Weekend Photo Fun 8-8-14-??

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VBS Third and Final Night

Scott Smith

Buying this MTH Premier Chessie Caboose tomorrow.

Great pics everyone!! Scott & Joshua: GREAT JOB!!

This may be a one of a kind! Took the pic in January '14, Pompano Beach, FL.

love these "strange" pennsy electrics

Caught a pic of this mural in Montreal...taking a bus tour out to Olympic Stadium

I just got back from a 2 week trip with Boy Scouts out to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Even though we flew out to Denver and skipped Union station in center city, I still managed to get a little railfanning in.

Considering the bus is doing something near 70mph, this is not a bad shot of a cream BNSF SD70MAC. This was on the line between Raton and Pueblo.

You typically do not find these in the east. This is a cattle guard and gate. The rail line is close to Cimerron NM.

This is the UP line through Raton Pass. Unfortunately, I saw no trains in the pass.

We went white water rafting in the Royal Gorge. We did have an RG Scenic Express pass us while we were on the water, but I left my camera on the bus to keep it high and dry.(Very smart move on my part!) The train had a rebuilt ex VRE GP40 type on one end and a cab control car on the other. I found the famous F units later after we were done rafting. This is the best shot I could get. Not bad for failing light, in a thunderstorm from a moving bus! I wish I could have stopped the bus, but that was not to be.

Chris

LVHR

National Capital Trolley Museum

Very excellent photography...... Thanks for sharing the store & photos.

https://ogrforum.com/t...my-korber-collection

Last day of vacation and the sun was shinning. I took out my module sections of the TCA Midwest Division traveling layout for some needed repairs and cleaning up.  

Kevin - Wow!  That looks great.  The outdoor natural lighting and shadows really make it look realistic.

Art

Thanks Art. With only displaying in the indoor venues, the modules and models do look different in sunlight.

I weathered this hopper

Finally uploaded some shots of my GP35r project:

A relatively new and clean EMD Geep hauls a very short CNJ local freight train on the WIHABL Railroad...

Nice work Rich!

Man that looks nice Rich. My Legacy GP35 has been sitting on the bench in pieces since Jan, just haven't had the desire to dive back into it. One of these days!

Sorry, I didn't even look to see Howard copied the same pic...great minds think alike...

Test track is still full, so took advantage of the daylight and shot some pics in the front yard:

My "estate sale special" consisting of the only postwar train in my collection, poses together for the first time since their rescue and resuscitation in this thread. 

A rear view of the train

Side view of the entire consist

Closeup of the 2343 F3's

Highlighting some recent acquisitions, here is the MTH NS C40-8 from 2014 Vol 1, newly arrived to my collection. The SD50 behind it was delivered last year (or before?), but I added it to give the look of a typical MU consist. Here they are trying to look like a crude-oil train, with the MTHRRC Pillsbury hopper serving as the buffer car. 

Closeup of the Dash-8

Something you don't see every day-- RailKing modern tankers with realistic decoration.

Behind a Premier 8000-gallon tanker, they blend in rather nicely with the Premier cars behind them. Note that these now come with the thumbtack-less T-bar couplers. Both this one and the APFX one arrived early last week.

And for comparison, a Premier Funnel-Flow tanker that shipped maybe two weeks prior to the RailKing ones. 

Closeup of the NS SD50. Note the crewman facing long-hood forward. The unit is set up to run this way.

---PCJ

PJC

My "estate sale special" consisting of the only postwar train in my collection, poses together for the first time since their rescue and resuscitation in this thread.

I looked at the estate sale thread.  Wow, they sure did need cleaned up.  What a marvelous reconditioning!!  I like the MTH products, but mine are all steam.  Yours are really nice!!  I too only have two small postwar sets my daughter rescued from the thrift store.  They both run nicely after some cleaning up.

Lights in the yard are almost finished.  My brother came over and helped with clearance problems.  I did not know there was not space for my poles between 3 1/2 inch center to center track spacing until after I made the lights and installed them!  But with sinking the base, some slight curves, super elevation, and a few guard rails all will be well. 

I secured grain of wheat bulbs with water putty into washers that had been shaped with a bolt, larger nut, and heavy use of a hammer.  And seven coats of paint to keep the light from coming out of the top.  The poles are from a Lionel RR crossing light (prewar?). 

Nathan

Had a good run today at the club. Decided to run the CNW business train.

Here's Junior Member Nicholas running Jeff Waldman's train while Jeff takes a break. Kids are great to have around to run trains for you. They actually pay attention to what they're doing.

Impressive work, Rich. Who's the manufacturer on these?

Anyone else have these push toy trains when they were a kid?

