Weekend Photo Fun starts early>
I have been working on my tinplate layout this week and really haven't took pictures of my trains on the layout. What I have created is what appears to be a tinplate club house under the layout. Of course this being a tinplate layout we might as well paint the base in tinplate colors.
Most of the layouts I have built have been a pile of junk under the table. I decided not this time.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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New Haven Railroad Fairbanks-Morse CPA24-5 #0793 (MTH with PS-3) on my 12'-by-8' layout. Three bridges and four tracks pass above the lower yard.
MELGAR
Performed a little smoke unit maintenance. 
Scott, under th layout looks very good. I like how you incorporated some storage you had on hand.
I don't get this train out very often because I store the double stacks in their boxes and they are a pain to get in and out.
Ken
@kanawha posted:I don't get this train out very often because I store the double stacks in their boxes and they are a pain to get in and out.
Ken
Fantastic and looong intermodal train, Ken. But I think you’re being too kind - I just put away two 3-car Atlas Gunderson sets - with all the small delicate parts, pain is an understatement 
A couple of passenger trains picture here from Finland.
Have been working on scratch building a rather unique caboose that was used on a local short line railway. From the plans and photos I have finished all the sides cutting out the windows etc. with a knife from patterns I made up. Now the real challenge I need to match a curved roof flush to the angled cupola windows. I picked up a chunk of curved PVC for a vertical house blind. It has a near perfect curve for the roof. I now need to cut the sections at an angle to get the right curve to match.
Here are some trains I was running on the outdoor garden railway. The C&O Challenger is a K-Line pulling a string of C&O and B&O cars and nicely detailed K-Line caboose. And my Rio Grande train, I really liked this paint scheme and had picked up a LionChief FT B unit so I custom painted an old Atlas 1970's F9 O scale model to match as closely as I could and removed the motor and gears. It has LED headlight and a speaker mounted in a cardboard tube in the A unit for better sound more bass sound. Wires run to the powered B unit LionChief board for the sound. I custom painted some of the C&O and RG freight cars like the 2 silver/orange box cars from old 2 rail Atlas 1970's box cars. I really like the bright colors of the C&O and Rio Grande trains.
On vacation this week and got to do various things......
I wanted to see if I could run a train of all my 6464 remakes (the 10 sets of 3).
I got out my PostWar DL&W FM to pull them, but my modern era couplers failed me....next time I try, I will have plenty of rubber bands or wire ties available......
Peter
Our company is full swing with NFL now so in celebration of that the Lionel MNF cars!
Fun photos for this fine weekend: " WM number 729 water stop." Have a great weekend everyone! Be safe = Be well!! 
(My) Old pictures. 
A 2019 Christmas Layout memory 
As the sign indicates, I have been hosting my families' for what we call "The Train Party" for 24 years. If you can imagine in a house that's only 625 sq. ft. of living space with the biggest room, the living room, being totally used for a train layout short of small 2' wide walk-thru area, 28 people enjoying the company of each other. Someone they've managed to make it all work.
Sadly, 2019 was the last one that we will have, so this is truly a 2019 Christmas Layout MEMORY
Here's one sample image but it only shows part of the group
- walt
I have been off this week and I took advantages of chances to railfan when there was an opportunity:
Norfolk Southern out of Richmond that goes to the southwest.....
Amtrak moving south towards Richmond through Ashland VA in the evening (circa 7:45 PM)....
Have a great and safe weekend, folks!
Peter
have a great weekend everyone !!
Happy Weekend To Everyone.
@Putnam Division posted:I have been off this week and I took advantages of chances to railfan when there was an opportunity:
Norfolk Southern out of Richmond that goes to the southwest.....
Amtrak moving south towards Richmond through Ashland VA in the evening (circa 7:45 PM)....
Have a great and safe weekend, folks!
Peter
Great videos, Peter. In the NS video, the almost stationary shadow of the trees passing across the various freight cars is almost hypnotic!!!
Johan, I really like your BAR BL2.
@coach joe posted:Johan, I really like your BAR BL2.
Joe. Thank you Sir. I need them a couple more.
Johan
Mike CT: Thanks for posting the photo's of the #405. It's nice seeing former Indiana Hi-Rail power in it's old paint. I started my railroad career with IHRC in 1992.
Rusty
Found this on my old hard drive from 2009...
Canadian National Westbound intermodal container in well car train moving through Vicksburg, Michigan over the Grand Trunk Western Railroad tracks.
Andrew
Falcon Service
Some wacky fun on Kodiak Junction.
@trumpettrain posted:Fun photos for this fine weekend: " WM number 729 water stop." Have a great weekend everyone! Be safe = Be well!!
Hey Patrick, what water spout is that, MTH's? Also, did you add some details to it?
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