Weekend Photo Fun 9-6-24-??

Scott Smith

Thanks for starting us up, Scott......from the Chesterfield County Fair last week/weekend....

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!

Peter

Unlikely partners.

The NKP765 and UP844 at the station.

VL N&W Class A standing by for track orders.

Thanks Scott for getting us rolling!   My theme of this weeks Photo Fun  is " The Commuter Station"  Have a great weekend everyone!

Union Freight switcher traveling down Atlantic Avenue near Fish Pier.

For this weekend, I ran two New Haven Railroad locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout. Budd Rail Diesel Car #121 (Sunset Models) ran on the O-72 outer loop and Fairbanks Morse CPA-24-5 #792 (Lionel) was on an O-54 middle loop. The Sunset RDC model is scale-size - 21 inches in length - equivalent to 84 feet full scale.

The New Haven acquired #792 in 1952. It was one of ten class DER-4 locomotives with a 12-cylinder 2,400 horsepower opposed-piston engine and was used to haul heavy passenger trains on the Shore Line (New Haven to Boston) and the Springfield Line (New Haven to Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). They were retired by 1961 due to the high cost of engine overhaul.

Also in 1952, eight Budd RDCs entered local passenger service on the New Haven and 40 were in use on the railroad by mid-1953, including #121 – an RDC-2 with baggage and passenger compartments. After the Boston & Maine Railroad, the New Haven was the largest user of RDCs. On the New Haven, they were known as “Shoreliners” and many remained in service until the railroad was merged into Penn Central in 1969.

MELGAR

“My Train Crew” • Last week.

Gary: Hope to see you out rail-fanning. 🚂

@MELGAR posted:

For this weekend, I ran two New Haven Railroad locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout. Budd Rail Diesel Car #121 (Sunset Models) ran on the O-72 outer loop and Fairbanks Morse CPA-24-5 #792 (Lionel) was on an O-54 middle loop. The Sunset RDC model is scale-size - 21 inches in length - equivalent to 84 feet full scale.

The New Haven acquired #792 in 1952. It was one of ten class DER-4 locomotives with a 12-cylinder 2,400 horsepower opposed-piston engine and was used to haul heavy passenger trains on the Shore Line (New Haven to Boston) and the Springfield Line (New Haven to Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). They were retired by 1961 due to the high cost of engine overhaul.

Also in 1952, eight Budd RDCs entered local passenger service on the New Haven and 40 were in use on the railroad by mid-1953, including #121 – an RDC-2 with baggage and passenger compartments. After the Boston & Maine Railroad, the New Haven was the largest user of RDCs. On the New Haven, they were known as “Shoreliners” and many remained in service until the railroad was merged into Penn Central in 1969.

MELGAR

Those are some nice looking New Haven trains Melgar!

@MELGAR posted:

For this weekend, I ran two New Haven Railroad locomotives on my 12’-by-8’ layout. Budd Rail Diesel Car #121 (Sunset Models) ran on the O-72 outer loop and Fairbanks Morse CPA-24-5 #792 (Lionel) was on an O-54 middle loop. The Sunset RDC model is scale-size - 21 inches in length - equivalent to 84 feet full scale.

The New Haven acquired #792 in 1952. It was one of ten class DER-4 locomotives with a 12-cylinder 2,400 horsepower opposed-piston engine and was used to haul heavy passenger trains on the Shore Line (New Haven to Boston) and the Springfield Line (New Haven to Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). They were retired by 1961 due to the high cost of engine overhaul.

Also in 1952, eight Budd RDCs entered local passenger service on the New Haven and 40 were in use on the railroad by mid-1953, including #121 – an RDC-2 with baggage and passenger compartments. After the Boston & Maine Railroad, the New Haven was the largest user of RDCs. On the New Haven, they were known as “Shoreliners” and many remained in service until the railroad was merged into Penn Central in 1969.

MELGAR

Mel, I remember seeing the original Budd cars in the early days...wish i had a couple on the layout!  Great pics...

Here are a few nighttime shots of my layout, which I don’t normally post. Most are of my engine servicing area, but there is also one of the station at downtown Altoona.

@EmpireBuilderDave posted:

Those are some nice looking New Haven trains Melgar!

@Capetrainman posted:

Mel, I remember seeing the original Budd cars in the early days...wish i had a couple on the layout!  Great pics...

