Photo Chain Game

Signals controlling bridge tracks.

Following Don Winslow, Sitka, Dallas Joseph,pennsyfan and WP...here is a semaphore dual signal from Hornby (UK) dating to the early 50's.  Manual operation only.

Happy Tuesday fellow "Chain Gang" members

Don

per WP - Steam locomotive pulling a box car train.

Following Don M’s vintage Hornby Semaphores.  Two tinplate 1/43 Hornby Semaphores.

@pennsyfan- Hey Bob!  Great looking signals.  Don't know if you are aware, but the "girder type" support post signals pre-war with the Hornby signals, my solid post is post war.  Love your layout and from the trains along the wall I can see we share some common collector interests (I see a Unique Lines freight and some Lionel pre-war passenger cars).

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan- Hey Bob!  Great looking signals.  Don't know if you are aware, but the "girder type" support post signals pre-war with the Hornby signals, my solid post is post war.  Love your layout and from the trains along the wall I can see we share some common collector interests (I see a Unique Lines freight and some Lionel pre-war passenger cars).

Best Wishes

Don

Thanks Don, yes and they came with excellent boxes! That’s a Haftner freight set. There is also a UTTC articulated subway set on that shelf.

Following pennsyfan, Observation car

Following Sitka...Observation Car.

Happy Wednesday!!

Don

I'll see your observation car and raise you one.

@Randy Harrison - Well I can't raise you to 3 , not enough tracks.  However, that is a great scene Randy.  The clock in the center really makes it!

Don

Back to one observation car.

2 Observation cars

Following Sitka’s lumber workers.
Man on sawmill.

From pennsyfan...not exactly a match for the "wood workers"  but how about workers at a place that makes things out of wood? General Door and Sash...

Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean

Don, does that lunch wagon guy know that the 3:15 is on track and on time? 😱

Keeping with the " wood " theme .   Discarded ties.

Following Dallas wood stairs

Continuing wood stairs and adding wooden boardwalk on waterfront.

following pennsyfan watch tower.    (bought with my paper route money)

@pennsyfan- Re your comment on my post...Yup the fellow in that truck is counting on the workers being "REALLY" hungry and wanting their sandwiches ...FAST!!  Thanks for the comment Bob, made me laugh!

from Sitka..."lots of stuff"!  Town scene with stores, shopping, cars, people etc.  Sitka I don't know what you bought with your "paper route" money but I admire your entrepreneurship.  I never had a paper route, got my start cutting grass and shoveling snow (in N.J.).  Wish I had invested in Lionel but I had replaced my 1940's Lionel with HO by 1955...still have that but its not worth anywhere near what my original 1946 Lionel would be today.

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Best wishes everyone, hope your weekend goes well.  Watch out for the HEAT, will be 108 here in central Texas today.

Don

Following Don M’s photo with station platform. Couple making out in front of restrooms.

PRR GG-1

From previous post by Randy H.  ... GG1 with pinstripes, track, and brush along side of track.

Following Trumptrain

GG1 waiting to take the switch.

Pennsy Power - Steam, Electric and Diesel

As posted in prior post to this one by Randy H.  ... Pennsy steam and electric power.

Pennsy steam and electric power,,,

Following Don Winslow, Pennsy electric and diesel

Found in previous post by Sitka ... bridge.

Bridge seen on trumptrain post

Following Sitka’s photo

Tower

Bridge per trumptrain and Sitka......

Following the photos of bridges, here’s a passenger train on our bridge. It’s a lift out at the entrance of our train shed.

Bridges

From previous post to this one by Pennsyfan .... display shelves with trains.

following trumptrain (Patrick)...Display shelves with trains .

Don

Following Don’s display shelves and Trumptrain’s memorabilia display.
Paper charts from Hoboken Tower.

OK - so this is a stretch, but from Bob's impressive charts, diagrammatic rail routes...

Following Don W’s control board

My control board.
. Engineer control handles that I acquired from a retired engineer. There are two vintages there.

Well I don't have any control panels worth seeing, but I will jump back to @Don Winslow for a pair of B&O RDC's.

This is an odd pair, the rear one # 2559 is a true classic Lionel postwar from 1957-58 and is unpowered.  It was a gift from my brother from his boyhood trains where he used it (imagination reigns) as a dinning car on his passenger train.  The forward one which I purchased to give the pair motive power is Lionel (MPC) #8764 B&O powered RDC from 1977.  Except for the number I could find no difference between the MPC version and the post war version.

Best Regards

Don

Following Don M’s RDCS; here is a KUSAN RDC. Sorry Don, I don’t have the dinning car.
🤪

I ran across an old post war powered #400 at a good price and bought it. I liked it so well, that I then bought the newer reissue car that goes with it. They match very nicely.

Coal tower seen on WP layout

Following Sitka’s hand truck on platform.

Following hand trucks at a station, here’s a baggage cart at the station.

Stake body truck at the harbor with its load.

Water seen on Randy's shot

Mark, great water scene showing running water.
Coal barge and tug boat.

