Weekend Photo Fun 1-11-19–??

Let’s Go for a Trackside Walk • One Mile South & One Mile North

CN Yard •  Pontiac, Michigan • January 4th, 2019 • 41°F, Sunny, 3 hour walk prior to sunset.

All images shot with an iPhone 7 Plus & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.

Fine Dining • Let’s get dinner before going back to the Man Cave, they even have an OGR Forum Reading Room. We are now 1.7 miles east of CN Pontiac Yard. • Like to see MENARD’S manufacture a White Castle.

I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • •  Gary: Have a great weekend.

Some west coast running on my layout. Happy weekend to everyone!

Some Niagara milk train pics......have a great weekend, folks!

Peter

My latest creations, soon to be made by Lionel.  More info here.

Stu

Happy weekend all! Hope everyone stays warm if your in a cold part of the country, I know in northeast Ohio where I am it’s been freezing. 

Photos shot on gold IPhone 7

Around the turn table. Have a great weekend.

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory

Halloween, Christmas/winter, Easter

- walt

Just a slightly different angle

walt rapp posted:

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

Just a slightly different angle

 

Another excellent job Walt!!

Happy Friday! 

Busy week on the layout. Made a bunch more changes. Decided to get a few more realistic buildings & replace the Plasticville. New signals & crossing signals arrived as well. The farm is being relocated at request of my cow/horse crazy kids to a new spot w/ a new Woodland Scenics barn & more grazing area for the cows. 

While not a big fan of 60's Lionel, I do have a few items from that decade. 230 C&O FA-2 leads 1961 set 1643 through the rural countryside 


Decided to keep the 132 station ( albeit in repainted form) as I needed something to tie in w/ PW Lionel. It was relocated close to it's original spot, but I added a spur on the rear for REA shipments. With the layout of the station, it works well. The new signals stand guard looking north.




Built a small hill to act as a scenic block between the 2 tracks 


few more shots of the station & hill - 




Added an MTH farm house in the back corner. Having a farm house was on my list of must haves. 


With the land left vacant from the farm move, urban development quickly moved in & added a road & country post office. The grain bin & corn field will stay put however. 




2046 gets a highball as she pulls out of the station w/ a set of 2400 series Pullmans. 


My new kitten Beto loves hanging out when I'm working on the layout & running the trains 





Lorenzo & Lucia watching some trains in TN - 







A chilly Fall morning finds NS SD60E 7017 (ex NS SD60 6640) departing Roanoke's South Yard with coal train 820


NS AC44C6M 4074 hustles the NS geometry train westbound through Richland, PA on the Harrisburg Line


NJT ALP46 4627 leads a mid day local bound for Long Branch through Red Bank, NJ on the North Jersey Coast Line


NS ET44AC 3630 brings a westbound coal train through Glen Lyn, VA on the western end of the Christiansburg District


My last train photo of 2018 was a good one! A pair of ex Conrail EMDs lead a short local past Jersey Pike in Chattanooga, TN on the last day of 2018.

Great photos guys!  Here's some photo fun from around Patsburg and the Free State Junction Railway.

A short Niagara video......

Peter

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

A short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6AQqPp0z4k

Putnam Division posted:

A short Niagara video......

Peter

Got to love those milk trains!  Very nice Peter! 

My son made this some years ago for my birthday. Truly one of a kind. 

Busy day at the Rail last fall. Have a great weekend and stay warm. 

Action on the S&Y RR

Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators.  It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions.  It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.

Ralph M posted:

My layout AKA "Jasper's Rock" turned 20 years old in December 2018 (Dec 1998 to Dec 2018). Here are some early shots from 1999. I no longer have these locos / cars and today this area of the layout looks nothing like it does in these photos.

I have enjoyed watching your videos of your layout.The trains look real good and the layout makes forget your looking at a model train layout.

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

Hi Bryan,  I must ask, is there any motive power you don't have in your stable'..

I have yet to see one that you've shown, that wasn't a delight to look at'..''

SantaFe158 posted:

Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators.  It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions.  It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.

 

 

looks great to me!

2 unit trains, as different as they can be......

Peter

The new MTH Premier SOO LINE 40' box cars arrived. They will be coupled with the Atlas O SOO LINE 40' box car.

Andrew

Last week of Christmas running with new, albeit late, MTH lighted Christmas cars. No problem with extended Christmas season!

Had a great find to add to the MTH Ma & Pa rolling stock.

Our pair of Lionel Penn Central U33C's showed up earlier this week. My son Steven got them unpacked and into service along with a Conrail U30C from a few years ago. Here the trio is heading westbound towards Altoona as they slam across the grade crossing at Anderson Road along the heart of the former PRR Middle Division. You can bet that except for shortly after delivery from GE, these things never were this clean in real life!

falconservice posted:

The new MTH Premier SOO LINE 40' box cars arrived. They will be coupled with the Atlas O SOO LINE 40' box car.

 

Andrew

Nice!

I made 2 versions a few years ago, tired of waiting and also found a rare Weaver.

Such a common scheme that took many years for MTH to finally offer. Very odd. Now you need the other SOO scheme. MTH just cant shake using those ugly superior doors on everything.

