Weekend Photo Fun (Hurricane Edition) 10-12-18---??

York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember

Peter

Northern Pacific action on the Seattle & Yakima RR.

   Bill

A 2017 CHristmas layout memory 

Last week I showed a few of the old-fashioned what I call 'tin-plate' accessories that I'm starting to obtain.  Here are a few others.

- walt

Scott, now that's dedication.  Good luck with the hurricane.

Here are some photos of my Lionel SD45.  I added full length handrails, gap filled above the trucks, moved the trucks in a little and weathered it.  

Rich

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Running my Custom painted New York Central F3 Lionel post war engine with  all vintage Atlas cars and Caboose. Have a great weekend! 

Here's some photos of my newest engines. Amtrak P42s and the NS Bar Code SD70-ACE.

- Jason

After 2 years  (maybe 3?) almost finished with my version of the Lionel Dealer Display Layout D-105. Need to wire up the siding to operate cattle and milk cars and it'll be a wrap.

Time to start thinking about the next one!  

Have always wanted to do a Space & Military themed layout. So, maybe...

jdstucks posted:

Here's some photos of my newest engines. Amtrak P42s and the NS Bar Code SD70-ACE.

- Jason

What material did you use for your roads? Clay? They look good  

Caboose train!

Putnam Division posted:

York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember

Peter

I remember being there. I used to buy trains from Engine House Hobbies in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The former owner's wife is in the red shirt, front row. I cant remember their names for the life of me. Anyone else remember? They moved back to Canada a while back if I remember correctly. Don & Bobbie Murphy must have missed this meeting or photo. They used to run the OC Train Garden in Ocean City, Maryland. 

Picked up a nice newer single MTH Southern F3 this week

Here she is in video hauling the circus to its place where the big top is already open!

We are at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway 1940’s weekend.

Weather is not great here either.

Stay safe Scott 

Nick

J 611 posted:

Putnam Division posted:

York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember

Peter

I remember being there. I used to buy trains from Engine House Hobbies in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The former owner's wife is in the red shirt, front row. I cant remember their names for the life of me. Anyone else remember? They moved back to Canada a while back if I remember correctly. Don & Bobbie Murphy must have missed this meeting or photo. They used to run the OC Train Garden in Ocean City, Maryland. 

One of my old haunts, too. Spent quite a bit of $$ with them years ago. Trying to recall...was his first name Ken? Can't remember her name.

Smart-alecky trick or treaters removed two of the stringers from the steps but did leave the outhouse standing.

Power is back-on!!
Years ago the people, someone removed most of the trees on the O-Gauge layout at the VMT. I think they did it so it could be cleaned. It looks rather sad to be a Virginia layout This week I started to repopulate the layout.
Before:

After:

The layout is still a little bare, however it least we have got it started. The big issue is reaching up to the top of the mountain with the trees.

Scott Smith

Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit. 
















NS Dash-9 9527 leads eastbound 20T under the PRR signals at Tipton, PA


NS Dash-8 8450 (ex CR 757) leads 201 under the new signals at Radford, VA


N&W 611 stretching her legs at the NCTM with one of the caboose runs


NS Dash-9 9587 leads 201 through the Pulaski District's namesake town. A keen eye will spot the Erie heritage SD70ACe 3rd out


Amtrak P42 89 leads the westbound Pennsylvanian out of the Allegheny Tunnel in Gallitzin, PA

Some bonus photos from this past weeks team track Tuesday...

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

Shark Bay R.R get some new rolling stock.

Canadian Pacific's SOO94 on the move again!

Putnam Division posted:

York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember

Peter

And how the get-together has grown

I don't think I've missed one yet--in fact I'm in the back row with the cap

---PCJ

Engine House Hobbies - Ronnie & Lucie!  Now back in Canada.

Panama City FL, 10/10/18.

          they look great Johan... like 'em

E9

briansilvermustang posted:

 

          they look great Johan... like 'em

Thanks Brian.

Johan

It's a beautiful early fall afternoon in Savanna, IL in 1970 and Casey Jones the III, grandson of the famous engineer of the same name, is sitting on his porch with his faithful German Shepard waiting for the California Zephyr to blast by on the tracks beside his home.  The train horn scares his dog and hurts his ears, but they both love watching the train cross the river and make a station stop at the nearby Savanna station.   His wife is hollering something about whether he planted the flowers in front of the porch like she asked him to?  But Casey is lost in his memories of when he was an engineer like his grandpa. 

Did I just hear a horn?

Art

hclarke posted:

Engine House Hobbies - Ronnie & Lucie!  Now back in Canada.

 

Yes, that's it!

Many years ago when I first got back in the hobby I was building a layout and using MTH RealTrax (a move I later regretted). I went into Engine House on a Saturday morning with my list and loaded up several boxes full of track. Ronnie must have been having some slow days because he was ecstatic about the big sale. I think I purchased a number of other items, too.

Good memories.   

I finally did the one thing I have always wanted to do to my Amtrak Amfleet End Car, add ditch light. Got this done on Thursday and I still need to fix a lot of light bleeding problems from around the housing. But I will get to that sooner or later.

The lights only work with the headlight.

They are also very bright. Which is good, since the headlight barely offers any illumination on the tracks. I went with yellow lights for the ditch lights, so they match the color of the headlight.

When installing them I used the same resistor that the headlight has on the circuit for main lighting circuit board, 330 ohms. Although they came out much brighter than the headlight, but I believe that's because the lights are sticking directly out of the shell. But again, that's fine since they illuminate everything in front of the car.

My final plan is to put a Bluetooth speaker under the front pilot, so I can connect the speaker to my phone and use an app to play horn and bell sounds. Well at least when the cab car is leading the train, so it doesn't sound weird having the horn and bell come from the rear of the train. But that will be for another time and I might not even do that, since Bluetooth has problems with keeping a good signal.

Halloween Train at the TMB;

Manards boxcars at the TMB;

Smart choices this weekend everyone because if you go to places like this you might finish your weekend here instead.

This weekend's fun.  "Roving photographer out and about on the Free State Junction Railway and around Patsburg"

Christopher2035 posted:

Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit. 

Christopher:

Thanks as always for sharing these pictures.  I have two reactions:

1. You said:
   

   My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week...

   
   Good God, man!  You're a father.  Whenever the opportunity arises to tell a god-awful "dad joke", you gotta go for it.  Please allow me to help:
   

   My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moooooved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on mooooo ving a few other things around this week...

   If your daughters aren't walking around with their eyes rolling toward the heavens, you're not doing your job!
   
   
2. I also have a Plasticville farm on the Postwar/MPC layout I'm building.  You might consider adding a Lionel 6-12889 windmill.  I know you're going for a postwar layout but this item is more Postwar than Modern in spirit and it might give your kids a bang just to watch the motorized action.  I hope it's food for thought, anyway.

Have a nice *dry* weekend everyone.  This rain, ending last night with the remnants of Michael, is getting old.

Steven J. Serenska

Bryan in Ohio posted:

Smart choices this weekend everyone because if you go to places like this you might finish your weekend here instead. 

I love it!  

Peter

Page II

Still under construction. Added the 4th level this week.

Scott Smith