Weekend Photo Fun-Pre York Edition 10-11-13!

Happy weekend to everyone!

 

PRR #4829 arrives right on time.

 

Great pics to start off......Great looking station......and, Scott, that NYC Heritage unit is very cool-looking.

See you next week!

 

Peter

Picked up a few new postwar cars this week -
6050 Swift Boxcar -

 

6826 Flatcar w/ Christmas Trees - I've been looking for this one for a while. The trees are original too

 

Running some Southern F3s -

 

2018 & 1130T leading a 3 car passenger train on the upper level -

 

Lucia watching some trains -

 

A few more shots from my PA trip -

NS 9-40CW 9955 leads early morning eastbound Roadrailer 262 through Cove, PA -

 

Amtrak 07T, the westbound Pennsylvanian, hustles over Sherman's Creek on the old PRR stone arch bridge as it heads towards Pittsburgh -

 

NS 9-40CW 9673 leads NS 60G, a unit train of John Deere equipment, through Duncannon, PA -

 

A pair of SD70ACe motors lead westbound 65R over Sherman's Creek on the eastern end of the NS Pittsburgh Line-

 

B&W Shot -

Have a great weekend everyone...AND...hopefully I will see some of you at York!!

 

Alan

Zeke

Great masonry work on your building!

What did you use for the mortar lines?

A pair of MTH L&N RS3s pull a freight past "Bubble Town" depot. (Town named after the bubble packaging over Woodland Scenic buildings, a lot like the Simpsons movie as someone noted!)

Dan

 

 

Sam - thank you!  I used Robert's Brick Mortar, but I added in some dark gray acrylic paint before I applied it to tone down the whiteness.

Here's a pair of MTH Conrail C-30-7's idling along the mainline between Mattawana and Mapleton.  Saw many of the prototype engines in my Conrail railfanning days!

 

BTW, this York is my 35th anniversary of attending. My first York was October 1978.  I missed it only a single time in all these years.

 

Back in 1978, there were just 4 halls, and dealers were all mixed in with the all the other tables.   There were no dealer halls at that time. 

Happy weekend everyone.  Thought I'd share a Redwood Country rail tale that I found found it a 1953 magazine.  It was the greed of a landowner that caused the Northwestern Pacific (NWP) to build a trestle next to an unstable mountain.  The rails were high above the Eel River flood level, but a crumbling cliff kept pushing the track into the river.  Maintenance was a nightmare.  The opposite side of the Eel was where the rails should have been, but the landowner wanted $100,000 for the right-of-way.  The NWP balked at this exorbitant price, but finally agreed.  By then, though, the landowner asked $150,000.  NWP said no and started to build along the Scotia Bluff.  The landowner committed suicide.  NWP completed their railroad through the redwoods on October 23rd, 1914.

 

The Northern Pacific RR

 

A couple of layout photos for this week

 

Fading, but still alive, 2012 Christmas layout memories

 

- walt

 

 

"Photo Fun Pre-York Addition"? Oh, I'm ready, all right, and rarin' to go...(with your permission, guys, gals, and powers-that-be...here's a further preview, if I may...in addition to the "Where's Frank" thread...)

FrankM.

 

 

"Skidder" in action as part of a "Logging Block"...

 

 

Here's a new set I picked up at the beginning of the month.  The Borough of Schuylkill Haven, PA, which hosted two steam locomotives on Sept 28 for their Borough Day festival, has also made an official train set for their event.  I found out about this train set from their website. It is a custom run from K-Line.  The original K-Line.

 

 

As a custom run, it is very unusual.  It pays tribute to the Reading Company, but it not meant to be a Reading set.  The colors are two-tone green, instead of black with a green stripe.

 

Each locomotive and car wears the seal of the town, which has about 5,500 residents.  

 

Each of the cars is named after streets in the downtown.  

 

 

I am not sure of the significance of the numbers.  They are in sequence (1997-2000).  The FA units are numbered 2001-2002.  400 cars and 350 locomotives were made.  

 

 

The set is meant to be a fundraiser, but I bought set 275.  With K-Line out of business for over 10 years and so many more sets to sell, I don't think it reaped the benefits they expected.  

It's a great set with interior seats, along with silhouettes in the windows.  Unusual set-up.

 

If you would like more information about the set, here is the link to the Borough Day planners.  http://www.shboroughday.com/index_files/Page910.htm.  

My new MTH Railking Scale SD 60.

 

 

 

 

 

Awesome photos everyone, here's mine

 

Looking forward too seeing you all at York !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Kevin E.  I like your elevated track line.  Can you tell me what you used in the way of lumber and sizes?  I looked at your profile, but you didn't list an email address.  You can email if you want.  Take some more pictures and post them here or email pictures. Thanks Ed Powers 

Ed,

 

I used 1/2 5/8 inch MDF cut to about 2.75 inches wide and 1 inch dowels cut to 7 inches in height. There is one screw down the center from the top and one from under the table. (they are on 16 inch spacing)

Here are some photos of my old layout. I had painted the tree tops to give them the "Fall Effect". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 6 track 6 section ATSF ABBA Shop.

