WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 9-30-16-??

Night time on the layout.

Found another RARE item on the bay. Spent many years looking for this one.

Here we have an example of model railroading's "Circle of Life". Following my father's passing earlier this year, we've been hard at work dismantling his  home layout, the original portion of which has been standing for almost fifty years. Given the memories associated with the railroad, it's been difficult at times but, when a layout gets built, at some point it's going to have to come down. As a tribute to him, I've left the Hiawatha in place on one of the mains and we've been working around it. My father was an accomplished rail traveler and he considered the Milwaukee Road speedster a high point of North American passenger train development. 

Bob

Hardware Store Under construction.

The front windows will be replaced today to add 'Trains"

Couple old pictures from the TAMR display at an Old Greenberg show in Edison.

Window painting this week:

Peter

Yes! Its Friday!

PRR VO-1000 pushing boxcars around

A pair of C&O GP35's haulin' coal

These building fronts are a blend of scratch built & kit parts. 

I think the dog has spotted us 

This past weekend we got to take a ride on James Pekarek (aka Windup guy) 12" backwoods Northview Frisco Railroad. James laid all of the track and literally had pieces of this steam engine and built this steam engine from the ground up.  The pieces he did not have, he hand made. He is a true craftsman. Thanks James for the ride and showing us how you got the fire in the steam engine going. GREAT FUN

Before I put these GN FA's on the shelf for the club get together... I had to take these for another spin.

A look at an Old Wood Water Tower in Lone Butte on the BC Rail Line and Hell's Gate in the Fraser Canyon. Rocky Mountaineer coming out of the tunnel, rock shed. And a look from across the river at a CP Engine coming out of the tunnel. And some photos of the O Gauge model I made of the Rocky Mountaineer train. Used Weaver engines and gutted several MTH passenger cars for the trucks bottom ends and seat sets to build the domes on.

When the Canadian Pacific was built in the 1800's they chose the easiest side of the Fraser Canyon to build through. Several years later when the Canadian Northern Pacific was built later to become Canadian National they had to build on the other side of the canyon through more difficult terrain. At Hell's gate while blasting for the railway they caused a giant rock slide that plugged the Fraser River to a very tight channel and rapids. The spawning fish could no longer could get through Hell's Gate and the West Coast Fisheries suffered with significant losses. The US and Canadian Governments  worked together to build fish ladders through this location and worked to restore the fish populations. Details; http://www.hellsgateairtram.com/about/history/

A 2015 Christmas layout memory

Well, it's October so I guess it's OK to think Halloween.

- walt

Here are some photos from The Free State Junction Railway for this week's installment!  Have a great weekend everyone!!

Some NJT Pics.

From my visit to Minatur Wunderland last week.  Simply amazing. Pictures do not do it justice as they can't capture the automated train operation or animations including an airport and harbor with real water.

Here is updated pic's of my lionel casper car and a short video of it.

This is a very rare late afternoon/early evening run of Southern Pacific's 2472. Filmed in 2011, on board shots with my first GoPro camera. What a pleasure that was not having to take hours mounting my big cameras. The quality of the GoPro wasn't nearly as good as the new ones I use now but not bad at the time. This was one of the last runs I had the pleasure to film. Please enjoy. Don

Just returned from another 6000+ mile Amtrak trip. Saw lots of model ideas!!!

Old ticket counter at LA Union.....I can remember standing here with my folks as a kid. Not used any longer and closed off 99% of the time. 

La Junta NM on a cool night......

No better way to travel than by RAIL!

This past Saturday, September 24th, I ventured out to the Reading & Northern to witness their gorgeous 4-6-2 in action on the high iron. Have a great weekend everyone!

And a video:

chessie1971 posted:

Here is updated pic's of my lionel casper car and a short video of it.

Hello chessie1971

Saw the your video in youtube, very cool  !!! Like seeing Casper flying across the car !!!

Tiffany

Have a great weekend!

