Weekend Photo Fun 8-30-24-??

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine Labor Day Weekend!  Here is my photo tribute to labor!  Have a terrific and safe weekend everyone!

Locomotive engineers and train crews.

Loading/unloading crews.

Railroad Maintenance of Way ( MOW ) workers.

A 2023 Christmas layout memory

The last remaining area not yet shown here.  It was a 5'x7' elevated plateau featuring the models of family member's houses that I made.

- walt

Here's an overall shot of the layout to get an idea where the "plateau" was positioned

Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut is a hub of rail activity. It was the eighth busiest Amtrak Station in fiscal year 2023 with 792,634 Amtrak riders and also serves Metro-North Railroad (72 miles to Grand Central Terminal, NY), CT Rail (62 miles to Hartford, CT – Springfield, MA) and Shoreline East (50 miles to New London, CT). The building was completed in 1920 following a fire that destroyed the previous station in 1918.

The New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad was created in 1872 by the merger of the New York & New Haven and the Hartford & New Haven railroads, after which the NYNH&HRR was referred to as “The Consolidated” in Connecticut. It completed its through route between New York City and Boston in 1892, and became a principal means of passenger and freight transportation between the two cities until its merger into Penn Central in 1969.

I often used to take Metro-North to New Haven, have breakfast in the station, take a walk around town, and watch trains come and go. I did that again this week for the first time in a long while...

The station’s waiting room has elegant wood benches reminiscent of the days when The Merchants Limited and The Yankee Clipper plied the rails between New York City and Boston. Atop the benches are glass cases displaying models of famous trains of The New Haven Railroad donated by the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Foundation of Detroit, Michigan in 2002. Wilkinson graduated from Yale College, a short walk from the station, in 1950.

I took the photographs and videos on August 27, 2024.

MELGAR

The last part of the layout scenery to be placed under construction....the town of Mapleton. Work is finally underway:

The prototype and model (not yet done). Note the talus rock slope ( a former quarry at the top of both images)

And here is the prototype Grace United Methodist Church (prototype and model) kitbashed out of two plasticville churches which can be seens in the final image:

That's it for this week!

City of New Orleans is rerouted over Milwaukee Road tracks through Spencer due to major flooding on a lazy summer day in 1960.  Passengers were allowed time to run across the street to the Spencer Maid Rite to get a loose meat hamburger before continuing their journey to New Orleans.   

Art

Running my new heavyweights north on the WestShore……with a New York Central Hudson and some support vehicles…….with an O&W milk train headed for Weehawken….

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Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!

Peter

@Chugman posted:

City of New Orleans is rerouted over Milwaukee Road tracks through Spencer due to major flooding on a lazy summer day in 1960.  Passengers were allowed time to run across the street to the Spencer Maid Rite to get a loose meat hamburger before continuing their journey to New Orleans.   

Art

Nice scene Art!

The holiday crowd started the weekend early last night a Bob's General Strore parking lot...!

Art, great work on the main street scene and crossing...

Not much fun in this photo.

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

The last part of the layout scenery to be placed under construction....the town of Mapleton. Work is finally underway:

The prototype and model (not yet done). Note the talus rock slope ( a former quarry at the top of both images)

And here is the prototype Grace United Methodist Church (prototype and model) kitbashed out of two plasticville churches which can be seens in the final image:

That's it for this week!

Great job on the church!  You really captured the look and feel of the real one.  It really enhances my enjoyment of a model scene when it looks realistic enough for me to "relive" a memory or recollection of when I was there.  Your scenes accomplish that.

Art

Beautiful AT&SF F3's running through the western NC mountains this week. With two powered units both emitting sound, the blend is amazing as they traverse the varied topography of the area!

Loading ice before making the cross room trip.

@MichRR714 posted:

Now THAT is a Cool Engine!!!

By sunrise this morning, the parking lot at Spring Lake was filling up to kick-off the holiday weekend...

A few short videos “‘from the New York Central West Shore line”.

Have a great week, everyone!

Peter

Busy holiday activity at the North Main Street station...

Peter,

Very nice Army train.

Black wolf watching the chain gang

@Anich posted:

Peter,

Very nice Army train.

Thank you!

Peter

Labor Day Trains!

@Sitka

What happened to that LV boxcar?

@coach joe posted:

@Sitka

What happened to that LV boxcar?

Here you go @coach joe

@Sitka

Looks like something generated a lot of heat inside.