Weekend Photo Fun 1-27-22-??

This was the find of the week for me. Gets better the more you look. Now getting ready for the Amherst railroad show this weekend.

Thanks Scott for getting us started!  Here are my fun photos for this fine weekend!  Have a great weekend everyone!

Class one railroads of Maryland circa 1951.  They all meet in Patsburg.

The MOW crew and their ride.

Profile in power.

B&O SW9 and TOFC cars.

These are pictures of my first Lionel layout that I built in 1982. I had had a American Flyer layout from 1972 till 1982.

I showed 1 of the 3 public O Gauge Christmas layouts that I had set up last month here last week on the Weekend photos; here are the other 2 layouts.

The 2nd layout was a small 4x7 foot layout, I built a wall around it with viewing window as it was unattended in the station. There are 2 motion detectors set up so when someone walks up 1 motion detector turns on the transformer, the 2nd motion detector turns on the lights and a relay that closes the throttle contacts. The momentum switch on the transformer is turned on and the DC volts slowly increase slowly starting the train. When folks walk away the 2nd motion detector is set up for a shorter on time; it turns off the lights and the relay opens effectively turning the throttle  off, the train slows to a stop then after a bit the 1st motion detector turns the transformer off.  This ran fine for a month 12 hour days at a small ride on Christmas lights railway. The engine has 2 cars behind wired to it that also pickup power so the train does not stall out.

The 3rd layout was a couple of loops and 2 tunnels at our Interurban Christmas train ride.  Running LionChief CN and GN freight trains. The backdrop had lights that flickered on and off like twinkling stars.

If you are a subway fan, you have to put the New York City Transit Museum on your list. It's in downtown Brooklyn.

Here are some pictures from my visit.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

An added bonus from OGR.......if you still have your 2005 pocket calendar, it works for 2022!

I know, I know.....why do I still have a 2005 calendar?  

Peter

A few more pictures from the Transit Museum visit......figures on NYC population growth and its geology.....both big factors in subway construction.....

Peter

How about old subway maps with the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field on them!

Peter

@jim sutter posted:

These are pictures of my first Lionel layout that I built in 1982. I had had a American Flyer layout from 1972 till 1982.

Curious:  Why did you switch?

@Putnam Division posted:

An added bonus from OGR.......if you still have your 2005 pocket calendar, it works for 2022!

I know, I know.....why do I still have a 2005 calendar?  

Peter

Because you knew it would be useful again!

Your 2005 calendar is reusable in:

2011, 2022, 2033, 2039, 2050, 2061, 2067, 2078, 2089, 2095, and 2101.

@Mike McCutcheon posted:

Because you knew it would be useful again!

Your 2005 calendar is reusable in:

2011, 2022, 2033, 2039, 2050, 2061, 2067, 2078, 2089, 2095, and 2101.

Thanks, Mike

Please be safe in that storm!

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

If you are a subway fan, you have to put the New York City Transit Museum on your list. It's in downtown Brooklyn.

Here are some pictures from my visit.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Excellent photos, Pete.  Don’t forget, when you get that urge to visit but can’t make it to Brooklyn, there’s always the virtual tour -

https://www.insidebusinessnyc....york-transit-museum/

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

Sticking with featuring one closeup per week of the 6 of them on the plateau:

- walt

O scale Penn Central E8

Video of some train running last weekend:

@Strap Hanger posted:

Excellent photos, Pete.  Don’t forget, when you get that urge to visit but can’t make it to Brooklyn, there’s always the virtual tour -

https://www.insidebusinessnyc....york-transit-museum/

Absolutely!  

Peter

palallin,

Great question. Sir, In 1981 My wife and I opened our store. A lot of people asked, why did I have American Flyer Trains but was selling Lionel. After answering

that question for two years, I decided to change the layout from Flyer to Lionel. Basically, I just changed the track and purchased some Lionel engines and cars.

I kept all my Flyer accessories and continued to use them. However, I did sell all my Flyer engines and cars.

Scott, thanks for keeping Weekend Photo Fun rolling down the tracks week after week.  Tinplate City looks fantastic!

Patrick, dynamic post as usual.

Jim, nice layout.

Peter, was that calendar squirrelled away in some unforgotten box only to see the light of day 17 years later because you now have a train room to display all your goodies and are unpacking every single box?

Walt, good job on the basketball scene!

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

@Putnam Division posted:

If you are a subway fan, you have to put the New York City Transit Museum on your list. It's in downtown Brooklyn.

