Weekend Photo Fun 1-6-12- ??

K-Line GG1 making her last run on my railroad. This K-Line beauty is off to a new home with an OGR Forumite. She has been replaced by an MTH Rail King Tuscan Red unit that has PS 2.0 which I run exclusively on my layout.

In my opinion, the K-Line semi-scale GG1 locomotives have by far the best appearance of all, and they are great runners.

There is a paper mill downwind from us by enough miles and I caught these handsome NS engines awhile back. The usual power is mostly GP diesels but every now and then...


Here's the yard switcher

NYS&W SW-9 winds its way through McGreevey Pass



CSX AC6000



Union Pacific U-boat and D&RG FM



Happy new year to everyone. Looking forward to another 52 weeks of seeing everyone's great photos.

- Mike
Small layout...Big dreams

A couple of tour groups arrived early this morning


There was discussion this week in another thread about the handsome Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson. I found this old photo of it making a rare trip through the western NC mountains scouting a good location for the Vanderbilt family to build their 'mountain estate'.
Their Biltmore House stands now just on the other side of the far ridge near Asheville...

A view of Vernon Hart's layout in Springfield Mo.....



Have a great weekend everyone!
Alan

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Happy new year to everyone. Looking forward to another 52 weeks of seeing everyone's great photos.

Thanks again Scott for what is arguably Everyone's Favorite Weekly Thread!

I posted these pics earlier in the week on a thread about ROW products. I liked them so much, I am posting again as my contribution this week.

The ROW cabooses do not have the same level of detail as the offerings today but 20 years ago, they were cutting edge and all brass construction. Plus, they offered models not available from others.

Here are a few shots of a ROW CA-4 on the Eastern District. The CA-4's were originally built in 1944 and some were not retired until the 1990's. This particular number UP 3821 was retired on 01/21/92 and was renumbered to UP 25121 in April of '59.

Donald

Just an old one, but one of my favorites......

Panoramic view of our modular layout.



Peter

Here's my new Williams 746 J, ain't she a beaut....




Paul

Parking Garage added to my Woodland Scenic neighborhood this week. No 1/43 cars installed yet but I'll fill it up eventually.

Have a good weekend.

Jack

I was recently given some American Flyer S gauge by a family friend. I am currently working on adding it to the layout.

CP Christmas Train...in pictures







...and video Canadian Pacific Christmas Train

A stranger showed up looking for a consist. The consist will start to arrive Monday. So long to being exclusively Santa Fe, hello "Joint Line". (Yes, I realize the CZ didn't use the "Joint Line", but it probably detoured on it once or twice and will again!

On CONUS Lines, Chesapeake & Ohio Kanawha #2736 brings the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through Georges Creek Junction:

Nothing left soon but memories (hint, hint, ). So long 2011.





What my downstairs looked like after day 1 (I am too embarrassed to show what my spare bedroom looks like! ):


Some, but not all, of the 97 vehicles from the layout


Isn't this hobby supposed to be fun?

- walt

Picked up a few new items of late. Here are some -

'New' Lionel Postwar freight cars fill the siding -


210 Texas Special ALCo FA2 AA units -

Woodland Scenics figures that I got for Christmas.

hello serows1.......
that is a GOOD looking engine, i like the stripes on the sides.
the woman who loves toy trains
Tiffany

Super Chief passes Texas Special.

Brian - Love the Super Chief observation car!

Art

Rick Wright Love the circus train. Thanks for posting.

Ray

Our club, the Boothe Memorial Railway Society is setting up a small layout at a local train show this Sunday... decided a "BMRS Railway" locomotive would be an interesting highlight. Here's the new loco (a-la-Beep)!







Ed

gee bob.... that GG1 sure looks nice.... i'm pretty excited about it... it'll look real good running around my office...

here's what i'm working on this week, finially building my ceiling loop... i had to take down one of my glenn snyder shelves... i need to order more from him... when i first got the shelves i could only fill two... now i still have trains in boxs and they wont fit on four....







now i have to paint everything yet...i'm just cuting the pieces and putting everything togeather, before i paint them, and screw everything down...

it'll look good when its done... trust me...

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Originally posted by Tiffany:
hello serows1.......
that is a GOOD looking engine, i like the stripes on the sides.
the woman who loves toy trains
Tiffany

Thanks Tiffany it is a really sharp looking engine.

Paul

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here's what i'm working on this week, finially building my ceiling loop... i had to take down one of my glenn snyder shelves... i need to order more from him... when i first got the shelves i could only fill two... now i still have trains in boxs and they wont fit on four....

I have the same shelving you do and I noticed how much space you left between rows of shelving. You might consider 1 1/2" space with freight cars which will leave plenty of room for engine height. You could put another row of shelves up with the space savings. Just a thought. I really like your ceiling track.

TEX
Steve

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Originally posted by Passenger Train Collector:
Super Chief passes Texas Special.

There you go sneaking in Texas Special stuff again. Didn't think I would notice, Ha? Beautiful passenger sets. Thanks for posting.

TEX
Steve

I picked this out in April when we visited Strasburg, PA during our easter break.

Finally got it today for my birthday from my parents and lit it for the first time.

It's a 1944 Dietz Vesta NYC RR lantern.

Jake, that is a GREAT looking lamp!!

Paul

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Originally posted by Serows1:
Jake, that is a GREAT looking lamp!!

Paul

It is great. We picked it up in one of the antique malls in Strasburg. They had a ton of old RR stuff, especially lanterns. From what I read, this version is pretty common, but it's a nice piece to have. Not sure if it was cleaned up before I got it or not. It's real clean and complete.

I've been burning the stuff restaurants use in their table top oil candles (guess it's lamp oil?) and so far it seems to burn pretty cleanly.

I agree that is a nice lamp. Was it bought near the Strasburg RR? I'll have to explore around better next time I go there.

Speaking of Strasburg, here are my new-to-me MTH Strasburg coaches purchased from fellow forumite GregJ410. Not 100% accurate to the prototype, but still beautiful cars, imo. They are pulled by an MTH Premier Atlantic.

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Originally posted by pennsy484:
I agree that is a nice lamp. Was it bought near the Strasburg RR? I'll have to explore around better next time I go there.

Yes, there were two antique malls right outside of the downtown area (I think on the opposite side of town from the railroad), right next door to each other. We only went into one, but they had a bunch of lanterns and other RR items for sale. Plenty of PRR stuff if I remember right.

We were there in April so maybe things have changed. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the place. They also had some O and S gauge stuff.

Scott, how many years of photos fun?

Rick, great shot with excellent depth of field....

misc
Pushing box cars out of way for grain delivery.



Grain train moving into sidings



on the way to dinner...needs dusting it seems

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Originally posted by Passenger Train Collector:
Super Chief passes Texas Special.

Brian, Love the Super Chief....I need to run some passenger trains soon

I need to have the ATSF passing the CN and GTW

Here's the new Williams Baldwin cruising the club layout today.

And here it is pulling a couple of Schnabbels. Who said Williams can pull stumps?
They can pull big transformers too.

And hers an MU of Diesels pulling them, it looked pretty impressive and had the N and HO members oggling!

Some shots of our Christmas layout.

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Originally posted by Rick Wright:
On CONUS Lines, Chesapeake & Ohio Kanawha #2736 brings the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through Georges Creek Junction:

Great scene!

Jack

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Originally posted by Rick Wright:
On CONUS Lines, Chesapeake & Ohio Kanawha #2736 brings the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through Georges Creek Junction:

I agree with Jack Smith.

Jay