We are starting a project that is 15 years overdue

bluelinec4 posted:

We are starting a project that is 15 years overdue

Outstanding, going to look awesome when finished.

Ben,

All I can say is "Wow"!

scale rail posted:

This is a very rare late afternoon/early evening run of Southern Pacific's 2472. Filmed in 2011 . . . This was one of the last runs I had the pleasure to film. Please enjoy. Don

Thanks for posting, Don, I enjoyed it greatly!  What fine work -- both artistically and technically -- definitely deserving a tip of the hat!  Great use of light, great framing, great sound.

And that whistle . . . it's a beautiful sound.  SP standard passenger steam whistles were never surpassed by any other railroad, in my opinion.

I sure hope there is a good future for SP 2472.  What a grand engine!

AMCDave posted:

Old ticket counter at LA Union.....I can remember standing here with my folks as a kid. Not used any longer and closed off 99% of the time. 

Nice to see this again, Dave.  Back in the day, I bought some Santa Fe and Southern Pacific tickets right there.

My wife and I are preparing to take a little sashay across New Mexico and Arizona (from Las Vegas, NM., to Winslow, AZ) aboard a private car at the rear of No.3, this Monday.  We'll stay overnight in the depot hotel, and then return in a more modest Amtrak chair car on No.4 the next day.  The private car movement is a fundraiser for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

J Daddy posted:

Yes! Its Friday!

 

Really???????

PennsyPride94 posted:

This past Saturday, September 24th, I ventured out to the Reading & Northern to witness their gorgeous 4-6-2 in action on the high iron. Have a great weekend everyone!

  This pic is cool . I wonder how the below video would look in B&W

 

 

Thanks Tiffany and Thanks for the likes guys!

BLUELINEC4

I have to say you nailed it with Building the Trade Canter Design.

Good Luck, JOHN 

773Hudson posted:

From my visit to Minatur Wunderland last week.  Simply amazing. Pictures do not do it justice as they can't capture the automated train operation or animations including an airport and harbor with real water

I sure hope you got a chance to take the backstage tour, very interesting and you see a lot more of the layout

...and the Darwin Award goes to...

Maybe she will get lucky and fit in the coupler.

Re-wallpapered the wall with 4-8-4's... and a couple others. I need a black un-skirted version of the GS engine.

Garfield posted:

Maybe she will get lucky and fit in the coupler.

Now that would be a good selfie

Well its Sunday and my finger doesn't hurt as bad because I used my big toe instead. Talk about fat finger issues,  So here goes.  Scott reminds use that Halloween is coming up on us quickly. chessie1971  Casper puts in an appearance, while Walt gives us his rendition of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. (  http://movies.disney.com/the-n...fore-christmas/video ).  773Hudson takes me home with a visit to  Minatur Wunderland  while kj356 take us to Hell's Gate in the Fraser Canyon BC and his miniature version of Rocky Mountaineer train.  AG - River Leaf Models builds a hardware store while Putnam Division ( Doc) paints windows. CNJ 3676 pays tribute to his dad and bluelinec4 rebuilds the World Trade Towers. Mike McCutcheon, Ralph M, trumptrain show us more of their layouts while SouthernMike proves that even little layout people are just as dumb. AMCDave give us a taste of his 2016 Amtrak tour and SJC give us a modern rendition of a classic Lionel Trains ad . Ah but the cool thing this week so far are scale rail, PennsyPride94, who gives us 1/1 scale steam and Roger Wasson give us miniature live steam. But wow the eye popper was Laidoffsick new line of 3D wall paper. Now anybody can have a train collection without the expense!  

As with light bulb announcement with J Daddy about Friday  its reminds me its noon Sunday and time to refill the IV bag with coffee . So here mine contribution. Yes another pick me up video with more eurotrash music for a sound track.

SouthernMike posted:

...and the Darwin Award goes to...

She must be from Textas!

Don

She a gonna