WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 9-25-15-??

Happy Saturday!

 

 

 

 

RMT NYC covered hopper

Several months ago the club had the layout set up on Main Street for a Saturday street fair. We were in a display window of a local furniture store and a fella had stopped in to admire the trains. He turned out to be a past president of NS and offered to send the club some calendars when they were published later. I wasn't there and the guys didn't get his name (????) but we shot a few photos like this to send him in thanks for the calendars which arrived last week...

 

A few videos of the Lionel VL Big Boy with the new AUX tender, Pacific fruit reefers with sound, and the new UP caboose. Gotta love it !!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Took my wife and our 7 month old son on the Catskill Mountain Railroad today for the fall foliage ride. Had a great time as always and my son loved it which made it all worth the wild. Gotta get them started early ya know

 

John-

They were replacing the rail on the Norfolk Southern mainline through Pittsburgh.  They placed the old rail in the center for the 3 rail look.

Interest consist yesterday night members of our club run on Friday evenings and i was there for the San Diego Model Railroad Museum volunteer appreciation Dinner. Free food from Phil's BBQ(Best BBQ to eat in San Diego) and frozen yogurt with all the toppings and this beautiful consist

Two weeks ago, I posted a photo of the Duncannon passenger shelter that I was scratch building.  It was about 85% complete at that time.  Now its completely finished (aside from installation of most of the passengers) and permanently installed in place. 

This photo comparing the prototype and the model was taken and set up by my son Steven (OGR Forum handle is "Steven Michael"). He worked diligently to match the equipment in the prototype photo as closely as possible.  I think it's a really great shot, so I thought I would post it on his behalf and share it with everyone.

Neal:

 

Nice recreation of that scene.

 

Neal Jeter

Here is a shot of the N&W  J611 in Manassas VA this past May 2015.  I took the shot as she was getting ready to take on water.

Here are some shots of my new Tucker Town Dealership in Patsburg

Bruce the caboose looks fantastic!  I believe you mean you flipped the frame upside down but which mounting holes did you modify and how did you modify them?  This seems like an easy way to achieve a more realistic appearance.

S.I.R.T. RWY.

 

A variety of layout shots, including rural sites, yards, alleys, and side/cross streets...

Bought this at a show today, all original. Also had some 35mm photos developed.

 

Discovering how much I love my bowser roadrailers but hate the crappy trucks they are packaged with!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ANSwWMzd4


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rcP_X9NhqXs

Joe,

 

Just to clarify, I was referring to the truck mounting holes.

 

  As made, the truck centers ride on a circular indentation in the frame, attached to the frame by the common pin and "E" clip design.  By flipping the frame, the truck centers now ride flush with the frame, effectively lowering the frame and body.  Unfortunately the truck doesn't fully seat within the indentation, making installation of the "E" clip impossible.  Modify the mounting hole by hammering a reverse indentation immediately around the mounting hole.  Rest the inverted indentation on a 5/8" socket and hammer down the hole area about 1/8", using a drift pin a bit larger than the hole size.

 

You'll also need to reverse the metal tabs for mounting the body and interior light.  I broke off the tab that receives the the body screw and had to refasten it with a piece of brass and crazy glue.  Seems the metal frame was meant to be bent only once.  How thoughtless of Lionel!  

 

Bruce

 

I went on a very long bicycle ride with my older son today.  At a break we noticed the Conrail was coming through so we headed to the rails.  We made to town in time to catch the Conrail Heritage Unit!  Sorry about the crappy picture.  Lots of clouds in Central PA today.

Do you happen to know what the red object attached to the rail in the foreground is?

This was "Railway Days" at Heritage Park here in Calgary this weekend, with model train displays and the parks 0-6-0's doubleheading trains and pulling different vintage consists thru out the day.
Here are a few pics I took of my layout I had setup and other hi lites

To Moonson and others

The red is a Derail device, to prevent free-rolling railroad cars on the siding from entering the mainline and causing a accident.

The car would derail off the track at that point well before the trackswitch.

Here are a couple pics of my daughter parking a LC+ engine in the club roundhouse last week.  The only complaint I have about the LC+ system so far is the range... at the club, we have to follow the train around to keep it from losing the signal from the remote and stopping.  Other than that, easy peasy:

 

 

...and here are a couple pics of my current project.  Progress has been glacial, but I got a few decals on tonight (they're wet in the pic).  I also got the passengers re-installed last week:

 

 

-Dustin

Thanks! My son asked me the same question and I didn't know the answer.

Thanks a lot, totrainyard, for the explanation. The device certainly looked like something that could cause a derailment, but I could not feature why that would be desirable. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

FrankM.

Anyone know how long this tunnel is?

Thanks

ive seen a few interchange tracks between 2 or more rr's use them to protect a mainline from an unautherized[ spell] entry.-Jim

A derailment of one, maybe two, cars is highly desirable vs a car or train rolling unnoticed down the main line causing a heck of a lot more damage!

 

Think about it this way - would you rather derail one or two cars or engines on a siding vs having that amount of cars or train or engines rolling unaccompanied down the main line smashing into anything in it's path?

Bruce, Thanks for the insight.  I've got several of those Lionel EV cabooses I might try that on.

 

Joe

Thanks, Jim Berger and SJC, for the further perspectives on that red device.

FrankM.