Hit Me With Your Best Shot

How is the MTH layout coming? I been waiting to hear or seem a post and pictures. I know you got it home but waiting to hear.

@trumptrain posted:

Although posted on other threads in the past, I consider this shot to be one of my "best shots."  " "Yard floodlights enable the night shift unloading crew to work full tilt boogie"

Outstanding photo, Patrick.

Patrick, your basic scenery style is similar to mine, which I call the down and dirty style. I like it because my experience with real railroads is that they are also down and dirty, oftentimes with litter strewn about the right of way..

I will post a photo later showing my down and dirty layout.

Another basic style is clean and neat, which can be very attractive, even beautiful. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes when I see a clean and neat layout, I like it so much I think of adopting that approach with my own layout. Arnold

@DohertyNJ posted:

Love the black and white photo of the baseball field.

@CurtisH posted:

How is the MTH layout coming? I been waiting to hear or seem a post and pictures. I know you got it home but waiting to hear.

Just staring to reconstruct it. I will post some more pictures and another video on my original thread about it in the next few days. I have several hours of raw video and thousands of pictures to review and condense. Thanks for asking!

Here is a down and dirty scene from my layout:

You can strive for beauty with down and dirty scenery:

Hey Mack, I don't have all day, I've got work to do, will you please fill her up:

Arnold

Christmas

The transfer caboose ... crew confers with the conductor.

@trumptrain posted:

The transfer caboose ... crew confers with the conductor.

Now that is one great looking caboose. It exemplifies the beauty that can be seen in a down and dirty train car.

@trumptrain posted:

The transfer caboose ... crew confers with the conductor.

Having railroad ties and other debris strewn about along or near the right of way can help create the down and dirty look, which comes naturally to me. LOL.

Arnold

I'm perhaps giving away the fact that I'm a native Californian with my preference in railroads shown in this photo. I'm perhaps giving away my age as well as I can recall seeing all of these locomotives in service. The Plasticville radio station in the background only plays the classics.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Having railroad ties and other debris strewn about along or near the right of way can help create the down and dirty look, which comes naturally to me. LOL.

Arnold

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!

@trumptrain posted:

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!  

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Now that is one great looking caboose. It exemplifies the beauty that can be seen in a down and dirty train car.

Thanks Arnold!!  Yes I needed a transfer caboose for my fleet.  E-bay came through for me with this Lionel model at a very nice price.   Upon receiving the caboose I got busy weathering the car to give it that well used, out in elements for years, dirty, look.  

A cold night in the Cascade Mountains but the crew is nice and warm in their big electric motors. Click photo to enlarge. Don

@trumptrain posted:

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!

If you like the down and dirty look you might consider searching Google and YouTube for George Sellios' Franklin and South Manchester Railroad.  I have had the good fortune to visit George and his layout. 

Regards,

Lou N

@Brad Trout posted:

@PRRronbh - nice shot!  any recollection of who makes that white barn and where you may have gotten it?

It's an Ertl 1/64 barn, you can find them all over Ebay and Amazon

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Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

It's an Ertl 1/64 barn, you can find them all over Ebay and Amazon

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Jerry

This is an O-Scale building.

I am still trying to find out the maker!  Also this model has no silo like I believe the Earth does.

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

This is an O-Scale building.

I am still trying to find out the maker!  Also this model has no silo like I believe the Earth does.

Ron

No it is an Ertl Dairy Farm toy, they are 1/64 and the silo can be separated from the barn if needed.

Here is an old post on the barn  :

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...rm-county-on-o-gauge

And they can still be found.

https://www.3000toys.com/ERTL-...ver-65/sku/ertl12279

Jerry

@Brad Trout posted:

@PRRronbh - nice shot!  any recollection of who makes that white barn and where you may have gotten it?

"Replication of 765's run with NKP 8100 NS heritage unit."

Brad, I have the definitive answer.  Stopped by the "Choo-Choo Shop" yesterday.  The fellow that does most of the ordering was there.  He first thought it is the Ertl "Farm County" set.  Told him I checked that and that set's barn has a large silo.  So he got on the computer checked and decided it is Ertl's 1/64 Dairy Farm Set.  "Baltimoretrainwoks" posted a picture of that set above.  I am surprised that it is 1/64 (S-guagr/scale) looks bigger and was the largest building ever n the layout.

Another view of the layout.

Sure looks big!

Ron

C16 Docksider.  Photo taken in natural light.

Lou N, you are so correct, The Franklin and South Manchester model railroad, built by George Sellios, built in HO gauge, was one of the very best Realistic model railroads ever built. I think, “Green Frog Productions” made two super nice videos of this masterpiece. I have the 8 track videos and actually had them re-made into CD’s. Yes, they are an education in scenery making. Down right real, down right dirty, so to speak. Trumptrain, I love that rusty hunky Dockside switcher in the neat night scene. Scale Rail, I love that electric locomotive crossing the trestle, so realistic. Happy Railroading Everyone

Fishing

Took this recently. Gotta make time to get this on the layout.

Family going on vacation.  Circa early 1950s.

@trumptrain posted:

Family going on vacation.  Circa early 1950s.

Gorgeous, Patrick. I love the style and colors of the car/wagon, trailor, house in background and scenery.

Who made the station wagon and trailor?

Don't feed the deer!

Different angles:

Arnold

@RSJB18 posted:

Took this recently. Gotta make time to get this on the layout.

I have enjoyed seeing the evolution of this scene.  It looks like a movie still!  Great work!

Thanks- It just needs Bonnie and Clyde with their Tommy guns!

Finished adding drift timbers on my trestle

Arnold, your different angles video is just fantastic!

Thanks for posting.
always full of inspiration!

Leroof, I had to crawl up on top of my washing machine to take that shot, and take this one too, through the Erector Set Bridge you put together and gave me. It is one of my favorite things on my layout.

I think Erector Set Bridges look pretty realistic. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Leroof, I had to crawl up on top of my washing machine to take that shot, and take this one too, through the Erector Set Bridge you put together and gave me. It is one of my favorite things on my layout.

I think Erector Set Bridges look pretty realistic. Arnold

Agreed! And Arnold, we appreciate the High Risk you took to get the perfect shot. Leroof, I get vertigo from the sheer height of that trestle over Dry Gultch.. When I come to help clear a few random rocks I hope that you put me with the crew on the GROUND. Fun shots gents, (Hmmmm, Where IS that erector set, Arnold you mave have just solved my Bridge issues....) Salute

@Miggy posted:

Agreed! And Arnold, we appreciate the High Risk you took to get the perfect shot. Leroof, I get vertigo from the sheer height of that trestle over Dry Gultch.. When I come to help clear a few random rocks I hope that you put me with the crew on the GROUND. Fun shots gents, (Hmmmm, Where IS that erector set, Arnold you mave have just solved my Bridge issues....) Salute

Frank, Leroof is The Man, when it comes to Erector Set Bridges.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Different angles:

Arnold

Wow... another Arnold classic!  More fun!

Let me try a different angle as well.  I have wired the block signal to the venerable 022 switch.

Railroad activity during the late afternoon.  Photo using late afternoon natural light which wafts thru the west side window of my train room.

An Ives 1134 coming from behind the Ives factory.

Steve

Another late night.

Hobos living the dream.