Weekend Photo Fun 7-2-21-??

This week, I’m posting pictures of my new Lionel single stripe Sharks. These have been near the top of my list of models that I wanted to see produced. I got word that they were on their way, and I just kept wondering if when I opened the box if they would be painted in the correct shade of green. I was thrilled to see that Lionel used the correct shade of Brunswick green! They are great looking engines, and will see lots of use on my layout.

At first, I just opened the two A units and ran them for a few days, but then finally got around to unboxing the two B units (one powered and one with sound) and added them to the consist as can be seen in several of the pictures. Not so sure if on the prototype that they were using ABBA sets by the time the units got painted from the five stripe scheme to three, but that’s how I’ll run them for a while. Ultimately, I’ll probably mix them with some of my five stripe B units (one from Lionel and one from Weaver) and probably won’t run more than three together at time. Will probably use them to pull coal drags as the prototypes were known for their pulling power and they often were used to pull coal trains as seen in some of my photos.

Also note in some of the photos a set of early MTH PRR F-3's. These came with PS-1, but were upgraded with TMCC then heavily reworked and detailed by my son Steven with things such a roof antennas, fixed pilots, roof antennas, windshield wipers and much more.

My only quibble is that the PRR Keystone is not quite right….a bit too horizontally compressed and it should have sans serif letters. But, they are still great looking units, and I’m happy to finally have them running around on my layout. Now, how about some GP-9’s with roof antennas, a GP-9B unit, and some F39 flatcars with 35’ trailers to pull behind them in Truc Train service?

Enjoy these views of the GREAT Standard Railroad of the World!

The Ontario & Western and the Central meet on the West Shore.......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Here in the east, we're trying to stay dry!

Peter

My grandsons are Amtrak fans and visited me last week. Before they arrived, I set up AEM-7 #924 on my 10’-by-5’ layout and P42DC Genesis #202 on my 12'-by-8’ layout. Both models by MTH Premier.

The AEM-7 is a twenty-year-old model with PS1 and a BCR that just keeps on running. Having ridden behind AEM-7s many times, I can say that the motor sounds, horn and bell, are absolutely authentic, and the same is true of the P42DC model with PS3.

Here are pictures of the engines and videos of the trains we ran.

MELGAR

Wonderful photos and videos everyone!! Most enjoyable  Scott - thanks for getting us rolling today and every weekend!  Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine Independence Day weekend!  Have a happy and safe 4th everyone!!

Railfanning on the Free State Junction Railway.   Here are some shots, from within and around the thriving city of Patsburg, as seen through the lens of photographer Jerry Atrick.

GG1s 4890 and 4876 running lite with caboose.

B&O RDCs at rush hour as trolley on elevated line trundles by.

A logging train on the Mountain Division smokes it up as it crosses a Bollman bridge.  Mt. Randolph looms in the background.

Jerry pedaled his bike quite a few miles up the mountain to coincidentally catch this shot of a B&O Docksider as it crosses a country lane.  I don't know who was huffing and puffing more, Jerry or the locomotive?

Back down in Patsburg Jerry made his way through a pile of junk to take this shot of a Western Maryland BL2.   Hey kid!  That's Jerry's bike!  Bring it back here right now!!

30 minutes later as Jerry is out of breath from running after that kid who "kiddingly" stole his bike, a N&W J class pounds the rails with the Powhatan Arrow.  

Not too long after the J class a Pennsy PA1 leads a passenger trains westbound.  

It's Jerry's lucky day ( he did recover his bike ) as he catches the new Aerotrain gleaming in the sun as it is stopped to take on passengers at Patsburg Station.

Jerry snaps a photo of a Pennsy A5, a true workhorse, at Butler Junction.  That's Elmer Burton, the conductor and brakeman  Skip Langford standing beside the engine.  They must be shooting the breeze a bit before the next switching move.  

Well Jerry feels he had a great day of rail fanning!  He's now off to meet his buddy, another Jerry ...  Jerry Tall at a local pub.  

A 2020 Christmas Layout memory

Last week I started showing the houses that make up Waltburg.  How about a closeup of each part of the scene now?

- walt

Mom and Dad's house in Port Vue. If you remember marcie (can't remember the name of her business) - she made custom figures.  I had her make figures of all of my family members including brothers, sister, nieces, cousins, etc.  This one is my Father (dead ringer this figure is for him), my Mom, and me.  The Nash I bought ($125!!!) because it was the car that they had when they bought the house in 1954.

