a picture a day....

Western Maryland 734 entering Hellgate Bridge. Manhattan can be seen in a distance through the bridge on the "South Fork Railroad".

Fresh veggies.

Boxcar fun...

The upper level.

Bridge project...

What a day this was...

The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!

It's a Gulf Coast thing:

handyandy posted:

What a day this was...

The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!

I think I now where the  former engineer of the Copper Cannonball is now....

Steamer posted:

handyandy posted:

What a day this was...

The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!

I think I now where the  former engineer of the Copper Cannonball is now....

 

Oh the humanity of it all!

...Twin Bridges, cont.

Hey Bob, I'll flip you to see who goes first !!

Twin Bridges project, cont.

twin bridges looking really good !!

briansilvermustang posted:

twin bridges looking really good !!

Thanks a lot, Briansilvermustang. Those bridges were my first attempt at weathering simple toy Lionel bridges, and the result motivated me to dedicate a whole corner project (which will continue to be shown in subsequent photos) to their use, well beyond what I had originally envisioned and planned for them.

FrankM

PS. Thanks, also, for the several "Likes".

P.P.S. My Thanks, also, to mjrodg3n88 and BAR GO7#63, for the "Likes".

pick me, pick me !......

early morning Amrtak on it's way......

Twin Bridges project...

...before  it was a project...at the thinking-about-it stage...not sure what to do about and with that angle...

FrankM

Moonson posted:

Twin Bridges project, cont.

I really like the detail you put into this, it looks very realistic to me! I hope that Ivy isn't poison!

How about an out of season Christmas tree shot?

all year long....

Making headway with the idea...

Diverging Clear posted:

Moonson posted:

Twin Bridges project, cont.

I really like the detail you put into this, it looks very realistic to me! I hope that Ivy isn't poison!

Diverging Clear, Thanks for your positive feedback. I appreciate it. All those products, including the suspect ivy, and the gravels, pylons, walls, and the "water" (produced by assiduously following the instructions for combining the ingredients and taking some  liberties with the dyes) were purchased from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.

FrankM

I'm not sure if this breaks any rules, so if we can't post S or HO, please only look at the top 3 rows.

Twin Bridges project, Just before landscaping and "effluence" emplacement began...

FrankM.

It finally happened. Diseasals have come to the layout...

Andy get to the clinic right away...they should have a shot for that.....

D500 posted:

It's a Gulf Coast thing:

I Love Gumbo!!!  Great car!

Scrambler81 posted:

How about an out of season Christmas tree shot?

 

A shot like that is never out of season!  Looks Great!

NS Executive train entering NYC via a lift bridge on the "South Fork Railroad".

Nice thread!!  

Another perspective on the Twin Bridges project...

A couple from the defunct club layout

OK- I'm in. Nice thread.

The beginning....

last night......

A picture for today.

Scrambler81 posted:

Love Yoda being there to see the trains pass by!

mike g. posted:

Scrambler81 posted:

Love Yoda being there to see the trains pass by!

Would you believe when I picked him up earlier this year, he was the first Star Wars toy I have ever bought? I always joked that I was the only toy collector on earth without any Star Wars, but as soon as I saw him, I knew where he had to go.

Chris, I still to this day do not have a Stars War toy! LOL

Broader view of the Twin Bridges neighborhood...

Since we are talking Star Wars

Passengers riding NS Executive Train on the "South Fork Railroad".

Those are not the droids we're looking for.

Great Picture Brian! Looks so real!

Docksider pulling power demo:

All postwar and postwar remakes.  The log dump car. the horse car and the reefer are  heavy operating cars, and the other ones aren't lightweights either.  That little loco is a powerhouse!

Pete

Here's my daily contribution.

Happy Friday!

Beginning of the far left corner of the Twin Bridges project neighborhood...

"South Fork Railroad" yard/turntable areas.

Getting ready to take on water.

Scrambler81 posted:

Looks like some Homies are holding the bridge! Great!

Sean

Modeling of the Twin Bridges nearby neighborhood continues...

FrankM

Moonson posted:

Modeling of the Twin Bridges nearby neighborhood continues...

FrankM

Great looking work there Frank! Could be almost any neighborhood near the tracks! From the trees it looks to be in the north.

A little Post-war action from the old carpet central.

Welcome to the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines

Norfolk & Western 611 J on the "South Fork Railroad"

Neighborhood details..

...close to the Twin Bridges...

Hi J Daddy, Super use of available space, and the whole (above photo) landscape looks very handsome.

FRankM

Wonderful photos everyone!   Here is mine for today.

Planning the days work.

Excellent pictures everyone!  I am a few days behind; life got in the way.

good morning.....nice pictures everyone !

Rainy Monday in NY. My Team Track terminal under construction.

Some of of my pals on the layout.

Chris Lonero posted:

Some of of my pals on the layout.

 

Having fun is the best part of playing with trains.
Chris, I really Like it.

RonH

Very nice photos guys!!  Here is mine for today.  "Morning Commuter"

Machinist Herschel Haas approaches S2 2337 at the Caprock, Texas, engine facility, and prepares to check the brake rigging.

wow, nice control panel for your layout !

Larry, I sure am glad there are 2 chairs in your picture, cause it sure looks like too much for just one guy!

Mike, I really like your fueling platform, I also have one for my future layout and it really helps to see what others have done!

Guys 

That is the control panel for the old Clinchfield RR. Way back

I was showing some visiting friends the local museum last week so I thought it would be  nice to share some old old stuff. It's a nice little museum. I will continue one a day on the thread. The old box I posted last was a way they use to train guys (new employees) about the different signal meanings. Neat little homemade box.

