Weekend Photo Fun 8-25-23-??

Thank you, Scott for starting us up......

The Niagara makes its 1st run on the "layout under construction"......

An O&W 44 Tonner switches a local freight......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Open House video from last Saturday.

Scott Smith

Newest purchases:

Greg P

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine weekend!    Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  

N&W Y6b emerges from Northeast Tunnel as the caboose of a B&O freight train's caboose is about to disappear inside the tunnel.

A view across the yard.

Brakeman Morty Oliver rides the front step of a B&O SW9.

Video of the Menards Halloween:

Scott Smith

@Putnam Division posted:

Thank you, Scott for starting us up......

The Niagara makes its 1st run on the "layout under construction"......

Peter

Looking great, Peter!

Quick question for you, who makes the signal tower just above the tender on the engine in the above picture?  It's very distinctive looking, especially the roof.

Art

Our heat wave is finally over in time for the weekend, but the basement is still the place to be.  Hoping to find some time to get the signal crew together to keep chipping away at things.  There are a lot of things that I could be doing while I am waiting such as scenery work, touch-up painting, and etc. 

Here is a perfect example of touch-up paining that needs to be done.  This picture shows the signal bridge that we mounted to the side of my Mannheim Road highway bridge.  A normal signal bridge would have to be placed so close to the highway bridge that it would touch it, so we mounted it to the highway bridge.  I researched real signal bridges and found some done that way.  I would show you the pictures of the real ones, but I don't own them so I can't.   This bridge hasn't been lit up yet, but it needs railings and for the brass pipe that routes the wires below the layout needs to be painted black.

If you are interested in following our signal project, you can join us at this thread:

https://ogrforum.com/...4#177680360584456604

Art

The Disney Park.

James arrives at the North Pole.

Santa's Workshop

@Chugman posted:

Looking great, Peter!

Quick question for you, who makes the signal tower just above the tender on the engine in the above picture?  It's very distinctive looking, especially the roof.

Art

TW Trainworx.......the "pagoda style" is based on New Haven RR shoreline switch towers. Melgar did an article on building the kit in OGR Magazine some years back....Run 307, August-September 2019.

Peter

Next building started......another one by Dennis Brennan's Frank Ellison Tribute series.....Sanky Wanky Coffee Company......

First, a base coat of white primer......

Then, spackle over joints......and sanding......

Before and after Rustoleum Flat Red........

Light gray with darker gray accents......

Something a little different here, a way to make open and partially open windows.....

Rustoleum textured multicolor Desert Bisque to simulate aged concrete.....and joint lines hidden.....

Weaterthing is next......

Lots and lots of windows!!!!!

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

A  NYC Niagara pulling a long freight on the new layout.....

I got the inspiration for how to stage this video from watching the videos of my good friend and fellow Tracker, Craignor........thus, I have named it Freight a la Craignor.

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Night time running with LGB

I finally got around to finishing my Legacy Y3. I also got a TMCC era auxiliary tender to keep it well watered as it hauls coal around my layout.

@Putnam Division posted:

A  NYC Niagara pulling a long freight on the new layout.....

I got the inspiration for how to stage this video from watching the videos of my good friend and fellow Tracker, Craignor........thus, I have named it Freight a la Craignor.

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Peter, why did I think the Niagara was a high stepping passenger engine?

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Peter, why did I think the Niagara was a high stepping passenger engine?

Ron

I think that it did it all........I have plans to do a milk & Mail train and a passenger consist.

Peter

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

I finally got around to finishing my Legacy Y3. I also got a TMCC era auxiliary tender to keep it well watered as it hauls coal around my layout.

Great shots as always, Norm. At the rate you acquire motive power, you must have a very full closet of boxed power somewhere in that house, I assume?

Will we see a video about this soon? I sure hope so. I have quite a soft spot for the Appalachian roads (N&W and B&O, especially) you've recently represented, and I love to see those large locos moving around your layout.

FM Train Master lashup…

Good evening everyone,

Here are some photos of my GGD cars.  I only have 26, but they do make a nice long train.  I usually pull all of them with my Lionel E7 ABA consist (all powered).

A 2022  Christmas Layout memory

Another shot of the winter section of the layout

- walt

@p51 posted:

Great shots as always, Norm. At the rate you acquire motive power, you must have a very full closet of boxed power somewhere in that house, I assume?

Will we see a video about this soon? I sure hope so. I have quite a soft spot for the Appalachian roads (N&W and B&O, especially) you've recently represented, and I love to see those large locos moving around your layout.

Thanks! Most of my locomotive boxes live under the layout on Harbor Freight dollies. I hope to get the vid done this weekend.

These go back to April, but I finally got them off my phone this morning.  Videos of trains running on a friend's layout during his annual open house in April.  It was the first time I was able actually run my O gauge trains in nearly 4 years.  Lots of fun!

GGD heavyweights, Pecos River express boxcars, Lionel Streamlined passenger cars, and 3rd Rail E1s.

MTH F40PHs in Phase III and II pulling 20" Williams Superliners that are a holding place for when GGD ones arrive one day.

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thanks! Most of my locomotive boxes live under the layout on Harbor Freight dollies. I hope to get the vid done this weekend.

Thanks, looking forward to seeing it.

Just arrived for some quick photos.  3rd Rail CNJ RDCs.

N&W Class A 1238 pauses at the tower as C&O 614 passes by at track speed with the Chessie Safety Express.

Sneak previews for Boxcar Sunday, Tail End Tuesday, and my FW&D thread.

Happy Weekend !!!

@Rob Leese posted:

Do I spy a Monarch coupler on the rear of that obs?

@GG1 4877 posted:

Do I spy a Monarch coupler on the rear of that obs?

Truth be told, I am too dim to know what brand it is...it is whatever came with old Walthers 2 rail kits.  Over the years I have purchased a lot of old cars and converted them to 3-rail yet saving the couplers for my never-ending stream of projects.  What I really wanted my Q friends to notice was the road-specific detail I added for the marker light.   This:

Became this:

on a hot summer afternoon today.

That does look very nice!  I got fixated on the coupler.  I have a bunch of those old Walthers cars too.

The National Railroad Museum Rail Lines had a great article on a "Q" observation car they had recently restored.  I need to go pull that out and take look at the rear marker now that you pointed it out.

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

@jstraw124 posted:

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

this something I always hoped to do with my bunch!

Ron

@jstraw124 posted:

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

Pure fun!

Peter

@jstraw124 posted:

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

I like the irony you included.

Enjoying the sights and sounds of my new Legacy ES44AC BNSF Superbass.

@jstraw124 posted:

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

Good idea!

Why didn’t I think of that?

@jstraw124 posted:

While cleaning my caboose display cabinet, had the idea of running a caboose train.

All headed to Strasburg to join the ranks of the motel.

Like Rob pointed out, the irony of a boxcar bringing up the rear is the crowning touch of your train.

@coach joe posted:

Like Rob pointed out, the irony of a boxcar bringing up the rear is the crowning touch of your train.”

Thanks for the comments.  I can’t take credit for the boxcar idea.  That was all my son’s idea.

Big Boy double head