a picture a day....

Mark Boyce posted:

N5CJonny posted:

Those are really nice photographs, N5CJONNY!!  What kinds of trees are those?

Mark, I don't know the answer to your question on what kind of trees they are as these photos were taken at Disney's Epcot by Germany. They have had this same train setup for years, I only wish I had something like this setup. Maybe someone with the answer to your question might chime in and answer that one. Since the Disney people are trying to create a miniature German village, I would imagine they had to seek out a dwarf plant of some kind that would look like typical trees found in Germany. Also they would need a plant that could stand the harsh Florida climate.

"...and speaking of yards (yours is beautiful, N5CJonny!!!!) ..... here is a variety I have crafted,  here-n-there..." 

Frank- Thanks for the kind words. I cannot take credit for that beautiful setup as the folks at Disney's Epcot made that outdoor train layout. I visited there yesterday and thought some photos would be nice to show.

By the way, where did you find those beautiful brownstone apartment buildings? They sure would look nice in my city scene.

gandydancer1950 posted:

p51 posted:

wonderfully detailed layout. Exceptional!

Thanks, I love what you've done with yours, always love seeing shots like this:

I'm glad you like them. Those brownstone townhouse vignettes were a whole lot of work. They are not available anywhere. They were handmade, one-of-a-kind, as were all of my "Insta-Ramas"  vignettes, and available, at one time, through my Layout Refinements business.

However, I will give you my resource for the fronts, which was Valley Model Trains.com (I don't know if they are still in business.) The sides and backs were obtained from a variety of other sources, through the years, and had to be custom-crafted and adjusted to fit with the fronts to make a total edifice.

FrankM.

Gandydancer1950, I much appreciate the positive feedback from you. So here are a couple more perspectives, for A Picture a Day (this is what sometimes can happen when I get encouraged, so you may want to reconsider being so nice)  on the backyard ball game vignette...

Thanks again.

FrankM.

p51 posted:

Frank, that's amazing work. Yours is the kind of layout that I'd suspect most other modelers strive for.

Super of you to say that. Thank you very much. But I enjoy the variety in the ways we all express our creativity and interest in model trains.

You know that I admire your layout, too.

FrankM.

That bridge scene, above, reminds me of traveling along the Monongahela River, decades ago, to McKeesport, PA. with steel mills omnipresent

NJ Hirailers

NJ Hirailers- Orange Line Interlocking

Moonson posted:

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Frank- where did you find those beautiful brownstone apartment buildings? They sure would look nice in my city scene.

..............................................................................................................................................................................(My reply.......)

I'm glad you like them. Those brownstone townhouse vignettes were a whole lot of work. They are not available anywhere. They were handmade, one-of-a-kind, as were all of my "Insta-Ramas"  vignettes, and available, at one time, through my Layout Refinements business.

However, I will give you my resource for the fronts, which was Valley Model Trains.com (I don't know if they are still in business.) The sides and backs were obtained from a variety of other sources, through the years, and had to be custom-crafted and adjusted to fit with the fronts to make a total edifice.

FrankM.

Thank you for the information on that Frank. Like others here I really admire your work and truly inspiring scenes.

briansilvermustang posted:

all year long....

OK, I'll admit it, Mine stayed up till July this year !    Then the Polar Express went back in the box and we returned to normal.

Now? MOVING to new House, It's all in boxes !!! ACK !  Great News tho,  1700 Sq feet of basement for new layout !!!   Now just gotta get it sorted and start getting it built...

Moonson posted:

Gandydancer1950, I much appreciate the positive feedback from you. So here are a couple more perspectives, for A Picture a Day (this is what sometimes can happen when I get encouraged, so you may want to reconsider being so nice)  on the backyard ball game vignette...

Thanks again.

FrankM.

I truly love seeing photos of your wonderful layout. This is a great hobby and there are so many terrific and skilled people in it like yourself.

Hi JHZ563, Are the silos / the whole complex for grain? Gravel? Cement stuff? (Shows how much I don't know, and haven't seen, huh.)