A "Two-fer"... from pennsyfan and WP - a hand truck...from Randy Harrison, Sitka, and pennsyfan- Water!!

Best Wishes

Don

Man standing as seen on Don McErlean photo.    Don bought a few items with that paper route money, I also cut grass, raked leaves and shoveled driveways for money the good old days.

Following Sitka’s man standing.

Following Bob’s picture with the crane car.

Following John’s wood ties end of track.

from pennsyfan and WP ... Yard crane

@Sitka...Leaves, snow...etc, glad I didn't live in central Texas as a boy...no snow, no leaves!

Don

Following Don M , dockside gantry crane.

Following pennsyfan crane

The crane unloads a flat car full of lumber.

Coal crane loading hoppers.

from pennsyfan...Yard crane unloading new drill press from flatcar for General Door & Sash. Hot day, in foreground, crew taking a break.

Finished product being shipped from Master Craft Door Company.

Flat car with cargo following pennsyfan

Building with fire escape as seen on Sitka’s photo.

Steam engine seen on pennsyfan layout

Following Sitka’s switcher; 44 tonner spotting hoppers at coal crane siding.

Following pennsyfan's 44 Ton Switcher, here is another 44 ton moving a boxcar into position for unloading.

Best Wishes - Hope your week has started well and continues in the same way

Don

Pepsi truck from Don’s photo.

Delivery truck from ssm photo

Barn and silo

Barn, et. al, from one of our previous Christmas layouts.

Following horse in Randy’s photo; pony ride.
Delivery truck blocking trolley track; reminiscent of riding the Nostrand Avenue trolley in Brooklyn.

Following pennsyfan...a Phillips seafood car...

Happy Tuesday everyone.  Don

Freight car on track.

Freight cars

Freight cars again.....

Freight cars

More freight cars in the yard.

Boxcar:

Potatoes not products

From pennsyfan...Nope Products not Potatoes

Best Wishes, Happy "Hump" Day, Don

Not a KCS; but same colors. KCS does have a hand in the Panama Canal for Railway.

Diesel as seen on pennsyfan photo

Another Diesel.

from Randy Harrison...another diesel!

Best Wishes

Don

I'll see your Diesel and raise you a PRR S-2 Steam Turbine.

I don’t have any steam on the layout right now but I do have this diesel on a flatcar.

Diesel (of sorts):

Lamp post seen on pd photo

Following FM in Sitka’s photo.
JC FM on the point of mixed freight. EL AS-616 coming up on track 2 with a tank train.

following pd..."BEEP's" forever !!  "Air Force...we deliver the Atomic Energy Committee's products"

Don

Naval Weapons Station Earle; “where the fleet shops for their toys”

BEEP

Hoppers seen on pennsyfan layout

Copying Light tower on Sitka’s photo.

Gondola following pennsyfan

Self explanatory.

Ha!  Thanks Randy, I have been wondering if I would ever get a chance to use this picture, but your input is a direct parallel.  Items in a gondola from pre-war (Chicago) American Flyer.  Uncatalogued but carrying # 1129 iaw the Dealer's Price List is the Package or Container car from 1936.

Happy Weekend Fellows...Best Wishes

Don

Gondola.

A load for the scrap yard.

A load from the scrap yard being transferred to a barge.

Barrel shed seen on pennsyfan layout

PRR Locomotives.

Electric

Electric

EF-4 (E33) Electric

PRR L-5

Electric! Lionel 520.

Men working seen on WP shot.

Work caboose with repaired roof and some rail yard characters

From franktrain ... Lionel #6119-25 DL&W work caboose in orange from 1956-1959

Hope your weekend is going well.  Have a happy Labor Day holiday

Don

Work Cabeese resting and one work caboose working.

Lionel work caboose working at the end of my 1956 Xmas train.

Switcher as seen on WP Video

Switcher as seen on Sitka’s post

K-Line 0-4-0 switcher

From WP - work caboose at end of my 2021 Christmas Train  AND from Sitka & pennsyfan ... an 0-4-0 switcher in charge!

Best Wishes for a Happy Labor Day Holiday

Don

Santa...

@Don McErlean posted:

From WP - work caboose at end of my 2021 Christmas Train  AND from Sitka & pennsyfan ... an 0-4-0 switcher in charge!

Best Wishes for a Happy Labor Day Holiday

Don

Switcher?

Following Don W’s F3

F3

Observation car as seen on Sitka’s photo.

From Pennsyfan’s observation car post, here’s my SP observation car.

Following WPs observation

MR BiPolar heavy electric

Train and truck.

truck and train

Flatcar load

From Sitka ,Car and Train, as opposed to Truck and Train.  From pennsyfan...flatcar load.  Note for your interest, these are Mettoy freight wagons and the car is a plastic Jaguar (not original) that I picked up in the UK at the same time as the freight cars.  The station (missing a roof) is a Mettoy as well.  All tinplate from the 1950's

Following Don M’s tin train

Haftner tank car and gondola

Tank car