It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!
Last Saturday I spent the day volunteering with the Class J 611 excursions. I worked in the tents while the 611 traveled to and from Lynchburg.
Saturday afternoon I worked on the train during the excursion to Walton.
Since I was busy on the train I didn't get much of a chance to enjoy the scenery.
Let's see your pictures
Scott Smith
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My Trains in the new train room where the new layout will be built.
Yes there are close to 75 tubs of packed up trains in that mess, Mostly at the other end, someday soon The Train Gods willing and the wife!
Wife & I visited Eleutherian Mills, the first DuPont estate near Wilmington, DE, and found this in the "train room" (so called for the railroadiana displayed there). Notice the nifty teapot.
getting ready for this weekends racing....
Happy weekend all. Mine won't be with all the finals I will have on Monday. Lol. In any case here are some photos of the MTH F3 I've been working on detailing.
A 2016 Christmas Layout memory 
More of the Summer-time section. Entertaining the kids at the company picnic:
- walt
Installation work on a weathered Lionel microwave tower...
-Eric Siegel
Also, finally got around to getting a couple train pics framed!
-Eric Siegel
TGIF! Great to see some real train photos this week!
Here are some pictures and a video to boot. Hope you all enjoy them.
The last tank car for my NS First Responders Training train showed up earlier this week. I assembled the train and was quite taken with how good it looks. I used the 9-1-1 SD60E instead of the GP-38 just because. Frankly, I think the train is drop dead gorgeous!
Chris
LVHR
Steven Michael posted:Happy weekend all. Mine won't be with all the finals I will have on Monday. Lol. In any case here are some photos of the MTH F3 I've been working on detailing.
Great work!
Peter
Max Foods, 1st floor construction started........
I love working outside this time of year......
Walls being cut down for the 2nd story......
Peter
ericstrains.com posted:
Wow, where'd you get that? That was the December 1943 cover of Railroad magazine, I've always liked that painting!
Happy Friday!
With the layout pretty much complete (of large projects anyway) Just took some time to run some trains this week. I did take delivery of a new ABA set of MTH CNJ F3s & put them to work.
Caught CNJ SW1 1010 on a transfer run on the NY&LB -
With a couple of MTH NJT units on order, I decided to turn some of the coaches I had into cab cars so I can run in push-pull mode in & out of the terminal. Here's the first one I did - The car includes headlights & has a switch under it to turn them on /off
After seeing 611 last weekend, I had to give her a spin on the layout - 
Speaking of 611, took a ton of shots & didn't get to go through most of them, but here are a few I did -
N&W 611 is about to duck under the Blue Ridge Parkway just outside of Roanoke on it's way to Lynchburg on the Blue Ridge District-
A shot I waited 3 years to get for various reasons, 611 breaks the silence of early morning as she passes a small farm just outside of Webster VA. This is a scene that has not changed all that much since she regularly ran these same rails 60 years ago-
Another shot I wanted for a while was something through Solitude on the Shenandoah Valley line. Took a break from 611 one of the days I was up there & grabbed 201 heading southbound past the increasingly rare NW CPLs -
Caught up w/ 201 again on the Pulaski District later that day & got him going under the CPLs at Radford, VA - 
Mail came to my office......B and O Bill sent me this great post card!
Thanks, Bill.....love them jets!
Peter
Railroads and the Little Rascals, what more could you want. Wonderful Railroad footage. Enjoy. Looked the engine up and it worked the San Bernardino Yard. Anyone know if this is true? Don
Port of Shark Bay.
When I designed my Legacy controlled layout two years ago, I decided a small control panel was still needed to run power block controls, uncouplers and switch tracks in my eight track freight yard. It has worked out very well:
Have a great weekend everyone! Hey, what's in the box?? In the case of both cars below, nothing!
"Railroads and the Little Rascals, what more could you want. Wonderful Railroad footage. Enjoy. Looked the engine up and it worked the San Bernardino Yard. Anyone know if this is true? Don"
I watched the footage; possibly the best RR movie or show that I've ever seen - since most RR "dramas" are just dismal. Great footage.
So far as the "truth" of the locos assignment is concerned, I assume that it is true if the info came from a reasonably reliable source.
The loco "star" - Pacific 1373 - is interesting in that it is from the same class of ATSF 4-6-2 that Weaver offered in brass 15 or so years ago. I have one. They were offered in the stream-styled Valley Flyer version, and in many other road names - Weaver would even change some if the details for you.
These were Santa Fe's heavy, mainline 4-6-2 passenger power in the 20's and into the 30's, before being re-assigned to secondary and commuter runs later. So, they didn't "work the yard", though they may have worked out of San Bernardino, at least at the time of the episode above.
Had to add this; I "de-Valley Flyer-ed" it (though I like the Valley Flyer version) as well as I could; sharp eyes will notice the area above my (scratch-built) pilot still retains some VF sheet metal. That was a big brass casting that held the front of the model loco together and I was not wanting to tear into it. So - 90% success - I'm happy.
It has TA Studios TMCC and Railsounds. No cruise - this was before ERR Cruise Commander and I didn't like EOB. The gearing is pretty good so it runs well enough.
Have a great weekend.
WOW!! Great photos and videos everyone!! Here is my lot of fun for this weekend. Enjoy the weekend and have a great week!!!
D500, it's amazing they blanked out Santa Fe on the engine and went to so much trouble for the film. I have somewhere some color 16mm footage of the Valley Flyer in Oakland or Berkeley street running. I looks like it was just starting a new run. Don
I was in Burlington, Vt last weekend. I've spent lots of time in Vermont but never in Burlington, except for the airport.
I found the Vermont Railways yard and roundhouse right along the lake. I just missed the excursion train running the day before. The train was in the yard, a blue leased diesel and a string of the Green Mountain "silver fleet" coaches.
What a gorgeous photo Christopher! Looks so much like my beloved Middle Division that I love to model. Even the signals look the same!
It's a slow day at Caprock, Texas. Brakeman Ed Burleson signals "That'll do" to Engineer Wallace White, as he prepares to drop off of the front step of GP7 2791. The crew is taking a mid-morning break at the freight house, where they will go inside for a Dr. Pepper.
Originally posted by Steven Michael:
Happy weekend all. In any case here are some photos of the MTH F3 I've been working on detailing.
I'm looking forward to more photos of this! I would like to see if he will correct the Number boards for the F3 to this O.E.M. style
Running my new Lionel 681 turbine with PRR boxcars and Sunoco tank cars.
ericstrains.com posted:Also, finally got around to getting a couple train pics framed!
-Eric Siegel
Thats a crowded roundhouse
Pics of a new basement train room for my first permanent layout since childhood. The house we've owned for the last 20+ years had no room for a permanent layout.
These are realtor pics and is now a clean slate. Plan is for a shop, sitting area and the layout.
Rick,
It looks like you have your work cut out for you. Enjoy constructing the new layout.
Alan Graziano
JoeyA,
Great job on the CNJ Boxcar. It brings back memories of going the my grandparents house and watching them go by as a kid.
Alan Graziano
jstraw124 posted:Pics of a new basement train room for my first permanent layout since childhood. The house we've owned for the last 20+ years had no room for a permanent layout.
These are realtor pics and is now a clean slate. Plan is for a shop, sitting area and the layout.
This already looks like it's going to be fun. Please keep us posted on the progress of your layout.
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