WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 6-19-15-??

 

How do you like the factory?    I was thinking of buying it for the new layout once I finalize a trackplan.  Didn't know if it looked smallish or not

A pair of RS3's in GM&O livery wend their way around the Appalachian Mountains amid some other colorful trains in the 1950s..

 Some home-cookin', done about 20 years ago; photos from a couple of years back; got to get some better ones. Loco shows its age; I don't care - real locos get used, too.

 

 

"D500" nice close ups -

rdeal

Nice video & unusual coaches, custom? James

The General receives a Major facelift.  A fun decoration project that, IMHO, adds more realism by accenting the molded in features.  Plenty more I left unpainted if I decide to add another contrasting color.

 

 

Bruce

I like this one!

 

Amtrak still rules my layout.

 

Happy Friday, have some TIN on me!

 

 

 

Note:  The background images in the first picture were printed from http://www.bigindoortrains.com - I think they look nice!

More pics please.  Which Lionel General is this?

Richie

The measurements for the model were taken by Matchbox from a friend Jerry's 38 Studebaker Coupe Express

They originally were going to produce it in a blue-gray, the same color as his.

 

 

 

Jerry's Studebaker

 

They did give him three to match his truck, but I haven't been able to talk him out of one.

Outstanding work! great attention to detail Eric!

“John Sethian” & “Richard E”

 

Great Studebaker trucks – where can I order one these – my grandfather had one from the ‘30’s and one from the ‘50’s

 

I would give my right arm for one of - - no, wait a minute - - probably not - - I would give “moonman’s” right arm for one of these!

 

Thanks, rdeal

Short video clip - old stuff....

Now that is Twilight Zone weird!  I love it!

I'm working on my Corning Glass hopper collection.

 

The prototype:

 

Lionel on my layout:

Where oh where did you get the Woolworth and Western Auto signs?

Here is a book case we blit this week, happy weekend!!!

from M to N....my M1a I bought from a forum member, and the N5 my late Uncle Jim gave me.and Jim also gave me the Marx Whistle Station.

and it's amazing how much more light you get from replacing 15 year old fluorescent bulbs...

 

new custom painted power from aj trains

luckily that G repaint is my favorite color, or I'd be gathering the masses.....

 

Got a new camera so I was playing around last night.

 

Three rally cars on a flat bed!  I love rally racing!

 

 

The old section of town appears to be busy!  Ethyl's son has an El Dorado up on the rack.  Man I love those old Caddies!  

 

 

Saw two of my favorite paint schemes in the train yard.  Rio Grande and an Alaskan Genset!  Plus the two Jeeps doesn't hurt the picture.  I bet some rich guy is shipping them up to Alaska or Colorado for his upscale hunting camp vehicles.   

 

 

Downtown is busy too!

 

 

All the new "MUST HAVE" tractors are lined up waiting for a new home.  Come on down and get one today!  

 

 

Two PS4 trailers with the old Pacemaker pup trailers on them acquired from a fellow forumite.

 

 

Another shot of busy old part of town.  Two Sherman's headed back to the armory after a show.  

 

 

Every time I see this old junkyard I think of a cool ratrod I could build!  

The Weaver FEF-1 project got ash pans, domes/flanges this week, all built from brass sheet/tube and soldered together.  HERE'S how I did it:

 

I think it's time I get more track at the house. I have 2 other Westinghouse consists over 17 feet long each and I still have more Westinghouse cars to get!!

Happy Weekend Everyone!

 

Picked up a die-cast KCS ES44AC two weeks ago, here she is hauling a long freight manifest and a dark and humid evening:

 

Putting together a Christmas Train to run at Kennywood this year also to run to promote Holiday LightS 2015. Going to start running it at the Greenberg Show in July.

I added the Santa to the caboose.and a blinking LED. The lantern does not blink.

Thom - I posted a short vid and pic earlier in this thread with the gondola you made, and just like that Santa caboose I gotta keep saying it- your work is awesome!!

It's the Lionel 6-18723.  I have a second original paint example that I'll pose with this one when I take more pics tomorrow.

 

Bruce

Here are a some photos of a friends layout. 

 

 

great photos everyone

Grandpa I like that layout!

 

That is without a doubt THE best looking General I have ever seen!  Well done!

Detail treat of the day: on I-55  in Illinois around mile marker 189 North bound, on the East side.

 

 

 

Flat car used as a bridge between two farm fields. Hope to model this on my layout as some point.

Atlas C628 and Weaver GP38-2 (TMCC) L&N Freight Train.

 

 

 

Bruce

Nicely done, Bruce, nicely done.

 

Richie

Thanks, Richie.  It was just a whimsical exercise and my lack of imagination made me stick with existing colors.  Splash some clashing colors together and it would really pop.

 

Again, I apologize for the crappy photos.  I keep threatening to buy a better camera...it's about time.

 

Bruce

This weekend we ran the AC-9 along with a set of the new Vision Line PFE reefers out at the Club.  Wow, that sound reefer is cool!

 

Last weekend, we ran the pink GG-1.  Consist included a modified rotary snow plow, a camera caboose (facing Lightning McQueen), and two auto carriers full of Alexa's Disney Cars.

 

-Dustin

 

LOL! Hey Tackindy, also include me on that a ratrod build!

Great shoots! I am a car nut in Alaska, though I am not the rich guy. But I have similar interests to yours; I enjoy autocrossing my car in Sports Car events. I'll have to figure a way to add that to my layout!!!