Welcome to WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!
I have been traveling this week and I haven't taken many photos. Here are a couple I took Tuesday night.
Let's see your pictures. This Saturday is Train Lovers day at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Scott Smith
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Welcome to WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!
I have been traveling this week and I haven't taken many photos. Here are a couple I took Tuesday night.
Let's see your pictures. This Saturday is Train Lovers day at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
Scott Smith
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January 21, 2019 • 24°F, Cloudy, 5 to 1 hours prior to sunset.
All images shot with a Canon DSLR T6i, Lens: 55 to 250mm. Auto Focus: On, Image Stabilizer: On, ISO: Auto to 400, Shutter Priority: 1/125 & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.
1 Stop Men at Work
2 Switch Stand & Loco
3 The Broom
4 Loco 127
5 On The Curve
6 Amtrak at the Gate
7 Conductor
8 The Tail & Crossing Gate
9 Engineer Going Home
10 The Detroit Dumpster
11 Passing
12 Map: Amtrak Pontiac • Ever driven a Pontiac, this is where it may have came from, just north on Wide Track Drive.
Wait there is more. After hanging out in the rail yard it is time for dinner. We are now 10.5 miles south of Pontiac Station. Fish & Chip Dining, opened in 1950 & has always been at the same location. If you ever come to Detroit, check it out.
1A Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips
2A The Classic Fish & Chips
I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • • Gary: Have a great weekend.
If you've looked at my photos over the past few months, you are probably aware that I've been posting photos of the progress on the town of Port Royal. I'm finally to the point of detailing the town, including placement of figures. This sent me scurrying to my big box of figures collected over many years. I wanted to have two people walking together down the main drag, so what should I discover but a young couple included in Model Power's "Walking Figures," stock number 6178. Let's just say I was impressed with the tool and die makers attention to detail in recreating this young woman's beautiful figure. To add some humor to the scene, I placed a DPM figure leaning against the wall at the entrance to "Sully's Tavern" and who probably has had one too many, admiring her female form. Click on the photo to enlarge it, and you can appreciate his eyes wide open just staring at her. My layout is pretty serious, but it does have its touches of humor. I took this grab shot last evening with my cell phone after I finished gluing the figures in place, and I just had to post it. Enjoy!
OK, now here are the photos that I had originally planned to post today. My goal was to take a break from the Port Royal construction photos. So here ya' go, photos from the daze of Penn Central...
Note that not only was the railroad falling apart in that era, but so were the highways thanks to then Governor Milton Shapp starving the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for funds.
We'll conclude with a photo of a typical railfan of that era whose thoughts about the condition of the railroad in that era made are made obvious by the look on his face!
trainroomgary posted:First Major Snow for 2019 • Amtrak Station • Pontiac, Michigan
January 21, 2019 • 24°F, Cloudy, 5 to 1 hours prior to sunset.
All images shot with a Canon DSLR T6i, Lens: 55 to 250mm. Auto Focus: On, Image Stabilizer: On, ISO: Auto to 400, Shutter Priority: 1/125 & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.
1 Stop Men at Work
2 Switch Stand & Loco
3 The Broom
4 Loco 127
5 On The Curve
6 Amtrak at the Gate
7 Conductor
8 The Tail & Crossing Gate
9 Engineer Going Home
10 The Detroit Dumpster
11 Passing
12 Map: Amtrak Pontiac • Ever driven a Pontiac, this is where it may have came from, just north on Wide Track Drive.
Wait there is more. After hanging out in the rail yard it is time for dinner. We are now 10.5 miles south of Pontiac Station. Fish & Chip Dining, opened in 1950 & has always been at the same location. If you ever come to Detroit, check it out.
1A Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips
2A The Classic Fish & Chips
I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • • Gary: Have a great weekend.
Man Gary. You live near all the cool stuff. I love fish and chips, but the closest place is 40 miles from me in Portage, MI. Last time I was there they screwed up my order so bad I haven't been back. I'm a retired chef so you know that chapped my hide.
Happy Friday!
