@p51 posted:
People standing around.
Rich looking scene with the variation in the greens and darker shadows of the station ,engine and water tower sir. I'm used to seeing your great black and white photos but I must say this color iteration is pretty impressive.
Nice 
@Dallas Joseph posted:Rich looking scene with the variation in the greens and darker shadows of the station ,engine and water tower sir. I'm used to seeing your great black and white photos but I must say this color iteration is pretty impressive.
Nice
Wow, thank very much. That means a great deal to me.
As for the use of color, yeah, I guess I am often looking to create 1940s looking shots, that I forget to show people the colors I worked so hard on. East Tennessee has such a very vibrant and green look to it, I still don't think I've nailed the look. But I'm working on that.
Funny that you'd post what you did, I had someone visit for the NMRA convention recently and he'd seen it online. His first reaction upon walking into the room was to literally take a step back as if someone had pushed him and said, "Wow, it's, so... GREEN. I wouldn't have guess that!"
More people standing around.
Observation car as in Mark’s photo.
Hey here's a "twofer" with both Randy (McDonalds) and pennsyfan and Sitka (people standing around)
Best Wishes
Don
More people standing around. Hope everyone has a good Memorial Day weekend.
Bob
Ice cream cone as seen in Bobfett’s photo
Well if you haven't got an ice cream stand, then you have to do with an ice cream truck!! I vividly remember the excitement on summer evenings, stretched out with daylight saving time, when we kids would hear the ringing of the bells announcing the arrival of the ice cream truck.
Best Wishes
Don
Good Humor serving kids in the park. I think the Engineer of the local freight grabbed a vanilla pop. 
PRR Box / Automobile Car on local freight (also PRR locomotive and caboose).
Best Wishes
Don
Red vehicle, station platform.
Following pennsyfan: red vehices at the drive-in theater. Casablanca is showing tonight, as part of their WW II tribute. "Here's looking at you, kid."
Hope you all had a great Memorial Day.
Bob
No drive-in; but I have a station wagon in front of the Palace Theater, and my Grandson is the featured performance on American Bandstand.
Did some say red Nomad?
@Sitka posted:Did some say red Nomad?
Nice line up of Pennsy power!
@pennsyfan posted:Nice line up of Pennsy power!
Thanks Bob they were Junkers decided to repaint to P.R.R. , Mark
@Randy Harrison posted:The Blue Comet and the Nellie Bly depart from the Great Northeastern Railway's suburban station Terryville on their quest to be first to arrive in Atlantic City.
I didn’t have a Blue Comet in my collection till a few years ago. My community is a little less than two miles from Farmingdale NJ. At the Southern end of the town is a RR track that was marked on maps as Conrail Secondary. It breaks off from the NJ Transit shore line in Red Bank and runs down through Lakewood. A few years ago someone wrote an article in our newsletter about the history of our area. My heart flipped when I read that the Blue Comet ran on that track on the way to AC. I got a book about the Blue Comet and verified the account. So I decided that I had to have a Blue Comet. One of my train Brothers had a few. He gave me an original Lionel Blue Comet, boxed set for the original price. Which is what he had paid. I learned further the the President of Jersey Central had signs erected at overpasses with the times that trains would pass. One of those signs was on the Collingswood overpass, about a mile east of my community. I got our Train Clubs Scenery painter to make this sign for the club layout.
@pennsyfan posted:I didn’t have a Blue Comet in my collection till a few years ago. My community is a little less than two miles from Farmingdale NJ. At the Southern end of the town is a RR track that was marked on maps as Conrail Secondary. It breaks off from the NJ Transit shore line in Red Bank and runs down through Lakewood. A few years ago someone wrote an article in our newsletter about the history of our area. My heart flipped when I read that the Blue Comet ran on that track on the way to AC. I got a book about the Blue Comet and verified the account. So I decided that I had to have a Blue Comet. One of my train Brothers had a few. He gave me an original Lionel Blue Comet, boxed set for the original price. Which is what he had paid. I learned further the the President of Jersey Central had signs erected at overpasses with the times that trains would pass. One of those signs was on the Collingswood overpass, about a mile east of my community. I got our Train Clubs Scenery painter to make this sign for the club layout.
