TRAIN THEME THURSDAY : close up shots around the layout......

PAUL ROMANO posted:

                                           Intermodel action at NJ Hirailers.

WOW!!!!   That is a lot of equipment'...

trumptrain posted:

Up close today: " The wrecked hopper car & the car dept. inspectors."  I actually bought this fire damaged Weaver hopper car, as is, off E bay for $5.00  plus $4.00 shipping because I wanted the trucks/couplers.  Once it arrived, I thought why not weather the car and create a scene.   I later photographed the car in different scenerios before removing the trucks.  Here's what I came up with ... including it's delivery by a B&O dockside switch crew.  It all takes place on the Free State Junction Railroad's Mountain Division. 

Very cool Pat'... Great imagination at work here'....

I know I posted this elsewhere but it fits in the spirit of this thread, too:

lee drennen posted:

Wow somebody likes the  piggy back system, and trailers'... Nice shots Lee'...  I love that driver figure'....

Plaza Liquors, Sharky's Loans and top floor is the USO

Here is my newest military piece,built from a 1/48 kit.

Watching busy freight yard

and here is what they see...

sidehack posted:

Plaza Liquors, Sharky's Loans and top floor is the USO

 A true GI hot spot'.  Everything needed in a three story building'...

lee drennen posted:

Nice Lee! Your up early, hope you have a great day!

mike g. posted:

lee drennen posted:

Nice Lee! Your up early, hope you have a great day!

Thanks Mike I’m up at 0400 central time every morning started in to work roads got bad turned around and came back home. You have a great day as well as the others here 

The fella in the tower is trying to figure out what that Southern GP9 really is (apparently he has never seen one) when a Union Pacific ES44AC is ready to pull out onto the main. A generational thing maybe?? 😁

Up close today: " A freshly painted WhiteHouse refer car has been spotted on a rural siding.  Apple growers are pulling up in trucks to off load their precious cargo onto the refrigerator  car.  Later this afternoon the local switch job will take the loaded car to Butler Junction Yard where it will be coupled to others of the same, forming a 26 car block.  The block of reffers will then be cut into the Merchants  Limited due east out of Patsburg.  

Speedway

People pics today..

Here are a few:

More people.....

stangtrain posted:

Here are a few:

Stangtrain: These figures are amazing! Would you mind sharing where you got them? If you made them yourself, my hat is off to you.