It's time for Weekend Photo Fun!
Let's see your pictures and Merry Christmas to all my friends on the forum.
Scott Smith
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Merry Christmas everyone and a very healthy and happy New year as well!!
- Mike
Small layout...Big dreams
- Mike
Small layout...Big dreams
Merry Christmas to all on the OGR forums 
My tree and trains have been up for a few weeks now. This is the starring line-up for 2011.
K-Line Reading Lines 4-6-2 on the inner loop
Lionel 2-6-4 on the outer loop. This is my first Postwar locomotive.
...now dash away all! Have a great holiday.
My tree and trains have been up for a few weeks now. This is the starring line-up for 2011.
K-Line Reading Lines 4-6-2 on the inner loop
Lionel 2-6-4 on the outer loop. This is my first Postwar locomotive.
...now dash away all! Have a great holiday.
"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." A Very Merry Christmas to all of our customers, future customers, and friends from this forum. May everyone have a Very Happy New Year!
Your friends at JT's Mega-Steam
Merry Christmas everyone! You guys have helped me a lot this year and I'm looking forward to more help, and helping, in the future.
Below is the latest layout project I've completed. Details can be found here.
Merry Christmas all 
quote:Originally posted by Mega-Steam:
"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house..." A Very Merry Christmas to all of our customers, future customers, and friends from this forum. May everyone have a Very Happy New Year!
Your friends at JT's Mega-Steam
Jeb,
Thats a great photo! Merry Christmas!
MP
LIRR MOW -
Merry Christmas to all of our Forum members. With the snow that started falling this morning, it sure looks like it will be a "White Christmas".
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone, your families, and friends.
Ken Purdy
Ken Purdy
A very Merry Christmas to all.
Dave
Merry Christmas to creatures Big and Small!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone on this great forum. Thanks to everyone for a wonderful year of week end photos. Thanks Scott for doing this each week end and I look forward to another great year of week end photos. Some wonderful pictures and great layouts.
I read the thread by Tommys_trains and I truly enjoyed the story. I can only imagine when my dad got his train set for Christmas in 1946, at the age of 5. My Grandfather bought it at Higbees in downtown Cleveland (Lionel 2101W set)and also some 2440s passenger cars, which disinegrated. I still have his set and it is the only train I will never give up do to my memories of it running around the Christmas tree in the early 70's. My dad gave it to me about 7 or 8 years ago. That's what got me started in this mess! It was in pieces, and I put it back together and it runs great! My 9 year old daughter will eventually get it. I told her never to sell it, just pass it on to a family member. I am currently putting another set for my other daughter to pass down as well. Every tree needs a train. Here is my Dad's...
Anyone else have pics of there first train for Christmas for the Christmas edition?
Chris, Merry Christmas1
It was in pieces, and I put it back together and it runs great! My 9 year old daughter will eventually get it. I told her never to sell it, just pass it on to a family member. I am currently putting another set for my other daughter to pass down as well. Every tree needs a train. Here is my Dad's... Anyone else have pics of there first train for Christmas for the Christmas edition?
Chris, Merry Christmas1
I wanted to just write and thank Scott as well for a wonderful year of Weekend Photo Fun. It really helps me top off my week. In adition I want to wish everyone a warm and wonderful holiday season! This is a finally the year I will begin my layout and look forward to actually sharing my progress.
From our city to yours....have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, and a Wonderful and healthy New Year!!!
Alan
Alan
Merry Christmas!
Jim
Jim
This week my steel rails have been singing Christmas carols. Do hope that all Christmas holiday journeys are safe, and filled with cheerful bells, haunting whistles and gobs of chestnut scented smoke. Merry Christmas, Jim
Merry Christmas, Have a good weekend. Thanks Scott for keeping it going.
A couple of classic Lionel shots -
A Lionel PWC 2340 GG1 reissue leads the Congressional past the 133 station -
A 2025 leads a string of 2400 series coaches past the 133 station -
Merry Christmas everyone! (pic is from last year - no trains around the tree this year due to the little one)
A Lionel PWC 2340 GG1 reissue leads the Congressional past the 133 station -
A 2025 leads a string of 2400 series coaches past the 133 station -
Merry Christmas everyone! (pic is from last year - no trains around the tree this year due to the little one)
Great photos have a Merry Christmas everyone and thanks always for posting such interesting photos.
The photo above must be the new Lionel house with built in lights looked good in the Catalogue but really nice on the layout!
Picked up some new locos on sale to pull the Circus train on the kids layout bright and look good with the Circus train;
Night time on the Christmas layout;
A shot of most of the Christmas layout night time.
Will try to get some lit photos of the trains later on and post.
The photo above must be the new Lionel house with built in lights looked good in the Catalogue but really nice on the layout!
Picked up some new locos on sale to pull the Circus train on the kids layout bright and look good with the Circus train;
Night time on the Christmas layout;
A shot of most of the Christmas layout night time.
Will try to get some lit photos of the trains later on and post.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
A VERY Merry Christmas to all of you!
We don't actually use the CW-80... It's just for 'atmosphere'!
We don't actually use the CW-80... It's just for 'atmosphere'!
Haddon Sundblom was the Coca-Cola artist beginning in 1931.