This shows where it's at on the plateau:

This is the 3rd of the temp layouts that I built earlier this year for 2 reasons:

daytime:

The Corsair was a beautiful airplane. Nice models.

MELGAR

You know, one of the main reasons I can get up on a Friday morning is to see this topic pop up in my notifications. Hats off to all you regulars who populate this "Weekend Photo Fun" to make the rest of us smile with delight as we see what you roll out.

Picture of 2nd Street of my toyrail layout...I always wanted to build a big city...operating "streets" makes it come alive.

@MichRR714 posted:

Nice model.  My wife's uncle flew those.  Said the scariest aspect of flying it in battle was landing on the carrier after the fight.

So far it's another great Weekend Photo Fun.  Thanks Scott.

Mel, Patrick I always look forward to seeing your contributions,  you both have wonderful layouts and your posts are informational and fun.

Charlie nice little Air Field you've got there.  While Mel is quite right about the Corsair being a beautiful plane whose performance matched it's looks I don't think the Army ground crews are too happy maintaining those Navy plans.

No story today.  Some pics of a few of my big engines I took down to run.

MTH Y3, MTH Q2, Lionel T1

@scott.smith posted:

It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!

Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

Neat shot.

Rusty

Down in the subway and waiting on a train (also waiting to see if a hurricane hits us here in South Florida). Hey, who let the monkey on the platform?

Well I finally had a chance to lay a carpet central loop so could play with my D-1 NYC 4-6-6T, finally!

Here she comes,

There she goes,

She is coming back!

Here is the consist came up with that very could have Ben\en.

A NYC Milk "CAN" head end car, two heavy weight passenger cars, a Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey "Advertising Car" and finally P.T. Barnum'sprivate car "Jomar."

The short video made would not upload stalling at 27%.

I found my copy of '"The Locomotive Cyclopedia Vol II" has a three page spread on the B&A D-1.  Interesting info, the boiler diameter almost identical to the NYC Hudson and the wheelbase is 2-1/2 feet longer than that of the Hudson.  The text writer actually rode behind the D-1 a few times.  He says on the B&A they normally pulled four or five passenger cars.  He remarked of the engine's power. "I can tell you they could really move a train in a hurry!  If you weren't seated when the conductor hollered 'all aboard,' you better grab on to something quick or you would end up in somebody's lap."

These three pages include a as built downing and five pictures.  He speaks to some mods made by the road.  The bell was moved from the front of the smokebox to the top fireman's side so that it was better heard when pulling with tank end forward and the hinged hatches covering the coal bin were removed since prone to freeze shut in winter.

Ron

Lionel moving tyco HO was my dads, Have a Great 4th All!

To CAPPilot Nice looking Engines Hats Off 2u!, Does anybody know where I find this so called clipboard?

Thanks Mark

Trains passing over the lift-up bridge section

My sister sent me this newspaper article yesterday from the Courier News from December 12th 1887. Interesting little bit of information given about the railroads running in New Jersey. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad is the D.L.& W.R.R. The Central refers to The Central Railroad of New Jersey(later know as Jersey Central), of course the Pennsylvania, is the Pennsy.

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

This week, I’m posting pictures of my new Lionel single stripe Sharks. These have been near the top of my list of models that I wanted to see produced. I got word that they were on their way, and I just kept wondering if when I opened the box if they would be painted in the correct shade of green. I was thrilled to see that Lionel used the correct shade of Brunswick green! They are great looking engines, and will see lots of use on my layout.

At first, I just opened the two A units and ran them for a few days, but then finally got around to unboxing the two B units (one powered and one with sound) and added them to the consist as can be seen in several of the pictures. Not so sure if on the prototype that they were using ABBA sets by the time the units got painted from the five stripe scheme to three, but that’s how I’ll run them for a while. Ultimately, I’ll probably mix them with some of my five stripe B units (one from Lionel and one from Weaver) and probably won’t run more than three together at time. Will probably use them to pull coal drags as the prototypes were known for their pulling power and they often were used to pull coal trains as seen in some of my photos.

Also note in some of the photos a set of early MTH PRR F-3's. These came with PS-1, but were upgraded with TMCC then heavily reworked and detailed by my son Steven with things such a roof antennas, fixed pilots, roof antennas, windshield wipers and much more.

My only quibble is that the PRR Keystone is not quite right….a bit too horizontally compressed and it should have sans serif letters. But, they are still great looking units, and I’m happy to finally have them running around on my layout. Now, how about some GP-9’s with roof antennas, a GP-9B unit, and some F39 flatcars with 35’ trailers to pull behind them in Truc Train service?

