Weekend Photo Fun 6-16-23-??

Lionel Y with a mixed freight.

A 2022 Christmas Layout memory

Me and some of my close friends at muscle beach

walt

New Haven Alco PA #0771 is a Sunset/3^rd Rail model. Photos and videos show it on my 12’-by-8’ model railroad.

MELGAR

Birthday present for my 70th birthday from my family last week.....a MrMuffin limited run PennCentral Alco FAs.......they are great....here they are under Blue Tooth at the home layout and under Legacy at the group modular layout.

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Here are some photos of the East Altoona engine servicing area on my layout. First photo is of the ash hoist, the second is of the MOW train storage track and caboose track, and the rest are by the coaling tower, turntable, and roundhouse:

A few short videos......the Alcos are very sharp looking and smooth runners!

On the home layout (the 1st video), I'm running my homemade "kidney transplant awareness" car.

Peter

@Trainbros89 posted:

Lionel Y with a mixed freight.

Nice video. Where did you get the section with the "X's" on it under the building? Did it come with the building or did you get it separately?

Dave

Having fun running an all Great Northern Train nose to tail around the garden railway. 4 powered MTH engines, 3 dummy engines, and 80 cars. The VO1000 engine and several of the freight cars I custom painted to GN.  I really like the wide variety of color of GN equipment; is there another railway that has such a variety of color of engines and rolling stock? And note the GN Mini rail train running past the layout. We are getting around 2000 people a day come to ride the mini rail trains and visit the garden railway.

                                                               C&O #2323

@luvindemtrains posted:

Nice video. Where did you get the section with the "X's" on it under the building? Did it come with the building or did you get it separately?

Dave

Hey Dave,

That building was a kit offered by Harry Hieke, and those supports did come with the building.

Regards,

Greg P

After some months away getting fixed, I will be getting my Weaver passenger sharks back this weekend.  The B-unit was the problem, so it will be nice to run the AB consist again.  Video up soon.

A few upgraded scenes - vehicles with lights that I added make a difference:

@Trainbros89 posted:

Hey Dave,

That building was a kit offered by Harry Hieke, and those supports did come with the building.

Regards,

Greg P

Thanks for the information Greg. I imagine the kit is no longer available. May I ask where you got yours?

Dave

Battery powered LGB mogul with two Aristocraft flat cars with panzer fours

Any chance the forum will increase the mb to accommodate 4k videos

The Atlas O SOO flat cars with SOO - CP Multi-Max auto racks from Gunderson.

The paint scheme matches the SOO LINE locomotives and cars.

Andrew

Yankees got slaughtered by the Redsox last night so they are hightailing out of Boston on the New Haven:

LOL, Arnold

These colorful GM&O's keep coming to mind

Busy day for U36B

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Yankees got slaughtered by the Redsox last night so they are hightailing out of Boston on the New Haven:

LOL, Arnold

Arnold,

Yes, the Red Sox had a big win last night. The EP-5s only run in the electrified zone between New Haven and New York City, so the Yanks must be going all the way back to the Bronx. I wonder who will be left in Boston to play today's game at Fenway? Actually, I managed to get a video of the train on which the Bombers hightailed it out of Boston after losing to the Sox - "The Yankee Clipper" - powered by Alco PA #0771. That diesel locomotive took the train as far as New Haven, at which point it was exchanged for EP-5 #372. The New Haven Railroad just doesn't have the money to complete its electrification all the way to Boston, hence the locomotive change at New Haven...

MELGAR

Outstanding pictures, videos and descriptions this weekend, I love em!   I'm currently working on adding some new drops to my layout in the sky, next will be some clouds and an attempt at a thunder storm with some lightning.   I've got the stencils to airbrush in the clouds and I'm planning on making my thunderstorm 3 dimensional, big ambitions, hope it turns out well.

Happy Farther's day to all of you dads, my kids are coming over tomorrow, so it will be really nice to see them and my oldest son will be bringing our grand-dog so he can initiate our new backyard.  We got rid of the pool and put in grass so he will be the first to go out and run around on the grass.

Have a safe, relaxing and fun weekend.

(Note: HO scale)

Finished up this engine a couple weeks ago. It has been lightly modified, painted, then I applied decals (pinstripes and lettering/numbers), then weathered it. I've been enjoying it ever since! This is the first engine I've painted in over 15 years!

Got a BUNCH more KC&G engines to paint, all the rest will be in one of the Gulf Coast Blue and Mountain Mist Gray schemes.

Andre

it’s not much now but the pre planning has start for the Standard gauge layout, being now in the south with no basements ,got to make the best for a 16x4 ft space

@Putnam Division posted:

A few short videos......the Alcos are very sharp looking and smooth runners!

On the home layout (the 1st video), I'm running my homemade "kidney transplant awareness" car.

Peter

Peter, Great Fathers Day gift and they run great.  I guess once a nephrologist, always a nephrologist.  I especially like the kidney awareness car as I’ve always been aware since I only have one of them.

Malcolm

@Craignor posted:

Craig: did you photoshop that image or do you actually have a boxcar like that?  I hope I don't sound too dumb asking that!!!

walt

@Brother_Love posted:

Peter, Great Fathers Day gift and they run great.  I guess once a nephrologist, always a nephrologist.  I especially like the kidney awareness car as I’ve always been aware since I only have one of them.

Malcolm

Thank you for your kind words. I have actually returned to “work”. One morning a week, I precept 3rd year Internal Medicine residents and Nephrology Fellows (internists who are nephrologists in training) at the VA in Richmond.

Peter