And as the card says, "May the wonders of Christmas fill your heart with joy!"
Merry Christmas to all!
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care" (From "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Clement Moore, 1822):
On December 10-11, 2011, the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh held its second annual "Locomotion Weekend." Following are some of the pix I took. I didn't get a lot of good shots due to the big crowds there that Saturday.
The MRRV's Lionel Vision PRR engine rolls past Patty (MiniRR) Rogers' wonderful model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater:
Managed to catch three trains in this shot :
There were many model train-related displays and layouts spread throughout the building, including O, S, and HO modular clubs, the TCA, Scenic Express (one of this forum's great sponsors), the Lionel tower displays and a couple small O gauge displays, including the following compact Polar Express layout that was on loan from Len's Train Shop:
If you look closely, you can figure out the track plan of this clever little layout. Who says that you can only do simple loops or simple figure-eight plans in a small space?
Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy Hanukkah to all our Jewish forumites!
Andy
On December 10-11, 2011, the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh held its second annual "Locomotion Weekend." Following are some of the pix I took. I didn't get a lot of good shots due to the big crowds there that Saturday.
The MRRV's Lionel Vision PRR engine rolls past Patty (MiniRR) Rogers' wonderful model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater:
Managed to catch three trains in this shot
: There were many model train-related displays and layouts spread throughout the building, including O, S, and HO modular clubs, the TCA, Scenic Express (one of this forum's great sponsors), the Lionel tower displays and a couple small O gauge displays, including the following compact Polar Express layout that was on loan from Len's Train Shop:
If you look closely, you can figure out the track plan of this clever little layout. Who says that you can only do simple loops or simple figure-eight plans in a small space?
Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy Hanukkah to all our Jewish forumites!
Andy
Train display in the John Hancock Center, Chicago. Mostly G but a few loops of O.
don
don
Busy Christmas season in Pennsylvania.
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a fantastic 2012 and all make it back here safely to share in Weekend Photo Fun Christmas Edition 2012!
Great shots, everyone! Merry Christmas!
Mike, Love the hit and miss engines! Where did you find them?
Chris
LVHR
Mike, Love the hit and miss engines! Where did you find them?
Chris
LVHR
Merry Christmas everybody.
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
Finally attempted to post a pic from my old layout...Downtown mainstreet
Wow, that gets photo of the week so far, for sure. Love that barely-visible coaling tower in the foggy background. How did you get this effect?
John
Christmas round 1 happened today. My grandparent's came over and I got four new freight cars.
Lionel NS Conrail Heritage tank car (matches my Lionmaster CR SD80MAC well)
My first two weaver cars, a PM hopper and a N&W trailer on flat car
And a K-Line Ford Steel Coil Car
I also have the new Lionel "Jacob's Pharmacy" building coming whenever Lionel ships them.
Lionel NS Conrail Heritage tank car (matches my Lionmaster CR SD80MAC well)
My first two weaver cars, a PM hopper and a N&W trailer on flat car
And a K-Line Ford Steel Coil Car
I also have the new Lionel "Jacob's Pharmacy" building coming whenever Lionel ships them.
When I posted above this morning and I mentioned that it was snowing, it dawned on me that some would think I was talking about the snow effect in the picture. I was speaking quite literally per the pictures below. May you all have a White Christmas (if only in your dreams).
Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!...
This is my brother-in-law's lionel from either 1949 or 1950...he turned it over to me earlier this year for safe keeping...it just needed a little oil and the burshes clean up...it still runs like a top!...and i thought a black and white version of the picture was the way to go...
i just want to tell you how much i look forward to clicking onto the forum several times a day...always something to see and read...it's like a new model railroad magazine everytime you turn around...
my very best regards...
howard...here in sunny, warm and a little humid north florida...
http://www.littleglitterhouses.com
This is my brother-in-law's lionel from either 1949 or 1950...he turned it over to me earlier this year for safe keeping...it just needed a little oil and the burshes clean up...it still runs like a top!...and i thought a black and white version of the picture was the way to go...
i just want to tell you how much i look forward to clicking onto the forum several times a day...always something to see and read...it's like a new model railroad magazine everytime you turn around...
my very best regards...
howard...here in sunny, warm and a little humid north florida...
http://www.littleglitterhouses.com
One of our members, Jim Caccavo, is a professional photographer, author, and artist -- a true Renaissance man. He did a hand-painted backdrop on the North wall of the layout which includes the moon and stars which glow when hit with an ultraviolet light. "That other publication" posted a cropped and mis-captioned version of this photo. Jim has since sent me a copy for the holidays.
Some of you may have seen the YouTube I did last year ("Surprise in the Woods at AGHR") regarding the "still scene." The scene was done by Dave O'Connor featuring a scratch-built still complete with flickering fire. The musicians are modified figures with instruments, 'shine jugs and other articles added. "That other publication" referred to it as a hobo camp.
Some of you may have seen the YouTube I did last year ("Surprise in the Woods at AGHR") regarding the "still scene." The scene was done by Dave O'Connor featuring a scratch-built still complete with flickering fire. The musicians are modified figures with instruments, 'shine jugs and other articles added. "That other publication" referred to it as a hobo camp.
