Weekend Photo Fun 10-16-20-??

Fun photos for this fine weekend!   The roving photographer takes snaps from in and around Patsburg. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!   Be safe = Be well!

Another great find!

Making plans for a roundhouse and turntable 👍🏼

The Lost Railway Museum, Grass Lake Michigan

Took my two grandsons to the Lost Railway Museum to check out the trolley cars that they are rebuilding. Then we came back to grandpa’s train room to run a 3-rail trolley car.

Just outside near the lobby we are ready for our journey to check out the history of trolley cars in Michigan.

My train crew is operating a scale layout, featuring Michigan Street Cars.

We are now waiting to board car 47.

A student engineer at the controls.

Mr. Tom Nolte, Facilities Manager is showing these guys how to ring the bell as they approach a stop on Main Street.

We are now back in Grandpa’s train room and they are going to run a MTH Trolley Car.

Running a trolley car on Main Street.

Thanks for taking a look & have a great weekend: Gary & My Train Crew 🚂

New Haven ALCO RS1 #0668 on my 10’-by-5’ layout. This is a finely-detailed engine by Atlas O but the sound system requires 10 volts to operate properly so it runs somewhat fast.

MELGAR

Scott living dangerously visiting such tempting stores! Great forum sponsors with a great selection. Very good that you did not come home with a car load and a 2nd mortgage.

I was able to squeeze in a strip of plywood on long bolts over the track storage yards along the wall and main line front and rear. My grand daughter loves to stand on a stool looking at the rides running. Lemax makes about the best most detailed rides on the market. They run well last a long time and have lots of exciting looking lights and excellent extra details.

A great start to another fine set of pictures from you guys.  I love em, it's getting cooler here in Lewisville, now I can get out and open up the garage doors and work on my shelving units to start storing some boxes and that will make room for me to start unpacking some of the other boxes to get to my trains.  I did manage to get down to the Lone Star High Railers baggage car (the layout is actually in an old heavy weight baggage car) and got to run my new MTH Premier SP 44 Ton switcher.  I is a sweet locomotive and has great sound with a really nice start-up and shut-down to it.  As I can learn the systems and get to more of my trains, I'll start going down more often as "Honey Do's" permit.

Here's hoping everyone has a wonderful weekend, stay safe and healthy.

This redecorated car is not completely finished, but enough so to make the weekly thread.

I have done a lot of make-believe cars for this railroad, but this car is the "genuine article".

Two of my favorite steamers.......the New York Central Hudson and the N&W J.... both in MTH versions with accompanying short passenger consists.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

For J. Motts,

here is a clip of me and Carl Orton running trains at the baggage car about 3 years ago:

My Lionel ABC Monday Night Football Cars.  They look nothing like what we build but still fun!

The real deals taken by me returning for some maintenance...

Last week, I posted photos of a concrete T beam bridge that I constructed in the town of Altoona. Yesterday, I finally finished the section of Altoona I have been working on since early in the pandemic, and wanted to share some pictures of it. I have previously posted some construction photos of it, but because it is built behind the staging yard and yard throat, I had to clear all the trains out of the yard to build the structures. They’ve been sitting out on the mainline for weeks.

So I figured it was time to shoot some pictures WITH trains!  I mean, after all, this is the O Gauge RAILROADING Forum, right? So here ‘ya go…

The last three pictures are new ones of the bridge from different angles, and also finally with trains. If you look closely at the last two pictures, you will see I installed the suspended traffic lights at the intersection at the far end of the bridge. They hadn’t yet arrived from Artistta when I took the pictures I posted last week

With this section getting finished, it’s time to move on to the last portion of Altoona, and I may take a little break to go rake fall leaves, so who knows what I’ll post next week!  Enjoy!

Working on the turntable / roundhouse area.  

Happy Weekend To Everyone.

The Christopolis City Park.

The City Zoo.

The Disney Park.

The management staff of the Great Northeastern Railway (GNR), (L to R) Me, my  wife Terry and my son Chris holding the GNR's Chairman of the Bored, Chaz.

The Great Northern hauling a few autos.

I didn't have a Halloween scene in 2019 but I did in 2018 so I'm using that year for today's photo fun.

- Walt

The back area

the front area

@kj356 posted:

I was able to squeeze in a strip of plywood on long bolts over the track storage yards along the wall and main line front and rear. My grand daughter loves to stand on a stool looking at the rides running. Lemax makes about the best most detailed rides on the market. They run well last a long time and have lots of exciting looking lights and excellent extra details.

KJ: I have 3 ferris wheels.  One is brand new.  All 3 use different power sources because I wanted to get rid of batteries.  I did that on 2 of them and left the new one battery powered.   If you're interested I'll sell you one of your choice for what I paid.  Let me know.

The 2 non-battery ones: one is powered by a small trannie with a relay and a timer device that turns it on and off repeatedly based on the time that is chosen.  The other is powered by a wall-wart.

walt

This is the new never used one except that I tested it.

here's a video of them playing.  I didn't have it on a web site so I'm trying to see if just uploading it from my flash drive will work.

It seems to have worked.  There's sound.

My contribution for the day....I had visitors from Illinois unexpectedly show up at my front door this morning wanting to see the layout. Which I haven't ran for some time now. As you all know, when you have company, something always goes bad. So here is my photo for the week. Hope you all have a blessed weekend.