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Our pair of Lionel Penn Central U33C's showed up earlier this week. My son Steven got them unpacked and into service along with a Conrail U30C from a few years ago. Here the trio is heading westbound towards Altoona as they slam across the grade crossing at Anderson Road along the heart of the former PRR Middle Division. You can bet that except for shortly after delivery from GE, these things never were this clean in real life!

Nice Neal. I think we are the few that like the PC. On another note: Did you ever think of using frost spray on parts of your background to simulate fog? It might push the scene further back and add some more interest. Just a thought.

                                                             Another delivery...

Steamer posted:

SantaFe158 posted:

Just about finished up with the rebuild on a rusty and crusty 2330 today with the arrival of new pantographs and insulators.  It's just waiting on a new horn since the original one no longer functions.  It's definitely not a pristine example, but I think it's a neat piece of Postwar history.

looks great to me!

Thank you.  I really like the patina that it's obtained over the years that it sat waiting for its next life.

TMCC Lionel New Haven Alco C420 pulling a tank car unit train and Lionel TMCC KCS F3s hauling a box car unit train pace one another on a bright Saturday morning.  Sorry for the lousy photo.

A   video of Lionel Burlington post-war GP 7 on loan to the New York Central hauling a consist of NYC Pacemaker box cars on my brotherhood of the crappy basements layout.

Finished putting together another Postwar Set. This is the Lionel 1523, "Gandy Dancer" set from the mid-50s.

Seaboard switcher, flat car with pipes, LV hopper, crane car and work caboose.

Looks and runs great!

Roger Wasson posted:

Around the turn table. Have a great weekend.

The detail....

Dave

I really enjoy seeing all the photos of the layouts you post every week.

I don't care to have to skip over all the Real Train photos. There is a Real Trains link that always had a weekly thread for these. When I want to see  real  trains I go there. 

Sorry for the rant.

Forest

Forest posted:

I really enjoy seeing all the photos of the layouts you post every week.

I don't care to have to skip over all the Real Train photos. There is a Real Trains link that always had a weekly thread for these. When I want to see  real  trains I go there. 

Sorry for the rant.

Forest

That's a seriously ridiculous rant.. Love the real trains photos posted here each week. Seriously? You want to chase off Christopher and Brian? Some of the best $+>[ on the thread.  🤣

Finished up my LED conversion on my Amfleet cars. 

Farmer_Bill posted:

My son made this some years ago for my birthday. Truly one of a kind. 

Very nice Bill,  That took a lot of time to build, I bet your heart melted a bit when he gave it to you.

Altoona Cannery

Another day of train training, this time with my grand daughters.

I’m holding Allie and my son Jason is holding Lori.

Thanks, 

Richard

OKHIKER posted:

A   video of Lionel Burlington post-war GP 7 on loan to the New York Central hauling a consist of NYC Pacemaker box cars on my brotherhood of the crappy basements layout.

Great layout! 

Love that "PostWar speed"!

Peter

More pics.....time for the Juice Train......

Peter

One of the fellows brought this train.....it's a copy of a real NS train he has seen going through Blackstone VA....

Peter

A memory!!!

Sunrise on a Sunday:

The railroad robber makes his get-a-way. LOL, Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Sunrise on a Sunday:

The railroad robber makes his get-a-way. LOL, Arnold

Very nice Arnold!  I like how you began with the stillness of early Sunday morning as you panned along with the camera .... then the quick crescendo of the fast freight breaks the silence then quickly fades into silence again .... just as in real life.  Well done!

AMCDave posted:

trainroomgary posted:

 Fine Dining • Let’s get dinner before going back to the Man Cave, they even have an OGR Forum Reading Room. We are now 1.7 miles east of CN Pontiac Yard. • Like to see MENARD’S manufacture a White Castle.

Fine dining is right!!! I got to eat at a Castle last Saturday when I was in Lexington KY.....no stores in my region.......

A nice White Castle is made by Cleaver Models......cheap too.....

Hi AMC Dave: Thanks for checking out my photos and leaving a great tip about “Cleaver Models”. I had a chance to search for these models on YouTube and watched several videos.

I even exchanged a message with one of these YT creators about Cleaver Models, White Castle is on my model railroad bucket list for 2019.

Take care: Gary

trainroomgary posted

Hi AMC Dave: Thanks for checking out my photos and leaving a great tip about “Cleaver Models”. I had a chance to search for these models on YouTube and watched several videos.

I even exchanged a message with one of these YT creators about Cleaver Models, White Castle is on my model railroad bucket list for 2019.

Take care: Gary

Thanks Gary.....the photo you posted is of the brick version....mine is the enameled  sheet metal version. That's what is cool about these kits is the different versions offered. Thx 

Sadly been to busy finishing orders, need that train money for the Amherst show. Just finished this up for a fellow forum member.

It's 1951 on the eastern end of the Santa Fe. The Super Chief, with its brand new dome lounge, slams by on its way to Los Angles lead by an ABBA set of F3s. Meanwhile a GFX train full of California strawberries sprints towards Chicago lead by an ABBA set of F3s.

Both Conrail and RB&B&B Circus are but memories now.

Turtle 2 - cool pics and looks like it was near the Hershey Chocolates factory.