Weekend Photo Fun 8-10-12-??

Nice catch Chris!  'Looks like your layout is coming along fine too...

Is it just my iPad or are many of the pictures on this thread fuzzy?

Doug

Pretty clear here Doug...

How's your layout coming?

Slow this summer, but I'm starting to work on it again (a little).  I'll post some pics when I can.  Doug

Nice purchase!  That is a tough looking locomotive.

Jim, I always like seeing the modifications and repaints that members do to the MTH Granary.  Your color choice is incredible and the water wheel is a nice touch...great scene.

I modified my Corgi container forklift to be able to hold larger, heavier RailKing Husky Stack Containers.

That's a nice update, Keith.

Jim P, I'm glad to see you've been milling around Pinnacle Peaks. 

Jim,

Very nice. Why don't you come and help me with my layout. With the way you do scenery we could have my layout done in a couple of weeks.

Nice Photos everyone.

Several of us were out today to watch the NKP765 NS employee specials out of Conway Yard.

Here are a couple shots from LEET interlocking.

Eastbound with lots of fans out to get a picture or two.

Westbound

We'll be back out tomorrow!

Doug, do you have your glasses on? My IPad sometimes doesn't put some pictures on at all. Maybe it's the airport in the house. Don

Here is an Abrams tank I have been building.  all I have left is the .50 cal and .30 cal machine guns.

Steve Mills

Great pictures everyone!!  I am so proud to be part of the forum in the company of such great modelers...AND...I am especially proud of my Mid America 3-Railers!

Keith...where did you get that wonderful forklift??

Alan

Starting to populate my layout

At the barrel factory 

The Gas station

Walter had a sale on Beep People, so my streamliners got some  

Also started to plant corn at the farm

Thanks, Keith.

It was really a fun project.

Bill, Had to get some new scenery in to give you a reason for a return visit!

Jim

my new athearn 1/50th fire trucks and stake body. cleaned the 4x8 and added two new fire scenes.

Alan, it is a Hyster Challenger 800...made by Corgi (1/50 scale?).  I see these frequently on eBay(Great Britain). Mine is yellow, but I have also seen then in two-tone blue/white.  It came with a small container with odd openings in the top...that was for the a sliding part to grab and pick up the container.  I removed the whole sliding mechanism, added length the the forks and installed tiny magnets, to hold my containers.

Here is a photo before painting the added parts...you can see the magnets on the forklift and on this shortened container...

Thanks Bill!

It looks absolutely.............not like it

NICE!

Somehow that NKP heritage unit is not that distracting!

Hey Wyatt;

How about posting a tutorial on how you wired everything up?  That would be a neat addition to any layout to be able turn command control on and off just by flipping a toggle switch.

TrainPop

Thanks for the inquiry on my setup and I will put something together. It is really easy to do and works great. I will post it under the electrical section because that might be a better place for it.

It's not necessary to wire anything special to turn DCS on or off. All that's necessary is to press:

Menu/System/DCS Setup and soft key "AOF"

To turn DCS back on, press:

Menu/System/DCS Setup and soft key "AON"

This and a whole lot more is all in "The DCS O Gauge Companion 2nd Edition", now available for purchase as an eBook or a printed book from MTH's web store site! Click on the link below to go to MTH's web page for the book!

Thanks Keith....now I have to start looking!!  If you see one, please let me know.

Alan

RMT RDC Buddys making their rounds.

I ran my new Lionel Legacy AC6000 $269 bargain at my club yesterday, a mighty impressive loco, it was our first Legacy trial on the club layout and performed faultlessly with the already installed DCS system.

I think I prefer using the Legacy handset, a bit easier to use, in my opinion.

Keith....did you ever complete the the steel mill structure that you were designing around a curved section of your layout? Please forgive me if I have the structure type wrong but the initial form that you posted looked pretty cool. Would like to see the finished product.

Thanks!

Ken

South Amboy, Arizona style ......

This is a great edition of Weekend Photo Fun everyone. 

Keith how did you apply/install the magnets on the containers.  I have a similar fork lift and lifting rig manufactured by JOAL from several years ago and would like to use it with containers other than the not to scale 20 footer that it came with.

kepp up the good work folks and tjhank you for sharing your ideas and your talent.

Joe

That's a beauty Dave, thanks for posting.

How quickly are you able to have things delivered 'down there'?

Hi Ken,  I'm still going to do it.  I had several side projects that will be for the structure.  Lately, I've been working on some sign ideas for the buildings and cutting more windows.  Eventually I want to have one more building involved, but here is the steelworks set together.

Some Marxism...for the mix.

56f100,

yes it is a weaver trailer, weaver is selling undecorated trailers now. I just painted it silver and removed the landing gear for the B61. as for the ford C8000 tractor, I need to enlarge the whole on the fifth wheel plate to accept the kingpin from the weaver trailer. I have another weaver trailer that will go to the C8000.

Sam, it all depends how it comes. USPS Priority is never quicker than 2 weeks, often more, as they tend to lose things regularly these days, but by Fedex, it's usually 4-5 days. This came by Fedex, and my usual shipments for my store do too, I've had no problem with them, and my local Fedex delivery man is very reliable.