Weekend Photo Fun New Years Edition 2016

We worked on our popup this week, just a little more work to do. Happy New Year /Happy week end !!!

Old and new  combos............

PLE #1073

From a New York Central operating session I had yesterday......

Peter

Happy New Year everybody! I couldn't find a commercially available sanding tower or kit that really excited me so I decided to try my hand at scratch-building. My design is based on some prototypical N&W towers that I 've seen in old photos. I used a couple of small funnels (ebay) and prescription bottles (CVS) for the canisters, perfume bottle decorative caps for the base, and styrene tubing and sheets in various sizes. The ladders are the only items that weren't "homemade".

Happy 2016!

rickoshay posted:

Happy New Year everybody! I couldn't find a commercially available sanding tower or kit that really excited me so I decided to try my hand at scratch-building. My design is based on some prototypical N&W towers that I 've seen in old photos. I used a couple of small funnels (ebay) and prescription bottles (CVS) for the canisters, perfume bottle decorative caps for the base, and styrene tubing and sheets in various sizes. The ladders are the only items that weren't "homemade".

Wow.....tell us about this Super O pike!

Peter

Scott, your devotion to the Museum is terrific! Always something very creative.

That Super O track still looks amazing!

So far ahead of its time in 1957. And even today it evokes that feeling of nostalgia yet actually has a  scale look that in some ways beats Gargraves and even Atlas. Just look at the 'proper' size of the two rails and how the center blade almost disappears (which are the big features of ScaleTrax).  

By comparison, Atlas & Gargraves's rails are entirely too large for our O gauge models. Note how oversized the ties also are below...

Santa Fe #18 coming in.

Dad got to see his 1950 Scout set together again for the first time in over 50 years.

My son Steven Michael and I continue to work on section 7C, and getting it completed in the next few months is one of our goals for the new year.  Here are some views taken just a few minutes ago of the work on this section of the layout.  Posing for today's photos are our brand new Lionel Legacy PRR PA's.  They are beautiful engines, and are painted in a nice dark green prototypically correct shade of Brunswick Green.

Scenery beyond the signal bridge is completed.  That on the near side is not.  Much more ground cover and vegetation needs to be applied.  Steven began ballasting last night.  Notice the wing wall which is a single large hydrocal casting and still needs to be stained:

May I add that the green Lionel was using on their Pennsy engines years ago (like the first release of their scale FA's) was far too green, and I named it "Nauseation Green" since I became nauseous every time I looked at a Pennsy engine painted in that color!

Happy New Year!

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

My son Steven Michael and I continue to work on section 7c, and getting it completed in the next few months is one of our goals for the new year.  Here are some views taken just a few minutes ago of the work on this section of the layout.  Posing for today's photos are our brand new Lionel Legacy PRR PA's.  They are beautiful engines, and a painted in a nice dark green prototypically correct shade of Brunswick Green.:

May I add that the green Lionel was using on their Pennsy engines years ago (like the first release of their scale FA's was far too green, and I named it "Nauseation Green" since I became nauseous every time I looked at a Pennsy engine painted in that color!

Happy New Year!

Love your work, Neal.....heck, I've been a fan since I saw an article of yours in MR in the late 80s! Keep it up. The work you and your son perform is inspiring!

Peter

Thanks Peter!

Here's the 2nd half of my pics from this week. 

Yesterday, I went over Gilly@N&W's (Tom) and help him lay track on his attic  N&W layout. This is going to be spectacular when it's done. Here are a few shots....

Check out the double deck bridge over the stairwell and the large "hidden part" of the layout in the unfinished portion of the attic.....where long trains can be sent and/or hidden.

The control panel is also cool.

Peter

Here are some videos I posted this week on my you tube channel. These were taken at TMB club of some Mo-Pac and Erie steam action. Enjoy and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

STEVE

This year I decided to go "Retro" with my trains for Christmas. Not a Command Control engine in sight! I spent 3-4 evenings cleaning wheels and lubricating engines and cars that had not felt rails in 30 years or more. A lot of work, but worth it. For those of you with sharp eyes, yes, there are a few MPC cars and one LTI in the mix.

Chris

LVHR

Here is updated pic's of my MTH Chessie GP9.

A scene from the Blues Brothers,sort of,in my living room.

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

My son Steven Michael and I continue to work on section 7C, and getting it completed in the next few months is one of our goals for the new year.  Here are some views taken just a few minutes ago of the work on this section of the layout.  Posing for today's photos are our brand new Lionel Legacy PRR PA's.  They are beautiful engines, and a painted in a nice dark green prototypically correct shade of Brunswick Green.

