Weekend Photo Fun 7-12-24-??

TCA 70th Convention in Lancaster…running with the SGMA…

”Party like it’s 1939”

The White Creek Lines

This past weekend I took my grandchildren to The White Creek Railroad at Cedar Springs, Michigan. Adam & Noah. This is a one eighth scale railroad. The track is aluminum with wooden ties, 7.5-inch gauge track. We rode the rails on this 120 acres of land, with rolling hills, bridges & tunnels.

Gary from Michigan: Hope to see you out rail-fanning. 🚂

Photos and videos show a test run of my MTH New Haven EP-5 electric locomotive #371 (20-2195-1) with PS1. I’ve been running it on my 12’-by-8’ layout for 25 years. It's had a lot of run time.

MELGAR

The PennCentral has now turned the Giraffe Train over to Conrail……

A 2-6-0 Mogul takes a mixed Passenger/Milk Freight train for the New York Ontario & Western…..

Weathering the concrete on a new building…….

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone…..

Peter

Some photos of my new 3rdRail SD40-2's.  CLICK HERE to see videos in my other post.

Thanks Scott for getting rolling for this fine weekend!   Here are my photos of the fun kind.  " Friday morning in Patsburg TGIF the weekend begins!"   May everyone have a fun filled and safe weekend!

Patsburg Ave about 6:45 a.m. this Friday morning.  

7:00 a.m. Lower Patsburg is bustling with activity.  

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Over at Team Track One in Lower Patsburg workers are busy unloading freight.

At Butler Junction a GP  is seen on the service track.

A MOW crew begins its' day clearing brush out on the mainline.  

Traffic is heavy as Mr. Greenberg waits for his cab to arrive.

Over on the RIP track a Car Dept. crew welds a broken hatch on a vat car.  As the harvest season revs up vat cars will be needed to get produce to the canneries.   Once repaired this car will be in constant shuttle mode.  

Right on time Sealtest milkman Gordy Lockwood delivers the morning milk.  

This weekend will be a hot one and the Beer Depot is well stocked with a wide selection of brews.  

Meanwhile at the Patsburg Commuter Station a B&O RDC commuter train pulls in right on time at 7:02 a.m.  A trolley has just exited the tunnel on the EL  as it brings working commuters into Patsburg.  

A view of both the Brewtown  ( lower ) and Westend ( upper ) sections of town as a Pennsy GG1 exits Westend Tunnel.  

@trumpettrain posted:

A 2023 Christmas layout memory

My version of a personalized billboard

- walt

Rutland #92 taking a spin on the turntable to head back north. Engine was an older TMCC Mountain that received a few mods to more resemble a Rutland. Still quite a ways off. These engines were new in 46 and delivered in a green scheme. Known as Green Hornets. The scheme was short lived as were the engines themselves.

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks Scott for getting rolling for this fine weekend!   Here are my photos of the fun kind.  " Friday morning in Patsburg TGIF the weekend begins!"   May everyone have a fun filled and safe weekend!

Patsburg Ave about 6:45 a.m. this Friday morning.  

7:00 a.m. Lower Patsburg is bustling with activity.  

Over at Team Track One in Lower Patsburg workers are busy unloading freight.

At Butler Junction a GP  is seen on the service track.

A MOW crew begins its' day clearing brush out on the mainline.  

Traffic is heavy as Mr. Greenberg waits for his cab to arrive.

Over on the RIP track a Car Dept. crew welds a broken hatch on a vat car.  As the harvest season revs up vat cars will be needed to get produce to the canneries.   Once repaired this car will be in constant shuttle mode.  

Right on time Sealtest milkman Gordy Lockwood delivers the morning milk.  

This weekend will be a hot one and the Beer Depot is well stocked with a wide selection of brews.  

Meanwhile at the Patsburg Commuter Station a B&O RDC commuter train pulls in right on time at 7:02 a.m.  A trolley has just exited the tunnel on the EL  as it brings working commuters into Patsburg.  

A view of both the Brewtown  ( lower ) and Westend ( upper ) sections of town as a Pennsy GG1 exits Westend Tunnel.  

Patrick, there’s such a variety of action on your layout, I can’t imagine you running out of weekly scenes especially with your imagination. Nice work as always!

Gene

Lionel's Legacy F19's should be released in the next few weeks. Here's the TMCC version with a modified GGD RPO/Express car at the head end of the train.

Ken

2  MTH Santa Fe 'Plated' F units done in their HO line years ago. Way ahead of Lionel applying even minimal plating to their diesels!

I hope to acquire a couple of plated O scale engines as all I have now are silver painted E8 and E6 Santa Fe's

Legacy Mikado at work on the RR

A few from my latest video on the Century Club 1 NYC F3s.

My Son came over today and we got the Subway set straightened out with the TIU. Turned out that Variable One must have a blown fuse. We connected to Variable two and it's working great.  Then Keith said that he wanted to see everything run. So here it is.

Here is a link to view a photo of the real Q.A.&P. Rwy. caboose #50 used by Protocraft on their website: Protocraft

What I came up with is fairly close.

Q:  How many QA&P cabooses is enough?  You've done four already.

A:  do not know yet.

@Rob Leese posted:

Here is a link to view a photo of the real Q.A.&P. Rwy. caboose #50 used by Protocraft on their website: Protocraft

What I came up with is fairly close.

Q:  How many QA&P cabooses is enough?  You've done four already.

A:  do not know yet.

Superb!

@pennsyfan posted:

My Son came over today and we got the Subway set straightened out with the TIU. Turned out that Variable One must have a blown fuse. We connected to Variable two and it's working great.  Then Keith said that he wanted to see everything run. So here it is.

Running everything is stunning!  Is that a ScaleRail steeple cab I see or some other kit?

@coach joe posted:

Running everything is stunning!  Is that a ScaleRail steeple cab I see or some other kit?

Thanks Joe,

That was a 3D Kit from Don in HI. His last name escapes me. Im not sure if he is still on OGR. I bought it several years ago;  I didn’t have time to work on it. When I got back to it recently and saw all those parts; I decided it was above my pay grade. Ken, the Train guy came to my rescue. I would’ve really been up to the creek if I started it myself; because what Ken found was some of the parts had warped in that time that it was stored. He reproduced them on his own printer with a different material. He then assembled it and painted it for me. It had been displayed by Ken and myself on Switcher Saturday. I guess about month or so ago.

Here’s a close up.

Guys, please just read this and no comments about it.

I removed a post with pictures that were on a product which featured a contemporary / current political theme.  I don't like doing this since the post didn't have any comment with the pictures however with the nature of how folks react to politics these days, AND because our TOS addresses "politics", we will be deleting any posts that show product which promotes through its artwork any current politician.  Thanks for your understanding.

@pennsyfan posted:

Thanks Joe,

That was a 3D Kit from Don in HI. His last name escapes me. Im not sure if he is still on OGR. I bought it several years ago;  I didn’t have time to work on it. When I got back to it recently and saw all those parts; I decided it was above my pay grade. Ken, the Train guy came to my rescue. I would’ve really been up to the creek if I started it myself; because what Ken found was some of the parts had warped in that time that it was stored. He reproduced them on his own printer with a different material. He then assembled it and painted it for me. It had been displayed by Ken and myself on Switcher Saturday. I guess about month or so ago.

Here’s a close up.

Bob, ScaleRail was Don's avatar name here on the forum.  Now that you refreshed my memory I remember you posting about Ken assembling and ref-fabricating parts for your steeple cab.