Weekend Photo Fun 9-13-19-??

Photo Fun from Patsburg for this fine weekend.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone! 

The scene at the north end of my 10’-by-5’ layout.

Photo by:

MELGAR

Next week the Heritage Railway Alliance conference is being hosted by the West Coast Railway Association in Squamish and Vancouver area B.C.  Many of the railway museums and railway preservation groups and rail excursion trains around North America are members of this group, and many members will attend the conference. Here some of the trains that will be seen during the convention. The Royal Hudson and F units etc. at the West Coast Railway Heritage park. The black F unit will have a new paint job by this time that I am looking forward to seeing. During the convention members will visit the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway to ride the red restored interurbans, visit the original Vancouver Canadian Pacific Roundhouse to see the CP #374 , visit Rocky Mountaineer etc. Here are some older photos of trains they will see. Anyone coming ! 

I added a castle to the 4x5.5 foot portable mountain layout. This is a fun layout to run in the train storage room you can see the shelves in the distance and above that hold other vehicles and trains. My grand son loves running the LionChief Great Northern engine on this. Some long time readers of the forum may recall this as the Model Train wedding cake from many years back. https://ogrforum.com/...89#33810031592985389

Little did I know many years later that their son would take so much interest in running trains on it. 

Hanging out with Train Room Gary at the Michigan Central Station,  a photo album from Detroit, Michigan. All images shot on September 10, 2019 at about 6 PM and it was 91° F. 

The Michigan Central Station opened in 1913 and it was a grand 18 story office tower and train station. The Ford Motor Company purchased this historic structure and is restoring this grand old lady. Ford Motor plans to use this station for it’s head quarters for engineering and research for autonomous vehicles.  The first floor will be used as an Amtrak Station,  retail shops and restaurants. “Creating Tomorrow Together “ is the motto for this project. 

The front elevation facing Michigan Avenue with several construction cranes.

The parking lot attendant for the construction workers has a caboose with cupola. Train Room Gary is now on duty. “Free parking for all”.

To the trains.

Under the trains.

DANGER • DANGER - step back and keep out, The Amtrak is coming.

Train Room Gary checks out the motto, “Creating Tomorrow Together” - Ford Motor Company.

All photos shot with an iPhone 7 Plus & processed with Adobe Photoshop. 

Have a great weekend……….. Gary

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory

Didn't have a summer scene on '18 layout so I can't show anything seasonally appropriate.  So I thought for something different I would show my thought process and procedures in planning.

I establish a small amount of 'musts'. 'T-P' is tin-plate (DCS) 'mom' and 'xmas' are conventional:

Draw a zillion hand-made drawings until I finalize a few, after which I draw them to scale using my crude tools to ensure that everything fits.  Then after fooling around with scenery options, I pick the one that I like best and draw the track design: (that big circle at the top is where an elevated Christmas tree will go)

Pencil in the scenery items: (CONN - connecting track)

Decide where to put lockons (the dots) and insulation pins (the 'x')remembering to use star wiring for the DCS trackage:

Now that I know where all of the wires will be going, I plan out how to lay down the Homasote.  What works really well for me is each piece of Homasote has a same-sized piece of blue board that I lay underneath the Homasote.  The blue board is a hair smaller which allows for me to run wires thru those channels between the blue board sections.  This allows for me to hide wires nicely but also prevents anything from laying directly on the wires.  I try to place the channels where most wires will be going:

Ready to go!

-walt

Double stack runby:

Ken

My latest layout project was to add the photo mountain backdrop to the wall under my windows. The mountains are those I shot of the mountains located to the north side of my home

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kj356 posted:

I added a castle to the 4x5.5 foot portable mountain layout. This is a fun layout to run in the train storage room you can see the shelves in the distance and above that hold other vehicles and trains. My grand son loves running the LionChief Great Northern engine on this. Some long time readers of the forum may recall this as the Model Train wedding cake from many years back. https://ogrforum.com/...89#33810031592985389

Little did I know many years later that their son would take so much interest in running trains on it. 

i see i'm not the only one who likes castles on top of hills...here's a picture and a link to mine...

https://bigindoortrains.com/fo...c.php?f=18&t=175 

howard...