Didn't get much work done on the layout, except for hooking up TMCC to the main lines. Picked up a few more late 90s Lionel items.
Got the 1996 SSS & add on car. Grabbed the Lionel Belt Lionel caboose for the set, which I thought was a good match.
also picked up 1996 set 2238RS with the NYC 2380 GP9
Postwar Seaboard NW2 working Bucking Feed & Tack -
LIttle 242 scout gets some track time -
The J & B&A Hudson get some track time as well -
It's getting pretty tough to find one of these out on the rails today. Former Southern Railway high hood GP38-2 5230 is on home rails as it leads local turn P43 in downtown Charlotte, NC.
NS 16T head through Shawsville, VA with the NW heritage unit running on 'home rails'.
NS Dash-9 9636 leads a westbound stacker through South Fork, PA on the west slope of the Pittsburgh Line
UP SD70ACe 8646 leads 211 through the rural countryside of Shippensburg, PA on the Lurgan Branch
CSX ET44AH 3415 is in charge of manifest Q610 as it waits for a signal to proceed towards Monroe.
Helpers Ahead! NS SD40E class unit 6300 is on the point as it lends an assist to 63V up the grade in Gallitzin at UN.
One of my high school friends posted this to Facebook earlier this week......it is a colorized photo of the New York Central railroad operations before the High Line was constructed......a great picture of a shrouded steam switcher and the consist is preceded ( about a block) by a West Side cowboy.....
Peter
1st video of 2019 from Jasper's Rock:
Putnam Division posted:One of my high school friends posted this to Facebook earlier this week......it is a colorized photo of the New York Central railroad operations before the High Line was constructed......a great picture of a shrouded steam switcher and the consist is preceded ( about a block) by a West Side cowboy.....
Peter
That is awesome Peter. I love old vintage photo, B&W or colorized.
3D printed out some Sluice gates for my log pond where it meets the creek. The 1st photo is of them on build plate with the supports. I a going to scale these up for where I am putting these and make with regular black like ABS resin.
I broke the lower frame on this one.
The other items are load binders for tying down loads. These too I will scale up a little.
Tried to get a photo, but she’s too long. Pulling out the shelf queens, and unused passenger sets to make hard decisions.
PRR Action on the TMB:
Santa Fe Alco PA Gold Bonnet taking its first lap around the layout. Great stainless finish, mars light, prime mover sounds, and smoke output on this one...
...plus it goes really nicely with this bridge:
Love the waterfall!
This is an MTH B&O F7B (unpowered) being repainted to Frisco's mandarin orange/white scheme. The next steps for the project will include finding spark arrestors, decals, and doing some weathering.
Ralph M posted:
The type arrestor I need for SLSF is the flared type. Detail Associates makes one-part#5061. I just bought several from Bowser.
trainroomgary posted:First Major Snow for 2019 • Amtrak Station • Pontiac, Michigan
January 21, 2019 • 24°F, Cloudy, 5 to 1 hours prior to sunset.
All images shot with a Canon DSLR T6i, Lens: 55 to 250mm. Auto Focus: On, Image Stabilizer: On, ISO: Auto to 400, Shutter Priority: 1/125 & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.
1 Stop Men at Work
2 Switch Stand & Loco
3 The Broom
4 Loco 127
5 On The Curve
6 Amtrak at the Gate
7 Conductor
8 The Tail & Crossing Gate
9 Engineer Going Home
10 The Detroit Dumpster
11 Passing
12 Map: Amtrak Pontiac • Ever driven a Pontiac, this is where it may have came from, just north on Wide Track Drive.
Wait there is more. After hanging out in the rail yard it is time for dinner. We are now 10.5 miles south of Pontiac Station. Fish & Chip Dining, opened in 1950 & has always been at the same location. If you ever come to Detroit, check it out.
1A Scotty Simpson’s Fish & Chips
2A The Classic Fish & Chips
I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • • Gary: Have a great weekend.
Nice shots Gary'. Just a question though. Why do you shoot on Shutter Priority?
Thanks'..
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