Driving through Versailles, KY yesterday I saw these.
This past week I added a station to the upper loop at the club
Scott Smith
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Some pictures of our O Gauge display at the Keystone Tractor Museum in Colonial Hts/Petersburg VA…..
Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!
Peter
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Some views of other gauges at the same show……
The Lego layout is always a treat!
Peter
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@Putnam Division posted:Some views of other gauges at the same show……
The Lego layout is always a treat!
Peter
Peter, that Lego set is amazing! What work and patience. Do the buildings hold together well in transit? My 35 year old daughter and granddaughter are Lego fans. She came for a visit a few weeks ago with a Lego present for me from the Albany, NY store. 
Gene
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It's amazing what some people can do with LEGOs.
Happy Friday!
Picked up the recently released Lionel LV 2-8-0 this week. Great engine & I love the whistle!
I ran two Pennsylvania locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout this week. PRR G-5s 4-6-0 #5740 pulled a passenger train with two Long Island Rail Road heavyweight coaches on the drawbar. PRR B-6sb 0-6-0 #7136 pulled a freight train with N5C caboose #477926 at the tail end.
My model of PRR #5740 (20-3031-1) dates to 1999 and is from the first run of MTH Premier G-5s steam locomotives with PS1. PRR G-5s locomotives sometimes ran on the rails of its LIRR subsidiary, so I mostly run #5740 with Long Island coaches rather than Pennsylvania. PRR #5741 can be seen at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania B-6sb 0-6-0 #7136 is an MTH Railking Imperial model (30-1573-1) with PS3 made in 2013. The Imperial version includes engineer and fireman figures, a real coal load in the tender, tender-truck chains, legible builder’s plate, and brass whistle, bell and pressure relief valves.
The B-6 was the standard PRR 0-6-0 heavy steam switcher with more than 350 built between 1902 and 1913. The MTH model represents a superheated B-6sb, of which 238 were built between 1916 and 1920. The engines weighed 180,300 pounds (tender not included), developed 36,140 pounds tractive effort, and had 56-inch driving wheels.
MELGAR
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Last weekend, my club did our annual "Christmas in July" private event in Mercer, PA at a members-owned campground. The layout was 20' x 62' which is the second largest layout we do after Kennywood. This layout was setup and torn down by only 3 of us, although we had a little help setting up late in the day Friday from our two youngest members after they got off work. Here are some pix from the weekend:
As part of the festivities, for the past few years, we have been enlisted as judges for the cart decoration contest that is part of their Christmas cart parade.
This was the first year that we stayed until Sunday, and it gave us an opportunity to do a little exploring in the area Saturday night, and we decided to check out the Cobblehaus at the Falls Taproom which is built on the site of Mercer County's first iron furnace which is below the taproom in a beautiful gorge with a waterfall, stream and all sorts of seating and outdoor games and walking trails around the site which include part of an abandoned branch of the WNY&PA RR.
On this trip, we also made our first visit to an all-you-can-eat Amish breakfast buffet (Saturdays only) that will now be an annual part of this event for us. 
It is also only 7 miles from the Greenville RR Park & Museum in Greenville, PA, and about an hour from the Corner Field Model RR Museum, so it will likely be our breakfast stop on all our Saturday trips to the area.
Andy
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@Genemed posted:Peter, that Lego set is amazing! What work and patience. Do the buildings hold together well in transit? My 35 year old daughter and granddaughter are Lego fans. She came for a visit a few weeks ago with a Lego present for me from the Albany, NY store.
Gene
It sounds like your daughter and granddaughter need to take a road trip to the Tractor Museum! I used to be part of a holiday train show in our small town. We had quite the variety of layouts but one of the main guys had a grandson (a young teen) who was into Legos and had a small (4x8?) Lego layout, which was a big hit with the kids, the grown kids too.
