a picture a day....

To my understanding OGR means Olive Garden Railroad. My olive trees have grown now and so does also the olive production. I figured to use my O gauge rolling stock during harvest season for shipping the olives to the nearest processing facility. My customers ask for oil, lots of oil in barrel, extra virgin one. Here some photo shots from my olive garden under the summer heat  at +104 deg. F or +40 deg. C or +313.15 deg. K...enjoy...

...a B&O F3 A-unit (Lionel MPC)...

...a C&O F3 A-unit (Williams?)...

...a PRR A-B-A-set consisting of two RF-16 A-units (Williams) and one F3 B-unit (MTH)...

  ...a FantaFe A-B-A-set consisting of two F3 A-units and one B-unit (Williams)...

...a UP F3 A-A-set (Weaver) with US mail coaches (MTH)...

...a UP EMD GP-40 and an Alco RS-27 (both hood diesels are MTH) pulling sliding-door boxcars...

That you on the phone with that guy in #13, Brian?  

               I wish I was there Ted ...    looks like it would be a great ride !

briansilvermustang posted:

               I wish I was there Ted ...    looks like it would be a great ride !

Moonson posted:

Fabulous, P51/Lee. They show what can be done with carefully applied imagination and a good memory.

FrankM, a fan

Frank, thank you very much, that made my day!

                       great photo Sam !   very nice backdrop !!

Wildlife spotting on my layout:

BRIAN -

GET BACK TO WORK.

I took these over the past two days.

Today's photo.

Took this a few weeks ago at Crawford.  Love the old Canadian Government grain hopper. This would make a good candidate for a weather job. Nick T. 

On the weekend of July 28-29, I went out to Fort Wayne, Indiana to visit the FWRHS and NKP 765. Here’s a few pics from that visit, including where I was able to get in the cab and sit in the engineer’s seat, which was an amazing feeling by the way.

This is taken in Busan, South Korea....April 2018....Big Station...Big City...

Twofir Tuesday.

Trumptrain, amazing pictures, you could play a drum roll, it’s so cool...Happy Railroading.  Here’s one to view....

Threefir Wednesday!   " Switch job "

briansilvermustang posted:

 

This would be a great Menards Jeep kit bash!

Fourfir Thursday. " The Heavy Lifter "

Friday's five.  " The Hostler " 

Twofir Tuesday.  " The cabin car "

briansilvermustang posted:

 

The issue-made railroad wheel sets for Jeeps are extremely rare (there were several different variants., it seems). Some might say a set would be worth more than the Jeep you'd bolt them to.

The Army transportation museum at Fort Eustis has an excellent rail Jeep on display, which I took these photos of last year:

A rail Jeep model wouldn't be tough to make in standard gauge for O, but you couldn't make a wheeled vehicle work for a narrow gauge back then, so sadly I'll never be able to have one for my own 1943-era layout...

On Saturday, I stopped at a spot on the BNSF/UP/Amtrak main line at Tenino WA, and only waited maybe 3 minutes before a grain train came through. These are photos of each end of the same train. I especially like how the tail end (with the Citirail unit) photo turned out:

" on the edge of town "

Four Thursday.  " It's Summertime and that mean ICE CREAM!! "

          Patrick, don't let "IZZY" see this one...    she loves ice cream 

Briansilvermustang, We see streets like that on model train layouts, with a row of nice houses very close-to and facing a railroad track, but not so much in real life; at least, that has been my experience. So, this photo from you is a real treat. The train seems to roll down the lane as casual as a truck looking to make a delivery!

FrankM