a picture a day....

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

trumptrain posted:

For today: " Back in the day when Packard was a thing."  " Prepare to unload those Packard parts guys!" 

Pat, I love that Packard Box Car'..  Packards were great automobiles and of  the highest excellent quality and engineering of their day.  Hudson was their main luxury competitor .  The three merged, Studebaker, Packard and Hudson, but the big three killed all the private labels in the end... 

Ted - thanks so much!   I really appreciate you filling us in on the Studebaker, Packard, Hudson merger too!  All great automobiles of great  quality along with Tucker who hardly got off the ground.  

Running a few trains on the Christmas layout.   

For today: " Once Buford is finished unloading his truck full of milk ...  this car will be wisked off to the dairy many miles away were its' contents will be turned into egg nog ... holiday cheer!" 

Busy night downtown

Painting alligators.

No, not the Alco kind. The kind for my layout's bayou. These things live here (Alabama) and I have seen them all my life, so they have to find a place.

Most of these "models" come painted green. Gators are not green. Ever. Lizards - some - are green. Gators are not lizards. Gators are essentially black on top when wet, and dry to a gray. Cream underneath. I painted mine a dark gray. These are proper gators, not crocs - note the rounded, turtle-grabbing snout. Yum. Important stuff.

Their legs are too large, actually. Oh well.

The Postman left something for me today:

I never rode the NP but I wanted it represented on the PER, not the least reason being because it was one of the two gateway railroads to Yellowstone National Park (at Gardiner, Mt). The other Fallen Flag seen on the PER that I never rode was the Great Northern. Fun tiny fact, every other FF car seen on the PER represents a railroad I travelled on.

               nice car and cool,  " Fun tiny fact "   Lew !!

Brian, the closest I got to the Empire Builder and the North Coast Limited was seeing them out the window as we rolled past the coach yards on the way in to or out of Chicago. Even that was exciting what with all that fancy paint and those beautiful Dome cars.

Bill: Empire Builder was my favorite stream liner color scheme although I never saw it IRL. These cars / engines are beautiful were they made by MTH?  I don't think Lionel ever used this train for one of their models but I could be wrong.

In any case beautiful models

Don

Mount Randolph 

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