Mikki
a 2023 Christmas Layout memory
I live in Pittsburgh and anyone that has watched a televised sport event most likely has seen our famous Duquesne Incline. My incline is only intended to represent it and is no way an attempt to model it. the sign is an animated one representing the cable car climbing the incline. The label on it says "Duquesne Incline"
- walt
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@Genemed posted:Peter, that Lego set is amazing! What work and patience. Do the buildings hold together well in transit? My 35 year old daughter and granddaughter are Lego fans. She came for a visit a few weeks ago with a Lego present for me from the Albany, NY store.
Gene
I will have to ask the builder when I see him this weekend.
Peter
There was a little accident at the Copper Mine. Feds came to inspect...
Thanks Scott for getting us rolling for this fine weekend! Here are pics of my layout from 2015 - 2020. Each two frames is a different year beginning with 2015. These pics are of scenes I've created on my 100 square foot layout over the years.
2015 Cabin on the Lake.
2015 - Waiting at the commuter station.
2016 - The mighty GG1 and Patsburg's Westend Neighborhood the background.
2016 Mr. Bo keeps an eye on the Brewtown neighborhood of Patsburg.
2017 - Welcome to Patsburg! Please enjoy your stay!
2017 - It's all about the Western Maryland Railway with a tiny smattering of B&O.
2018 - Taking on water.
2018 - Heavy lifting.
2019 - A view of the layout and viewing isle. Taken after I painted the facia black and replaced the curtain, hiding the underside of layout, with black poster board.
2019 - Fun in the sun!
2020 - My first locomotive ... postwar 2065 on the ready track.
2020 - First light in Patsburg. Photo taken in natural light. Being at home during the pandemic allowed my creative juices to flow, and those juices flowed in the direction of exploring photography using natural light.
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A few videos from last weekend.
Peter
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Things are hopping around the transportation hub by the Greyhound station and Union Station waiting for the "Chief" to arrive...
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Another video…..DL109-110s are uncommon…..
……and, some UP…..
Enjoy!
Peter
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@MELGAR posted:I ran two Pennsylvania locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout this week. PRR G-5s 4-6-0 #5740 pulled a passenger train with two Long Island Rail Road heavyweight coaches on the drawbar. PRR B-6sb 0-6-0 #7136 pulled a freight train with N5C caboose #477926 at the tail end.
My model of PRR #5740 (20-3031-1) dates to 1999 and is from the first run of MTH Premier G-5s steam locomotives with PS1. PRR G-5s locomotives sometimes ran on the rails of its LIRR subsidiary, so I mostly run #5740 with Long Island coaches rather than Pennsylvania. PRR #5741 is known to have run on Long Island and PRR #5740 can be seen at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania B-6sb 0-6-0 #7136 is an MTH Railking Imperial model (30-1573-1) with PS3 made in 2013. The Imperial version includes engineer and fireman figures, a real coal load in the tender, tender-truck chains, legible builder’s plate, and brass whistle, bell and pressure relief valves.
The B-6 was the standard PRR 0-6-0 heavy steam switcher with more than 350 built between 1902 and 1913. The MTH model represents a superheated B-6sb, of which 238 were built between 1916 and 1920. The engines weighed 180,300 pounds (tender not included), developed 36,140 pounds tractive effort, and had 56-inch driving wheels.
MELGAR
Very nice Mel. Thanks for sharing
Enjoy your weekend everyone
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Made a Buckeye Ordnance Works tank car for the Lionel 41 to drag around:
An old MPC-era tank car, a few bits the parts box, some black spray paint/clear satin lacquer, a few decals from K4, and ol' 41 is in business.
PD
Gone fishin’:
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It is late 1949 and the photographer got some pictures of a mixed freight being pulled by an I1. His brother-in-law, John, let him into the switch tower for the pictures as it went around the yard. He knew 489 of the 598 Decapods built were converted to I1sa, but there was no visual change so he just wrote I1 in his notebook. John told the story of his cab ride in one last year and how it rode so hard it knocked out his false teeth.
MTH I1 and Weaver, Atlas, and MTH cars. Cabin is MTH.
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In the tradition of Walt's Christmas memories and the "Christmas in July" thing (an odd story explains that, at least what I read on the internet), here are some of my cherished Christmas "layout" memories:
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Me cutting my finger off opening a Base3. Stupid Base3. I want my money and finger back.
