Weekend Photo Fun 8-8-14-??

Some of my military trains

Very nice David.  Love to see those military trains.

Another week of lots of great photos !

Good to see you sharing the trains with the kids Scott and at the museum shots in past weeks as well.

Always rewarding to share with kids they love it and great way to promote the hobby.

Remember the model train wedding cake??

in past weeks!  And wedding featuring trains link to pics below;

https://ogrforum.com/t...odel-and-real-trains

Take a look if you missed it! 

Here is a shot of them cutting the chocolate wedding cake on top of the foam.

And next pic the cake now been cleaning out the icing from the scenery and this is how it might look will need to add a little snow for when we do the Christmas theme model train displays at the museum this winter. Snowy animated mountain will fit well and will need to add a snow transition.

Also Rod Stewart was in town for a concert recently perhaps you have seen some of the articles on him and his love of model trains. Articles say that he builds kits while on tour and stops by hobby shops.

Well the staff were happily surprised when he dropped by the local hobby shop while in town and picked up a few things. He asked anyone coming to my concert the ladies said yes and loved the concert. Here is a pic with him and staff member and the photo of his layout in a past magazine that he signed for staff! 

(ooh darn sorry they are sideways not sure why??)

Also some pics of Sonoma TrainTown live steam ride on trains!

California west of Napa. A kids amusement park but the trains are a fun ride and they run Steam on weekends.

From my favorite Rail Trail.....Cape Cod MA....

Peter

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

The O Scale Guide to Pacemaker Boxcars is up on the 3 Rail Scale forum. 

https://ogrforum.com/t...yc-pacemaker-boxcars

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Nice pictures everyone!

My favorite day of the week! Happy Friday everyone!

Continuing the train-related cake theme....a "20-foot" containerized cake showed up at Alex's Staten Island train-fest last Saturday!

The NYS&W doing track maintenance and repairing some crossings in north Jersey.

- Mike

Great photos everyone.

One of my favorite passenger trains, the SP Daylight. The photo below is the K-Line 21" version, part of the 10 car consist that is now waiting for the arrival of the Lionel SP Daylight Cab Forward.

My daughter in law (Elementary school teacher) during the summer takes kids on different types of camp outings.

She sent me some pictures this week of their History Camp outing to the Miami Gold Coast Railroad Museum.

Thought you might like seeing the Presidential train and a military train car.

Have a great weekend .

Larry

Photos from the 2011 TCA Convention in Sacramento

Brian - Beautiful car.  Once you have seen 21" cars it's hard to go back.  They just have the right proportions and make you realize that the others are too short.

Art

 VBS Second Night

Scott Smith

Been a busy Summer for me, but I have been able to sneak some train-related stuff onto my schedule.

Managed to snag the last 3rd Rail 4449 in Freedom Train colors.  All I can say is Wow!  

A couple of weekends ago, took a mini vacation to visit with friends in Lancaster County, PA (I stopped at B&E Junction in York on my way there - cool train store!), and we took a Saturday day trip to Baltimore to visit the B&O Railroad Museum:

This was the engine handling the train rides:

I think we need an O gauge model of this car -- I have a feeling that a lot of us could put one to good use checking the clearance on layouts...

And this is the main reason I wanted to visit - this is the first steamer I ever saw in operation.  It is one of the reasons I'm in the hobby today.

And what visit to Baltimore would be complete without a visit to Fort McHenry, especially considering that this year is the 200th anniversary of The Star Spangled Banner...

Andy

Have a great weekend Everyone!!

Alan.....

I took this picture a couple of days ago as the sun was rising in the morning and shining through the east facing windows.  It was hitting the layout in such a way that it made some good photos.  This one shows the light reflecting off of the skyscraper in the background as the subway cars on the downtown elevated go by....

Some great pictures this week!

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Here, it's 1943 and the Santa Fe is using the N&W Y3's it purchased for helper service, over Raton Pass to assist the eastbound Super Chief over the grade.  

Otherwise known as Y3 helps E3.

Scott, thank you for all you and Joshua do to promote our wonderful hobby.

Brad

a 2013 Christmas Layout Memory

- walt

A mix of old & new...

Utica Club? nice...

If I played golf, I'd be able to hit the brewery!

"UC for me!"

That's what I'm shooting for, SIRT you are my main influence!

Click on pictures for details...

Thanks!

- Mario

Enjoy your weekend and be safe.

Joe B.

This was an oops...

Scott,

Looks like your son got some interested kids at the VBS.  I guess one could get a second meaning out of the Bible verse from Proverbs; "Train up a child in the way of the Lord, and when he is old he will not depart from it".  Seriously though, I have seen others set up trains at churches, elderly homes, and hospitals.  Trains can be a good ice breaker to getting to know folks.

Very impressive big steam!!

Nice weathering, Joe!!

Love those N&W Ys!!  Photo really shows off the articulated.

Love those N&W Ys!!  Photo really shows off the articulated.

Mark - That curve is something like 0-108, just think about something smaller.

Certainly the finest articulated that Santa Fe ever owned.

I assure you, mine runs on sharper curves than that.  Yours looks more realistic, mine is over exagerated, but it looks cool anyway.

Nice shot. Is that your Atlas Code 148 3-rail/2-rail track?

Is that your Atlas Code 148 3-rail/2-rail track?

It is Matt, thanks for noticing. However, I had to replace the Atlas with Micro Engineering Code 148.  I found some bottoming when using the Atlas.  I think the spikes on the ME track probably have a lower profile.  

I still use Atlas O Code 148 turnouts, no problem there.  

joeyA - Thanks for pointing SIRIT's picture out.  It is incredible.