Weekend Photo Fun 8-10-12-??

Here is my Atlas Chessie System Safety White Bay Window Caboose and Williams 40' Western Maryland Flat Car With BulkHeads i got today

Jeff and Mike: Nice photos this week.

Well, the Apprentice is getting ready for school to start and has taken a leave from the club for some school projects. A couple of weeks ago, I gave him a spare UP Excess Height box car to see what he could do with it. He spotted a prototype and wondered if he could duplicate the grafitti.

Prototype:

MTH Car:

Hi Mike,

Glad to hear that you are working on a new basement layout!

I know it's been a long wait!

Steve Tapper

Mike heres my T-1 at the doctors at the moment trying to fix the sound.

I purchased this Lionel SD80MAC from a fellow forum member. It just arrived on Wednesday but I had to take some quick pics for photo fun. It is equipped with TMCC and Odysessy speed control. It looks and sounds great.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The photo below is a scene on Jerry Murray's layout in Springfield, Missouri...he is a member of our Mid America 3-Railers group.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

This is my week in review.

I haven't put one up for a while, so here's mine.

Well have gone to the dark side I have gotten this new transformer and started running everything in the conventional mode and have a ball using the handles on the Big Z.

I had to add a toggle to turn off Legacy.

 I have turned off DCS and Legacy for now and enjoying the conventional mode.

My new NewYork Central with interchangable coupler

 A few parting shots.. The fishing has been good this year

t

Meanwhile back at the lodge the non-fishermen seem to be having a good time also.

As summer quickly closes, I did a long bike ride on the Montour trail Wednesday Aug 8. I rarely visit the Lower Montour, some railroad/trail pictures. Access a slideshow via this link.  

Mike

Here's our recently departed Illinois Central ABA's pulling some relettered SOUTHERN MTH passengers. 'New Orleans' pictured here.

Here are a few from the NMRA show in Grand Rapids. Michigan. BF

I had to post a picture of my new bus.  I found it at an antique mall and its new in the box.  The price was cheap for a Corgi Die Cast and it goes great with my layout time line.

Freggin Sweet!

My Norfolk Southern heritage pin set and poster.

My MTH DT&I autorack repaint. 2R with Athearn trucks and KD couplers.

(In my best British accent) And now for something completely different...

My new (to me) 1971 Schilke B1 custom trumpet with my Austin Custom Brass custom mouthpiece. Schilke is considered one of the best manufacturers of trumpets out there, crafting each horn by hand. There goes my train budget 

Thanks, Mike! The more Reading T-1's, the better. He is my Lionel 6-18006 painted and detailed as 2124 by Reading Steam Guru

MTH Premier T-1 2102 meets my MTH Tinplate Traditions Ives 1616 passenger set

This basket case 2056, repainted as 2124 by John Myers with two spliced 1666T tenders, won a blue ribbon (First Place) in the TCA Standards Committee Restoration Concours D'Elegance Contest at York.

HI EVERYONE GREAT PHOTO'S AS ALWAYS

HERE'S A LIONEL K4 THAT'S MINE AND A BLACK UP FEF THAT'S MY FRIEND MIKE.R.

THANKS, ALEX

The old and the new

We've been converting our traditional pieces into full-scale 3 rail trains. Here are two Lionel classics - the venerable 2343 on the right and a current scale No 18 Lionel F3.

The 1950 'Toy' is actually quite nice and fairly accurate!

Here are pictures of my Lionel T-1 that I super-detailed to be more prototypical as well as a Prototypical Auxillary Tender I kitbashed from two 700T Hudson Tenders:

Nice pics everyone!

Cesar

Just about finished Wurlitzer Gorge this week on my CNYRR. The MTH Granary (I know, they spell it Grainery!) building was given a more interesting color scheme and a scratchbuilt water wheel to make better use of its creekside location.

Now the view between the mountains of Pinnacle Peaks is much more scenic:

Jim

Some pictures of my layout,

Mozart Park, the hearse gets a bath and RR says no more overhead bridges, go underground!And I almost for got its the end of line on the Bellevue-Wildwood harbor shortline.

Soon I will have 2!

Here are some pictures I took today while running my E6 Atlantic.

Modern day look: 

Turn back the clocks to the Age of Steam: 

Some very inspirational work here. I love those Reading T-1s, I went on a couple of the Rambles back in the day.

Here are also some shots I took at the Greenberg Show they held in Timonium, MD.

I finally have it done! 6 years Just a few detail upgrades to go.

Sitting in the kitchen on a beautiful Maui day working on a single stall engine house for a Little Joe or two unit box cabs in helper service in my mountain area. Finding a engine house long enough was the big challenge. Most of the house is primed. Next step is paint then wire lights. All windows and doors are metal except main doors. Don

Hi Mike,

Several years ago, the bay had several Hudson Models 700T tenders which were for the scale Hudson.  I purchased a tender and a plastic shell for another.  Then, comparing the 700T to a picture of the prototype (see below), I realized that if I cut the full tender down a rivet line and then took one section between the rivets from the second, the length would be close to the prototype (close enough for me anyway). I used strip brass to fill in the gap of the frame.

The Prototype is actually the tender used on a NYC Mohawk (same for Lionel 6-18009).  Using the prototype picture, I made decals for the sides.

I then airbrushed the tender, and once dry, I added the decals.  I used styrene to cover the coal bay, and then got a coupler to go in the front where the draw bar normally went.

Below are pictures of the prototype and of my tender during the extension:

Before I made this one, I actually made one out of a single 700T tender which I still have, but don't use:

MTH PRR K4s leads a passenger train on track 1 as a freight rolls by on track 2 -

Train time at the station -

Picked this up from the bay last weekend for next to nothing - It's a repainted Lionel # 600.
I added some decals to the frame & body & painted the handrails to try & match a real Southern NW2. I just have to install lights. I think it looks awesome & it runs great too!

A 2011 Christmas layout scene memory

- walt