Weekend Photo Fun..2-8-2013..???

Happy weekend everyone!

Looking forward to many great photos. Always interesting!

Love the new MTH Turbo train, just got it and ran it last night.

Plug slot on end of car just above the wheels, next connecting plug end that goes in slot.

Train set up in yard then runs up to upper ceiling loop.

Looks and runs great on mostly 0-120 loops of track ( a few 0-96 curves) great sounds and great looking train.

Lets see some Amtrak Turbo shots?? 

Of interest if you look at the 4th photo down you will see what I used for yard tracks. Really really old Gargraves 2 rail with outside 3rd rail track, I got really cheap many years back. See every few ties on left side of track are longer. In old days they spiked on an outside shoe, O scale trains ran with scale wheels and had a pickup shoe on loco on the sides that would ride on the outside 3rd rail to pickup power.

For my yard tracks I spiked in the middle rail for my 3 rail layout!

It's Friday already? Here are some pictures I took running trains at the Virginia Museum of Transportation last Saturday.

Scott Smith

Wow cool Scott lets see more of that layout, is there a link to a website on the layout??

This past weekend was a train show near Seattle. Some nice layouts and lots and lots of O gauge/ scale stuff for sale from all eras.

Some photos of a point to point On3 layout and the local 2 rail O scale layout.

The shot with the lights is where the train runs across the main and drops candy down a slot to the kids.

Since I've been busy re arranging my layout this week, don't have anything new, but here's a few classic pics w/ postwar power -

Have a great weekend everyone.

Thinking of those in the Boston area.

A 2012 Christmas layout memory

Looks like one of the crew members is taking an unofficial break!

- walt

Progress in detailing a freight station I picked up  a few weeks ago

Last week Frank 53 and Mike CT posted their excellent versions of Ameri-Town’s Homestead Furniture. Nice job guys.  Here is a version I built for the Flower City Tinplate Trackers. It honors charter member the late Frank Dziduch (Frank in Steam). I also custom decorated a companion refrigerator car.

It will be placed on the industrial module that Frank and member Tom Werenski were working on.

Richard that's a great tribute to our buddy Frank! Wonderful!!!!

Hey Frank53

How about a picture that shows what is going on in those rooms in the building behind & next to the diner!!!

Good morning everyone. Hear are some photos of my layout.Be safe out in the east coast everyone.All we got this time was 1/4" of snow  and we are only about 50 miles west of Chicago

Enjoyable thread this week as always.  Nice shots so far everyone.

I've been working on this scene at my usual snail's pace for quite some time.  There are still details to add, but i am leaving it for now to move on to other areas of the layout.

I started with this area for detailed scenery because it is tucked way back in a corner and access requires contortionist maneuvers.  It was actually physically painful to scenic this area!   There is a removable section in the middle, for which you can see the seams.  

I will now be able to work outwards from here.

This is what this area looks like from normal standing height:

Some really OUTSTANDING photos so far this week!

Nice display's guys!

Received some new red & yellow figures from China yesterday...

Re-painted them with more believable colors, LOL!

Now if someone would make diesels with opening side doors???

Since it started to snow here in Maine early this morning and we are expecting at least 2 ft. before it is over tomorrow, I though a snow picture would be fitting this week.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this:

.. is flat-out AWESOME!  That's some fantastic work, Jeff.

Great Pictures everyone!

Pennsy484's youtube video of this location is even better than the picture...

Another typical Arizona day of blue sky....

Very nice scene & I also enjoyed your videos.

I could not have said it any better than that myself. Only this missing is the typical liter along the side of the road!  Maybe think about a driver in the front vehile. Arm hanging out the side window. Radio on..... I could stit and get lost in this picture for hours! Amazing work. Thank you for posting this picture.

SP2207, thanks for thinking of us. We are getting blasted right now on Long Island. High winds with frozen rain and wet snow. It's a good day to run trains here.

To me, Pennsy484's shot is so attractive not only for the great, great workmanship and attention to detail, but because the road is a winding one.  It occurred to me that my roads are too straight.

What a bumper crop of wonderful photos we have here!  I'm really enjoying this, guys.

Happy weekend finally

Wow!!! That is truly an amazing scene! It looks so real. Outstanding work Jeff!!

Great scene Jeff!

I guess the driver ran out of gas and went for help.

Curves are not good places to leave a nice car like that… 

For those of us in the Great Northeast this weekend, think spring and stay safe!

TRK:

Welcome to the Forum and your photo is wonderful.

Great photos!  I really like the scene on pennsy 484's layout.  I like those 1951 Studebakers!    Most of them were in junkyards when I was a kid.  Hard to tell if they were coming or going...

Nothing as exciting as watching your postwar Lionel glow in the dark.

"Running the G's"

The evening these were shot some of the PRR Power was out on the layout stretching their legs. We follow GG1 No 4936, a BLACK motor w/5 gold stripes leading a Lionel JLC Tuscan beauty No 4912 pulling some PRR mixed baggage & passenger equipment. Heading through the yard is PRR T1 No 5511 awaiting her turn on the mainline