Weekend Photo Fun 6-30-17-??

First TTGX weathering attempt..................

"Say hello to my little Friend."!!

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Or I should say Friends.

2 Custom painted old Atlas/Roco shells fitted on 2004 Lionel F-unit chassis . They fit perfectly , I mounted some screw posts to the bodies . Best thing was the body closed the pilot gap nicely . I super detailed the bodies , turned aluminum inserts to fit the headlight on the blue one to hold the golden white led's , The person did not use smoke units so these were nice "F-7 " stand ins as you could get back then , much easier to paint as well than stripping the F-3 with chicken wire between the port holes . Those old Atlas units can really turn out pretty cool for as little as they cost.

A 2106 Christmas Layout memory

Another piece of the Summer season section of the layout

- walt

New station in process.

I never knew there was "O" in Hagerstown, I used stop there often while driving down 81 to visit relatives in NC.

Ah, some insight into the wonderful world of weathering bi the Master of Real, SIRT.

Some pre 4th of July action with the modern military train I started a few weeks ago

A few months back when building my bench.

The way MTH should have made it.

Here's my contribution for this weekend!   " Food for the 4th - from the Chesapeake Bay Region .... crabs, ice cream, and beer! "  Have a great 4th of July everyone!!

Our new Lionel SD-45's showed up sooner than I had expected (how's that for a change?!) and my son Steven had to get them right into service. Here's the pair headed west from near Duncannon to just east of the PA 35 bridge as they approach Mifflin interlocking. "Penn Central Daze" as the expression goes...

coach joe posted:

I never knew there was "O" in Hagerstown, I used stop there often while driving down 81 to visit relatives in NC.

Ah, some insight into the wonderful world of weathering bi the Master of Real, SIRT.

"OH" was the first word out of my mouth the first time I visited the museum at the Train Room in Hagerstown!!  Its quite impressive    I would imagine there have been lots of "Os" uttered in Hagerstown

Have a great weekend.

My first Scale wheel/fixed pilot NJT F40 from forum member Santiago. Also my new Long Island 44 tonner.

Filmed in the Cab of a Southern Pacific SD-9 Black Widow and a little photoshop of my layout with a Miller Engineering Neon. Looks like the engineer wants a beer. Don

I was at MTH's facility in Columbia, MD this morning, picking up a few new toys. 

SDIV, we are going to need to see a video of your military train!!!

I took this a couple of days ago with my cell and used an app on it to get the photo grain effects and mess with the balance and such:

I dropped off my 3rd Rail PRR S2 with Jeff at JDS LTD for a PS-3 upgrade back in April at York.

Got an email this week that the worm gear was toast. Boy wasn't I a happy camper!!!

Jeff got right on it, made the gear, replaced a bad motor, and rebuilt the gearbox for me. Runs like a champ now.

An excellent job. Just got an email that it has been delivered. Can't wait to run it!!! 

From the TCA Convention today...

Gilly@N&W posted:

I dropped off my 3rd Rail PRR S2 with Jeff at JDS LTD for a PS-3 upgrade back in April at York.

Got an email this week that the worm gear was toast. Boy wasn't I a happy camper!!!

Jeff got right on it, made the gear, replaced a bad motor, and rebuilt the gearbox for me. Runs like a champ now.

An excellent job. Just got an email that it has been delivered. Can't wait to run it!!! 

 

 

Tom,

Jeff does really nice work.  Congratulations on your upgraded locomotive!

Picked up two somethings, #99 & #202, I've been waiting for for a loooong time! Thanks MTH for changing the numbers on these!!

now I just have to wait until I get the layout back up  

A view of the train room without the trains. Time for new carpet and maybe even a move to a new home. At least it's summertime and not train season!! 

Missed out on contributing last week.    Was in Pennsylvania riding rollercoasters at Hershey Park and Knoebels.   Plus the train rides at both parks.

We are Jolly Ranchers Height category.  Tall enough to ride everything.

Too tall to ride the hand cars at Knoebels.

bigtruckpete posted:

SDIV, we are going to need to see a video of your military train!!!

 

 

https://youtu.be/SqvGJsLlIcA

The NS and GE are mine the UP and BNSF belong to another club member.

I have some of the other military cars and when I run them next time  I will post it on the corresponding week for weekend photo fun and weekend at the movies 

Originally posted by Mike M:

Missed out on contributing last week.    Was in Pennsylvania riding rollercoasters at Hershey Park and Knoebels.
  Plus the train rides at both parks. We are Jolly Ranchers Height category.  Tall enough to ride everything.

Yep!I am looking forward to it. I will be there next Sunday for my annual Union Picnic!  

Helpers and signals stand guard over the WB - West Brunswick yard in Maryland. 

In celebration of the 241th anniversary of the American colonies declaring their independence from Britain, here are pictures of my red, white, and blue locomotive fleet.

Got a little running in with my son this afternoon. And I finally unboxed my W&LE caboose from Stockyard Express! 

A few pictures from the New Hope & Ivyland RR from 2014. I spent many very enjoyable moments

there! CA is great in many respects, but there was something about living 20 minutes from this great

train station that is missed:

Great Pictures & movie clips so far !

Here are a few  pics of cars I picked up this week

The Boston & Maine  car &  Islay's car were from ebay.

The other four I preodered  from one of the dealers nearby (Sommerfeld's Trains in Butler ,WI &nbsp  .

Celebrating the 4th by taking my K4 out for a spin

A brief video run by:

Happy 4th everyone! 

Western Pacific GP40 and AMTRAK Turbotrain.

Western Pacific 50' box car with flags. 

Andrew