Weekend Photo Fun 1-11-13-??

Here is three picture's of my two new green and red led's dwarf signals from china and my new JVC HD Camcorder. I got the camcorder as a late christmas gift so hoping to do some better video's.  

Galley Proof:  I had been thinking of trying to squeeze RMT's Budd trucks under a 520 shell, but doing the BEEP looks easier. Very nice, can you show a little more "how-to"?

Very nice concept and execution, Rick.  And you got that blue-green C&O cab interior color just right.  Your personal record will be awarded ten merits.

Finally running a train on a portion of the new layout, HURRAY!    Russ

Here's a couple of photos of Lionel's latest Southern Crescent Limited pulling the Heavyweight passenger cars.

 Hey Marty, good to see you back! Al

Running the 610 Greenbrier past the newly installed coal tower.

Been busy installing relays and signals.  It's early evening and a PRR frieght is easing its way out of Maryville.  Bo 

Visit my website Bo's Trains at http://www.bostrains.com

Once the track arrives, I'll begin the construction of my continuos running micro layout. Here's an artists rendering of the layout:

That Micro layout looks cool! How big is the foot print?

t8afao Great work would you kindly let us know how you achived it. 

James

Better yet, document a conversion and write a how-to article for the magazine.  It will pay you more than all the components cost, and a good number of our readers may be interested in making a similar conversion.

Here's wishing my son Brady a happy first birthday! Nothing like spending Saturday Mornings in the train room with you.. Love you son. 

My Tinplate Layout's tribute to the late, late Tom Snyder...

  Priceless!

some of the engines gracing the TMB Model Train Club on Long Island. The Pennsy electric (WIlliams) and the 1121 NYC Consolidation (mth) are mine

UP 4000 leads a stock train:

Some of my favorites.

That's pretty funny!!  Well, maybe that was true for years past.  Now a days those bottles store the ballast that I use.  Sturdier than pop (soda for yunzers not from PGH ) bottles so their easier to use.

Thanks for the compliment.  I wonder was 2013 will bring too!

- walt

Holy smokes! My son is also named Brady and he just turned 1 in November. And he has the same pajamas and loves trains. 

Congrats!

The foorprint is a 4' x 3'.

Galley Proof:  I had been thinking of trying to squeeze RMT's Budd trucks under a 520 shell, but doing the BEEP looks easier. Very nice, can you show a little more "how-to"?

Art, sorry I couldn't post sooner;  busy day. The pilots are cut off from an extra BEEP shell and glued to the chassis. The 520 shell is almost a perfect fit and needs no modification. I glued small 1/2" by 1/2" square blocks of wood into each corner of the body. I then drilled small holes through the BEEP chassis into the wood for screws to hold the body shell on the chassis.

You are a great father George. That is something to be proud of. Brady is very fortunate to have a dad like you.

Great shots, the NYO&W is scare in MTH or Lionel.  I use have one on mine. 

Found another in the "Adventures of the O-Gauge Railfan" series. He discovered this nice B&O 4-4-0 on the National Capital Trackers modular layout. The display was at Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.  Photo taken 12/29/2012.

Expanding freight operations due to increased demand.

Anyone recognize this guy and where he is at ?????

Oh my! That's Alan!(Leavingtracks). Is he in your layout?

No not mine, but a fellow Mid America 3 Railers member. We had a GREAT time in St. Louis.

Happy weekend, all y'all! Runnin' trains makes a body powerful thusty!

IS that Wayne Newton? What's He doing out of Vegas?

That's Alan (leavingtracks) with his head coming out of Alex & Judy Ingeniro's awesome layout. Great to see you guys having a nice time.

ALEX

Alan is likely to pop up anywhere.

BINGO !!!! Alex. You are correct. What a Layout. I wish OGR would feature it in their magazine. Well worth the time if anyone of you on this forum come close to St. Louis. I am sure Alex would love to show you his wonderful layout. He has a lot of little "tricks" on the layout for you to find. One fine couple, Alex and Judy. We really enjoyed the layout and the food this past weekend.

Hey there!!  Just arrived back home about an hour ago and saw the recent picture from the Post Office / FBI offices Roger posted of that guy that is going around impersonating me!!  Roger...I am going to have to confiscate that camera of yours!!

Actually...If you guys really knew what happened while Alex was running the Amtrak train and why I was in the lift out section, you would think that ol' Scraprion was somewhere nearby....ANYWAY, I will let "Ingenerio" tell you what happened. 

We had a great time and I will be posting pictures on Alex's thread...

Thanks Roger...

Wayne Newton...I mean...

Alan

Thank you again, Alex M., Roger and Alan for your nice comments.

Yes, yes, yes – Roger caught Alan taking a close look at an engine through a hatch adjacent to the turntable. Why? A bit embarrassing . . . but I’ll tell you:

Roger, Alan and I were on the east side of the Hidden Pass Junction RR and had just watched the Amtrak passenger train disappeared into one of the tunnels through Hidden Pass Mountain. We could not see the west side graded track where the train was headed, but we could hear it run.

Suddenly, Alan and Roger said, “The train stopped! We can’t hear it anymore.” So we walked over to the west side, and sure enough, there we saw the Amtrak Dash-9 in a precarious situation – the front truck was hanging over the turntable pit!

I had forgotten to throw the switch after running steam engines into the area, and the Amtrak headed right to the turntable instead of the graded track.  The bridge was aligned with one of the whisker tracks, so the engine could go no further that the edge of the turntable pit, and fortunately, there it stopped. We reached through the hatch, repositioned the engine on the track, and everything was fine after that.

We had a lot a fun running the trains, indeed; and the unplanned (and ensuing friendly ribbing) of a train ‘almost’ running off a ‘cliff’ provided unexpected excitement.

Thanks to all for coming!

Alex

Was in Nashville this past weekend visiting a college with my son. Awoke on Saturday morning and looked out the hotel window and saw this glorious view of the old Union Station. Now it's hotel, but we did some walking around and it is a quite a beautiful old train station.