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Shot this past week in Pittsburgh...
And from my LHS, Imperial Train Company...
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Here is my fun for this weekend
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My newest Miller sign (# 12 and counting) installed just behind my Lionel ESSO gas station using a custom made support and enclosure for the electronics:
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c.sam posted:
Neat idea for those old insulators! I have a couple stashed around here somewhere, of a slightly different design.
NOT LionelLLC posted:The cement for the concrete for Yankee Stadium was supplied by the Edison Portland Cement Company, which was founded by Thomas Alva Edison (yes, THAT Thomas Edison). To commemorate this, check these 2 Lionel Made in USA hoppers out.
Stu
Edison stole the recipe from the Romans! 
Putnam Division posted:Pics taken earlier this week in Cape Charles VA.......a short line that looks like it's seen better days. I suspect this is the old Pennsylvania RR line on the DelMarVa peninsula.
Peter
I agree, Peter. A track Inspector marking defective ties would run out of paint in a couple of miles. 
They must have had a few bucks to spend on ballast and weed control though.
jcovert posted:Alex M posted:It’s all finished
Looks great Alex!
Thank you very much Jeff
Number 90 posted:Putnam Division posted:Pics taken earlier this week in Cape Charles VA.......a short line that looks like it's seen better days. I suspect this is the old Pennsylvania RR line on the DelMarVa peninsula.
Peter
I agree, Peter. A track Inspector marking defective ties would run out of paint in a couple of miles.
"I agree, Peter. A track Inspector marking defective ties would run out of paint in a couple of miles".
Having worked for the railroad for many years, i can say "from the photo" the rail and ties are in very good shape. We ran daily on track that was much worse than that! It could use a bit more ballast though...
My grandson Max turned one year old today. My daughter had a birthday party for him on Saturday and my wife and I presented him with a 3 1/2’ x 5 1/2’ Lionel train layout. It features the Pennsylvania flyer freight train set from Lionel and my old Plasticville buildings. Here is a short video of the initial test run before we brought him down to see it.
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Cobrabob posted:My grandson Max turned one year old today. My daughter had a birthday party for him on Saturday and my wife and I presented him with a 3 1/2’ x 5 1/2’ Lionel train layout. It features the Pennsylvania flyer freight train set from Lionel and my old Plasticville buildings. Here is a short video of the initial test run before we brought him down to see it.
What a grandpa!
John Pignatelli JR. posted:NOT LionelLLC posted:The cement for the concrete for Yankee Stadium was supplied by the Edison Portland Cement Company, which was founded by Thomas Alva Edison (yes, THAT Thomas Edison). To commemorate this, check these 2 Lionel Made in USA hoppers out.
Stu
Edison stole the recipe from the Romans!
Actually Roman concrete is different than was was reintroduced in 1824 (well before Edison) in England. Roman concrete used volcanic ash as a primary component of their cement product. That technology was largely lost in the middle ages. In 1824 portland cement, derived from limestone became the primary cement that is used the vast majority all modern concrete today. There are examples of lime being used in concrete in the 18th century as well.
Regardless. Cools cars. Love the old Weaver cars. Stu you are killing me with my currently (non-existant) train budget!
GG1 4877 posted:John Pignatelli JR. posted:NOT LionelLLC posted:The cement for the concrete for Yankee Stadium was supplied by the Edison Portland Cement Company, which was founded by Thomas Alva Edison (yes, THAT Thomas Edison). To commemorate this, check these 2 Lionel Made in USA hoppers out.
Stu
Edison stole the recipe from the Romans!
Actually Roman concrete is different than was was reintroduced in 1824 (well before Edison) in England. Roman concrete used volcanic ash as a primary component of their cement product. That technology was largely lost in the middle ages. In 1824 portland cement, derived from limestone became the primary cement that is used the vast majority all modern concrete today. There are examples of lime being used in concrete in the 18th century as well.
Regardless. Cools cars. Love the old Weaver cars. Stu you are killing me with my currently (non-existant) train budget!
Hello Jonathan, thank you for the update. I did not know there were different types of cement, I must of slept through on that class.
John Pignatelli JR. posted:Hello Jonathan, thank you for the update. I did not know there were different types of cement, I must of slept through on that class.
No big deal. It's that 5 semesters of architectural history I took of which three of them focused on modern architecture and the overabundant use of concrete in early modernist works. The other two were traditional Western culture architecture classes starting with the Egyptians and going forward.
Interesting enough, the Romans did not invent concrete. They were an amazing culture, but weren't quite the inventors that many thought. Most of the their technology was appropriated from cultures they overthrew. The classical architecture form from the Greeks, the arch from the Etruscans, and the earliest cement was a hyrdaulic lime cement that was used in modern Syria and Jordan as far back at 6500 b.c. or something.
You know the old joke engineers know everything about nothing while architects know nothing about everything!
Now off to order some cars. Dang you Stu!!!! LOL!
Think my tractor needs realignment!
That young lady changing the tire will not have to do so without assistance for long.
Pretty soon there'll be a half dozen guys changing it for her!
