Weekend Photo Fun 9-2-22-??

Scott, you should sleep in on my birthday. Dave

@Dave Nichols posted:

Scott, you should sleep in on my birthday. Dave

Happy Birthday Dave!

Monday I had to make a trip to Atlanta and back (over 900 miles.) Today I worked in Tennessee (500 miles) I have an appointment an hour from here tomorrow afternoon. I have had to get up early to get these trips in and it has caught up with me.

Scott Smith

I see the thread is starting early, so here are just two pics showing my progress on the skewed stone arch bridge near Spruce Creek PA, which I've been posting images of every few weeks. While it still has a ways to go, the end is in sight for completion of this scene. Top photo is the prototype showing the local road passing under the bridge, and the bottom image is the model showing the road and gravel shoulders which I just installed over the past few days. Trees, guardrails, signs, and weathering of the concrete reinforcement are next on the list.

A big week for us, the Chesterfield County Fair. Fellows in the group started helping out in 2008 by helping the group from Crewe and Blackstone with an O gauge layout at the Fair. We organized in 2009 and by 2010 we started bringing our newly built modular layout.

There are still two more days to go……

Have a great and safe weekend folks!

Peter

Got Gas on the Bellevue and Schenectady RR.

Recent acquisition from my good friend, the good doctor, Malcolm:

Could this mean having 3 baseball fields on my layout down the road?

Holy Cow, as Phil Rizzuto would say. Could that be an all-time record?

LOL, Arnold

Arnold - Nice acquisition you got there from Malcolm!   Perhaps you could bring the Dodgers back to Brooklyn now? Of course you'd have to replace the Wrigley Field Chicago Cubs sign   With three stadiums you could have Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers all playing games on your layout daily.  

Here is the picture I had originally planned to post this week (got side tracked by the stone arch bridge photos above). Here we see a pair of switchers hauling a work train on the newly created Penn Central back in 1968:

And here's another view of the same train showing the old PRR company house in the town of Mifflin in the background:

I also wanted to repost these two images from last week. I received some nice feedback about the model that I had built and questions as to how I modeled it, so here once more are the pictures of a prototype, the model, and how I created it:

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

some areas around the drive-in scene

- walt

for perspective;

No new train images to post today, but rather something that I think will enhance my enjoyment of the hobby in other ways.  Brand new laser cutter..

The sights and sounds of the WMSR’s 1309 “Maryland Thunder” from last Sunday…

Thanks Scott for getting us rolling for this weekend!  Hope you were able to sleep in

Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine Labor Day Weekend!   I thought a tribute to labor was most appropriate for this particular weekend.  Here is a small representation of the vast many kinds of labor.  Have a wonderful and safe Labor Day Weekend everyone!

Construction workers.

Railroad car dept workers labor to repair a bad order car on the rip track.

Salute to produce workers everywhere!

Railroad workers labor to replace a set of trucks.

Bus drivers.

Truck drivers.

Transloading workers.

Railroad MOW workers and all railroad workers.  

Gave my new engine a break-in run at my club meeting Wednesday night:

Another member had his new 4-12-2 and some new-to him diesels there, as well.  All, plus some old favorites of the layout owner can be seen in this video:

Andy

Its Labor Day weekend!!!!! Time for family fun!

Families relaxing on a carousel ride.

Thomas, Annie and Claribel passing through Terryville station, loaded with families on their way to weekend vacation destinations.

Look mom! I caught a fish!!!!

A picnic and fishing by the lake.

Diving in for a refreshing swim.

There is nothing more relaxing than just floating on the lake.

A leisurely canoe ride is always fun.

Nice work on the bridge, Neal.

@trumpettrain posted:

Arnold - Nice acquisition you got there from Malcolm!   Perhaps you could bring the Dodgers back to Brooklyn now? Of course you'd have to replace the Wrigley Field Chicago Cubs sign   With three stadiums you could have Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers all playing games on your layout daily.  

Dept 56 made an Ebbets Field, but it's pricey now in the secondary market.

@Andy Hummell posted:

Gave my new engine a break-in run at my club meeting Wednesday night:

Another member had his new 4-12-2 and some new-to him diesels there, as well.  All, plus some old favorites of the layout owner can be seen in this video:

Andy

Very impressive engine and video Andy. I enjoyed watching it.

@pd posted:

Nice work on the bridge, Neal.

Thank you!

                                                   The fun never stops...

When the new CSOR shop was built at the Hartford yard, former New Haven hump yard. The old sand tower had to come down. The guy doing the HVAC wanted to save it from being scraped. Fast foward to last week, we headed to said guys house to check out the tower. I went two years ago to see the tower and check if it was workable. Our sand tower is horrible takes about 4 hours to sand ones side. Now your probable asking why did this guy want our sand tower. Ive never seen a collection like this before. To top it all off he also does O scale. That day my coworker, manager, VP of mechanical northeast region and myself got the full tour. We spent 4 hours viewing this collection.

The Trolley Park Office and....... a reason for its existence! 8-) Wow to SIRT! What beautiful detail and weathering on those box cars. And while a G.E. fan I do also really appreciate Westinghouse. All photos and vids appreciated!

Jim K

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Very impressive engine and video Andy. I enjoyed watching it.

Thanks, Neal!

I always enjoy your photos.  Your eye for detail is second to none!

Andy

Union Pacific Day here in Nipomo, CA:

@Trainwreck nate posted:

When the new CSOR shop was built at the Hartford yard, former New Haven hump yard. The old sand tower had to come down. The guy doing the HVAC wanted to save it from being scraped. Fast foward to last week, we headed to said guys house to check out the tower. I went two years ago to see the tower and check if it was workable. Our sand tower is horrible takes about 4 hours to sand ones side. Now your probable asking why did this guy want our sand tower. Ive never seen a collection like this before. To top it all off he also does O scale. That day my coworker, manager, VP of mechanical northeast region and myself got the full tour. We spent 4 hours viewing this collection.

Outstanding! God Speed!

@Bogart posted:

The Trolley Park Office and....... a reason for its existence! 8-) Wow to SIRT! What beautiful detail and weathering on those box cars. And while a G.E. fan I do also really appreciate Westinghouse. All photos and vids appreciated!

Jim K

The more I see and use paper in O, the more I'm convinced it's the way to go!

Just need to fill in those ugly tracks ...

Here's some pics and a video of my MoPac U-boats pulling a cement train on the Austin Tinplate Trackers modular layout. We we're setup for the Austin Model Train Show.

Here's a video of the MoPac U-boats.

Here's another video from the Austin Tinplate Trackers setup at the 2021 Austin Model Train Show.

Had some big new so had some fun showing it.