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Welcome to this week's Weekend Photo Fun! Here are a few older pictures of some of my Chessie locomotives.

 

 

 

I have now paired my Lionel Corporation 381E with my Blue Comet passenger cars.

 

 

 

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We were in Washington D.C. for family business. While driving into the city, we paralleled the Northeast Corridor and saw the Ivy City yard. Trains include a MARC commuter powered by an HHP8 that was not in the shot, as well as an Amtrak SW switching a RPO? car. On the way  to and from Pittsburgh, we passed over the Cumberland yards of CSX. Enjoy!

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It's June of 1966, in the twilight years of "The Standard Railroad of the World" at a lonely rural grade crossing at Mattawana, Pa.  A shined up Pontiac GTO sits at the tracks as the gates prepare to drop.  The stop was actually known as McVeytown, located about a mile to the north across the Juniata River.  Pa Route 103 is in the background, and the structures are BTS kits.

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Originally Posted by PRRMiddleDivision:

It's June of 1966, in the twilight years of "The Standard Railroad of the World" at a lonely rural grade crossing at Mattawana, Pa.  A shined up Pontiac GTO sits at the tracks as the gates prepare to drop.  The stop was actually known as McVeytown, located about a mile to the north across the Juniata River.  Pa Route 103 is in the background, and the structures are BTS kits.

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You sure have captured the essence of PA there. I swear I have been to that crossing before. Nicely done!

Spent this past week in PA for our annual train and amusement park trip.  First stop was the amazing Merchant Square Mall Model Train Exhibit in Allentown PA.  A must see!!  It's my new favorite display layout. 

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When we made it back home to Maine.  My new Lionel Legacy Chessie GP35 was waiting on my front steps.  A great ending to a awesome train and amusement park trip to PA.

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Here's something a bit different than my usual pics.  At the last three Greenberg Train Shows here in Pittsburgh, my daughter Caroline kept asking me to buy her a pink Girl's Train set.  I really wasn't so sure if this was the best thing to get for her, but when Pat's Trains had them on sale for about $220, I decided to go for it, and ordered her one for her birthday which was about 10 days ago.

 

Yesterday, she had one of her friends over, and all of a sudden I heard them running trains on the layout (a toy-like one in the kid's play room upstairs, not the one in the basement of which I usuallly post photos)  I was stunned to see her running the set (a Williams pink GG-1 set with freight cars) for her friend.

 

Here's a photo of Caroline off to the left showing her friend her pink GG-1:

 

 

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Originally Posted by PRRMiddleDivision:

Here's something a bit different than my usual pics.  At the last three Greenberg Train Shows here in Pittsburgh, my daughter Caroline kept asking me to buy her a pink Girl's Train set.  I really wasn't so sure if this was the best thing to get for her, but when Pat's Trains had them on sale for about $220, I decided to go for it, and ordered her one for her birthday which was about 10 days ago.

 

Yesterday, she had one of her friends over, and all of a sudden I heard them running trains on the layout (a toy-like one in the kid's play room upstairs, not the one in the basement of which I usuallly post photos)  I was stunned to see her running the set (a Williams pink GG-1 set with freight cars) for her friend.

 

Here's a photo of Caroline off to the left showing her friend her pink GG-1:

 

 

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What a great picture, it gets no better then this.

I began this STONE MILLS MODELS kit, “Charma Oil House” last week. STONE MILLS MODELS is no longer in business. The kit does surface on eBay every now and then. I bought mine years ago, maybe 1992. I must have seen it advertised in one of the magazines and liked it. I don’t remember what I paid for it, but the ones I see now are quite expensive: $90 to $100.

 

It has beautiful castings and it was not a difficult kit to build and detail, which is what I was looking for this time around. The DESIGN PRESERVATION and the BERSHIRE VALLEY kits were very time consuming, and I wanted something quick, easy and fun this time, and it was!

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Finished this morning -

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While travelling in Thailand last week I picked up these near-to-O-scale tuk tuks. The real tuk tuk is popular in Bangkok (as well as other countries in Asia) and is a smaller version of a taxi cab…a 3-wheeled motorbike/car hybrid. I bought them at the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok for $2.50 apiece and they are made from old beer cans. While they may not fit the northeastern US motif of my layout they are nonetheless great mementos from my trip to this wonderful country.  -Len

 

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Originally Posted by PRRMiddleDivision:

Here's something a bit different than my usual pics.  At the last three Greenberg Train Shows here in Pittsburgh, my daughter Caroline kept asking me to buy her a pink Girl's Train set.  I really wasn't so sure if this was the best thing to get for her, but when Pat's Trains had them on sale for about $220, I decided to go for it, and ordered her one for her birthday which was about 10 days ago.

 

Yesterday, she had one of her friends over, and all of a sudden I heard them running trains on the layout (a toy-like one in the kid's play room upstairs, not the one in the basement of which I usuallly post photos)  I was stunned to see her running the set (a Williams pink GG-1 set with freight cars) for her friend.

 

Here's a photo of Caroline off to the left showing her friend her pink GG-1:

 

 

Same thing here Neal.....my 3 year old grand daughter loves any trains....real ans scale. And she knows her stuff....While we were at a hobby shop that had a Brio display layout for kids to play with. Another kid pulled a steam loco up to the water tower and said 'fill it up with gas' and my grand daughter said 'it NEEDS water!!!'

It always amazes me the difference between my perception of the overall size and look of someones layout from their pictures here on the forum and the actual size and shape.  I am so impressed with all of your scenery and photo skills.  Thank you, you are all inspiring!
 
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A few long views of the layout for a change.

 

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A short trip to Baltimore over Memorial Day Weekend....Drove up Saturday afternoon. Visited MD Klein. Took some pics and stayed in Hunt Valley. Next day went to a graduation and went home.......I did get to do something very fun.....I brought my bike and did 15 miles of the North Central Rail Trail.....a branch of the Pennsy that ran from York to Baltimore. South of Hunt Valley it serves as the ROW of the Baltimore northern Light Rail line.

 

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Here are some pics. The trail is absolutely beautiful. Someday I'd love to go all the way to York.

 

 

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Casey -the 57 Ford is a road champs car that came with a matching billboard!

 

Thanks for the info.  I need to model this on my layout.  I have one in 1/64 in this paint scheme but I keep looking for this color scheme in O Gauge.  I may get the one you have so I have at least one on the layout.

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