Weekend Photo Fun 6-16-17-??

Slowly assembling the Lego Restaurant for the city area of the layout.

I've always liked the beautiful scheme used by the NP on their passenger trains. I guess it started with the American Flyer 'North Coast Ltd' back in 1955/56 and their striking PAs with the silver trucks. It was only within the last 10 years or so that I learned the NP never had any PAs - Just F units and the trucks were black. Oh well...  A fantasy job but still good-looking.

Just picked up this handsome early Williams set from a Forum member  this week. Track power is not on at the club during this stage of construction but I wanted to see it stretched out anyway, even without lights. ABA w/5 18" cars. Baggage, Observation and THREE Domes.  Ain't she pretty?

This makes for a nice long rain - almost 15'

Caught this scene last week on a NYS&W freight line that runs through our town here in northeast NJ.  These two units (Siemens generators?  Not sure what exactly they were.)  were hoisted via two large cranes and placed onto oversized-load tractortrailers for the last leg of their journey.

Sam she sure is sweet!

 I did a favor for someone and he brought me these two beautiful pictures of engines still in service today . He took these photos himself and told me some info about these engines , but unfortunately I can't remember what he told me.lol I'm pretty sure he said something about a narrow gauge line 

I will hang these up in my new train room someday , maybe you guys can shed some light on these engines. 

Thanks, Alex 

Around the layout.

Williams PC  ......................

A 2106 Christmas Layout memory

One of the kids' favorite layout "toys"

- walt

Here is update picture's of my lionel chessie auto rack.

CHESSIE1971, these are great cars and they re huge. Goods pics showing it off. The earlier cars issued had separate piping added to the underside. Then they eliminated it. Still I'm glad Lionel decided to do scale cars. For me it works.......Paul

Nothing new model train wise this week.  Daughter and grandkids arrived via Amtrak Cardinal over the weekend so I did get some real train action. Tried to imagine the huge C&O Chessie Turbine pulling into WSS during it's short life.

 Right now it's car show season.......

Driving to the show on US 219 which is about the same, minus armco, as it was in 1946 when my car was new.  As soon as I get a few thing ties up on my bench work....track goes down.....can't wait. 

Thanks Paul!!!

Alex M posted:

 I did a favor for someone and he brought me these two beautiful pictures of engines still in service today . He took these photos himself and told me some info about these engines , but unfortunately I can't remember what he told me.lol I'm pretty sure he said something about a narrow gauge line 

I will hang these up in my new train room someday , maybe you guys can shed some light on these engines. 

Thanks, Alex 

 

Those would be two narrow gauge tourist railroads in Colorado.  IIRC they run on old Rio Grand lines that were never upgraded to standard gauge.  I remember riding the Durango & Silverton 20+ years ago on a family trip. 

Durango & Silverton:  http://www.durangotrain.com/

Cumbres & Toltec:  http://cumbrestoltec.com/

Happy Friday!!

Let's enjoy the weekend & run some trains!


















Kids enjoying running some of their trains -




NS SD70ACe 1110 leading 16T through Pulaski, VA on the Pulaski District



NS ES44AC 8045 gets 22A moving out of the siding at Newbern after taking the hole for 134


NS SD70ACe 1149 heads through Hummelstown, PA w/ an eastbound intermodal on the Harrisburg Line


N&W 611 steams through Bedford, VA on her way to Lynchburg. I chased the train from Montvale & had about 5 seconds to compose this shot.

NS ES44AC 8146 leads a late running westbound 165 past the N&W signals as it heads through Wytheville, VA on the Pulaski District

Hello Jeff, when was that car released, I don't recall seeing it in a Catalog. Very nice car.

John

Thanks John!!!! This car was released in 2015.  2016 Lionel Signature Edition.

Here's some photos from Patsburg.  " The Roving Photographer Muses around Patsburg "

At night in Johnstown. Unfourtunately the non-Flash photo made the lights blurry. So this is the best I got. Used an iPhone 6

chessie1971 posted:

Here is update picture's of my lionel chessie auto rack.

Great photos thus far, thanks all for sharing.

I am starting on a new part of my layout just going to have room for a couple of loops of 2 rail scale track for my longer steam engines and passenger cars. Will be a loop of O Gauge inside these loops. Storage area underneath. The yard that will be hidden under the main track I just nailed down some rails straight on chip board. Cheap storage yard. The main track is laid down on old true scale roadbed and hand spiked rails. Going to roll down the green grass looking carpet roll shown at the bottom underneath everything.  Then add the buildings and roads on top in the corners.

My visit to the San Luis Obispo, CA Amtrak station today reveals a few real gems:

Two Union Pacific SD70s sitting on the siding waiting for duty if needed;

A nice little train station that resembles a Spanish Mission;

A restored water tower from the days of the great steamers;

And finally, a walkover bridge that serves as a really great vantage point to watch both the Southbound and Northbound Amtrak Coast Starlight trains meet at about 3:30 PM every day! Unfortunately, I was there today at 11 AM. I spent quite a few nice times with my Grandchildren watching these great trains from that bridge.

Back together after replacing the couplers.

Found these in Harrington, DE earlier this afternoon.

A see a lot of great photographs already!

Enjoy the weekend!

Local through Coalwood.......

Christopher2035,

Your children are growing fast!  It's always great to see your layout photos with the children and the photo's of the real trains.

Thanks for posting them.

Scott,

Thanks for starting us off with the great photos as always!

gandydancer1950 posted:

Local through Coalwood.......

Nice!

Visited the first DuPont estate in Delaware and snapped a photo of this outside braced boxcar at the powder works in Hagley.

Thanks for the likes on my picture's everyone!!!

Hey Stangtrain. Nice to see a fellow Central Coast trainhead on the board. I'm up in AG! You've been to the HO layout in the museum just down from the station?

Got to see a few interesting things this past week

gandydancer1950 posted:

Local through Coalwood.......

From one Cleveland guy to another....

My immediate read on the caption was Local thru Collinwood!

Lou N

college world series display in Omaha

Saw this at a truck show today.

Lou N posted:

gandydancer1950 posted:

Local through Coalwood.......

From one Cleveland guy to another....

My immediate read on the caption was Local thru Collinwood!

Lou N

Haha, nice.

My Milwaukee Road at one time ran this Baldwin electric in town but then sold it to the D&V mining line. It was modified with scale pantographs and more detail. It's still running on that line. Don

TGIF everyone! Here are some pics from this week:

scale rail posted:

My Milwaukee Road at one time ran this Baldwin electric in town but then sold it to the D&V mining line. It was modified with scale pantographs and more detail. It's still running on that line. Don

Sorry, don't know how Duke got in there giving me the stink eye. 

Great photos!