a picture a day....

Ted thanks there are so much fun to restore and work on 

Paint factory at dawn:

For today:  "Down at the firehouse."

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

SPOOKY!!! 

 This was my first All Nations box cars I restored I stripped it repainted it and use microscale decals on it.

For Thursday 9/26:  " Patsburg looking eastward."

lee drennen posted:

 This was my first All Nations box cars I restored I stripped it repainted it and use microscale decals on it.

It looks GREAT! Waht did you use to strip the old paint?

Like a Phoenix from the ashes railroading goes on:

In a scene repeated thousands of times across the Land a shortline switching job rolls past a long-disused passenger station. The building of the interstate highway system and the globalization of industry has led to the abandonment of many thousand miles of track in America but ingenuity and inventiveness has repurposed many Class I routes into regionals and shortlines and so railroading survives in out-of-the-way places. 

geysergazer posted:

                 

The building of the interstate highway system and the globalization of industry has led to the abandonment of many thousand miles of track in America...

Ain’t it the truth...

TedW posted:

geysergazer posted:

                 

Ain’t it the truth...

This may be my least favorite railroad shot ever:

East Broad Top RR July 29, 2012

Thanks lee drennen posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

SPOOKY!!! 

I got the mail thank you so much I love it your to kind 

The end of the week is near 

For today:  " Ma & Pa number 70 in the hole awaiting her next move."

            Fall is right around the corner...

For today:  " Just another day in a railroad town."

Lee is that Speed or Crown Graphic in your profile picture?  I have a 1953 Crown Graphic that I used to use extensively with modern lenses for my landscape photography.  Digital kind of killed it, but I feel the call to go back to 4x5 to relearn how be more selective with my image making.

My contribution today.  Probably posted elsewhere on the forum at some point in time over the last 12 years. 

Posted in memory of my friend Jack Eaton who was a KCS fan to the core.  This photo dates to 2010.

GG1 4877 posted:

Lee is that Speed or Crown Graphic in your profile picture? 

 

It's an 'anniversary' model pre-war speed graphic. It also has the wand for the flash, the type used as a light saber in the Star Wars movies (and almost impossible to find today due to the sci-fi people messing them up for that reason).

Note the grey case for it in this shot in the back of my 1944 Willys Jeep:

And me in my Pacific theater war correspondent uniform, standing in front of a newly-restored Corsair:

Randy Harrison posted:

lee drennen posted:

 This was my first All Nations box cars I restored I stripped it repainted it and use microscale decals on it.

It looks GREAT! Waht did you use to strip the old paint?

Randy 

Sorry for the late reply I used Kleen Strip and wiped it off with a old 3” paint brush  

p51 posted:

GG1 4877 posted:

Lee is that Speed or Crown Graphic in your profile picture? 

 

It's an 'anniversary' model pre-war speed graphic. It also has the wand for the flash, the type used as a light saber in the Star Wars movies (and almost impossible to find today due to the sci-fi people messing them up for that reason).

Note the grey case for it in this shot in the back of my 1944 Willys Jeep:

And me in my Pacific theater war correspondent uniform, standing in front of a newly-restored Corsair:

 

Outstanding pic Lee very nice I’m a WWII buff myself  

For today: " Full head of steam."

Well, great pictures everyone, last week I had a visitor and he brought his prewar M10000, converted to TMCC, and it ran fine....Have a great week...

leapinlarry posted:

Well, great pictures everyone, last week I had a visitor and he brought his prewar M10000, converted to TMCC, and it ran fine....Have a great week...

This is a tin plate model, correct?   Do you recall the manufacture.  Recall seeing 3 version of the model with different road names in the O gauge magazine years ago.  They didn't feature sound or smoke if memory serves me correctly.

Very nice

Breakfast:

I took this pic of my Dad c. 1964. City of Portland Dome Diner. Note the suit&tie. Travel was a dress-up occasion for many. In those days that was common on the trains as was women in dresses. The Pullman Porter polished one's shoes every night.

                                     Coal fired Power House at NJ Hirailers.

For today:  " Your packages will arrive the fastest way ... whenever you ship REA!"