John, I am with Mark, Wonderful job on the Baggage Car!
Sam, What a neat video! Thanks for sharing it!
Matt, great manager scene! Tank really liked it!
Paul, very nice work on the ladder install! The plans you have drawn up sure looks like a winner!
NSRAILFAN100, wonderful video of your layout! Very nice!
Larry, I cant say it enough I just love your layout! It is just amazing!
Did a little clean up.
MasterBlasterNash posted:
Did a little clean up.
Great looking Train room, with a wonderful layout! Very Nice!
I always hated to take our Christmas layout down after the holidays, and especially I hated putting my Lionel 2026 back in its box, to go in the attic for another year. Because of that, my 2026 lives on our coffee table all year round these days.
But during the Christmas season, I put it on my layout to spread holiday cheer once more. And that's what I did on my layout today. After a routine lubrication and cleaning of wheels and rollers, it ran just as well as it did on its first Christmas morning, back in 1951. The whistle was a bit balky, so I opened up the tender and applied contact cleaner to the commutator and a drop of oil to both bearings. After that, it began functioning normally.
And when that whistle blows, why, it's Christmas, 1952, all over again!
these are some goodies i got for Christmas! Ran them a bit today
Santa getting a train ride home from the deep south! jim
Put a decoder in my caboose to turn on newly installed interior lights as well as marker lights.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be
p51 posted:Took more shots tonight.
I converted two shots that weren't all that good, into sepia, and I think they worked as representations of 1940s snapshots...
Lee - Looks like a 1940s snap shot to me! GREAT JOB!! BRAVO!!
Jim, sure looks like you got some nice things for Christmas! Also thanks for the nice little video!
Lee, I wasn't around in the 40's but sure looks just like the pictures in the history books! LOL
I always enjoy the posts here and started to work on the layout again after a 6 month sabbatical. You can't tell by the mess but I cleaned up one end and added handles to the farm pop out to make it easier to take in and out. I will try to get a little done each week and add a photo to inspire others as they do me.
Dave, what you've done looks great! I don't have a layout, yet, but your photo's have inspired me, and given me some idea's .. thank you for posting!
Rusty
Looks good Dave! Nice layout!
samparfitt posted:Put a decoder in my caboose to turn on newly installed interior lights as well as marker lights.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be
LEFT ARM FOR SALE
Like I have said many times, and only because I am right-handed, I would sell my left arm to be able to do something like that! WOW!
Samparfitt, I agree the caboose lighting is great!!
Dave, I'm glad you are back on the layout. The farm is looking great! Handles for the pop out are a good thing! You are making it so we can't tell it is a popout!
Lee, the 1940s photos really look realistic!!
Moved older power (F7A's and F7B's) to storage tracks at the old roundhouse, so to make room for more newer power (GE ES44's and Dash-9's) on the engine service tracks. Some of the active power will be moved down to standby power ( SD45's, GP39's and MP15's) The old F7's will only come out of storage in the summer grain rush.
Impressive Dave!
samparfitt posted:Put a decoder in my caboose to turn on newly installed interior lights as well as marker lights.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be
Sam, Nice job on the DCC decoder and the light system! I am with Dr. Joe, but I cant afford to give up either arm! But will say wonderful work! LOL
Dave Ripp. posted:I always enjoy the posts here and started to work on the layout again after a 6 month sabbatical. You can't tell by the mess but I cleaned up one end and added handles to the farm pop out to make it easier to take in and out. I will try to get a little done each week and add a photo to inspire others as they do me.
I have the same situation as you with the high wall, then tunnel, and high wall again. Please inform me as your source for your block wall to the right of the tunnel opening. The block that you used is exactly what I wish to use to finish the rise of my elevated track.
Thanks,
John d. Sewell
Lee, great shots again. Keep them coming.
Today was the first day in 11 days I started feeling good. Sun was shining outside so I back the car out and went down and took measurements and scribed lines on the plastic sheets. Cut them on the band saw. Got them glued together. Still have to make up some braces for the backs to square them. The two side buildings are cut and I have to do the same to them. Still have to search for the windows and doors I bought for this project. Pics...............Paul
John d Sewell posted:Dave Ripp. posted:I always enjoy the posts here and started to work on the layout again after a 6 month sabbatical. You can't tell by the mess but I cleaned up one end and added handles to the farm pop out to make it easier to take in and out. I will try to get a little done each week and add a photo to inspire others as they do me.
I have the same situation as you with the high wall, then tunnel, and high wall again. Please inform me as your source for your block wall to the right of the tunnel opening. The block that you used is exactly what I wish to use to finish the rise of my elevated track.
Thanks,
John d. Sewell
paul 2 posted:Lee, great shots again. Keep them coming.
Today was the first day in 11 days I started feeling good. Sun was shining outside so I back the car out and went down and took measurements and scribed lines on the plastic sheets. Cut them on the band saw. Got them glued together. Still have to make up some braces for the backs to square them. The two side buildings are cut and I have to do the same to them. Still have to search for the windows and doors I bought for this project. Pics...............Paul
Paul, I'm glad you are starting to feel a good bit better!
