Weekend Photo Fun 1-27-12-?

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Originally posted by 1688torpedo:

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Originally posted by SantaFe158:
Well, there was an estate sale on the next block from me and the ad said there were trains. Of course I found a couple things.

A 1688 torpedo from the 30's. Just needed a good cleaning and lube and it's running great (ran fine before the cleanup too). We also managed to find the matching tender for it. My brother and I are going to try to get the matching freight cars for the set tomorrow morning. We got the engine and tender for $65 total (yes, they don't realize that the engine goes with the tender. 15 for the tender, 50 for the "engine car" as they called it) My brother paid for the engine, I chipped in for the tender . I'm still mostly broke from my GG1 purchase a couple weeks ago. I can't wait to see it running under the tree next year. Looks great on my postwar layout.

I also found something for myself.
A Lionel 2472 N5 sheetmetal caboose from 1946-47. I paid $15. I have three PRR engines and no PRR cabooses, so I had to have it. They had a porthole caboose too, but it wasn't in as nice of shape so I left it.

Hi Jake! Your 1688 is a nice find. Glad you have one. Now you'll need to find the black version & the 1668 version of the famous pennsy torpedo You just cannot have one. Have fun with the 1688. They are fine running engines. Take Care.

Maybe I'll have to get my own. This one is technically my brothers since he paid for most of it (I pitched in for the tender ).

J Daddy,

I've seen lots of double decked HO layouts, but I have never seen one in 3 rail O scale. Looks great! Do your two levels connect? How big is your layout? Can you tell us a little more about it?

Hi Paul aka Serows1!

What mfg'er made the FA model in this pic?



Andre

Lionel VL Hudson w/ Commodore Vanderbuilt Passenger consist.

My town, which has no name yet, got its first traffic light:

(MTH traffic light)

Paul aka Serows1

Nevermind!! Found the answer in another thread!

Andre

A few shots from Tom Snyder's layout at the NJHR.

Dave O'Connor added some more interior detail to his-scratch-built roundhouse


Meanwhile, Jack Kemph, AKA "The Apprentice" brought in his latest scratch-building project -- a Pacific Electric Tower Car. Here's the Prototype Photo


Here are the component parts of the model:


Here are the components test-fit together (also handy for transport.)


Here's the paint he got that matches the PE maintenance equipment. It's a "sampler" from Home Depot. $3.00 for enough paint for several models.

Nothing new this week.....just a favorite scene from the old layout.



Peter

These warning posts were on the B & A branch line in the Milford Mass. area near an old quarry. The NH RR also had a branch there, too.




New Yard Shot

I've been working on adding a photo backdrop to the layout. These were made from the Costco Warehouse Photocenter. Each 20X30" poster is only $8.99

So many great pics this weekend! The amount of modeling talent on this forum never ceases to amaze.

Paul/VaGolfer, I never get tired of seeing your layout. Great pics, thanks.

Here are a couple of shots from my layout...







As always, thanks for looking.

Nick

Some photos of my layout stitched together. Very bizarre!

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Originally posted by GEF:
I've been working on adding a photo backdrop to the layout. These were made from the Costco Warehouse Photocenter. Each 20X30" poster is only $8.99

That looks great! What's the source of the original?

Don

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Originally posted by dmestan:

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Originally posted by GEF:
I've been working on adding a photo backdrop to the layout. These were made from the Costco Warehouse Photocenter. Each 20X30" poster is only $8.99

That looks great! What's the source of the original?

Don

I took the pictures on my travels through Pennsylvania. I then used the basic Windows Live Photo gallery to edit and resize the photos. It was really easy. If you want I will email you the pictures I used.


George Flanagan

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Originally posted by SantaFe158:

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Originally posted by 1688torpedo:

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Originally posted by SantaFe158:
Well, there was an estate sale on the next block from me and the ad said there were trains. Of course I found a couple things.

A 1688 torpedo from the 30's. Just needed a good cleaning and lube and it's running great (ran fine before the cleanup too). We also managed to find the matching tender for it. My brother and I are going to try to get the matching freight cars for the set tomorrow morning. We got the engine and tender for $65 total (yes, they don't realize that the engine goes with the tender. 15 for the tender, 50 for the "engine car" as they called it) My brother paid for the engine, I chipped in for the tender . I'm still mostly broke from my GG1 purchase a couple weeks ago. I can't wait to see it running under the tree next year. Looks great on my postwar layout.

