a picture a day....

@Number 90 posted:

Patrick, the first time I read your caption I thought you wrote that truck driver Otto Poretsky was standing in front of the truck, taking a leak.  I adjusted my glasses and found that he was taking a break.

LOL!!!!  

FOR TODAY:  It's all about clearing the snow from the rails.  Ardsley, Eugene, and Homer are working an extra shift.  Here they are beginning to unload some food provisions to put in their camp kitchen car ( not shown ).  It's going to be a long week battling the white stuff on the Mountain Division.  

@Sitka posted:

Here is what your looking for Number 90 this is a Railking Madison car that I added seat and a toilet with sink.

Ahhhh! Now back to the bar car for a couple more Utica Clubs!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Ahhhh! Now back to the bar car for a couple more Utica Clubs!

Thats a ahhhhh Bill

@Number 90 posted:

Patrick, the first time I read your caption I thought you wrote that truck driver Otto Poretsky was standing in front of the truck, taking a leak.  I adjusted my glasses and found that he was taking a break.

That's  OK  Tom , we could all use  aaauuto - adjusstiingg  glasses .

I came across a train shop out of NJ, All Aboard Train Shoppe, that has a nice online reference to Lionel products.  Their website has a listing of Lionel train sets by year from 1945 to 1969.  So I looked up my original set from 1955, and it appears I still have all the original cars.  Still have the 1033 transformer for it as well.

That's the set just behind the saw mill.  Caboose, crane, gondola, tender and 1615 engine.

FOR TODAY:   Lots going on down at the team track today!   First a load of pipe has been transferred from flat car to flatbed trailer.  

A boxcar load of brand new Studebakers is now being unloaded. ... just another day on the railroad!

@Randy Harrison - I got it Randy, thanks for the tip on how to pull up the video.  I really enjoyed the "train ride" thanks for posting.

@leapinlarry - Great pictures Larry, loved the beautiful layout I remember it well from my trip to Nashville

@trumpettrain- cool pictures Patrick, I too loved all the people and the hot dog stand

@Carpetrainman- You really do know how to do that snow effect, it was great.  I hope our fellow train fans in Buffalo are OK that really was the storm of the century.  Fortunately in Texas we only had cold but it got one of my water pipes luckily I could fix it myself. It was 13 drgrees!  Never heard of such temperatures in central Texas.  

Great photos everyone.  Happy New Year!!

Don

Tom it sounds like you've ridden with Wallace a time or two.

FOR TODAY:  West bound N&W Y6b passes an east bound Reading Train Master circa 1951 ... a time when steam, diesel electric, and electric technologies all coexisted on the rails.   ... just another day on the railroad during the transition era!

WOW Amazing photos and stories to go with them! I really like everything about what you guys put together for photos.

Patrick I know I can always come here and find something interesting going on with your RR and the folks of Patburg!

Happy New year OGR! PW Lionel switch tower with busy workers. Keep America Strong!

The Shed Crew arrives for work and await their daily work assignments.  The Crew foreman receives instructions from the Yard Master via radio from the Section Superintendent, while the crew patiently awaits to find out what the day will bring.  

Otto, the Token Switch operator finds a nice surprise birthday present provided by the Shed Crew, after returning to the control room after getting a cup of tea’.. Happy Birthday Otto’…😜

FOR TODAY:  Harvey the brakeman doing his thing.  ... "just another day on the railroad!"

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

The Shed Crew arrives for work and await their daily work assignments.  The Crew foreman receives instructions from the Yard Master via radio from the Section Superintendent, while the crew patiently awaits to find out what the day will bring.  

What a great scene. Love the cars, figures and the subject matter.

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Otto, the Token Switch operator finds a nice surprise birthday present provided by the Shed Crew, after returning to the control room after getting a cup of tea’.. Happy Birthday Otto’…😜

Quarter Gauger 48, where did you get the blonde girl figure?

I want one. LOL, Arnold

My new Lionel Amtrak F40PH & F40PH Cabbage units now on The South Fork Railroad.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Quarter Gauger 48, where did you get the blonde girl figure?

I want one. LOL, Arnold

Hi Arnold,

If I recall correctly, I found these on one of the diecast web sites.  Keep in mind you have to paint these figures.  All the others are from Model-U out of Great Britain'..

I'll see if I can find the site that has these figures.  They measure out to roughly 1/41 scale'... A tad larger than 1/43, and quite a difference to 1/48..

Otto is 1/43.5, you can see the difference'..

One scene area on my Standard Gauge Upstairs Layout.