Picked up a couple of Postwar items off Ebay and a very good price and a piece at a local auction at a great price. Last one is for Scott and the Railyard.

GM&O and L&N action at the club 

Also was able topics this up of EBay at a reasonable price.

SOO LINE 1776 Bicentennial GP35 diesel locomotive and Bessemer & Lake Erie 1776 Bicentennial 4-bay open-top hopper from MTH Premier line.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Beep action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Christopher2035 posted:

Happy Friday!

Didn't really get anything done on the board this week, but I did pick up a mint, still sealed Milwaukee Limited set. Those MPC collector sets are pretty cool & can be had for almost nothing these days. Also found a spare 252 gate that I threw on the board & installed.

Great looking set. Very colorful!

Those sets are cool. I have several (Chessie Royal, Quaker City) and still run them regularly.

kanawha posted:

Double stack runby:

Ken

I gotta get a bigger basement.

Lionel CC Niagara upgraded with ERR Cruise M , new brass gears , custom steel driveshaft, rebuilt smoke unit , and fatboy speakers in the tender. 

Have a great weekend. 

EM1 excursion out of Pittsburgh East!

c. late '50s. I still remember the [soft] Thunder of that big Articulated on that long hill. That and the constant rain of cinders, hence the goggles.

2019 LOTS convention car arrived today.

Neal Jeter

Walt how soon will you start to work on your 2019 Christmas layout. One that complex must take a lot of work. Very impressive.

I thought I would check in with this thread 🧵 my favorite thread. A tornado 🌪 touched down yards from my train Room. A lot of damage, we are all OK. I am on my cell phone. No way to send in photos. 21K homes have issues. Gary......

A "tragedy" at the NCTM!  Some brian child  or should I say child brain had N&W #620 repainted from the Red Bird Scheme.

Painted back to the black and gold freight scheme.

Ron

trainroomgary posted:

I thought I would check in with this thread 🧵 my favorite thread. A tornado 🌪 touched down yards from my train Room. A lot of damage, we are all OK. I am on my cell phone. No way to send in photos. 21K homes have issues. Gary......

Scary! I trust you and your family are safe!

Peter

From the IBC show in Amsterdam. Broadcasters like trains. What’s more colorful than a toy train?

Some pics that I shot this morning for the New Haven thread......

What I am really doing is organizing my train-related pictures for next weekend.....I just got back from a trip......here is a tease:

Paddington Station, London.

Peter

Here’s one more picture from Paddington Station:

Peter

kanawha posted:

Double stack runby:

Ken

Nice shot. What kind of camera are you using?

LGB sumpter valley mallet running on dcc vs AML live steam!

PRRronbh posted:

A "tragedy" at the NCTM!  Some brian child  or should I say child brain had N&W #620 repainted from the Red Bird Scheme.

Painted back to the black and gold freight scheme.

Ron

It's my understanding 620 wasn't a passenger unit anyways....

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

PRRronbh posted:

A "tragedy" at the NCTM!  Some brian child  or should I say child brain had N&W #620 repainted from the Red Bird Scheme.

Painted back to the black and gold freight scheme.

Ron

It's my understanding 620 wasn't a passenger unit anyways....

Rusty

Rusty true.  But what makes a better active display piece?  A GP9 in freight dress or in Red Bird dress with the significance  that that is what took over passenger service after the J's.

geysergazer posted:

EM1 excursion out of Pittsburgh East!

       

 

     

 

       

 

      

c. late '50s. I still remember the [soft] Thunder of that big Articulated on that long hill. That and the constant rain of cinders, hence the goggles.

I really love these photos. Great job to everyone as well.