It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!
Here are some pictures from the VMT last week.
This is the last weekend to ride the N&W Class J 611. There are ticket still available for some of the trips. I'll be in the tent Saturday morning and on the commissary car on the afternoon trip to Walton.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Great start, Scott! Thank you, as always!
When I catch up with some work, I'll be posting. I still have modular group photos from York to post.
Thanks, again.
Peter
Happy Friday!
There was a thread a few weeks ago about the non-operating gooseneck lights on the outside of the Woodland Scenics (dba Woodland) Lubener’s General Store (# BR5841). Maybe it was the hardware store, I don’t recall – the point’s the same – the gooseneck lights are decorative only. Since I have the general store, I thought I’d take a swag at making those lights actually work.
The as-is building has three gooseneck lights on the front over the sign, one on the side and another on the back above the service door.
The only functioning lighting on the version I bought was a couple LEDs that lit the store front interior. I thought about buying ready-made, functioning lights to replace the ones on the building, but it’s hard to tell on various vendor websites what will fit, size / scale, light color, .... So I took a different path.
I have a pile of the Nano chip LED lights from Evan Designs (Forum Sponsor!) that I use for a boat-load of lighting projects. I prefer to use their universal 7-19 volt AC/DC/DCC versions that come already fitted with a bridge rectifier that allows for easy powering.
I used the warm white color for the three lights over the sign on front, and the yellow color for the lights on the side and back for an old-timey look of low powered incandescent bulbs. I added another yellow LED in the alcove above the front doorway.
The steps were a bit involved, which needed to be done five times to complete the conversion for the whole structure. So here’s what I did
Now some night time photos.
Enjoy your weekends.
Tom
Going back to 2012. Maine Central on the layout.
As we enter this Memorial Day Weekend, the guys at METCA (the Metropolitan Division of the Train Collectors Association) wish to express our gratitude to the men and women that have made the ultimate sacrifice to allow us to live in freedom in the best country in the world.
I'm proud to show our patriotic version of our logo.
Stu
Max Foods, a large business to add to the 6ft extension of my modules, begins by constructing a mock up......before cutting, painting, etc.
I have assembled 7 kits for the project. Both are Lionel.......4 Electrical Substations and 3 Municipal Buildings.
You can see that Max approves!
Peter
Fantastic Tom!
Track work
Track work
Enjoying the contributions each week with some great photos and layouts, good start again this week.
Here are some photos of our Thomas event at our Railway museum. Thomas is visiting for 5 full days, thousands of families enjoying the event. Thomas pulling some very long passenger trains. I set up a Thomas and carnival theme layout for the kids to operate, 6 trains they can control and lots of sound and activation buttons. Added several animated carnival rides and a Roller coaster at the back. Little kids pack around the fence to operate the trains.
The outside loop is a Williams GG1 pulling a long Circus train mostly K-Line circus flats and Circus passenger set. The next loop in is a MTH Rail King version of the Royal Hudson Steam engine and passenger set that I custom painted and decaled to British Columbia Railway, the cars that the Royal Hudson pulled when it was running excursions, and cars on the Thomas trainset. The real full size Royal Hudson sits on the track in the roundhouse near the model railway. It gets a lot of interest and when smoke fluid is added and it pumps out a steady smoke stream. Display on risers is 12x12 feet.
Also some shots of a Toby Bed that I made for my Thomas/Toby crazed grand kid. Click on photos for a larger view.
It was Union Pacific running recently.
U30C and Gp30 pull a manifest
Two big GE's sandwhich a tunnel motor
A 2106 Christmas Layout memory 
What has become an annual staple on my layout.
- walt
Tom good job on the lighting. Thanks for posting the mini how-to.
Peter I often find myself working on projects in the den. I like it better than sitting at my work bench.
Andre, wow that looked so real when I first saw it.
Since this is memorial day weekend!! I thought post my lionel us air force boxcar.
