW. As luck would have it, they did a single non-powered A unit. I just had to get that to go with my set of  Lionel black and gold speed lettered WM F--7's. So we just took the dummy Lionel A unit off the set, substituted the circus scheme dummy MTH unit, programmed the train to start up in reverse, and voila!  A prototypical arrangement of WM paint schemes as would have been seen in the 1960's, though of course, never on the Middle Division of the PRR!

Lastly, at my son Steven's urging, I finally replaced the faded out creeping phlox in front of the house at Mattawana with a fresh batch from Scenic Express. They were in a bin right out front, and caught my eye as I walked down an aisle in the Orange Hall, so I grabbed a package!

That's all the photos this week!

And hey, Peter Condro! That's a pretty nice structure for a nephrologist to build! Did they teach you that in residency?  Ha, ha!

took picture while sliding down river bank, didn't get wet though......

I cant hit "like" enough. All you guys are just great!!!!

Passenger Station.

Have a nice weekend!

train night at Clem's....good times !

Been away for too long so here's some pictures! Enjoy everyone!

SRC #90 rounds Long Curve smoking up the fields of Lancaster county. 

A slightly different view...

Engineman Fred Mattison awaits the highball from his conductor at Groff's Grove while Engineman Earl Knoob preps his fire for the assault on Cherry Hill.

Yep, that's a steam locomotive...

A GORGEOUS sunset on Cherry Hill as the 6 pm Wine and Cheese train climbs the grade heading west back to East Strasburg. 

A slightly different and closer view of the same sequence...

Engineman Earl Knoob eyes the photographer and eases SRC #90 back to the engine house after a long day on the Road to Paradise. 

Engineman Fred Mattison eyes the spotting of #90 into the engine house stall completing another successful day of steam operations in Lancaster county. 

And a video for fun...

A 2016 Christmas Layout memory

Other than my 2 tin-plate trains, the 2 lights are the only tin-plate items that I own.  Man, tin-plate items are way more expensive than I ever thought, but, hey, the hobos like them.

walt

Some early Friday morning switching. The Lion Chief Plus A5 is perfect for moving cars around the industrial lead. Excellent slow speed performance, great sound and smoke.

Great pix so far......here is my updated "Coastal Freight"

Love the colors of this set.......now, with my RailKing Scale SD-45, it has a command control engine.

Peter

AG posted:

Passenger Station.

Have a nice weekend!

Andre, you have it all here sir! Station, passenger car, hot girl, her photographer, and some trench coated guy with bad intentions checking her out while hiding in the back ground

I love the water effect in this one

Heavy train on siding in Tullahoma TN  

Putnam Division posted:

My latest structure build.....from a Korber kit. Next step, finish the sidewalks and grade crossing.

Peter

Peter it looks great ... much better than a hot dog with ketchup.  (kidding.)

Please let us know, either here on on a separate thread, how you detailed the mortar.  I will be building a similar Korber kit soon and want to learn as much as I can before then.

Nice work.

Steven J. Serenska

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Lastly, at my son Steven's urging, I finally replaced the faded out creeping phlox in front of the house at Mattawana with a fresh batch from Scenic Express. They were in a bin right out front, and caught my eye as I walked down an aisle in the Orange Hall, so I grabbed a package!

 

I'd say your son Steven was spot-on with his recommendation.  That's one of the most stunning photos I've seen here in a while.

Steven J. Serenska

I've been so busy haven't had the chance to post. Upgrading a Lionel AC9 with ERR cruise M, Evans LED's 

It's been a slow week for o gauge for me. Working on taking down the layout for a potential move so all I have is a pic from a trip to Jacksonville FL of the CSX headquarters. 

Nothing much new this week.......so a photo I have not shown from 2009 of Cass RR WM #6 at Spruce WV on 'Train race' day......what a great day.....Dad set this trip up and surprised me with it.....Dad passed in 2015 but I will always think of him and this trip. 

K C S busy today....

getting ready for the day.....

seen coming out of town helping Amtrak...

engine service before next run....

heading out this time with a freight run...

returning later that evening.....long day.

Three, count them, three steam engines working the yard that morning making up a long freight train. What a day that was. Don

Happy Friday everyone!  Haven't had time to work on much lately so I will resort to some older photos.  What has felt like a very long work week for me is finally going, going "GON"...

My new 1948 Ford "Woodies" (from Diecast Direct) just arrived and already made a stop with their surfboards at the base of my waterfall:

Joe, how did you get that color of dark rust? Looks great. Don

Great pics everyone.  Sad to say the last photo of our old train room.  We are moving but will have a new layout planned. For now I will just visit the forum and a couple of friends in Lincoln that I built layouts for to get my train fix. Nick T.

hello Nick, hope your moving is going well and you get to start on your new layout soon!

looks like that was a nice layout room, and really like them sliding doors, cool !

Good luck on everything !!

Here's a place in York, PA I bet many of have not been. 

No, it's not the county jail; it's the city reservoir. Nice view from the hillside above.

Thought this would be a neat place to model - a reservoir, or even a county jail.

scale rail posted:

Joe, how did you get that color of dark rust? Looks great. Don

Thanks, Don!  The dark rust was created by alternately layering a combination of dark-colored acrylic paints (blacks, grays and browns) with various dark and rust-colored weathering powders.  However, rather than using the powders in their dry form, I mix them with a bit of matte medium to create a very thick liquid with lots of texture in an effort to make the "rust" more realistic and believable.  I use this same weathering powder/matte medium technique on freight car trucks when I'm trying to achieve an older, rusty appearance.

Very wonderful photos and videos everyone!!!  Here are mine for this week.  

Serenska posted:

Putnam Division posted:

My latest structure build.....from a Korber kit. Next step, finish the sidewalks and grade crossing.

Peter

Peter it looks great ... much better than a hot dog with ketchup.  (kidding.)

Please let us know, either here on on a separate thread, how you detailed the mortar.  I will be building a similar Korber kit soon and want to learn as much as I can before then.

Nice work.

Steven J. Serenska

Steve 

1st, I wash the walls lightly in soap and water and let them dry throughly.

I choose the paint color that I want the mortar to be.

If want a heavy, aged look, I leave it full strength. If I want it lighter and less aged I thin it with water.

I slop it on the wall and wipe it off immediately. Heavy paper towels do.....but, I keep a bag of old underwear, socks, t shirts, towels, etc and use them to wipe it off and then pitch them.

If I want to add some grime, I  spray the building lightly (from a good distance, before placing the window treatments, and do it outside) with flat black.....or, if after assembly, I'll mix a little flat black with rubbing alcohol and brush it on very lightly in selected areas.

Since I am a complete klutz, it is very easy to master.

This following picture shows where I just painted the building one color.

The building on the left and the DPM building and the yellow one in the background got the alcohol/black treatment.

The building the right is dry brushed rust color.

By the way...the sign on the Lionel Diner was made right after Lionel announced the move of their manufacturing to China....

Peter

....and to addend my last post....there are other techniques to do this which work equally well. Maybe others care to comment.....

Peter

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