Larry��

How about a twofer today? Note the brace for the legs of the sawhorse. I was preparing the upper level of my layout, when the sawhorse collapsed. I wasn't even near it at the time it went. All of my fake snow ended up on the floor. I got so disgusted that I went to Walmart and bought some white cloth material and used that instead.

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

Clinchfield RR ticket window located at the museum.

strike a pose.....

one nice looking train !!

Putnam Division posted:

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

I need some 520's to make that stretch 520.

Gene Anstine

It's 6:30 a.m., and there's a lull in the activity at the Caprock, Texas, engine facility -- except in the locker room.  The night shift is washing up, while the day shift employees are changing into their work clothes.  The night crew left things in good shape.  The engines for the locals are ready, the yard engines have fuel, clean windows and plenty of ice in their water coolers, and all road engines have been serviced and made ready.  During the night, a three-unit FT A-B-B consist headed by the 175L arrived on the CTX, hours late because of a derailment in New Mexico.  The 175 was replaced by three GP7's, which increased the horsepower by 9%, from 4050 to 4500.  That doesn't sound like much, but the CTX will top every hill several MPH faster, and should arrive at Temple at least an hour earlier.  The 175 will go out on a westbound freight this afternoon.

Passenger F7 A-B-B 307L-A-B will trade out with a two-unit  PA1-PB1 Alco-GE consist on 2nd Number 3.  West of Clovis, it will be up hill half of the way to Barstow, and the extra 500 horsepower will keep 2nd No.3 closer behind 1st No.3.  2nd 3 has the chair cars and more station work than 1st 3, thus the desire to swap engines during the station stop at Caprock.

Both consists pictured here have been fueled and serviced.  Roundhouse Foreman Tommy Willis is frugal with compliments, but he's quietly proud of night laborers Estubio Cruz and Robert Hancock, who have left the cab floors of these consists clean enough to eat off of, and there is not one trace of a bug on the nose or windshield of either engine.  That's the way they do things at Caprock engine service facility.

trumptrain posted:

Wonderful photos everyone!   Here is mine for today.

Wow! A GG1 double-header.  There's going to be some serious speed on the Free State Jct. when this pair leaves town.  Pat, your commuters might get a surprise when these G's show up.

More Twin Bridges environs...

Putnam Division posted:

An old favorite.....

I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....

Peter

I'm a sucker for 50's era catalogs!

And as a matter of fact I still have a few bow ties around and I can still tie them!

Lou N

tank farm cont.

Heavy Traffic

A special meeting at the station.

Here is mine for today.

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Here's my daily!

Putnam Division posted:

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.

An additional question for you, Peter...

Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used?  I've been looking for dimensions without success.

Regards,

Lou N

Christmas 2016

Almost missed posting a photo today.  Clark W. Griswold got lost again, on the way to Phoenix, with Aunt Edna trussed up and strapped to the rooftop luggage rack.  Here, the Griswold Family Truckster heads west out of Caprock, Texas.

am  or pm.......

Post War Alco heading for the Engine shop.

Tank farm near Twin Bridges, cont.

I have also loved those New Haven's.  I waited 18 months for this new MTH...

A Lionel conventional...

MTH F-3's...

Jerry

Selkirk N.Y.

NJCJOE posted:

Joe your layout and shelf photos are very nice, really enjoy them.

My little church scene

Super church scene Roger!!

Meanwhile, back in tinplateland, one of them newfangled streamliners is pulling into town:

Roger,

Agree, great church scene.  Where did you get those extremely cool gazebo's?

Jerry

JerryG posted:

Roger,

Agree, great church scene.  Where did you get those extremely cool gazebo's?

Jerry

I got the Gazebos from a vendor at York....about 5 years ago. Don't remember who, but they were in the orange hall.

Thanks for your good words.

A fun ride. The Alamosa Car with a very nice bar and young lady tending it.

Thanks Roger.  Found them on the web from a guy in MD.  Put in an order.

Jerry

Eat Mor...

Lou N posted:

Putnam Division posted:

How about some jets?

Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.

Peter

Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.

An additional question for you, Peter...

Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used?  I've been looking for dimensions without success.

Regards,

Lou N

Lou......sorry, no..........2 suggestions......have you tried the NH Historical Society?    When Model Railroader has one of the 24 hr free look at our Archive offer, see if anyone has done an article.

Peter

My grandfather had two careers.  One was for Southern on the CNO&TP.  The other was bridge construction.  Sometimes his two careers crossed paths, such as building the new bridge at Burnside KY.  In the 1950 photo from his collection It's nearing completion over the Cumberland River, soon to be lake.

This is the beginning of my 12 foot of modules that I am adding 6 feet to.....it will remain both urban and industrial. I will be telling the story here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/max-foods

Here is about 2/3 of the way down.

Work is beginning in earnest. I have to be finished for our show at the Science Museum of Virginia on Thanksgiving weekend. 

Peter

New toys...

Starting up the steam engine in the roundhouse:

I like this picture thread.

Another fun ride in East Tennessee  not to long ago was the 630 being helped with two freshly painted Norfolk Southern diesels. # 3521 and 3224.

NJCJOE posted:

Very nice Garden railway. Do you have any live steam engines?

No, I don't Maybe someday.

jstraw124 posted:

My grandfather had two careers.  One was for Southern on the CNO&TP.  The other was bridge construction.  Sometimes his two careers crossed paths, such as building the new bridge at Burnside KY.  In the 1950 photo from his collection It's nearing completion over the Cumberland River, soon to be lake.

 

I've always been in awe of what it takes to be an iron worker. Some of the heights that these people work are truly amazing to me. I don't like being on a step ladder, let alone imagine working at some of the heights they do! 

Twin Bridges Tank Farm, cont.

I don't know if I can keep up with a picture a day, but I'll try. Here's one from the past when I was first working with modules, and trying out various scenery options.