Hit Me With Your Best Shot

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.

Pure power and Beauty!

Music for the Christmas Eve midnight mass at the church of St. Whatshisface. The chamber orchestra is joined by a guest artist from the nearby zoo on tuba.

"And here's to you, New York, New York:"

Frank loved O Gauge trains as much as we do.

Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

"And here's to you, New York, New York:"

Frank loved O Gauge trains as much as we do.

Arnold

I love your baseball stadiums, Arnold......great work!

Peter

MTH PS3 Long Island B6 steam switcher passing by the dairy farm in Northern Westchester County and thru My Little Town along The Put:

Arnold

Regards,

A siding at night.

Sunny days in the south.

Two luxury express trains leaving Union Station Christopolis en route to their respective east and west destinations

Here are 2 scenes from our 2012 store layout at Richardson Farms in White Marsh, Maryland. The first is the Disney Park scene

The second is a triumphal return from a successful fishing trip on the lake.

@Randy Harrison posted:

Here are 2 scenes from our 2012 store layout at Richardson Farms in White Marsh, Maryland. The first is the Disney Park scene

The second is a triumphal return from a successful fishing trip on the lake.

Gorgeous, Randy. I particularly like the delightful water scene. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari

Arnold:

Thanks for the complement. The photo of the lake is the best one for showing off the water feature.

It's not "Goldilocks and the three bears" it's "The Berkshire and the two bears"

Keep those trains running!

Don and Juan in their natural business habitat ... on the other side of the tracks.

One that I took many years back for the Paradise and Pacific Railroad:

From our old mountain layout some years ago

C Sam, that’s a beautiful UP ABA and a awesome setting, great scenery detailing. GG1 4877, Jonathan, beautiful diesels, nice setting, Trumptrain, Don and Juan seem to have made a great business deal on the tracks, good scenery detailing, today, Friday, it’s raining here in Tennessee. Happy Railroading Everyone

Best Shot. Stillwater Lift Bridge in Minnesota, at Christmas. Made me want to build one out of wood. Still working on That one.. haha

Locomotive service track.  Raw sand is in storage bunker at sand house (  right of right track ) , then baked in oven inside the shed ( sand house ) , once baked sand is blown thru underground pipe system up to the holding vessel tower on left. Sand is fed via gravity to locomotives.  Sand comes out white after baked in oven ie: spillage on tracks surrounding the GP 9.  

Winter after a snow fall.

Taking a ride on The Put:

That's all Lionel: a TMCC Ten Wheeler hauling heavyweight passenger cars.

My best shot - Lionel Legacy NY Central 10 wheeler with whistle steam hauling K Line NY Central Heavyweight Madison cars:

Now, it's your turn: Hit Me with Your Best Shot, Fire Away!

LOL, Arnold

Passengers waiting at the Santa Fe Victoria Station as the Super Chief pulls in.

Lionel 253 with a freight drag:

A love the variety of train photos/videos and all of our diverse interests in trains, which enriches our hobby IMO.

One of my best: MTH PS3 NY Central F3, Lionel NY Central Tugboat, modern oil tankers, George Washingmachine Bridge, Popsicle Stick Polo Grounds, who could ask for more, LOL:

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Passengers waiting at the Santa Fe Victoria Station as the Super Chief pulls in.

Charming.

Mt. Randolph occupies the SE corner of my layout.  

Here is one from my archives.  The Wabash F-3 moving through the industrial area brings traffic to a halt.

Best Wishes

Don

Hit me with your best shot, fire away:

By the camp fire at the other side of the tracks:

Row, row, row your boat....

Mt. Randolph yard at night.

Grade crossing.

Greg P

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

A river runs through it:

Arnold

The zoo.

One of my favorites:

Well since Randy posted a picture from Christmas time, perhaps I will do the same.  I like these because I designed this little layout to be very fictional and fantasy like.  Just for fun.

Here is the "Christmas Express" roaring into town with a load a Christmas Trees - already decorated of course.

Here is a close up of the denizens of the Christmas Village, getting their hot cocoa and cokes from vending machines and a food truck.  The station is an ice cream cone of course and that polar bear is still inside the coke machine.

Here is a short video of the trains in motion.  Note, on Christmas eve my (expensive) Lionel engine gave up the ghost and would not move (stripped gears) but my ever faithful Marx #400 (cost $10) took over and saved the Holiday.  Best news, I discovered all of the "sound effects" (choo choo, whistle, etc) are in the tender and it still worked fine!!

Well I hope I am not too far afield with Christmas pictures.  Have a great week everyone

Best Wishes

Don

Lionel Legacy NY Central 10 Wheeler hauling NY Central Madison heavyweights:

Love the whistle steam. Arnold

The village fire department.