NJ Hirailers

Here is my contribution for this day.

NJ Hirailers

Paul:

    Great looking brownstones!

John

John Knapp posted:

Paul:

    Great looking brownstones!

John

They are beautiful buildings. I'm not sure where the club got them from, but they are nice.

Moonson posted:

Hi JHZ563, Are the silos / the whole complex for grain? Gravel? Cement stuff? (Shows how much I don't know, and haven't seen, huh.)

The hopper cars are all for coal, a mix of loads and empties.  This picture is a little misleading as it is taken from the top of a boiler structure, yet you can't see the boiler.  The blue structures on the right are for crushing and prepping limestone, which is used in the exhaust scrubbing process.  The light colored silos on the left have to do with ash collection and carbon reclamation from ash.

 If I can find a public use overhead view of the plant I will post it next week for clarification 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

                                                         agreed..........

                       a nice sunny, a little chilly day here in Ohio today

         the leaves are just starting to change here....will be raking soon....

                                          out on our morning walk........

                      now time to go work on the trains for a little while.......

Your place looks pretty special, Brian.  I’m starting a little project also.  Hidden under the mountain, but there for the curious. 

         thanks Ted.          you are building a wonderful winter layout ......

     I really like it, looks great !  enjoy seeing all the new details you add to it....

JHZ563, thank you for the explanation. I didn't know what I was seeing.

NJ Hirailers- Public Service PCC Trolley at the car barn.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

NJ Hirailers- Public Service PCC Trolley at the car barn.

You NJ Hirailers really know how to run a railroad.  

briansilvermustang posted:

http://carloadexpress.com/rail...eny-valley-railroad/

Yes, that is the angle we go into Pittsburgh following the Allegheny River on Rt 28.  Good photograph of the AVRR.

October 1, 2017

I thought I was about to see something bad this afternoon...

NJ Hirailers

NJ Hirailers

  NJ Hirailers

A C&O Allegheny rumbles through Coalwood as a NYC S-2 waits at the siding...

A single pic? How about over 170 of them?

I make a slideshow each year of the train photos I've taken. I usually show them at a local RR slideshow event, which will take place in a couple of weeks.

You folks get to see it before they do.

p51 posted:

A single pic? How about over 170 of them?

 

I make a slideshow each year of the train photos I've taken. I usually show them at a local RR slideshow event, which will take place in a couple of weeks.

You folks get to see it before they do.

Very nice, the guy needs to fix that tire though if he’s gonna haul a load.   Great show.  

TedW posted:

Very nice, the guy needs to fix that tire though if he’s gonna haul a load.   Great show.  

Thanks. I was wondering of anyone was going to notice the flat on that Amtrak baggage cart (I think I took that at Vancouver, WA).

For anyone who's curious, it's at 10:25 in that video listed above.

jhz563 posted:

Moonson posted:

Hi JHZ563, Are the silos / the whole complex for grain? Gravel? Cement stuff? (Shows how much I don't know, and haven't seen, huh.)

The hopper cars are all for coal, a mix of loads and empties.  This picture is a little misleading as it is taken from the top of a boiler structure, yet you can't see the boiler.  The blue structures on the right are for crushing and prepping limestone, which is used in the exhaust scrubbing process.  The light colored silos on the left have to do with ash collection and carbon reclamation from ash.

 If I can find a public use overhead view of the plant I will post it next week for clarification 

Here is an overall satellite view of the heart of the plant.  Very little of what you see is actually for making power.  Most of the equipment you can see from the sky is for environmental compliance.  

The black pile on the right is coal.  the grey pile on top left is limestone.  The tan area, top center is gypsum made from spent limestone in the scrubber equipment, used for making wallboard.  The top RR tracks are the NS line.The storage tracks just below that are for hoppers that bring in the limestone.  the majority of the tracks are for full/empty coal trains.

JHZ563, Thank you for so accommodating and thorough a reply. I try never to model something I haven't personally seen (which is why I have never tried to model Arizona desert areas, for example, being an East coast boy), so the satellite photo helps one imagine such a facility further.