WEEKEND PHOTO FUN Halloween Weekend Edition 2014

Bill, Always enjoy seeing your photos. Great layout and train collection. Can you tell me about the BN boxcars, i.e. manufacturer, etc.

The 6 BN boxcars are from Menards. Manufacture unknown but speculation that the Menards boxcars are Williams by Bachmann clones. Last month Menards ran an internet sale 6 for $99, all different numbers, heck of a deal.

2)  Now I know ( Bill ) you have some ALASKA RR,

    would you care to spend some time, and post a full inventory of ur

    Alaska rr on your rails , PLEASE

    I am trying for ideas!!!!

  thank You!!

I do have a bunch of the Alaska RR, mostly Postwar, MPC, and Kughn era with some K-Line, KMT and MTH thrown in the mix. I will try to gather pictures and post. I havn't bought any ARR for quite a few years so most of what I have has some age and miles on them.

Jim

Bill

thank you sir!!

Alas. R R

I believe it was the MTH, that I saw what 3-4 weeks ago,  I am hunting some

K line ( specifics),

catch ya next week, or later this w/end on this thead,  same time same channel!!!

THAT...is a great photo.  It's so Halloween-ish I have the sudden urge for candy corn!   

- Mike

Enjoy your weekend and be safe.

Joe B.

Some Halloween pics.  Soon the Christmas trains will appear.

My bargain of the year 2 mint boxed 1985 K-Line cars @69c ea.James

My Halloween Corner

Chris

LVHR

Howard - Warbonnets always make my day.  Great picture.

Art

Howard - Warbonnets always make my day. 

Thanks Art, but it just dawned upon me that I should have put up something Milwaukee Road!

Happy Halloween!

Well, here are two different pumpkin colored roads.

Art 

No contest Brian. I would take the K-line over the Atlas all day long!

Not to worry Art, #19 is going to good home where she will be loved, get plenty of exercise and lubed as needed.  You can visit her (and some of her ATSF relatives) when you come down to the Griffith Train Club.  

Thanks Howard for allowing me to adopt this beauty. 

Anyone have some Bessemer and Lake Erie photos to share?  Model or prototype.

I wish some of my Bessemer and Lake Erie photos were digital, model or prototype.  I haven't had any B&LE diesels since I left N scale and went back to HO about 20 years ago.  Folks call their paint scheme the pumpkin scheme.  I stopped taking photos of trains except at tourist railroads after 9/11/01.  The Buffalo and Pittsburgh engine house on Rt 68 in Butler is a good place to shoot either railroad, but they have signs up now.

Happy Halloween Everybody!!!!!

I've been posting pics of my rendition of the town of Duncannon as work progresses.  Got all the streets and sidewalks built and glued in place.  Here's a pic taken jist minutes ago.  Still lots of work to do...

"No contest Brian. I would take the K-line over the Atlas all day long!"

That makes two of us, Chris.

 I would take the K-line over the Atlas all day long!

K-line had quite a run of some fantastic passenger trains, all sizes, many roads!  

all treats and no tricks  Happy Halloween!!

Happy week-end!!!

But the Rt 68 bridge sidewalk is still public and an OK place from which to take pics of the interesting mix of power on the B&P:

Here's the Wellsboro and Corning 301 which has been on the B&P for a while now.

Here's the former B&P 461, gone to LTEX in 2012 and back again as #463.  The original B&P 463 was still in former SP grey/red when it was sent to LTEX and scrapped.

It is a B&O Weekend in Maryland. MTH RDC's handle commuter service on the high line. Other trains in action can be seen over on "Weekend at the Movies."

There is a regional group, the Piedmont Garden RRers that has been invited to help build a permanent layout at the NC Arboretum in Asheville. It's been fun working with the Arboretum staff who have been really enthusiastic about the project. Their landscape planner has done a bang-up job with his crew designing the scenery and building several bridges and trestles for it. Our part has been in advising how to do it, what equipment to use, and we've laid the track and been able to direct much of the operation. Bill Huntemann has been our project engineer and also done a great job. 

The 8' trestle (all metal) was installed Thursday and much is left to do for the Christmas gala they have planned for the public opening in a few weeks.

I'll post more on this project as buildings and structures are placed and trains are running.

C.Sam; that looks like it's going to be one fine layout.

Ditto...  

- Mike

Looks great, Sam. The stone work is beautiful, even better when someone else is moving them.  Looking forward to you updates.

Is that Oprah on the porch and in the graveyard?  Yeah that is scary!

Good point about the bridge, Anthony!  Where do you park?  Thanks for the photos.  They always have engines of mixed heritage 

Just finished making the new main control panel.

The seperate lighting panel is next.

Ghosts and hobgoblins run  the rails on Halloween night!  

Prewar ghosts of times long ago and couple of Marx postwar locos Trick-or-Treating as prewar locos. Prewar Lionel freight cars pulled by a Marx 898 dressed as a prewar Lionel or Ives steamer. And a couple of mid '20's American Flyer coaches pulled by a Marx motor wearing an electric outline loco costume.

Happy Halloween everyone. Was flying home last night and missed it all.....

These are for Mark and my forum friends from the 'Burgh.

All right Pete!!  You are the man!!

And all the way from Florida too!!

Many thanks!!

You're welcome Mark! I used to watch the B&LE bring the ore drags into the Union RR yard. Then the Union RR would bring the ore to the mills.

Amtrak Aniversary Locomotives  822 & 406 along with the KC Southern #34 at Kansas City Union Station

More progress on the roundhouse ...

The major construction is done.  Now for the detail work and touchup then install the doors.  Hopefully next weekend it gets placed on the layout. 

It may be Halloween weekend, but as the self-appointed Information Minister of the Isle of Denial, I refuse to have any pumpkins around.

Looking good Dave

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Scott Smith