Scenery beyond the signal bridge is completed.  That on the near side is not.  Much more ground cover and vegetation needs to be applied.  Steven began ballasting last night.  Notice the wing wall which is a single large hydrocal casting and still needs to be stained:

May I add that the green Lionel was using on their Pennsy engines years ago (like the first release of their scale FA's) was far too green, and I named it "Nauseation Green" since I became nauseous every time I looked at a Pennsy engine painted in that color!

Happy New Year!

Love seeing posts from both you and your son.  I will be looking forward to seeing this section when it's completed.

Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you and your family.

Putnam Division posted:

rickoshay posted:

Happy New Year everybody! I couldn't find a commercially available sanding tower or kit that really excited me so I decided to try my hand at scratch-building. My design is based on some prototypical N&W towers that I 've seen in old photos. I used a couple of small funnels (ebay) and prescription bottles (CVS) for the canisters, perfume bottle decorative caps for the base, and styrene tubing and sheets in various sizes. The ladders are the only items that weren't "homemade".

Wow.....tell us about this Super O pike!

Peter

Hi Peter! My layout is about 10.5' by 10.5' and U-shaped with two mainline loops. It is 100% Super O. There is a six track yard on one side with the small town of Coalville occupying the other leg. I also incorporated two passing/reversing sidings on the inner loop. I custom bent a lot of the curves so that the smallest diameter curve on the outside loop is 48". Future plans include an elevated loop and some mountains & tunnels. Here is my take on running trains under the Christmas tree.

Rich......that is fantastic!......Super O was the track I got with my 1st set in '58 (New Haven F3 freight set), and I have always loved it. 

Check out the 2:45 mark to see some Super O track and trains....

Looking forward to seeing more pics of your N&W layout....a local favorite.

Peter

Around the RR, happy new year everyone!

Happy New Year!  God bless us, every one!

Thanks to the Forum I have a consist of RMT and K-Line streamliners that CJB Custom Painting and Designs painted to match my 2348 Minneapolis & St. Louis GP9. Window silhouettes in the K-Line Diner and Pullman [in front of the observation car] had seen better days. CJB drew and installed new ones. Here is the set on the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society layout in the museum in Hamburg, PA, right off I-78 south of Cabela's.

Was home for the last 2 weeks. So laid a temporary Realtrax loop on my basement floor & ran my O-Scale, mostly intermodal trains.

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

First car of the New Year. I am going to run this at our Modular layout setups. With out my wife Michele I would not be able to make these cars. I let her know what I want and she makes it happen.

Happy New Year.

RM

Happy New Year everyone 

"A young layout meets its first diesel"

Happy New Year! B&O Museum Trackers layout came down yesterday, but I have lots of photos to review for posting.  Here a Union Pacific freight led by Lionel Legacy ES44AC #7388 had to stop for signals on my modules. The crew can be seen waiting for the signal, and then the headlights come on and the train is off.

Putnam Division posted:

Super O was the track I got with my 1st set in '58 (New Haven F3 freight set), and I have always loved it. 

Peter

And it is still a treat to see your New Haven running on the layout. You have taken such good care of it all these years.

Thank you again for a glimpse of your Christmas-past. Makes me wish for a time machine. Such a simpler time....

Drew Madere posted:

 

 Thats cool on the track detector Drew!

 

Thanks

Peter - Your 'Christmas Memories' video from childhood is FANTASTIC. What a terrific present that set was!

I've often wondered how it felt for you Lionel guys handling the larger O gauge trains when you were little - I received an American Flyer PRR K5 when I was 5 1/2. It seemed large at the time but as I got older it wasn't so much. No one in our neighborhood had full O gauge trains, mostly 0-27 stuff that seemed the same size as ours for those of us who had Flyer. I'll wager that those NH F3's seemed really big to handle at that age!

Happy New Year!!!

Taking train from Vienna to Bratislava and Bratislava Trolly and Bratislava platform pictures waiting to return to Vienna.

Here are some pics of scenery work I did this week.  Check out the couple in the Edsal on " Lovers Lane"

c.sam posted:

Peter - Your 'Christmas Memories' video from childhood is FANTASTIC. What a terrific present that set was!

I've often wondered how it felt for you Lionel guys handling the larger O gauge trains when you were little - I received an American Flyer PRR K5 when I was 5 1/2. It seemed large at the time but as I got older it wasn't so much. No one in our neighborhood had full O gauge trains, mostly 0-27 stuff that seemed the same size as ours for those of us who had Flyer. I'll wager that those NH F3's seemed really big to handle at that age!

 

C Sam......it was huge to me!

Nothing like being chin down on the floor looking at the trains at eye level!

Peter