Thanks fellows!

I'm always pleased when people like my New Haven trains.

Here are two more photos of NH #121 and #792.

MELGAR

Now that summer is over I've got to stop running trains and get back to building the layout!   I really like this Atlantic it has great sounds and lots of smoke. 

A 2023 Christmas Layout memory

Started showing the last remaining section of the layout.  It's a 5'x8' "plateau" featuring models that I made of family members' houses.

- walt

OVERALL VIEW:

I'll start by zeroing in on the model of my son's house in Macedonia, OH.  And "yes" they do have a swimming pool in the back - kinda fancier that this one.

@Rich Battista posted:

Now that summer is over I've got to stop running trains and get back to building the layout!   I really like this Atlantic it has great sounds and lots of smoke.

Rich, that looks like the ingredients for one very smoky basement!

Longfellow, Pennsylvania, circa 1967. PRR mainline tracks are just out of view to the right as can be seen in the second picture. The road is Pennsylvania Route 103.

Neal, great scenery, and a cool GTO crossing the bridge!

A few nighttime shots.

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Here are a few nighttime shots of my layout, which I don’t normally post. Most are of my engine servicing area, but there is also one of the station at downtown Altoona.

I vote for more night shots of the Middle Division.

Dusk.

Set up yesterday with the National Capitol Trackers……..the annual Kensington Train Show……11-5 today and tomorrow at the Kensington Town Hall, off Connecticut Ave in Kensington, MD……..come out and see us if you’re in the area……

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!

Peter

@EmpireBuilderDave posted:

Rich, that looks like the ingredients for one very smoky basement!

Dave,  You're right!  The funny thing is I took the shot there because it's right under my exhaust fan!

@PRRMiddleDivision : As a house scratchbuilder myself, I appreciate the small details.  I love the awnings on your model

walt

@Putnam Division

Peter, Big Dog Tires reminds me an awful lot of Max Foods.

Fishing, swimming, grilling, and relaxing at Spring Lake at dusk yesterday, as the local hauling coal and beer passes by...

@coach joe posted:

@Putnam Division

Peter, Big Dog Tires reminds me an awful lot of Max Foods.

Coach…..that was my inspiration…….I saw it at the Tracker display at the Worlds Greatest Hobby Show in Chantilly in 2010 and collected the parts for it over the ensuing few years (I built it in June, July, August 2017). By joining the Trackers, I got to meet the builder!

Peter

The Marx 999, after more than a decade on the shelf, saw some run-time today:

A bit of clock oil, a shot of electronics cleaner, and a polish of the drive-wheels and she was off. Louis Marx's toys never cease to amaze me.

PD

@Capetrainman posted:

Neal, great scenery, and a cool GTO crossing the bridge!

Paul,

Thank you so much. I like that GTO too. Can't recall where I found it. I love the vinyl roof so common in that era

@walt rapp posted:

@PRRMiddleDivision : As a house scratchbuilder myself, I appreciate the small details.  I love the awnings on your model

walt

Thanks Walt. Truth be told, that is a spruced up Lionel house that was upgraded by Harry Hielke and released by Lionel. But what I did add to it was a foundation recessed into the ground and an integral garage which as you know is the norm around here. See the image below. I think you make great houses and perhaps you should consider asking the Ft. Pitt Division of the TCA to let you display them as the model of the meet at their next meet.

@coach joe posted:

I vote for more night shots of the Middle Division.

Thanks so much for your comment. that's the fist time I ever posted night shots. I'll try to some more in the future!

@PRRMiddleDivision (Neal) inspired me to try a night shot.  The scenery is still a bit incomplete, but here's a night shift at Weirton Steel's Open Hearth on a hot summer's night in 1953.

George

Some shots on a rainy NY state Saturday. God Speed!

Digging a grave.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Digging a grave.

@Dave Ripp. - that's one of the most creative scenes that I've ever seen!!!!

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

@Dave Ripp. - that's one of the most creative scenes that I've ever seen!!!!

- walt

Thanks Walt.

My new finds this week...

Check out the video of these new cars that match the 4 car set I got for the Century Club NYC F3s!

The "Chief" pulls away from the North Main Street station...the passengers get a great view of the "Benz" event, sponsored by the local dealer...

Service station guys are busy.

Family pets

and some wildlife