Weekend Photo Fun 7-9-21-??

Looking good Scott!!  Thanks for getting us kicked off for this fine weekend!  Here are my photos of the fun kind for this weekend!   The roving company photographer has been at it again taking shots from in and around Patsburg.  

As soon as the crane and flatbed tractor trailers get here these fellas will unwrap the girders and get this load moved.

Pennsy Aerotrain coming thru town!

Ma & Pa is busy up on the Mountain Division.  

An A 5 takes on water at the tank.

Ready to relax at the cabin by the lake.

Ten-Wheelers are my favorite steam locomotives. They have classic lines – especially those with large-diameter driving wheels.

The first photo shows two of my ten-wheeler models. At left is Long Island Rail Road G5s #21, an MTH Premier model (20-3068-1) with PS2 delivered in 2001. At right is New York Central F-12 #1232, a Lionel Legacy model (2131070) released in 2021.

G5s #21 was built by the PRR at Juniata and was one of thirty-one that it sent to its LIRR subsidiary between 1924 and 1929. The G5s was the most powerful class of ten-wheelers ever built and produced 41,330 pounds of tractive force from its 68-inch driving wheels. It was designed for rapid acceleration on commuter runs around Pittsburgh and remained in service on Long Island until 1955.

F-12 #1232 was built by Alco at Schenectady in 1905 and produced 31,900 pounds of tractive force from its 69-inch driving wheels. Ten-wheelers ran until the end of steam on the New York Central’s Putnam Division in 1951 and NYC #1232 was removed from service in 1952.

The images show NYC #1232 on the truss bridge and at a station-stop on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Vehicles and model trains;

My custom painted Hydro emergency response repair train on the backyard garden railway. (here is a link to more photos of this train) https://ogrforum.com/...6#156561155781594996

Here we are at F9 remember F1?

Love the Greyhound Scenicruiser mine on the layout and with a full size version just rebuilt at our railway museum, on its first trip. (here is link to more photos https://ogrforum.com/...-over-mountain-roads

I shared this on another thread but thought I’d share here also. Pulled my Lionel milk car collection off the shelves for a video. Zinc pest got the couplers on a few not shown. Can you spot which have been custom painted?

Working on another fantasy milk car paint scheme this weekend.

Working on the modular layout expansion and one of the guys brought in something that I have never seen before. A bottle of Marx smoke fluid……

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

A "moving picture" ( as they used to say back in the day ) for this fine weekend!

A 2020 Christmas Layout memory

Continuing this week showing the pieces that made up Waltburg.  This week I zoom in on my brother's house in Bennington Woods.  As I mentioned last week, marcie from Trainsformation made figures of my family members.  The people in this shot on the left side are my brother, his wife, and their 3 daughters.  The 4 people on the right are my brother visiting from CA, his wife and 2 daughters.

- walt

For perspective, here's where the house was

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

@Putnam Division posted:

Working on the modular layout expansion and one of the guys brought in something that I have never seen before. A bottle of Marx smoke fluid……

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Me neither! That's the first I've heard of Marx making their own smoke additive!

Cool. 

@kj356 posted:

That twin-screw tractor in the pic: Is that an International "Emeryville"?

If so, as a 16 year old lad, I learned to drive semi's in an Emeryville! (220 Cummins w/Road Ranger 10 sp!) Many good memories in an Emeryville! They were tough little trucks!

Andre

laming,

I thought the same thing - looks like an IH Emeryville

               Lionscale NYC #1996...

The IH blue truck is an IXO model here is the manufacturer and details, very nice models. The Greyhound is IXO as well all vehicles 1/43.

https://www.ixomodels.com/inde...&product_id=2988

https://www.ixomodels.com/inde...amp;search=greyhound

@EricTrainMan posted:

I shared this on another thread but thought I’d share here also. Pulled my Lionel milk car collection off the shelves for a video. Zinc pest got the couplers on a few not shown. Can you spot which have been custom painted?

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Yery nice collection.  I didn't count the cars, how many did you run?

@kj356 posted:

The IH blue truck is an IXO model here is the manufacturer and details, very nice models. The Greyhound is IXO as well all vehicles 1/43.

https://www.ixomodels.com/inde...&product_id=2988

https://www.ixomodels.com/inde...amp;search=greyhound

Thanks! I have forwarded that to a friend of mine that LOVES Emeryville's! (He owns one, but it doesn't run as yet.)

Andre

Winnie, my grand dog, visited me at the modular layout!

My daughter has grown a bit since she helped me lay track Christmas 92-93......

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Peter

This week the photographer captured an N1s passing through town.  This big engine was built in 1919 as a drag freight hauler, but by 1949 that job was taken over by diesels like the Baldwin Sharks.  Here it is seen pulling a mixed freight into the east yard.  All 60 of these engines were gone by 1950, and none were saved.

@CAPPilot posted:

This week the photographer captured an N1s passing through town.  This big engine was built in 1919 as a drag freight hauler, but by 1949 that job was taken over by diesels like the Baldwin Sharks.  Here it is seen pulling a mixed freight into the east yard.  All 60 of these engines were gone by 1950, and none were saved.

Beautiful N1! That one is on my ultimate wanted list. Were  those marker lights upgraded to LEDs?

@FrankRazz posted:

Yery nice collection.  I didn't count the cars, how many did you run?

Had to break it up for the video. Two trains of 39 each as that’s the most my mainline allows. I’m up to 87 total…I have a problem 😂

The engine was upgraded with full ERR and sound back in 2014, and the LEDs were added at the same time.  However, as far as the LEDs are concerned I am thinking of disconnecting them.  By my layout era (1949) classification lights were no longer used by the Pennsy, only red marker lights, and those would be off in normal running.  The only light that would be on when running forward with a consist would be the headlight.

My Quarry Train. Marble is real. Scale weight of each car is between 80,000 and 120,000#

The MTH Premier Illinois Terminal Pullman-Standard waffle box car and C&O Chessie System PS-1 50' box car.

Andrew

Falcon Service

I have a few bottles of Marx smoke fluid, came in allstate sets I bought.

A video from my son's N-scale club layout. The engine is a Milwaukee Road FP7A with Loksound from Kato. Fantastic technology in these units.

Tom

Another short video at my son's N-scale club layout. This engine is a Chicago & North Western C44-9W from Scale Trains, pulling a string of double-stack well cars.