Weekend Photo Fun 7/13/12-???

GREAT PHOTO'S EVERYONE HERE'S MY NEW TO ME JLC CHALLENGER FROM THE YEAR

2000.

THANKS,ALEX

Great pictures posted so far, put it is a shame that some cannot be enlarged, and the way they are displayed is too distorted to really be appreciated.

Here are some of a UP freight train crossing the pratt truss bridge over Lake Chiemsee.

 Alex

Yesterday, while passing through Wishram, WA I snapped these photos of a BNSF Right of Way fire fighting train parked next to the Amtrak platform. Note the monitor nozzles on the third tank car. Caboose #999000 is resplendent in new Mineral Red paint; note the "COMMAND CENTER" markings at each end. 

This area along the Columbia River Gorge has suffered some serious range fires in recent years, some of which were caused by passing trains. This year BNSF is ready for it! If I saw this consist in a toy train catalog I would dismiss it as whimsical or unrealistic, but here is the real thing, folks!

Roger Wasson.....WOW, fantastic job.  I hope we will get to see it in person this next weekend.....  Looks like I need you over here on my layout.

Alex Malliae... great pictures of your Challenger.  I have the same one but in black.  It is in a lot of ways as nice or more so than having a legacy!!

Alex (Ingenerio No1)....I found that if you are using IE, certain versions of it distort the pictures and pages here on the forum.  I use Firefox and everything works great!!

Alan

Hi Alan thanks, I always wanted a challenger but the newer one's are so expensive

so I got a great deal on this JLC challenger from 2000 and it was new in the box.

It runs awesome.

Thanks, ALEX

We welcomed Rocko into the family yesterday. He's a 9 week old Australian Terrier, who's grandfather is the world grand champion of the breed.

The house was thoroughly "christened" the first night, and the torrential rains arrived just in time for outdoor potty training 

How come the best pictures always come out when Scott is TARDY!!!!!!!

Don

CN Power moving freight around the Oil Refinery

Popsrr, as always your photos of your refinery are very nice.  One of these days your going to have oil all over your layout.   My son is currently in Willston, ND (the new oil boom era of the United States) and if they could just get all of that oil to your refinery you would be more than busy.  It looks like you have more rail transportation than do in that area.  Great photos!

Ken

Ken, Thanks for the very nice words. We might have to run a large pipe line from Western ND to Michigan to supply the refinery with feed stock. My wife has a sister in Eastern ND in GF along the Red River. I think that might have been Great Northern Country at one time. It is really FLAT there and VERY FEW TREES. LOTS OF sUGAR BEETS and Taders.

Hope your son does real well out there and maybe the USA will Allow the pipe line to run across the country soon.

Hey Popsrr, I think it's fair to say your oil refinery has become a hard-hat, no-smoking area in your layout room, it's so extensive and real. You have good reason to be proud of so handsome a layout. We can see you're having a good ol' timeof it, and I am sure you deserve all the fun you have accomplished. I sure enjoy watching the growth and changes you've shared with us.

Congratulations on winning at what you are doing.

Frank

P.S. You may need to have signs around that diner telling patrons not to flick their cigarette butts off that promontory toward the oil complex, huh.

Thank you, Steelhead. I am sure everbody here appreciates when somebody expresses approval - or at least takes note - of what we share on such threads as this, and I am certainly one of the grateful ones. Your thoughtfulness is much appreciated, sir.

 That coal facility is one of my favorite items on my layout, partly because I like to vary the height of features, so that visitors are constantly looking upward and downward as they pan the geography. The coal tower dominates the landscape.

Frank

Dont know where this is but I want to be there.

Steve SIRT  -  Yecchhhhhh

A 2011 Christmas Layout memory.

Not that I have a thing for Pittsburgh Brewing or anything

- Walt

I know this Norfolk Southern Heritage group shot has been extensively covered on here, but I thought this was an especailly cool-looking photo...an aerial "family portrait."  Don't recall seeing one from this angle posted on the Forum before.

- Mike

Nice catch Alex!

When you think about it, Lionel really outdid themselves in 2000 with several amazing new scale steamers - The PRR T1 Duplex, The B&O EM1, your Challenger, and my personal favorite, the N&W Class 'A'.  There may have been others that I'm forgetting...

Thanks SAM and your totally right Lionel really out did themselves, if you get a chance

check out weekend at the movies a posted a quick video of it. Thanks again Alex

Frank, Thanks for the nice words. Good idea about the signs & cig butts. One flick might be the last so maybe a sign that says butt flicking at your own risk but besure to kiss your butt good bye first

Just received my new MTH Santa Fe ABA F3 Railking set (30-20078-1) from Jeff at the Train Loft.  Just had a chance to get them on the layout.  Photos don't do just justice, they are stunningly beautiful!!  Will follow-up with a more in depth report soon.

Jim Gress

Bethlehem, PA

Hot summer and we need a cooling off

Another member and myself of FCTT have been building a river scene.  still a worl in progress.

the basic construction can be found at the jcs studios thread

Super molding guys, makes me want to jump right in there.  

Beautiful work, Tim built a Rockville bridge for me, wow I love your back drop, its beautiful, Thanks for sharing, john

wow this is beautiful, i am new to this and want to learn how to make water scence, a friend of mine built a model of the Rockville Bridge for me and i want to make a water scene under/around the bridge with boats also, your work is beautiful

Thanks for sahring, john

My latest tinplate acquisition: 256 Electric Loco.

"The bridge was created by forum member Tim W and he did an outstanding job!"

Here is one of the bridges Tim did for me. It worked out perfectly for this application. Another weekend of great pics everyone!

LIONEL FORD DEALERSHIP

For you guys who like the old Lionel classic F3's (all of us?) take a good look at these. They have all of the visual appeal of the PW models with the added bonus of PS2 and modern pulling power. We have the beautiful Yellowbonnett ABA set and would imagine that the recent NS 'Executive'  and other early Lionel reproductions are all top notch. If you run command, these are a much better $$$  alternative to adding command to the Williams diesels!

Sam is right, some of the best buys of PW style F units are MTH railking models. For around $400.00 and less if used you get an ABA with proto 2 and now with proto 3.

wow this is beautiful work, thanks for sharing

great bridge by Tim W, yes he does awesome work, I love your layout, WAY TO GO A STEELER FAN IN raven territory, i am a STEELER fan also

for once I have and installment for this thread

This is my newly aquired MTH PS1 Millinuem edition NYC Passenger set

Tested my recently-acquired Proto-3 GE Hybrid consisted with my more-recently-acquired Proto-2 ES44AC Demonstrator. They seem to play nicely together.