Great pics, everyone!
Here are pics from the last day of the Chesterfield County Fair....
Take down is always sad.....we've been bringing this particular layout to the Fair since 2010....
And lastly, a requireement of shows which let in some of the outdoors......post exhibit dusting and cleaning....
However, the Fall train exhibition season has begun!
Peter
Great Photos everybody.. Its been awhile but been dealing with back to school crap and other things. As usual my finger hurts but that's what they make aspirin for. Scott reminds us that Halloween is around the corner. Mike McCutcheon takes us to Disney and NJCJOE gives us Disney Dream. BobbyD gives us flats spots and M J Breen gives us HAZMAT Training. Putnam Division shows a great tribute from a Vet. CNJ 3676 shares layout photos of some very nice work, belonging to the Raritan Valley and Independent hi-rail groups. walt rapp teases us with Christmas past and PRRMiddleDivision take us back in time( photo from last week 
with present day photo of the same bridge. An OGR version of a Dickens classic? SIRT gets stumped while giving us grain. Steven Michael, CNJ #1601 show of their weathering skills, Trumptrain gives us a mix while BANDOB provides commentary of the Hanjin financial problems while bigtruckpete dose some dumpster diving. scale rail give us Steam Heaven and Tom Morris finally run trains. The standout pics for me are Norm Charbonneau and his beast. John Sethian and his Electra Industries.
I been adding Birch trees to my layout and I can thank the Good idea Fairy for this one. Have a Great Labor day Weekend
Stopped in Berwyn's Toys and Trains yeaterday to pick up some new power. Great service from Tom and Larry as always. This should do it for me for now as far as ES 44 units go I enjoy having several different road names to swap out
Norm Charbonneau posted:I did some work on this beast so it can traverse my turnouts a little better.
Flawless. Flawless everything. Wowowowee!
frankM
Minion Mayhem in San Diego !!!!!!
Caught between a slow moving freight and two hungry T-Rex ..........
c.sam posted:Who said "Santa Fe"?
I always thought the yellow bonnets were so much better than the blue bonnets. 
Fred
Well, I ran a consist with four powered scale-wheeled GP35 units just to see how things would behave with each other. They worked very well. Of course, I ran a decent string of cars behind it. Interestingly enough, I've seen BNSF run 4-unit consists on the local that runs along the remnants of the Pasadena Subdivision out to Pomona and Irwindale with a relatively small string of cars that could easily be handled by a pair of locomotives (really would only need one).
Swung by AGHR today to install the new flower shop. Here it is in my garage:
...and here it is installed and lit on the club layout:
Zett posted:The new Lionel Legacy SD38 EJ&E #650. Just arrived Saturday.
Really nice. Reminds me of the ones I saw when I lived in Lake Zurich. 
Fred
Bought an MTH RailKing Hudson PS1 (1999), plus a few more structures in the past few months. Somebody has to run the old stuff !
See latest video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5UsLQ6A0zY
Always look forward to this topic, so many great projects and images from everyone!
Fred Brenek posted:Zett posted:The new Lionel Legacy SD38 EJ&E #650. Just arrived Saturday.
Really nice. Reminds me of the ones I saw when I lived in Lake Zurich.
Fred
Yes, unfortunately the EJ&E colors rarely pass the LZ depot these days....its all CN, for the most part.
p51 posted:D500 posted:Williams Challenger. Custom decals by Rail Graphics. Pardon the so-so photo (I didn't take it! Really!)
My parents saw the real Clinchfield Challengers rusting away at Erwin, TN many times. I doubt either saw them in service, though they easily could have. They were both were pre-teens when they went into service on that RR...
Great picture of the real one.
Well, maybe not so great for the engine.
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