Dan

Boy does that bring back memories!  I didn't have the ones with the faces, but I vividly remember  brightly colored plastic engines and cars, and the gray plastic track sections that I used to spend hours arranging and rearranging on the rug (we didn't have a carpet!) in the living room.  I can remember the plastic "roundhouse" with the hand crank that turned the center track, and how I thought it was so cool that you could line up an engine with a different set of tracks and off you'd go!

Thanks so much for posting that picture.  It really is nostalgic for me.  Do you or anyone else happen to know who made those plastic trains?  

- Mike 

Dan986; when I was a kid they didn't exist.

Child Guidance made the toy trains.There are a bunch of different sets for sale on Ebay under"Child Guidance train".My sister has a big box of the train items including the turntable that my brother's grandkid is enjoying as much as I did back in the 1970s.I will post more photos of the train items soon.

Dan 

Nice job, I passed by the picture a few times thinking it was real!

CHILD GUIDANCE train sets!!!!!!!

As kids everyone I knew had these. We would combine them into HUGE sets!!!

I now own every piece CG made in the line. I bought them 2nd not having any of my original trains. My grandkids like them....but like my O scale better.....still cool to have as a BIG part of my childhood and love of model trains! 

A few weeks ago Mary and I took a vacation and travelled out West.  So as not to be totally apart from the railroad, I invited the Goodmans to join us.  Mr. Will B. Goodman is the CEO and Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Railway System (MARS).  He, his wife, Gillie, and their grandson, Eddie, also came along.

We stayed a couple nights at the Izaak Walton Inn while we visited Glacier National Park.  While there we were all surprised when the Goodman's son, Will B. Goodman, IV and his family arrived one morning on Amtrak's Empire Builder.  Apparently, they all were missing Eddie and thought it would be fun to join us at the Izaak Walton Inn.  For a train buff the Izaak Walton Inn is a little bit of Heaven.

We continued to travel across Montana and our journey took us into Utah and Echo Canyon.  I was able to stop and take a few photos.  I like this shot because it captures a Union Pacific reefer train passing through both a tunnel and across a girder truss bridge. 

While still in Utah we went to visit the Dinosaur National Monument.  Due to the heat, Mrs. Goodman (Gillie) decided she would continue to relax and enjoy the comforts afforded her at the bed and breakfast we were staying at in Jensen.

At the Monument Mr. Goodman, Eddie and I were enjoying the outdoor exhibits. At  one point Mr. Goodman and I turned our backs to the exhibit to look out over the incredible rock formations and landscape.  When we turned back around, to our surprise, there was Eddie in the jaws of an Allosaurus.  

Both Eddie and Mr. Goodman had a little explaining to do to the Rangers, but thankfully it all ended well.  Bo

The NYC Hudson was built decades ago - in the 1930's, if I remember correctly.  I rode it around 1956 as a youngster.  It was out on the Irvine Ranch before Orange County burgeoned. It is a work of art. 

The Sonoma Train Town was owned and operated by a BNSF Locomotive Engineer (ex-Santa Fe Valley Division) and his family, and they run a clean, safe fun park that you can take your family to with no worry.  Very nice folks.

And you did a magnificent job!  Your personal record is awarded ten merits for superb weathering of O-gauge freight cars.

Thank you, Matt, Doug (and everyone else). That is an Atlas model. In addition to fixing the pilots, and adding the various other details, I cut off the end-of-truck brake shoes and renumbered it from I think 3307, for an early-90s appearance.

RM

3 railed a couple of 2R cabs this afternoon. They will ship tomorrow.

Gorgeous photos everyone.  A few from the IRM.

I am really looking forward to adding one of Malcolm's pieces of railroad art to my roster.

Ron

Oh yeah! I had those. Had crossings, crossovers and switches and a hand operated  turntable! It's all long gone now, except for this engine and car I saved....

Those were my favorites!!! My black and white loco is opposite color combo.....none of the B&W locos had faces for some reason....so I liked them better!!!!

Great thread this week!

Yesterday, I got back from a three-day jaunt to the D.C. metro area. I didn't see many trains, but did manage to get a couple good Metro subway shots.

Sorry, these first two are from a trip to Niagara Falls,ON. The above picture is of a small airport in Ontario. If you look closely, you can see a random caboose sitting there. What?

A shot of the T on a foggy morning.

The Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar F. Hazy Center.

BNSF run-through in Cumberland on CSX.

The above picture was taken last year. The one below was taken yesterday, both from a bridge on PA 43 near the Frederick? exit. Can anyone tell whose facility this is? It looked like a rail-to-barge or vice versa coal transload facility. I apologize for the poor quality. When an iPhone "zooms," the picture gets fuzzy.

Thanks for the Pictures everyone, They are great.

I remember those plastic trains, I never had any but I recall helping set up the track for them. I suspect it was my youngest brother or a younger cousin that had them.