WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 10-2-15-??

Some 'Santa Fe memories'

 

I actually came across these online when searching for some images of the AT&SF E6. Was surprised at how many of our images from the forum appear elsewhere online... 

 

THis was most of our Santa Fe roster at one time

The Merchant's Limited......the LCCA set.....I wish it had been done with can motors and traction tires.  It cannot pull the extra B unit and baggage/combo cars on non-Lionel track.

 

 

In the PostWar era, Lionel made 4 New Haven engines:

EP-5

F3

Alco FA in AA and then single A configurations.

I am fortunate to own one set of each. Over the next few weeks I will showcase one of them.

 

 

 

Peter

German Steam in RR Museum in Nurnburg.

 

Live Stock ............

 

 

Those cattle cars look to be weathered/grimed-up perfectly, not that I have ever been near one, but yours just seem to be telling the truth. They even give a sense of smelling fusty (!)

FrankM.

I love the smell of pine sawdust, LOL!

Thanks buddy.

 

S.

Thank you very much, Neal!  

 

Unfortunately I am trying to reacquire some of my skills after second carpal tunnel surgery in both hands and nagging arthritis.  In the meantime, I am having fun with a fastrack layout on a outdoor carpeted 4x8 table.  

Hi Johns Trains

     Very nice gift from your "Bro"

Gary 

• Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

The new MTH Soo Line open 4-bay hopper and MTH SOO U30C diesel locomotive.

MTH SOO 804 U30C diesel-electric locomotive.

Industrial Rail O gauge Soo Line two-bay open top hopper and MTH Premier O Scale Soo Line 4-bay open top hopper.

Just a few quick shots from my mePad.

 

A few iPhone layout photos from now....

 

My friend George and I visited Toy Trains and Collectibles, owned by fellow National Capital Tracker members Dan and Hope Danielson in Manassas, VA today. Dan has been open for a while but we hadn't gotten to his store until today. What a great store! Make a point to stop in if you are ever in the area. 

 

I purchased several MTH #35 street lights that you can see in the photos below. 

 

A few random layout photos from now. Other than one of MTH's "old west" style buildings (on my York list), I think I'm out of room to put more stuff and have nearly run out of juice to run it all. I've  got an MTH Z-1000 running accessories and Z1ks running the table top loops - all have the brick's accessory ports filled. Any and every port for accessory power is full, including a full terminal block for the accessory Z1k. My wiring probably isn't really photo worthy either...

 

 

 

 

One of my favorite things is watching a layout develop and evolve. Compare the photos taken today, 10/3/15 above to this photo taken in February of this year. 

 

 

SD80mac power getting ready to pull some coal

Perfection, isn't it. You have a magic touch, sir. So beautiful.

FrankM.

Great work Norm!  Glad to see the layout is coming along.  BTW, What is the source of the PRR storage shed?  Have seen them before, but cannot quite put my finger who made them or where to get one.

One more video from me this weekend. My dad's Atlas O SW9 switching the Duncannon siding.

 

Incredible!!!!  Beautiful work Norm!!!!  Thanks for sharing!!!

Here are a two brew scenes and a real loco photo .... 1) Natty Bo keeps an eye on the Brewtown neighborhood in Patsburg. 2) Lots of Buds in Patsburg!  3) Stassburg No. 89 basks in the sun in August 2015.

Thanks for the nice comments! Neal, that is an old Micro Scale kit. I'm sure you recognize the poles.  Your layout's looking good! 

Running some of my MPC-era trains that I pulled out of storage. This U-boat leading the way. Runs like it was made yesterday.

 

 

Some still shots from a video I'm working on...

 

 A mix of GP35's & GP30's head up this B&O freight

 

A lone C&O GP9 handles the local

 

 

A PRR GP9, GP7 pair emerge with boxcars in tow

 

WM quartet of Geeps - GP40, GP35, GP7, GP9

Guys, I love looking at your great high end scale layouts.  Here is an old one I found of my toy train layout.

 

 

Here are a few pictures from across the pond sent to me from my friend Mike.

 

 

 

This time SOO 801 is the U30C pulling a SOO LINE 4-bay open top hopper.

 

Andrew

 

 

More progress on my RailRunner... I finished the locomotive!  (Insert happy dance here) Next step is to start decaling the pax cars...

 

 

 

I also went and ran our newly acquired Lionel PS2-ified Yellow Belly at AGHR this weekend.  It looks and runs great.  Thus near-scale version still looks pretty good with our set of Railking cars.

 

 

We also had a pantograph go missing in one of our club tunnels during Saturday's Running of a The Trains.  This McGyver-ism (a flashlight taped to the club camera caboose) was our attempt to search the less accessible tunnels remotely.  Watching the feed was a lot like those shows on the Discovery channel, where they are searching an undersea wreck with an ROV and watching dark grainy footage from the surface ...but we saw a blip, and ultimately followed that lead to find our missing part.  Also... I now have a neat idea for a tunnel inspection vehicle.

 

 

-Dustin