It's the weekend and time for Weekend Photo Fun!
Here is a picture I took Wednesday running my K-Line VRE diesel at the Virginia Museum of Transportation on Wednesday.
As a kid I would see lots of C&O Chessie coal hoppers when we went to visit my grandparents. I tried to order a set a few years back but the dealer I ordered the set from went out of business. At York I found this nice set of 6 Railking diecast C&O Chessie coal hoppers.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR
I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend!
Have a great Mother's Day week end guys.
I thought for sure when I purchased a JLC Big Boy it would destroy the layout.
But lo and behold on its first run around the layout, no issues!
My EM-1 and Vision line Challenger with some added clearance must have been a close match.
A 2013 Christmas layout memory 
1950 is obviously not intimidated in the least by the flanking 2013 beauties!
- walt
Have a great weekend.
Zeke. I like those "mood" shots. Very Film Noir like
These pics were on the 3 rail scale forum but may be of interest here also. The conversion is to Kadee couplers without fixing the pilots and mounting to the trucks themselves. the smallest curve I have is 48" and there still seems to be room. The Lionel coupler has been removed but is completely reversible. I used layers of .060 ssheet plastic to make a "tongue" for mounting the Kadee. Sorry for the rotation, don't know why.
Ray Marion
Factory Coupler
Finished conversion
Coupler removed and pilot which is remounted.
Upside down view of finished conversion.
The Illinois Central rolled through our area in a big way this week.
Headed by an ABA of IC E8s was the City of New Orleans while a Nickel Plate Road Berkshire made a fast run with the Panama Limited. What a sight to see all those handsome chocolate, orange, and gold passenger cars!
Future steam at Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, PA. Baldwin Locomotive Works #26. A thank you, to Steamtown employees who gave me a special guided tour of the 0-6-0, early morning, the day I was there. Scheduled shop tour was 2:00 PM that day.
Always one of the interesting things about Steamtown is the Alco side show available.
how bout a video,
here is me running trains
at the Watertown Model Railroad Club
open house 2 years ago.
Watertown New York.
Great pics so far!
Peter
Started a thread this week about how color influences your choice of equipment. Many members responded by saying red was a favorite color. No wonder the Sante Fe Warbonnet is so popular.
Got the Ross O72 11 degree wye in......
Peter
P.D.: I hope you installed it better than your photo taking!!! (LOL)
WELCOME TO THE WORLD...JULIA ROSE...future model railroader! Our oldest daughter and her husband gave birth to their third daughter, Julia Rose...obviously our third granddaughter. She arrived at the station on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 8:54 am. She weighed in at 8 pounds even and was 19" long...all fingers and toes accounted for. That means I will have to create a third K-Line by Lionel #6-21358 Special Addition, "It's a Girl!" boxcar with her facial decal. Two are already made. Let's see...mom and three daughters...that's a lot of estrogen for my son-in-law, Fred...to handle!
Matt
P.D.: I hope you installed it better than your photo taking!!! (LOL)
that's what magna traction is for!!
Matt, Congratulations! Julia Rose is beautiful and hands-down the best photo to ever have graced weekend-photo-fun.
Mack
Congratulations Matt to you and your wife. Julia Rose is one beautiful little girl. I'm sure you are a proud Papa.
Steve, Lady and Tex
My tear down of one end of the Texas layout is complete, large mountain and scenic walls are gone. I'm working on re-arranging the wiring now with new control panel. Should be installing new 027 curves on this end next week. Just two more corners to go after this then construction begins on my new Army base and yard.
Sorry about blurred photo's, a little shaky after 2 hours under layout working on wiring.
Steve, Lady and Tex
HEY ANDY, that one skyscraper in that picture, the white one with the blue stripes (for windows) looks like an old Walthers box. LOL I had a Walthers O scale passenger car kit that came in a box exactly like that. LOL Looks like someone painted over the name. Wellllll, is it??????
Rick
Matt:
Warm congratulations to your daughter and son-in-law, and to you and your wife on your newest Grandchild. This is a very special time for your family. You will find that time will past by quickly and they will grow up before you know it. We have only one grandchild and she is getting married in September. It seems like yesterday when she was born.
Steve:
WOW, when you attack a renovation project, you rally mean business. Thanks for a look at your progress.
HEY ANDY, that one skyscraper in that picture, the white one with the blue stripes (for windows) looks like an old Walthers box. LOL I had a Walthers O scale passenger car kit that came in a box exactly like that. LOL Looks like someone painted over the name. Wellllll, is it??????
That skyscraper is 100% made out of LEGO. Don't know if it was solid or hollow though. Only the Steel City LEGO User Group knows for sure... 
Andy
Here is Old #1630 heading home with a short string of loaded hoppers from the King Brother's Mine #1. The King Brother's Mine is a small independent coal operation so the 4-6-0 "camelback" is just right for a small job like this. Bo
ANDY, Lego's huh???? That's pretty nice for Lego's.
This is a pic of that Walther's box. Kinda looks just like that building.
Rick
Amtrak Regional with cab car going around the northeast corner of layout.
Enjoy your weekend and be safe.
Joe B.
Former Alabama Power Porter fireless steamer; used to be in Mobile when I was a kid,
and I used to get to crawl all over it when it was in service in the 50's - early 60's
(my father worked for the Power Company). It was used to switch coal hoppers at
Chickasaw Steam Plant.
It has been saved and now sits in Tarrant (Birmingham), Alabama, unfortunately. But,
it's still here.
Installed my Glen Snyder shelves today:
*sorry for the quality, taken from my Iphone
I bought a lionel legacy cab1L and base1L set this week.
Had the stone setters come out and add two more rows of stone to our upper bridges to accommodate the crowning achievement of our display; The now hard to find Milwaukee Road animated billboard from Miller Engineering
Matt,
That is the best looking model that you have ever posted. You will not be able to top that one. Congratulations.
Alan Graziano
Made it to the Medina Museum for an update. Love the look of these NYC E's...and the museum layout came a far way from back when I saw it being built.
I see those beauties Chris, thank you.
Steve, Lady and Tex
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