Enjoy these views of the GREAT Standard Railroad of the World!

Neal, I have always admired the Pennsy Sharks just because of how the look. The color is just so great for those engines, and those engines are so great for the color. Some other railroad's Sharks just don't seem to have the same draw to them as the Pennsy. Looks great running around your layout.

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

My sister sent me this newspaper article yesterday from the Courier News from December 12th 1887. Interesting little bit of information given about the railroads running in New Jersey. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad is the D.L.& W.R.R. The Central refers to The Central Railroad of New Jersey(later know as Jersey Central), of course the Pennsylvania, is the Pennsy.

I don’t know if those railroad taxes are low or high, based on net income, for the time, but i do know that i want to see that watch on display at Dickinson and clawson’s.  Hopefully, it’s still well maintained and in the possession of a museum or with someone who cares.

Here is a short video running my o scale train at the club tonight!!!

@Strap Hanger posted:

I don’t know if those railroad taxes are low or high, based on net income, for the time, but i do know that i want to see that watch on display at Dickinson and clawson’s.  Hopefully, it’s still well maintained and in the possession of a museum or with someone who cares.

Well, think about this. The D.L.&W.R.R has a book worth of nearly $40 million dollars for that time. To try and compare, I looked up what the New York Central was worth in 1938. Well, I didn't get the answer I was expecting, I got a stock report instead. This thing is so dang detailed, my brain hurts. Anyway, to compare a bit, total taxes paid was nearly $33 million dollars, this covers all the states they operated in though(as well as on goods I imagine since they have listings on that as well). They had a total investment of $1.7 billion(that covers quite a bit including the B&A RR). During 1938 the Central borrowed a total of $20 million dollars from 5 different financial institutions in New York. Dang reading on all that made me completely dizzy with numbers floating by my head(BTW, if anyone wanted to see that, it is a PDF linked to the search "What was the New York Central worth in 1938")

As a side note, I am going to have to ask my sister about the Dickinson & Clawson's window. Reason being is Clawson is my mother's maiden name and she may be able to shed light on only part of that(she is the family historian). I don't remember any tales about an old watch though.

Atlas SR F3s on the club layout

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

This week, I’m posting pictures of my new Lionel single stripe Sharks.

Not so sure if on the prototype that they were using ABBA sets by the time the units got painted from the five stripe scheme to three, but that’s how I’ll run them for a while.

The PRR ran ABBA sets to pull ore trains from the Hulett unloaders on Cleveland's lake front down to the mills in the Warren/Youngstown area.  I remember them both ways and mixed paint jobs.  This was along Broadway Avenue back when it was a 4 track main line.

Lou N

There is a little Amtrak station in Guadalupe, CA where the CA Surfliner stops. In addition, Union Pacific usually has a few or today, many trains lined and ready to go. Here are a few pictures. The graffiti has overwhelmed one of the diesels!

@stangtrain posted:

There is a little Amtrak station in Guadalupe, CA where the CA Surfliner stops. In addition, Union Pacific usually has a few or today, many trains lined and ready to go. Here are a few pictures. The graffiti has overwhelmed one of the diesels!

The pictures are interesting but the graffiti is shameful.

MELGAR

Working on some custom painted milk cars this weekend and a running session.

Great photos everyone, I really enjoyed them all.  I always look forward to this thread each week, thanks so much Scott for starting it and keeping it going for us, always fun to see and read the notes that go with them.

Early Saturday morning at the Club.  Per usual, Doc is already running New York Central:

The MTH PREMIER Grand Trunk Western GP38-2 loco and the SPIRIT OF '76 caboose.

Andrew

Falcon Service

The LIONEL Detroit & Mackinac Spirit of '76 C-420 loco pulling the MTH PREMIER  B&LE 1776 open-top hopper and Spirit of '76 caboose.

Andrew

Falcon Service

I'll try the 4-6-6T Video again.

Ron

How about some Black River & Western action here in New Jersey? I was talking to one of the guys taking pictures(who also helped on the 5 year restoration) that they almost did not have her running for July 4th. The dedication of the crew worked through Friday into Saturday morning to get her running. When I got back from shopping yesterday morning between 8:30 and 9AM, I heard the distinct whistle from her and wanted to get pictures. I just had way too much going on and there was no way to do it. So here are some photos followed up by some videos. Enjoy.

Happy Birthday U.S.A. !

It wouldn't be a B'day B-B-Q w/o the dogs and burgers.

Let's eat !

Fireworks night at the ball park.