Five years ago, when my grandson Mason in PA turned four I built him this train table and gave him his first set of Lionel trains, a NS starter set. The track plan was suggested by a fellow forum member. This worked out so well that I built the same table for my grandson Lexin in CA and he got a Lionel UP starter set. Both kids now have many more trains added and enjoy running their trains especially when their friends visit. Building the table at a height they could easily reach and strong enough to stand on worked out well!
Chessie 1971, I've got that boxcar and the tank and flat as well as some others by K-line and RMT and Lionel because my daughter is serving in the Air Force security forces. She's been to Greenland and Kuwait and she's set to discharge in August. I had to make my own engine to pull the freight cars.
Old vs. new: Ten wheeler meets SD50.
jcovert posted:Still plugging away at these 2 DTD Builds.....
A friend had quite the chuckle when she read the Café sign!
Happy & safe Memorial Day weekend everyone! Thank you to all who served and sacrificed for our country!
My latest toy a Red Caboose (What ever that is) A/C D/C GP-9 .
Great detail & runs well all for 90 Euros from France.
Found this nice SD-9 they rebuilt in Vallejo, California in a new repair shop. Found this just before we moved off the mainland. Hope they are still in business. They are called XK Engineering. Don
Here's a Korber 3 stall Round House in progress
Red Caboose was a company that made very detailed locomotive and car kits. I have a number of their single dome tank cars. They are cheap on the Bay. Don
My friend George and I took a quick trip over to the Walkersville Southern near Frederick, MD to take our annual ride on the Lehigh Valley Coal #126. This is the only operating steam within an hour of Baltimore and Washington - and has been the last few years (not counting a quick visit from the 611). The B&O museum no longer has operating steam and Western Maryland is actively working on bringing the 1309 back to life.
Owner John Gramling is filling up the water tank next to 45 ton switcher #45. I volunteered on WS for a few years and was able to be the fireman on #126 several times. What an experience! #126 will be running the next two weekends out of Walkersville. 
I took a few iPhone photos of my layout the other day. Here is the "figure 8". An MTH Premier Chessie GP9 is pulling a short freight.
The main layout. It started as a two-train 4x8. As you can see, it has grown a bit since! 
The Morton Salt Factory was a "buy first, figure out what to do with next" item. I had to have it and finally was able to wedge it in. Great building! 
I'm a big, big fan of the MTH houses/structures with Christmas lights on them. They are so nice, I couldn't put them away and built a small "bump out" on the main table for my pair. I have the entire MTH Canadian Pacific Holiday train on order with my LHS. That will be a thing of beauty with the lights all over it. 
Southern Pacific #14 switching the salt factory...
For some reason, videos seem to get pushed to the bottom of the post. Anyway, here is a lousy video of the Lehigh Valley Coal #126 chugging through the Fountain Rock Road crossing, enroute Frederick, MD.
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Here are some Memorial Day Photos of Freedom Park on my layout. I dedicated this park to my father who landed on Omaha Beach June 6, 1944 with the Big Red One. The stone is an authentic stone that I brought back from Omaha Beach when I visited Normandy France with my dad back in 1999. Also in Freedom Park is an authentic piece of stone from the Berlin Wall. Dad also had a big influence and was a supporter of my love of trains. Thanks to all who served! 
A few pics of the mostly completed coaling plant. I need to add lites and a ladder.
We see CPR # 3100 at the chute while Selkirk # 5931 pulls into the station with the eastbound "Dominion"
Al
Lee, thanks. Didn't know a lot about Frank but do now. Looked everything up I could find. Heard of the Delta Line but that was all. Hope you buy that steamer. Saw a lot of pics of it. Don
Train Drift. Video link courtesy of Chris Allen on TTML.
Thanks SCALE RAIL I've never heard of them before, will have to keep my eye out for any more. James
Lee, thank you so much for sharing......this is a treasure!
....one of Frank Ellison's engines from Delta Lines.......oh my!
Peter
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