Weekend Photo Fun 5-8-15-??

 

LOS -

 

You nalied it with your weathering on these units.  That is how I remember them looking in  the late 50's.

 

Excellent job.  Thank you for posting.  

Super job in weathering these, I just could not do it.

 

Art, thanks again for promoting our club.  You will be in for a few rather LARGE surprises on your next visit.

 

Here is a small sneak preview of one of them.  A small section of the Inland Steel Works built by member Chuck Conn,

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another shot.

 

The above two pictures show about 1/6 of the total mill.  More expansion of the steel mill is scheduled between now and the end of July. 

 

Our Grand Re-opening is scheduled for September.  However, our next open house is May 16th & 17th.  We continue to run trains during construction. 

 

Mikey-Is that the K-Line one you repainted?  I've never been able to find the original...It looks great either way.

 

LOS-Love the F Units, they look so nice weathered. 

My visit with Spence:

 

I spent the day with a man I like to call a friend. When we are on the forum we make these friendships based on words.  Due to location and distance, it isn't a bad system, I think most of you know those you respect and you might feel like you share a bond with them.  I have always enjoyed reading Spence's posts.  He is affirming, polite and puts out lots of pictures about his progress.

 

So I decided to make a personal visit to Spence's home.  I called, he was delighted to hear from me and said "Yes, come on up."  We set a date and today I went to view Spence's layout and hear real words from him.  We had a great time.  Shared lots of train and life experiences and enjoyed his great layout. 

 

I grabbed a lot of great ideas for my layout and I was so impressed with the multitude of vignettes Spence has created.  My guess is he may have 60-70 buildings on his layout, some I have never seen before.  Dozens and dozens of really nice vehicles and hundreds of figures all arranged in a well thought out plan.  Automated signals, Super streets with lighted vehicles and a great selection of motive power and rolling stock.  Not to mention a great vignette of his life long employer - UPS.  You have surely seen several of his posts so I am only going to post a few of my pictures.

 

 

outstanding job!

Thanks Wood for all the photos of Spence's layout. He is a great guy and a terrific contributor to the Forum. It is nice when you get a chance to visit one of the members, It really cements a relationship with another train guy.

 

We look forward to seeing Spence in person very soon.

Working on my 1 day outing flat modules

 

 

I also also have two more 80 inch long straights,  not set up here for testing on my deck

Turning plastic into wood ...

 

 

Charlie Brown & Gang getting into trouble!

 

 

 

 

Mucked around with the one picture a bit, looks kind of cool I think...

After months of searching, I finally found one! A Lionel Red Baron Pylon! It needs a good dusting, and is a little loud (I wonder if I can lube it at all), but it works nice and will look great near my airport!

So far, nothing new in the scrap department, but I think I'll try to clean the track on the outdoor suspended layout and run some trains tomorrow afternoon. I've got a small wainscot job tomorrow morning for a family friend, so hopefully it won't take too long. I haven't run any trains outside in a few years.

Don

 

Cool find!  you would have to open it up on the bottom. Plastic gears if I remember right. Not sure how much it would quiet down but it might be worth a shot.

CZ Silver Sky!

Fantastic job weathering the F3's, very realistic, very nice photos.

Wife ran her Generals a few weeks ago and just got them out of the camera.

 

The grandson was here for a visit a couple of weeks ago. The family gathered at my sons house. I took an oval of track, a Lionel2025 and some cars so Granddaddy (me) and my grandson could play with trains. Here are a few pictures.

 

 

Here is a short video. I took along a Lionel PWC Log car for the kids to play with. It was a big hit.

 

 

 

Have good weekend,

 

Richard

 

Here is a few pic's of my Williams C&O GP30 Engine. I got this from mariotrain's yesterday. This engine is very beautiful and detailed but got to replace the sound board because the volume control is broke off can not turn up volume so low and fix black ground wire on rear motor and also was dissappointed with factory not having hardly no grease in the gear box on the motors and truck. I hope williams will send me sound board so i don't have to send it in.    

Glad to see you're back on the mend, Scott. Sorry I didn't get to meet you at York. We bought the "Hillbilly Wedding" figure set -- it was so politically incorrect we had to have it on our layout.

here are some pics taken at a recent tour of a local train club. Some real nice scenery detailing

At the club this week, Tom L. brought his latest acquisition from the bay.

 

 

Sharp looking engine Jeff. Do the red marker lights work or are they just painted on?

Nice bridge!

Don

 

That's what I'm thinking. I also think use would help, since it hasn't been run in a long time, and it did seem to get a little better as I used it.

Here is a mild repainting of an older Williams E60. I did last fall.

Nice photos and great thread. With our layout dismantled and our new one under construction I have taken some time to weather a car or two. This is a Berwick hy-cube made by Atlas. Not finished but getting their. Nick

Thanks!!!!! SJC yes the marker lights work just has a single LED it shines thru a light tube does not look to bad of lighting up and the number boards light up on both ends real well and has directional LED headlights.

K-Line E8's on the main

Chessie SD50's roll past Amtrak

K-line B&O USRA Pacific pulls into Jasper's Rock

PRR P5a Modified by MTH with a mail & baggage train

Here's my MTH Premier Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GP7 with matching passenger cars waiting to depart to run around the Bedroom Central Railroad.

 

The train is on it's way for Pittsburgh to drop of commuters for another day of work.

 

Two units being service and fueled, getting ready to pull a unit tank train.

Upgraded one of my LCCA/Lionel modules to include 072 switches. Picked up the track from Ready To Roll on my recent US trip.

Getting ready for the  annual Lionel Collectors Club UK show at the end of the month

 

 

Here's a pic of the Lionmaster Legacy Challenger I recently restored.

Very pleased with the result.

 

 Have a good weekend

Nick

my Uncle Jim found this and a 2757 in an antique shop a few years back. The frame had a lot of surface rust. I took it apart today and wire wheeled the rame. The hopper was really bad in one spot, but I can take care of that.

I also have a 3659 that is missing the coil. I ended up using the hopper from that car.

my next project isn't train related. My Uncle Jim gave me this model to build. He had gotten it for himself years ago, and never got around to it. I lost my Uncle this week to a stroke. Him and I were supposed to go fly in this real one this summer. I'm going to build the model just like the real Collingings Foundation Nine O Nine.

Dave, Sorry to hear about your loss, will you still be taking the flight this summer?

James

Jim was only 59, eight years older than me, so Jim was more like an older brother. Total shock, and when I found out Nine O Nine was going to be in the area, he said he wanted us to do this before he croaked. well, it's not going to happen of course, and at this point I wouldn't want to go without him. Jim and his 2020 Turbine are one of the reasons I'm a Pennsy nut.

Well, Dave, I think you should still go for it.  Jim would want you to.  Then you will have a real good reason to build that model.

 

DO IT!!!!   Rick

 

MOW Day

 

 

… Before starting the track cleaning MOW, I ran a pair of SD40s.  The inner loop running Lionel Legacy and  CSX SD40.  The middle loop is running a MTH L&N/SCL SD40 DC power through the DSC TIU.  I wanted to make use of every inch of my track with tanks!  Ha.

 

THe MTH SD40-2 dates back to 2002 and still runs like a champ.  I like the contemporary big diesels but these units are fun to run. … did I say that I like tanks!

 

Nice weathering. That car must have been sitting under a downspout or a roof with major holes for a few years!

Don

For some reason, my Lionel switches on the 3rd level never worked.......and, I couldn't figure it out so I undid the wires and pulled out the SC-2 and started over......consulting with my electrical guru, Max.

 

 

 

Peter