Weekend Photo Fun 5-15-15-??

This is a scrap load I made for a friend. He is a former co worker, and comes to visit at break time with coffee and sandwiches. He always brings me someting train related wherever he goes, so this is for him.

Don

Lionel Big Boy on the G&O garden railroad last weekend:

Waiting for the L&N to pull through...

Hi Art,

These are the MTH E-8s from 2008.

Mikey

Here are a few Items I picked up at York this past April, 

Your UP rolling stock is awesome!  I like UP stuff. 

The fellow who weathered the box car is unreal!  The floor of the box car looks 1:1 scale!   Really, how do you get those wood tone colors?  You are a real artist.

Frank Razz -- great to see you on the forum and still having fun with trains.  You might be surprised how many of that old AOL gang have dropped the hobby!  My email is the same as ever drop me a line with phone number.  I get to Brooklyn fairly often to visit my grandson.  Perhaps we could get together with Steve M on Long Island, and maybe stop by Charlie's trains.  Please drop me a line old friend!

Not much happened on my layout this week.......except for some electrical frustration that I'm trying to deal with.....given my other time commitments.

Last week, I posted how I took down my SC-2 wiring and started from scratch on the advise of my electrical guru (because I certainly am not!) Max.

Max had me test each connection in a practice circuit and each switch connection worked. Here's Max giving the OK to proceed and replace the SC-2 on the layout and wire it up, which I did.

I turned it on it on and instead of no power, I have RED lights going on......

Here's Max resting.....murmuring "can't humans do anything right!"

I wish he was bipedal and had opposible thumbs.....I know he could fix it.

So, my next step is to back out each wire and figure out what is misconnected. Not much has happened since because I've been on the road.....my youngest is graduating college. I can feel the pay raise! More trains!

Here he is at the old layout, circa 2000.

Peter

B&A switchers getting serviced. Drawbars have been shortened, Kadee's added, correct smoke box door mounted headlights. Old holes filled in with JB Weld. No. 46 started out as an MKT. Correct for a B&A. Just had to add lettering to the tender.

I had my oldest engine out for some fun this week. It is a Bing from the 1930's. At some point I'll pick up a tender but for now I just run it wired with floral wire to some Hornby cars. It is missing a bell but I like its big bubble front.

Thanks D-man.  The funny thing about the Rail King ICG RS-1 dummy is, I've had it  quite a while, searched in vain for years to find the powered unit to go with it.  Finally was ready to give up and had it listed on the For Sale Forum a couple of months ago with a K-Line ICG MP15.  Couldn't sell them together but someone bought the powered unit.  So I held onto the non powered unit, and then lo and behold this Atlas GM&O pre-order -- that I had completely forgotten about -- shows up on my doorstep a couple of weeks later.  Glad I held onto the Rail King non-powered, as I like the way they look together.

Garage Sale Score!  $5!

This is a scene I captured at the end of a long day on the Michigan-California Lumber Company operation. Dave Jacobs' ON30 layout is featured in the June issue of Model Railroader. Unfortunately, this shot didn't make the spread.

Sam, yet another great photo. Keep them coming!

Lionel B&O F3's

WBB Penn Central F3's

WBB scale GG1 at speed. This is a still from a video

We decided to take out the redish gravel (most we could get out) and we will be putting in some Luther tye of grave soon but here is some more pictures of the dirt we put in today.

I just finished installing some MTH crossing gates and I like how they operate. Next I just have to extend the road up to the tracks and hide the crossing gate bases and blend with the scenery. Video below.

Here is a video of my layout from earlier this afternoon.

That pooch is smiling!

Diesel Daze 1942.  Absinthe, Colorado

From front to back, Santa Fe E6 with wartime headlight shade, E1, E3, and freight FT.

Beautiful photo, Howard.

I agree.  May I ask, whose models are the E1 and E3?

Intermodal action in the yard today.

Have a great weekend!

I love this farm scene

Ken M

Another Ol Mil Weekend...

Thomas in Medina NY

Another look, Thank you, Ken

My sweetheart's garden.

More Intermodal Action with Lionel Legacy SD40-2 ND MTHS SD70ACe and AC4400 ...

https://youtu.be/oDADW5-Ytf4

Of course, you know I love the whole boxcar, but I have to draw attention to the carefully and realistically placed scrapes and wear-n-tear in exactly the spots where one would expect to see them on the forklift, at the rear-end and along the vertical what-cha-ma-call-its. Cool as can be!

Just got settled in from this weekend's Open House and putting the trains away. My Apprentice and his dad showed up with their latest project for testing around the park. It's a replica of Henry Ford's first automobile -- the Quadracycle. Jack and his dad, Rick, fabricated it from scratch. It's actually a bit larger than the original (longer) and has 26" wheels as opposed to the 29" wheels of the original. It's powered by a 7.5HP Subaru OHC utility engine. It has go-kart brakes and the tiller steering like the original.

And keeping it train-related, here's some of Jack's modeling work at the club.

 Here's a scratch-built Post Office.

Here's a Pacific Electric Tower Car under construction. Also scratch-built.

A scene yesterday at the Beltsville, MD Community Day show, National Capital Trackers. Jeff's Bicentennial NW unit looked great.