I also found something for myself.
A Lionel 2472 N5 sheetmetal caboose from 1946-47. I paid $15. I have three PRR engines and no PRR cabooses, so I had to have it. They had a porthole caboose too, but it wasn't in as nice of shape so I left it.

Hi Jake! Your 1688 is a nice find. Glad you have one. Now you'll need to find the black version & the 1668 version of the famous pennsy torpedo You just cannot have one. Have fun with the 1688. They are fine running engines. Take Care.

Maybe I'll have to get my own. This one is technically my brothers since he paid for most of it (I pitched in for the tender ).

Hi Jake!

I think that both you & your brother got a good deal on the 1688. It looks solid & has all of its original parts from what I can tell. It is probably from around 1939 as that was the last year 1688s were offered in gunmetal grey, after 1939, they came in black. Lionel did the same thing with the 1668 Torpedo's too. You'll want the 1679 Baby Ruth boxcar with orange doors & a blue/green roof or otherwise known as peacock green. Other 1679 boxcars had blue roofs, while yet some were green & there were probably half a dozen variations in between. The next freight car you need is a 1680 Shell Tank Car in Orange with latch couplers. They had nickel or black journels in 1939 with the nickeled ones used up first, then Lionel used the black journels.The 1682 Caboose is all red with black journels & is very common & they had cream trim around the windows. Hope this helps.

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Originally posted by Andrew Lawrence:
Nothing too special... just some prewar car's... the engine 1668 engine is red x'd for maintence.. untill i get around to repairing the drum on the e unit... but it'll get fixed adventually...

Andrew
I like that 60 Lark ragtag. Years ago I had a Lark hardtop with a V8, that car would fly.
I still have a V8 Studebaker in the family, see below

Thank you for your service.

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Originally posted by 1688torpedo:

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Originally posted by SantaFe158:

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Originally posted by 1688torpedo:

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Originally posted by SantaFe158:
Well, there was an estate sale on the next block from me and the ad said there were trains. Of course I found a couple things.

A 1688 torpedo from the 30's. Just needed a good cleaning and lube and it's running great (ran fine before the cleanup too). We also managed to find the matching tender for it. My brother and I are going to try to get the matching freight cars for the set tomorrow morning. We got the engine and tender for $65 total (yes, they don't realize that the engine goes with the tender. 15 for the tender, 50 for the "engine car" as they called it) My brother paid for the engine, I chipped in for the tender . I'm still mostly broke from my GG1 purchase a couple weeks ago. I can't wait to see it running under the tree next year. Looks great on my postwar layout.

I also found something for myself.
A Lionel 2472 N5 sheetmetal caboose from 1946-47. I paid $15. I have three PRR engines and no PRR cabooses, so I had to have it. They had a porthole caboose too, but it wasn't in as nice of shape so I left it.

Hi Jake! Your 1688 is a nice find. Glad you have one. Now you'll need to find the black version & the 1668 version of the famous pennsy torpedo You just cannot have one. Have fun with the 1688. They are fine running engines. Take Care.

Maybe I'll have to get my own. This one is technically my brothers since he paid for most of it (I pitched in for the tender ).

Hi Jake!

I think that both you & your brother got a good deal on the 1688. It looks solid & has all of its original parts from what I can tell. It is probably from around 1939 as that was the last year 1688s were offered in gunmetal grey, after 1939, they came in black. Lionel did the same thing with the 1668 Torpedo's too. You'll want the 1679 Baby Ruth boxcar with orange doors & a blue/green roof or otherwise known as peacock green. Other 1679 boxcars had blue roofs, while yet some were green & there were probably half a dozen variations in between. The next freight car you need is a 1680 Shell Tank Car in Orange with latch couplers. They had nickel or black journels in 1939 with the nickeled ones used up first, then Lionel used the black journels.The 1682 Caboose is all red with black journels & is very common & they had cream trim around the windows. Hope this helps.

We got a 1679 boxcar ( Blue Roof, but it's labeled Ives, not Lionel, good enough for now). We also got a 659 Dump car (early version) and the 1682 caboose. I also got a 2679 boxcar with postwar staple end trucks and coil couplers (I bought it thinking I would swap the trucks with the Ives car not realizing it was set up for the prewar box couplers, not latch). We all kind of have parts of the set, my brother has the engine, I have the tender and my dad bought the cars.

