WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 6/13/14-??

Nice shot!

 

 

 

Hiawatha!

Beautiful!

Is that the Gitche Gumee below the trestle?

Pictures from my files for the week.
Railroad tunnels (5), hiking trail at the Hoover Dam, Boulder, NV.

A view of the Dam from the O'Callaghan/Tillman bridge observation deck.

You don't see these creatures in Pennsylvania.

New item I picked up from a forum member

Here is my contribution for today. Finally finished this corner. By the way, if you right click on a picture and then click "open link in new window", you will get a full screen view.

 

 

Hope everyone has a great Father's Day weekend.

Perfect corner Roger!

 

EL #795 available soon...

 

 

Arriving to Ayer MA.

Andre.

The sun was streaming through the windows shinning on the layout.

 

 

Roger, that looks fantastic!

 

Brian, such a great-looking room.  Sun coming in the windows, trains running...probably a great place to enjoy a cup of coffee in the a.m.

 

- Mike

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

Alan

 

 

 

 

 

Added some finishing touches to my bridge/cliff/lake scene this week.

 

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams"

A 2013 Christmas layout memory

 

This was a little 9' extension set up to help the kids enjoy some of my play toys.  One track, my PW 2343 would back into it pushing the coal car up the ramp so it could dump its load and then the kids could turn on the conveyor.  The load wasn't coal though - it was Nerds candy.

 

The other track had the magnetic gantry crane.  It also had 6 cars that made up my stationary candy train (the cars aren't loaded yet in these pictures).

 

- walt

 

 

Great work from everyone.

Killer work Steve.

Mike, nice fitting, what radius curves?
Walt, are you using one of those remote master power on/off switches?

Nice Layout work Scott.  Looks like you got the best seat in the house…lol


Thanks for Posting!

K.C

 

Thanks, they're 0-72.  It's actually a little too tight a fitting.  The tunnel on the right, I had to go back with a Dremel and widen the opening between the tracks to accommodate some of the larger cars that are out there.  Part of the learning experience!

Andre--- Awesome

Mike, tell me about that Colfax tank car?  It looks like an Atlas car with 2 rail trucks.

 

Larry

K-Line?

Yes, K-Line.  It was an exciting find for me at York a couple of months ago.  Had never seen one before.

 

- Mike

Thanks, Mike.  Are you using 3 rail couplers or Kadee?

 

Larry

Just received this little gem from a fellow forum member. This little beauty runs like a charm.

 

 

It came with Kadees.  Someday I'd like to convert.  But for the couple of weeks I had it on the layout it was okay with the other cars w/ 3-rail couplers.

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

 

 

This just arrived about an hour ago:

 

 Anyone else see this yet?

 

The lettering is off center...but I went downstairs to check the lettering on the water car that came out in January(ish), and it's the same way.

 

Andre, Great Job! That's right down the street from where I work in Ayer.

 

Bruce

 

Bill, love the Interstate RS-3!  Did you just receive that?  Ordered one last fall, yours is first "delivered" one I've seen or heard about.

 

- Mike

 

 

Corner of Main and Elm. Reminds me, I need a haircut.

 

Have  great weekend (my weekend to work). Happy Fathers' Day!

 

Bruce

Bruce, thank you, the original station was a lot bigger but the real estate on my layout is small so I used the Ashland B&M station instead.

http://www.cardcow.com/445448/...-ayer-massachusetts/

Of couse you know this too!

AG.

Mike CT, is that a Roadrailer ooppps I mean Roadrunner?  Great pics of the dam.  That observation platform looks pretty high?  Behind the dam I see white on the bottom of the cliffs.  Is that from the water level or some kind if rock or block work?

 

Rick

Have a great fathers day weekend! Don't forget to cool off with some Yuengling ice cream from the country store. 

 

Bill, love the Interstate RS-3!  Did you just receive that? 

 

Mike that MTH Interstate RS-3 is from about 10 years ago or so.

 

   Bill

Newest loco to the fleet. It was a mess on arrival....not running....rats nets wiring and dirty.

Got her running fine....needs to be cleaned and I need to figure out if I am going to paint or not.

Lionel USA era SD28.......

 

Enjoy your weekend and be safe.

 

 

Joe B.

 

 

Here are pictures of my 21" PRR streamliner consist.  I plan to pull it with my 6-motor Lionel Legacy E7 ABA.

 

K-Line 18" RPO

 

K-Line Combine

 

3rd Rail brass P70

 

K-Line Chair

 

K-Line Chair

 

GGD Diner

 

GGD Kitchen

 

GGD Lounge

 

GGD Duplex sleeper

 

GGD Pullman

 

K-Line sleeper

 

GGD Observation

 

As soon as I can find a K-Line Huron Rapids sleeper, the train will be complete.

 

Ron

 Chessie GP-35 working the intermodal yard.

 

Bruce, My cousins lived across the tracks from Carlin's in the 40's and  50's.   My father and Uncle Charlie used to tell our mothers they were taking us train watching and you know where they went.  Ayer was a great place to watch steam.  I have a very clear memory of all the big B & M steam 24/7.  We were about 60 feet from the tracks and the big steam rolled all day.  To get from our side of the tracks to the Carlin's area was a tunnel to walk through under the tracks.  Dotty and I still go to Ayer a few times a year to watch a few trains and heve breakfast at TINY'S.