Weekend Photo Fun 6-4-21-??

@scott.smith posted:

It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!

Last week I printed the largest decal I have ever tried to print.

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Scott what scale autos do yours with the tinPlate?

Ron

Well done, Scott!

Thank you for starting this up every week!

Last week, Tom (Gilly@ N&W) assisted a modular group member laying track and wiring a new layout that will feature an MOW facility. I was an added helper.

I am building a "new" maintenance building for the layout.

Hope to finish it later today......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks.....after a week of so-so days, we are going to have a weekend of 90s and sunny in Central Virginia for my birthday weekend (I turn 68).....

When I went to my 1st York I was 29 and when I joined this Forum I was 47!  

Where has the time gone?

I want to thank Rich, Alan, Allan, and Ed for having this great place to share the knowledge and fun of O Gauge trains......and I also am grateful to Myron Bigger for vitalizing the magazine when he purchased it in the 80s.

Lastly, I want to remember those who are no longer with us....Jim, Marty, Barry, Bill and Owen, among others......

York or Bust, October 2021!

Peter

LIONEL LINES

@PRRronbh posted:

Scott what scale autos do yours with the tinPlate?

Ron

Those are 1/24, a couple of weeks back I made a little side trip to this place.

Scott Smith

This week, I’m back with photos of the Pennsylvania Glass Sand plant under construction in Mapleton PA. Have been working on the ground cover and track lead to the plant. Here are some view of recent progress on that part of the layout over the past week or so. I’ve been using the Lionel Track mobile to switch the sand hoppers, and it runs very well for such a tiny unit…much better than I had anticipated. There’s also a comparison photo of my model CAT front end loader along with its prototype companion. Just glued together the first shell of the corrugated metal conveyor system visible in the fourth photo last evening, but will hold off on posting those photos until things are further along. The photograph with the PC and ex LV RS-11’s in the background is an image of the mainline of Conrail in its earlier years passing in the distance behind the plant.

And BYW, thanks for all of the nice comments I received on last week’s photos of my new Tuscan Lionel E-8’s.

Until next week...enjoy!

Night run:

Scott Smith

Here is another post totally unrelated to the one above. Was just screwing around with my cell phone camera and grabbed this "mood shot" of Mifflin tower at the far end of my layout from the PA Sand Glass plant photos above. Just a nice pic that I wanted to share. Built from a classic Quality Craft kit I had laying around in a box for at least 30 years before I finally assembled it.

New Haven Railroad Y-3 #3400 is an MTH Premier model of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher delivered to the railroad by Alco in 1920 and assigned to Boston. A typical USRA 0-8-0 had a tractive effort of about 51,000 pounds and the combined weight of the engine and tender was about 364,000 pounds. One-hundred and seventy-five 0-8-0 engines were produced during USRA control of the railroads between 1918 and 1920, and 1200 copies were built afterward. The New Haven retired these engines in 1952.

MELGAR

I've always loved RR bridges:

Another 2020 Christmas Layout memory

Sticking with scenes on the plateau.  The Halloween section.  First, an overall for perspective:

Some closeups:

-walt

Another temp 7’x9’ layout built out of boredom.  I’ve already shown images of the 1^st one (Easter) and decided I enjoyed that enough to do another.  This was built back in mid-February.  As I’ve mentioned before with my Easter temp layout, I have so many beautiful Christmas pieces that I could never use them all on my 11’x14’ Christmas layout and I dislike having them just sit in boxes where I don’t get to enjoy seeing them, so I did this temp Christmas layout.

This will be the final pictures of that temp layout. Hey now, be nice.  what's that cheering that I'm hearing

- walt

my homemade Manger car:

K-Line Hudson #5344 on our old layout

Neal,

In the first set of photos you posted of your glass plant, what brand of track is that? I thought you used Atlas track but that thin center rail is throwing me for a loop.

Dave

Great photos and videos everyone!!  

Here are my fun kind of weekend photos for this fine weekend!

It's busy busy down near the railroad tracks.  Activity of all sorts going on.

Oskar, the brakeman, protects a grade crossing as the signal is not working today.

The piggy back terminal. Ned and Ed are working with the unloading crew.  

@luvindemtrains posted:

Neal,

In the first set of photos you posted of your glass plant, what brand of track is that? I thought you used Atlas track but that thin center rail is throwing me for a loop.

Dave

Dave,

You are correct, the vast majority of track on the layout is Atlas flex track, but when they first released it, I bought 10 pieces of MTH ScaleTrax. I did not like it due to the wide tie spacing and the European tie plates, and it sat in a box for years. But when I put in the siding, I thought the tie spacing would be perfect for a siding. The 10 pieces were just enough to build it, as well as a handlaid curved turnout using the rail stripped out of a piece or two of the ScaleTrax and built by my friend Mark Vinski.

Here are a couple videos of my son's N scale Santa Fe Super Chief set by Kato, running on his train club's layout. Amazing level of sound these F units have, which are all powered too.

Tom

Finally some free time to run trains. A quick video.

One from the archives, the Lionel 249:

@NYC2UP posted:

Here are a couple videos of my son's N scale Santa Fe Super Chief set by Kato, running on his train club's layout. Amazing level of sound these F units have, which are all powered too.

Tom

There is some outstanding modeling going on in N gauge.  The quality of the engines and cars is terrific.  Thanks for sharing.  NH Joe

Hi Everyone,

Here is a photo I just took of the truss bridge over the small river and also a short video of a train crossing it. Yeah I know, there is no water in the river yet. I'm working on that! If you want to take a gander of the video of me creating the river, I just posted it on YouTube. Click on the link to my page below. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Dave

A beautiful day to run trains in the Poconos in Northeast Pa.