You are not far from the Comet's route through the Pine Barrens to Winslow Junction where the CNJRR connected to the PRSL into Atlantic City. I have heard of the sign of which you presented but have never seen it before.
What era is your Lionel Blue Comet set? The one you see in my post is the observation car, Halley, from the Lionel MPC era set.
@Randy Harrison posted:You are not far from the Comet's route through the Pine Barrens to Winslow Junction where the CNJRR connected to the PRSL into Atlantic City. I have heard of the sign of which you presented but have never seen it before.
What era is your Lionel Blue Comet set? The one you see in my post is the observation car, Halley, from the Lionel MPC era set.
The sign that he painted was made up with times but based on the real thing. I’ll find the picture in the book. My set is MPC.
@pennsyfan posted:The sign that he painted was made up with times but based on the real thing. I’ll find the picture in the book. My set is MPC.
The MPC was a good set for the money. My only problem with it is that the locomotive that comes with the set is a Hudson 4-6-4. The Comet was pulled by a CNJ Pacific 4-6-2. I found on Ebay, a postwar Lionel 2-wheeled trailing truck and, with minimal modification, replaced the Hudson 4-wheeled truck with the 2-wheeled truck making the MPC locomotive a 4-6-2 Pacific.
Bob and Randy speaking of the Blue Comet
@Sitka posted:Bob and Randy speaking of the Blue Comet
Very nice, Mark!
Coach with passengers:
Well I am a little late this afternoon but here goes anyway:
From Randy Harrison, Sitka, and pennsyfan...here is another "Blue Comet" locomotive, the Lionel (MPC) #8303 from 1973-74. Randy, this one is a 2-4-2 so its correct in front and back but wrong in the middle 
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For pd coach with passengers, here is an American Flyer set from the 1920's
Best Wishes everyone
Don
Don, I can't see the passengers, lol!
Switch tower:
@Don McErlean posted:Well I am a little late this afternoon but here goes anyway:
From Randy Harrison, Sitka, and pennsyfan...here is another "Blue Comet" locomotive, the Lionel (MPC) #8303 from 1973-74. Randy, this one is a 2-4-2 so its correct in front and back but wrong in the middle
Best Wishes everyone
Don
Don:
Below is a photo of the MPC Blue Comet to which I refer. It looks to be made with the Lionel post war tooling of one of the Lionel Hudsons. This engine was definitely a 4-6-4 Hudson in Blue Comet clothing until my son and I altered it.
@pd- Well you have to use your imagination 
Those passengers are all dressed up for a 1920's era football game, straw hats, big corsages on the ladies, and banners. Why there is even a live band in the baggage car. (OK perhaps that is going a little too far ).
@Randy Harrison - got you Randy, I guess I was just trying to say I was further "off" reality than you were but still enjoying "my" blue comet.
Don
While we’re still on the Blue Comet. This picture is from the book “Images of Rail New Jersey Central’s Blue Comet” , authored by Anthony Puzzilla. Anthony gave his permission to use the photograph.
Blue Comet awaiting Passengers.
Passenger trains from different eras.
Another Passenger car from another era.
Another streamliner picking up passengers.
Don
Lionel City of Portland
@pennsyfan posted:Lionel City of Portland
Nice looking set Bob That Marx set was given to me years ago by a fella Grunt. Nice looking set
@pennsyfan-My streamlined is Marx and it’s pre-war from 1936-1937. Mine is electric but they were also made clockwork and in a yellow / tan color scheme and silver/ maroon.
Sitka’s red/ silver streamliner was also a available pre war in 1940 but came back after the war from 1948-1952 . It also came both clockwork or electric and in at least 3 other color schemes
Best wishes. Don
@pennsyfan posted:
Marx I would say 1960s
@Sitka posted:Marx I would say 1960s
Just seen what Don posted didn't think they are that old.
Beacon seen on Pennsyfan layout.
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