Weekend Photo Fun 9-13-13!

One of my favorite engines.

....and a great puller!

Peter

some rail fanning on my home layout  ( still the best thread of the week, every week)

Around the RR.

The Secrets to Weathering have arrived from New Smyrna, TN for analysis at the RR R and D Department.

An interesting diversion this week.  My grandson Micah (12) was grounded from all electronics last weekend. I got a phone call about the AC Gilbert Erector set, that I had, stored under the train layout.  The Erector Set dates to 1913.  Set pictured is early 1950's













Noted about the kit.
(1.) This kit is all metal, including the box, there are no plastic parts.
(2.) AC Gilbert also produces S and limited O American Flyer trains.

(3.) Erector Set may have been one of the first mass marketed toys.
(4.) Kit is a 7 1/2 kit purchased on E-bay. 
(5.) A Wikipedia clip on the Erector set.  Click on the underlined phrase to link.

(6.) There was a big discussion about more weekends where the electronics were shelved.

Have a great weekend everyone...AND...a lucky Friday the 13th!!

Alan

MTH Mopac FT's meet F3's at Cutoff Jct.

Dan

Nice photos everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

Finished another one.

Workers are going to be transferred to another N.Y. YARD soon... 

  # 635

Great shots everyone. 

All this talk of pilot/engineering models on the catalogue thread here is a photo of the engineering sample of the Mohawk from the Lionel Archives.

Erector Sets!  One of the truly GREATEST toys ever made!  Fun and educational, all in one.  I have very fond memories of playing with those sets

Doodlebug 6041 with a baggage car in towl will depart for the Kessler branch as soon as the Cincinnatian departs the station.

Great photos this week.  Before becoming Wine Country, this area known for apples.

A 2012 Christmas layout memory

- walt

Today is Lucia's 3rd birthday - what better way to celebrate than with some trains!

Picked up a 2018 w/ 1130T Tender -

Lionel set 1500 from 1953 on the upper level -

2329 Virginian E33 leads 2505W as set 1569 crosses overhead -

2343 Santa Fe F3 AA units leading a postwar consist pops out of the tunnel on the lower level as a 2332 GG1 passes on the upper level -

2018 leads a passenger train past the 445 switch tower -

2379 Rio Grande F3 units on the point of 2291W -

LCCA Generals

Inspired by modeling, enthusiasm and humor on the Forum, I painted the pilot and pilot wheels on MTH Premier Southern Ps-4 1401 (20-3006-1) that I purchased from a Forumite to match the 1401 in the Smithsonian.

Before

1401 before she was moved and enclosed

AFTER. Her Seuthe smoke unit works fine.

Takin' a rest from layout workin'...

Happy Friday

    Received my new superzoom digital and had to give it a try. Need all the help I can get. Enjoy

Ray Marion

Very true.

My daughter had a project when she was in high school and we used an Erector set to do it. The teacher was impressed by how we arranged the gears to create motion, although that was not what we focused on. We focused on a sign that rotated. Kids today are missing hand's on involvement, because everything is electronic.

The West Texas Express has come off of the Second District and onto the passenger main, and now slows for its daily station stop at Caprock.  Today, the train, which usually only has storage mail, an RPO, baggage & express, and a single chair car, has a Pullman with Red Hat Ladies from Temple on their way to the national convention in Albuquerque.  

Here's a  photo of View interlocking which is extremely close in appearance to a photo I have of the prototype.  I'll try to post that later this weekend.  Tower is by Koerber Models and modified to look like the real tower (wooden originally, but retrofitted with Insulbrick.  US Routes 11/15 are in the background.

Railroad action on a chunk of Styrofoam:

Jim

Meccano! I remember playing with my Dad's set from the 1950's. Dad is not a train guy but he had a fair bit of Meccano. We built a model of the transporter bridge together.

 Always wanted to build the block setting crane, but never had enough bits. I understand you need the massive No.10 set plus extras!

I have my Meccano 3000 set from the 80's in the loft. I got it for Christmas. Great memories of trying to figure out what the big box under the tree was.

Was starting to get into the Halloween season mood so I decided to add a small cemetery next to the church.

My contribution this weekend is actually from last weekend. Another Tracker's Freedom Train, the one that ran 1947-1949, crosses my modules at the Kensington, MD Train Show, National Capital Trackers.

I'm reposting my photo from above along with the prototype that inspired it. Note that by the time the prototype photo had been taken in the early Conrail era, track 3 had been removed:

Neal. You nailed it!

That layout looks strangely familiar, Jim!  

Was on the other side of town for some training and decided to visit the LHS there.  Found some NIB Kline goodies, a smoking caboose and scale reefer.  Sitting on the shelf for 45 each, guy in shop cut them down to 30 each.

I wasn't interested in the reefer until I saw the brown roof, I think that really sets it off.

Neal,

Your layout is fantastic! I love the re-creation of the prototype scene. I am attempting that with my much smaller layout. I am re-creating the Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf. I do have photo from the late 60s with a PRR boxcar in tow behind the FC&G SW900.

Great modeling, Malcolm

Allan,

This week the RFD Channel on my local cable broadcast the Tom McComas Golden Age video, in which you had a starring role! I got a kick out of seeing that "little chunk of Styrofoam" in the background.

Jim

Lionel Norfolk Southern Dash-9s Boston Metro Hi-Railers

Some new additions.