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Originally posted by Richard E:

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Originally posted by Andrew Lawrence:
Nothing too special... just some prewar car's... the engine 1668 engine is red x'd for maintence.. untill i get around to repairing the drum on the e unit... but it'll get fixed adventually...

Andrew
I like that 60 Lark ragtag. Years ago I had a Lark hardtop with a V8, that car would fly.
I still have a V8 Studebaker in the family, see below

Thank you for your service.

Thanks richard, its a 61 lark, all original, my father in law bought it for his dad, to drive him back and forth to dyalisis. every once and a while while i'm up in lancaster he'll let me drive it. he takes it to about ever studabaker show around Pennsylvania. the old man just likes to sit out in the garage and stair at it!



i think they are looking for new fenders for it... they are bubbling up at the bottom. he has an older lark station wagon with the retractable roof and a Golden Hawk(the supercharged one) both of those have been sitting out in the field as long as i remember...

no comment....

I was able to catch this last train just before sun down!


Sunset by willbacker45, on Flickr

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Originally posted by Lafondue:
no comment....

...talk about overkill...

(Sorry. Jus' had to. )
Frank

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Originally posted by PRRMiddleDivision:


J Daddy,

I've seen lots of double decked HO layouts, but I have never seen one in 3 rail O scale. Looks great! Do your two levels connect? How big is your layout? Can you tell us a little more about it?

DITTO
This is what I am looking at for my basement room!!! Please tell us more

NYC Dreyfuss with the 20th Century Ltd while a PRR M1a waits in the yard.

Doubleheading docksiders!

Nice pictures, everyone - Thanks for sharing!

During Trainstock 4, I bought my first "guest train", nicknamed the "30-car rampage", getting it in position at the end of the event on the trestle. I had to stand on the other side of the layout to capture it in all it's two-axle glory:


After a couple of minor mishaps (backing into someone's Big Boy?) it changed tracks and following a bit of a pileup from a picked switch point, the "Rampage" proceeded to traverse the helix without missing a beat.

It only got to traverse the helix once though--the switch to the refinery area was set, putting the train on the low-level tracks by the resort and diesel shop, and past the brewery before passing through the yard in the foreground, where the train found one of the only two switches (the one rejoining the main from the helix) the little Plymouths had trouble getting over (the other was near the diesel shop where the "refinery subdivision" rejoins the older trackage. I'll have footage from a spy-cam tacked onto the last car in a few days.

---PCJ
(someday I'm going to want to bring it again to try on a different mainline)

Steve C.

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Originally posted by 3rdrailMike:

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Originally posted by PRRMiddleDivision:


J Daddy,

I've seen lots of double decked HO layouts, but I have never seen one in 3 rail O scale. Looks great! Do your two levels connect? How big is your layout? Can you tell us a little more about it?

DITTO
This is what I am looking at for my basement room!!! Please tell us more

Thanks guys for the compliments. I can email you the details if your interested.
on heights, dimensions, bracket supports, etc...

Great scenes everyone! Always good stuff on these weekend photo fun posts.

Hey will, that sunset picture is awsome!

Thanks richard, its a 61 lark, all original, my father in law bought it for his dad, to drive him back and forth to dyalisis. every once and a while while i'm up in lancaster he'll let me drive it. he takes it to about ever studabaker show around Pennsylvania. the old man just likes to sit out in the garage and stair at it!

i think they are looking for new fenders for it... they are bubbling up at the bottom. he has an older lark station wagon with the retractable roof and a Golden Hawk(the supercharged one) both of those have been sitting out in the field as long as i remember...

Andrew:
New fenders will be hard to find. The front fenders for Lark convertibles are unique, They are weighted to reduce cowl shake. There are metal patches available, look up Studebakers International on line. http://www.studebaker-intl.com/contact_us.html they have almost everything you may need. Good lick.

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Originally posted by J Daddy:

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Originally posted by 3rdrailMike:

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Originally posted by PRRMiddleDivision:


J Daddy,

I've seen lots of double decked HO layouts, but I have never seen one in 3 rail O scale. Looks great! Do your two levels connect? How big is your layout? Can you tell us a little more about it?

DITTO
This is what I am looking at for my basement room!!! Please tell us more

Thanks guys for the compliments. I can email you the details if your interested.
on heights, dimensions, bracket supports, etc...

Would love to get this email. could you email it to mtaylor@drupalconstruction.com Your email is not in your profile

Thanks!!!!