Thanks to forum member Brian Wowak for customizing my Lionel M1b, K4, and NKP 779.  Work was done timely and the results were great.

 

Thanks, Brian.

 

A few photos from the National Capital Tracker's Twice annual appearance at the College Park (MD) Aviation Museum, the oldest continuously operating airport in the world. The Wright Brothers flew here and is known as the "Field of Firsts" for its role in many innovations in aviation. We will be back December 14-21 2013 so come say hello! These photos were from our Labor Day Weekend set up. We set up each year over Labor Day Weekend and the Week before Christmas. 

 

This was the first show here since Rich Myers, long time club member and organizer of this show from the beginning (including knocking on the door one winter day to propose the show to the museum and it has taken off and is a big hit) in circa 2002, passed away. 

 

 

Dave B., AKA MUEagle, was on hand to cause trouble...

 

 

My B&O Freight. Short but sweet. A PS3 B6 0-6-0 is pulling the train. The freight cars are Railking and that is a Lionel I-12 Scale caboose. The ex-B&O Mainline is at the end of the runway. The museum has a nice diorama depicting early airport operations along the railway line, and their upstairs elevated porch offers a nice view of the tracks. 

I love the airplanes.  It has been almost a week since I flew one like the first one, but flew a Cub similar to the second one just hours ago.

 

Rather than repeat a photo - that roundhouse about halfway up is enough to almost convert me to three rail.  Very nice.  Whose ATSF PAs are those?

Kevin, thank you very much for posting the photos of your elevated track system. Looks great to me. Planning to do the same.  Thanks for the size info. Ed Powers.

As my wife posted on Facebook:

"Can I just say my hubby is in his dreamland. NASCAR running & trains. I have a happy man. We are blessed!"

 

 

 

Let's just say that this weekend I am, Happy, Happy, Happy !!

Southeastern roads action on CONUS Lines:

 

1.  A pair of Seaboard Air Line "Jolly Green Giant" GP40s, and an elderly GP30 bring Florida orange juice northbound at Mid-Grade.

2.  In the second view, the priority freight has ground to a halt as the dispatcher crosses a N&W coal train across the main from the Ellison yard lead to service the power plant.

3.  Finally given the highball, the SAL hotshot accelerates through the brace of signals at Georges Creek Junction.

4.  Southern's "Sparkplug" is approaching Ellison Tower.

5.  The Locotrol-controlled SD45 represented cutting-edge technology on American railroads in the 1970s.

6.  Slowing briefly to pick up orders at Ellison Tower, the "Sparkplug" accelerates southbound.

Rick. Really good looking layout with beautiful Seaboard and Southern trains. Please. watch our layout with Southern GP-35. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPjnmFZlIBI

 

 

Great photos everyone!  Here are the latest additions to the WIHABL RR locomotive roster...

 

MTH Premier D&H GP38-2 powered and AtlasO ALCo C424 non-powered diesels...

BAR GP7, very nicely done.  I like the weathering on #2674, and also the weeds and debris in the yard.  My #2674 was on the branch to Summit at the time of these photos, switching around shuffling cuts of cars from the "just weathered outside and let stand for 3 days before moving" siding to the "take these cars outside for weathering."  (When weathering, I use the branch to assemble and subsequently store cars until they have completely dried).

 

I hope that in the future MTH does a high-nose SD40-2 in tuxedo.

 

Growing up in Cincinnati in the 60s, I was a big fan of "our" railroad, since the city owned the Southern mainline from Gest Street Yard and the Ohio River to Chattanooga:  the CNOT&P.  

bill t,,wow that gg1 is super,,,where did u get it painted,,do you think they would paint a #9 like that? thanks terry h

Rick, thanks for your comments and watching. I really like your style made a scenery work, everything look so realistic. Do you have any videos on YOUTUBE? 

 

We have here still a lot job here before layout is ready, but some day....

 

I hope too at MTH does high-nose SD40-2 some day. Also U23B would be a nice.

 

Regards, 

 

Johan

Johan, no videos yet.  I'm challenged by technology...and now that my daughters have left home for work in the real world...I have no one to bail me out.  But I just hosted a 40th Reunion of my Naval Academy class last Sunday afternoon, and I noted no fewer than eight of my classmates had HD cameras that they used for several hours photographing various trains and scenes on CONUS Lines.  There's always that 10% that doesn't get the word...and I'm one of them!

Rick Wright, love the southeastern railroad engines that you have, especially the SOUTHERN!!!!! I hope that MTH produce a hi-hood sd-40-2. I already have 2 low nose sd-40-2 (NS & Conrail).................rogerw.

Max, good to hear from you.

 

Bill, your ATSF train shed is really looking good.

Rick, okay maybe some day. Do you have any electric locomotives? Maybe some N&W or Virgian?  -Johan-

Kevin, thanks again for the info on the elevated line.  Can you do me a favor and tell me what MDF board is and also how did you do the round sections and could you take a picture of the curved sections.. Thanks again Ed Powers  you can email me the pictures and info at ecp2425@verizon.net  

A few pictures from today's afternoon forage to Horseshoe Curve. The last photo is of Greenbrier Co.'s brand-new Muti-Max auto rack on an NS auto train.