Here are some pictures from my visit.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

I rode quite a few of the car types in your pics, Peter. I remember, when I was rather young, riding in cars with those wicker seats... you never forget when you sat on a spot where the wicker was broken and a sharp piece of it was pointing up... OUCH!!!

@Apples55 posted:

I rode quite a few of the car types in your pics, Peter. I remember, when I was rather young, riding in cars with those wicker seats... you never forget when you sat on a spot where the wicker was broken and a sharp piece of it was pointing up... OUCH!!!

I'm with you! Sitting on those seats again....really brought me back to my youth!

Peter

                                              Another RARE find!  #2021

@Putnam Division: Thanks for the pictures of the Transit Museum that is now on my "must visit" list.  Hey the old subway maps with Ebbits Field, Polo Grounds, and Yankee Stadium on them, do you remember the "Subway Series" in the 50's.  I was about 10 but went to some of the games with my Dad (we usually sat in the bleechers).

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Putnam Division: Thanks for the pictures of the Transit Museum that is now on my "must visit" list.  Hey the old subway maps with Ebbits Field, Polo Grounds, and Yankee Stadium on them, do you remember the "Subway Series" in the 50's.  I was about 10 but went to some of the games with my Dad (we usually sat in the bleechers).

Don

Born in 53......I went to my 1st Yankee game in 61.....we took the Number 6 from Buhre Ave to 125th St and then the Number 4 to the Stadium.....

Peter

@Putnam Division :  Gotcha!  Too bad, both the Giants and the Dodgers moved to the West Coast in '57.

Don

They have ruined Baseball….."..

When U-Boats meet: In this brief O scale clip a TOFC train led by U23B's meets a coal train led by U30C's. Enjoy!

@jim sutter posted:

These are pictures of my first Lionel layout that I built in 1982. I had had a American Flyer layout from 1972 till 1982.

How did the Lionel motive power 'like' the big American Flyer transformers with 'Dead-man control' Jim?

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During a Christmas visit to New Orleans to visit my two sons, a friend (Fixit) and I drove to Gulfport MS to see some trains. This is a private 'museum' with a club eventually going to open to the public in an older strip mall. They have 9 or 10 layouts under construction and this fella has the largest assemblage of Gilbert Flyer I've ever seen! Two huge tables pictured above plus some on a third.

Same club in the mall. This layout was obtained from someone who had passed and was purchased from the family if I'm remembering correctly. Had the No 5340 Scale Hudson from 1990 with some nice heavyweights. Sounded 'odd' with what appeared to be the single chuff it came with back then. Beautiful Station and nice scenery

HEY GEORGE  You're in the video below!

@coach joe posted:

Scott, thanks for keeping Weekend Photo Fun rolling down the tracks week after week.  Tinplate City looks fantastic!

Patrick, dynamic post as usual.

Jim, nice layout.

Peter, was that calendar squirrelled away in some unforgotten box only to see the light of day 17 years later because you now have a train room to display all your goodies and are unpacking every single box?

Walt, good job on the basketball scene!

Thank you Coach Joe!

C.Sam, My Lionel trains ran fine with my Flyer transformers.

trumptrain, Thank you.

Here are the two trains I got set up on my table right now. Please excuse the mess on my table, haha!

Lionel made in the USA boxcars from the TCA were delivered this week.

Not the best picture, but this was the layout in our basement one or two years when I was a kid.  It's what gave me the train bug...

Decided to weather this Atlas O LIRR caboose, I think it came out decently. In reality, this caboose is supposed to be an N5b, but this is a close enough stand in. Lionel did an accurate LIRR N5b in red which I also have, but I wanted one from the 60s-70s and this works well enough.

I bought #1, my last LIRR caboose. Now I can run 7 LIRR trains on the layout.

Should have sent #5 in to me. I would have been happy to decorate for you.

@c.sam posted:

REALLY like the yard scrubble ground texture and coloration of same going on there! I've seen that "look" countless times as a lad around KC KS/MO.

Andre

This past Saturday, I went to the Flat Rock Train Depot and Museum in Flat Rock with my mother. She loved the layout and its large collection there. The circus scene was my favorite themed layout of their museum, and not to mention they had Bulgy the Bus and Harold the Helicopter from Thomas and Friends as well. I got two up-close shots of Bulgy, but I got warned by one of the owners to not damage their layout with my phone twice. That’s what happened when I knocked down one of their figurines with my phone already. 😊

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