The work on the top of the silos looks good!
A belated Merry Christmas to everyone! There was SO much work done in the week before Christmas. This entry will be kept brief, as I'm thinking about doing more of a continual thread about the "new" train room / office and the layout(s) that will be built and played with.
This room was combination office area / boy's bedroom (sans closets) for about 15 years, briefly office / train room, then used as living room / bedroom for about a year. It had a pretty rough life, and needed a lot of work to be used for Christmas Day. Furniture moved multiple times, wallpaper stripped, graffiti removed, holes patched, anchors removed, more holes patched, resurface areas with drywall compound, 2 coats of paint, wood trim for windows, and scrub years of stomped in grime and unknown substances from the floor, including a couple big solidified spills of shellac. I did have some help with wallpaper stripping from older son, both daughters and my wife. My wife helped a lot with the floor and the cabinets. She also helped with some of the assembly of the Christmas Train Tree....
One of the best things things to happen is getting my Dad's 1927 American Flyer train set from my Mom. It was last used in 1985 as best we can tell based on the newspapers it was wrapped in. Very little cleaning to do, a little bit of lube, and it runs real nice! There is still some more to do, a couple missing screws, rewire the headlight, some gentle cleaning and polishing, etc.
Got out my two PW F3 AB's repaints and 15" LIONEL MPC passenger train repaints: NP North Coast Limited and GM&O "Abraham Limited" and ran them.
Discovered the GRJ "roll your own" LED lights that I'd installed in the NP NCL obs car weren't working. Found the problem was a poor ground connection that had come unsoldered. All is good now.
I'd forgotten how much better the passenger cars look with the even LED lighting compared to the old two bulb, hot spots look.
Paul, looks like you have a great start on a wonderful plan! Cant wait to see more!
Slowhands, seams like you have a win win there! A train room and something from your dads collection! Also a great family of helpers! Very cool!
Carl, I am glad you had an easy fix. I hope to get that lighting for my passenger cars someday!
Managed to get the bracing on but no luck on windows and doors yet......Pics..............Paul
I placed eleven people in the Dome of the Challenger Observation. I still need to do the main floor with eighteen more people.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
Slowhands, You and your family made a nice looking room train room. The Christmas tree looks great as does the train! Excellent creativity!
Carl, Congratulations on getting the old set lit and going!
John, The silo area looks great. I'm glad you had some time to shuffle around all those nice covered hoppers!
Paul, every little bit is one step closer! 
John R, The passengers look like they are enjoying the ride up top! 
I haven't had much time for the layout with Christmas other than a few laps on the Christmas layout. I did get my BCR2 in the mail yesterday, put it in and charged it up in the PS2 Shay I got from a Forum member before Christmas. I turned the charger off before going to bed, so I haven't run the Shay yet. I lubed it the other day. Maybe later today after Bible study and PT. Oh, I have to visit my 93-year old aunt too. Well, I hope to try out the Shay.
hope everyone had a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS DAY !!!
Merry Christmas once again- everyone is doing great work.
Spent the afternoon at our local DMV office...my daughter had to renew her license since she turns 21 in early January. Root canal with no Novocain would be preferable 
When we got home I was going to run trains for a bit but the basement was upside down as my wife was packing away all of the boxes and wrapping paper from Christmas. I wandered into my shop and decided to tackle a small project. I have an old ink-jet printer that died and I'm stripping it for the motors and stuff. I'd like to do a gantry crane and have it move back and fourth on the rails. The print head mechanism looks like the perfect solution. Gotta see what voltage the motor is and start planning. Gonna need to buy the crane too.
A lot easier to take some thing apart when you don't have to worry about it going back together.
Bob
NICE looking trains Carl 
Nice photographs, Brian! Did Izzy open all her gifts?
Bob, I have had many printers apart in my time, however I usually had to make sure they were working properly again! Good salvage job!
Carl, both trains look great!
thanks Mark, no, she still has a few more to open, and a good one
to open on New Year's Eve lil' extra spoiled this year 
and me too... 
Paul, your getting there! I have faith you will find the windows and doors!
John, the dome car looks wonderful!
Brian, looks like you all had a nice Christmas! The kids bought me some o scale people for Christmas!
Bob, that is a great idea! Now all I have to do is find a dead printer. LOL!
Carl, good job on the lighting. also the cars look wonderful!
Not much train action down here, although I am kicking myself because my drive from Springdale, AR to Greenbrier, AR and back via US 412 and US 65 brought me within a few miles of OGRR World Headquarters in Mountain Home and I didn't stop by! And I had the Eeep in the car and all! Oh, well. One of these years...
Mitch
leapinlarry posted:Well, it’s Christmas Day, and a great time to clean track under Mountains, and bridges, it’s been a long time coming, and I am finding that age is catching up rapidly....Merry Christmas all.
What a great layout, Larry! Worth the cleaning effort!
MasterBlasterNash posted:
Did a little clean up.
WOW! Awesome layout!
Added these to the layout over the Christmas week
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