just having some, "FUN with our RailRoads"

Brian, it got weird here as well.

The Sun was so bright:

and then it got a lot brighter and Buffy was worried about what might be causing it:

But in the end:

Everything was back to norbal.  

geysergazer posted:

Brian, it got weird here as well.

The Sun was so bright:

        

and then it got a lot brighter and Buffy was worried about what might be causing it:

         

But in the end:

         

Everything was back to norbal.  

What a beautiful shot Lew do you live in the East looks like the Ozark mountains I have around me but I’m at the foothills of them 

                   a little train watching,  down at the station...

                     looking at trains on other tracks,  thru a train...

                                 have a great train day !!

I guess this is the most fun I ever had this far on the Layout is when I took these pics of Circus style loading Piggybacks with a driver I painted 

Spent some midnight oil deciding on tunnel portals for the mountain and placement of buildings.  

  Not sure who parked the ES44AC in the middle of the road. Will have to contact the yard master. 

          your layout is looking great Nick !      Izzy says HI Lola

lee drennen posted:

geysergazer posted:

Brian, it got weird here as well.

The Sun was so bright:

        

and then it got a lot brighter and Buffy was worried about what might be causing it:

         

But in the end:

         

Everything was back to norbal.  

What a beautiful shot Lew do you live in the East looks like the Ozark mountains I have around me but I’m at the foothills of them 

Lee, we live in Western Massachusetts, "The Berkshires". Northern Berkshire County. There are mountains in all for directions. That mountain looking South out of the train-room window is the Greylock Massif. Mt Prospect on the left is 2600ft, Mt Williams on the right is 2950ft and Mt Greylock hidden by the two in front is the High Point of the state at 3491ft.

We look out our window at the Taconic Mts to the West in New York State. The Green Mountains are to our North and extend almost to the Canadian border. To the East is the Hoosac Range and under it is the Hoosac Tunnel, at 25,081ft the first long railroad tunnel in America (at the time of it's completion it was the second longest in the World).

We are from Western Pa (Roomie was born&raised in Mars ) but became acquainted with the Berkshires when our Daughter attended college here. She graduated, got a job and never left. We have done the Pittsburgh-North Adams trip more than a hundred times so we finally moved here.

Some idjit climbed up on the roof of the grain elevator this morning and took these pics:

geysergazer posted:

lee drennen posted:

geysergazer posted:

Brian, it got weird here as well.

The Sun was so bright:

        

and then it got a lot brighter and Buffy was worried about what might be causing it:

         

But in the end:

         

Everything was back to norbal.  

What a beautiful shot Lew do you live in the East looks like the Ozark mountains I have around me but I’m at the foothills of them 

Lee, we live in Western Massachusetts, "The Berkshires". Northern Berkshire County. There are mountains in all for directions. That mountain looking South out of the train-room window is the Greylock Massif. Mt Prospect on the left is 2600ft, Mt Williams on the right is 2950ft and Mt Greylock hidden by the two in front is the High Point of the state at 3491ft.

We look out our window at the Taconic Mts to the West in New York State. The Green Mountains are to our North and extend almost to the Canadian border. To the East is the Hoosac Range and under it is the Hoosac Tunnel, at 25,081ft the first long railroad tunnel in America (at the time of it's completion it was the second longest in the World).

We are from Western Pa (Roomie was born&raised in Mars ) but became acquainted with the Berkshires when our Daughter attended college here. She graduated, got a job and never left. We have done the Pittsburgh-North Adams trip more than a hundred times so we finally moved here.

Thanks Lew it is one beautiful place love the eastern states 

It really is, Lee. We feel quite fortunate to have landed here. The Appalachian Trail is a few hundred feet from our door. It runs North into the Green Mountains and South right up the side of Mt Greylock. The supermarket a few minutes walk from the trail puts out a big picnic table in the Summer and there are always long-distance hikers chowing down on "real food". 

This pic messes with my head in a fun way:

The real model, the photo of the prototype, the one coming, the other going, one color and one B&W, the one growing bigger coming at you, the other growing smaller going away from you.

Ran trains about 10 minutes last night before going to bed.... and enjoyed every moment too!    Here's shot of a Reading FM Trainmaster  on the point of a fast freight.  

I've had a packed work schedule since beginning of January and little time for running trains.  I'm looking forward to some alone time with my trains whenever that time comes.  

                      added some decor to Marci's desk...

                               gonna have to see what she has to say later...

Brian, I hope Marci fully appreciates your generosity. 

I didn't do it today but....just ran across this video I shot last year. I would say this qualifies as fun.....

         cool,  0-4-4-4-0 ...

briansilvermustang posted:

 

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With 3 up coming train show in my area, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and Calgary.   I've completed a few projects that will run on my ' Mexicali Grande 'portable show layout. I finished and weathered this 4-4-2 kit loco in NdeM. The gon is scratch built by molding the sides, ends and floor of the (scratch built)  master in rubber then pouring plastic casting resin. There's several of these on the home layout in various road names and loads.  Finally, I pulled a part the new Lionel 'Hot Box Detector ' and customized it to fit on my two rail home layout.    There's a few more. 'goodies' i'm doing as well and can post them when ready.