It's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!
Walking out of the museum Saturday I saw this engine.
We had some two inch foam board in the supply room at the club so I decided to use it to make a backdrop.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Scott, well done!
I have been continuing my project to refurbish derelict Plasticville....this time the Post Office.
First, a new light gray color, even the back and side walls.....Flat black for the roof....
Then I dry brushed the red lettering and search the internet for Post Office pictures to make new window inserts....I used PowerPoint to re-size them....
A flag for the roof....and, when train shows open up, new fixtures for the front door....
Have a great and safe weekend folks......
Peter
With so much free time on my hands due to the pandemic, work continues to progress rapidly on my layout. Just added this Koerber (formerly Pecos River Brass) warehouse to the city of Altoona. I had to empty out the yard to obtain access to the warehouse area accounting for all of the empty tracks in the foreground. Just finished it last night, and the glue holding the back wall on dried overnight, so I stuck it in place this morning to get this shot. It went pretty fast. Only took about a week to assemble and paint. Next project is a highway bridge spanning the yard just as on the prototype. It will be scratchbuilt and will take longer to build than the warehouse.
And here's a bit more in focus shot from a few days ago before I weathered the structure and a few freight cars were still in place:
I built a pedestrian underpass that goes from the platform on one side, under the four track main line, to the platform on the other. Here is the entrance:
The sign on the left is modified from a PRR ad in National Geographic, and is reminiscent of a Lionel Catalog painting of their Congressional. The sign on the right is reproduced from an article in the Keystone (publication of the PRR Technical and Historical Society) on how the PRR brought fans to college football games. They had up to 28 trains serving Princeton on game day. That was when Ivy League football was big.
Here is a close up of the underpass. Note you can see the far side stairs leading up to the far side platform
Lights are modified from a Golden Gate Depot passenger car lighting strip. I made tubular diffusers to encircle each light and disguise the LEDs, I painted the strip black to hide the circuitry. I hope someone comes along to help that woman get her suitcases up the stairs.
Here is a view of the top side.
The far platform is not yet finished. And it looks like a rare New Jeresey tornado turned over all the benches on the near one. But the photo shows the stairs do indeed line up with the underpass. You can see light streaming down into the underpass during daylight
Photos of fun for this fine weekend: " PA1's at the station." Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Be safe = Be healthy!
have a great weekend everyone !!
Here is the new MTH BC Hydro railway MP 15 engine the latest custom run for our club. Just came in, with some older BC Hydro freight. An older MTH CP engine behind. And the Sunset 3rd rail Canadian Pacific Canadian train on the garden railway.
The Canadian Toy Train Association website; https://www.canadiantoytrains.org/
A 2019 Christmas Layout memory 
Organized, neat wiring makes tracing so much easier 
Actually all of this wiring will be under the plateau, thus hidden from view, so I didn't much care how it looked.
- walt
Happy Weekend To Everyone.
Since today is the 19th anniversary of 911, I thought that I would show some red, white, and blue on the G&O. We will never forget! NH Joe
Boston & Maine GP7 #1563 is an MTH Premier model with PS-1 – about 20 years old. B&M caboose #482 is a recent model by Atlas O – on my 10’-by-5’ layout.
MELGAR
Still working on the scene I posted earlier, and just kinda keep taking pictures as I go. Here is one looking in the opposite direction. At least this one includes a train and it's locomotive...in this case, one of my favorites, a Lionel PA.
Having a "Georgia on my mind" moment.
The LIONEL Louisville & Nashville ACF Center Flow 3-bay covered hopper and Chessie System WM PS-2-CD 4427 cu ft, 3-bay covered hopper have contrasting color schemes.
Andrew
Falcon Service
Canadian National SD40-2W and CN SD60 diesel-electric locomotives were used to pull the local freight train on Monday. They stopped at the Harborlite perlite processing plant, but could not drop off the ACF Center Flow covered hopper because no one was there on Labor Day.
Andrew
Falcon Service
Finally found an Atlas GP7 dummy to run along with my Lionel ones. Here it is with some Mario adapters for fixed pilots and Kadees.
Have a great weekend. 
Layout at night...
Lionel VisionLine Big Boys roam the layout. This time 4012 leads a PFE train with 4014 pushing on the rear.
It's 1953, "dark thirty", in Caprock, Texas. Most citizens of Caprock are asleep, as are the ranch families of Dickens County. Engineer Karl Schmitt and Fireman "Ace" Hahn are wide awake, though, having been called on duty at 12:01 A.M., for an extra west, Engines 70L and 58A, a 4,000 horsepower consist made up of an Alco-GE PA1 and a PB1. They registered in, and promptly made their way out to the engine. Ace went down onto the ground to check the headlight and Mars light, then walked around the units to look at the brake rigging and see if the sanders were all working. Meanwhile, Karl thought that the 24-RL automatic brake valve was a little stiff in its movement, so he went to the water cooler and drew a Dixie Cup of water, which he slowly worked into the edge of the rotary stem, to soften up the leather seals.
And, here, we see them, sitting in the cab, waiting for the Brakeman to come over and line the switches to get them out of the locomotive servicing tracks, and onto the passenger passing track, where they will wait for their inbound train. The big Alcos are idling unevenly, and every so often the Wabco air compressors kick in to raise the main reservoirs back to 140 psi, with their characteristic hammering sound. A faint aroma of raw diesel fuel is drifting into the night air.
They'll have 20 Railway Express reefers, which are heading back to California, to be loaded with strawberries and sent east again. Their engine came in on an eastbound strawberry special yesterday, having been split off of second No. 4 at Clovis. The railroad wanted the Alcos sent back to the transcontinental main line, at Clovis, so they swapped them for three FTs at Caprock, on the eastward trip. Tonight, the express reefers will arrive behind a freight engine and swap for the elegant Alco passenger units. They'll make a fast trip across the plains to Clovis, where the reefers will become second Number 3, behind a different passenger engine.
Ace is looking forward to a hot breakfast and an opportunity to sit down at the round-the-clock card game in the Reading Room. Karl is looking forward to strolling over to the Dos Hijas Cafe for a plate of huevos Mexicanos con papas y frijoles, and then hitting the feathers, as he has been painting his house and can use the rest.
30 Minutes from now, this scene will be different. There will be a freight engine on spot, where the Alcos now sit. And, if you stand downtown, you will hear the raspy exhaust of a pair of wide-open Alco passenger units fading into the distance, as they accelerate their train, climbing out of the rolling plains up onto the caprock.
Tom - Number 90,
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MELGAR
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