Weekend Photo Fun 8-18-23-??

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine weekend!   Here are my photos of the fun kind .... Remembering the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad!   Enjoy your weekend everyone!  

A5 take the grade on the Mountain Division.

Brakeman Buggsy Whipple on the job.

Pennsy's elegant passener service.  

The elegance of Pennsy passenger service.    

Fireman Doc Tankersley stands on the tender's deck and yells down to head end brakeman Vic Newman "  I hope we don't have o'l Crusty Elkins as our conductor today!  He's one grouchy old cus! "  Vic nodding in agreement adds " Yep!  There's a million Crusty Elkins stories out there on this railroad and not a one I've every heard paints a nice picture of Crusty.   I was working a way freight with him back yonder a couple two tree years ago. Our cabooses bathroom was out of order.   We had just made our last pickup, a boxcar from Allied Canning, when o'l Crusty stepped off the caboose in some kind of hurry!  Turns out he had the Hershey squirts!!  Crusty must ah been embarrassed because he didn't say anything to the rear end brakeman before stepping off.  The rear end brakeman, Linwood Gheebles, was standing on the opposite side and end  of the caboose as Crusty.  Thinking Crusty was on board o'l Linwood gave the engine crew the go ahead hand signal.  The train pulled off leaving o'l Crusty off in the woods that was beside the track.  O'l Crusty had to walk three and half miles back to the yard.  Linwood had ridden the rear platform all the way back to the yard thinking Crusty was inside the caboose.  He didn't miss Crusty till the train was back at the yard!  When o'l Crusty finally made it back to the yard he was spouting all kinds of colorful words ... and then some!  LOL!!!

The one and only 4876!   The GG1 that literally led the Federal into Union Station in Washington DC in January 1953 was back up and running by the end of the same year.  Here she is during a station stop in Patsburg.  

This weeks video:

Scott Smith

Heading out tomorrow on vacation to the NMRA National convention, so just time for a quick shot taken within the past hour while running trains with my best friend Mitch who will be accompanying me.  These are original MTH PRR RS-27 shells mounted on the new Lionel RS-27 chassis since the Lionel shells (a special run for Mr. Muffins Trains) which were painted in a horrible shade of green. The third unit is a new Lionel black PC unit. My son did the swap. More when I return! Anyone want a pair of incorrectly painted Lionel shells on a PS-1 chassis? 

EP-5 lashup…

Running some trains on the layout "under contruction".....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

For those who like videos, a few very short ones.......the last one shows a newly acquried Lionel PostWar 637, which was recently gifted to me by a high school buddy, pulling accompanying cars which have also been cleaned up....

The PostWar cars pass  the MAX FOODS complex......

The vintage Bosco Car came works and came with two vintage Bosco cans.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Here are a few from my latest video on the Lionel Legacy S-2 Turbine.

The Lionel Greenbriers arrived on the layout this week.

Just finished!

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

We are making great progress on our signal system installation.  One of our needs was finding or making bracket signals for my upper level.  It was decided that we needed to make them.  AlanRail and my Son Jim went to work and this is the what we came up with.  It is our first mock-up and we test fit it at one of the locations to see how it looked, checked the height, and clearances with an Atlas California Zephyr observation car.  It passed our tests and we hope to install three of them today in our work session.

If you would like to follow our progress, here is a link to the thread.

https://ogrforum.com/...3#177257758499490023

Art

Trainbros89 ,    Nicely done.  If it’s a kit can you share the manufacture ?  I’m going now for a more rural look on my layout and this looks like something you would see in Vermont.

A 2022 Christmas Layout memory

Lighting up the winter scene

walt

Now that I've re-looked at this scene, I should have added sidewalk lighting

@Dave_C posted:

Trainbros89 ,    Nicely done.  If it’s a kit can you share the manufacture ?  I’m going now for a more rural look on my layout and this looks like something you would see in Vermont.

Hey Dave,

Thanks for the kind words! Here ya go: https://kershawcraftsmankits.c...ucts/frog-pond-store

@Putnam Division posted:

Running some trains on the layout "under contruction".....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Peter,

The trains look great going around your layout. These particular photos provide a view that gives great potential for some wonderful scenery and detail work. The transformation you make into that phase will be great to watch.

Dave

My brother and I went back up to NY, to help our parents move down to VA. As kids, we used to train watch at Iona Island/Bear Mountain. We made one final stop, and saw a nice consist. Great memories.

More of my custom Pittsburgh  items that l had done. This was a Commuter   Train oend by the Port Authority. Begain service in 1975. Ended 1989.

My wife and I are heading up to the Adirondacks and then northern New Hampshire for some kayaking and hiking.  It has been a while since we visited upstate New Hampshire so it will be interesting to see if these train related items are still there.

From last Feb. before the layout was taken down.

@MichRR714 posted:

Mich; is this a custom run?

@FrankRazz posted:

Mich; is this a custom run?

Yes.  These were done by the Northern Michigan Railroad Club.

A few pictures from my layout in Bucks Couty, PA about 10 years ago:

LGB mogul steam engine and two passenger cars