Weekend Photo Fun 10-7-22-???

MTH never made a 500 series caboose to go with their 500 series club cars. I had an old basket case caboose I bought on Ebay and repainted it.

I painted an old wood load car as well.

Scott Smith

My 12’-by-8’ model railroad has operational tracks and sidings for six trains of which three can be run simultaneously. I usually run one train at a time but sometimes run two just to see them pass each other in opposite directions on the outer truss bridge. In the video, New Haven Railroad 4-6-0 steam locomotive #816 (Lionel Legacy 6-82272) is pulling a passenger train trailed by 1929 heavyweight parlor-lounge car Flying Cloud (MTH set 20-4040) on the O-72 outer loop and Boston & Maine F-3 diesel #4227A (Sunset/3^rd Rail) is pulling a freight train with B&M caboose C-124 (MTH 20-91064) on the O-54 middle loop. The two locomotives pass each other on the bridge at the beginning of the video with the New Haven train running at about 32 scale miles-per-hour.

MELGAR

Thanks Scott for getting us rolling and thanks too for the photos of your " local " Menard's train stuff!Here are my photos for this fine weekend!  I hope everyone's weekend is most satisfying!  

A scene along the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.

The team track in Lower Patsburg is busy this morning!  

The Patsburg Commuter Station is always bustling.  

This freshly painted boxcar will be in the spotlight this evening for a promo advertisement of the famous Phoebe Snow passenger train of the Lackawanna Railroad.  

Lots of stuff going on......

1st working on the attic layout.......

Next.......getting ready to join the Trackers in their York layout in the Purple Hall....."road testing" some engines on the River City 3 Railers home layout.....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Here is a link to the full story on the York train layouts this year:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...5#164588232377913505

Here are some favorite York pics from years' past:

.....and a prayer and a smile for those who show up in our pictures, but are no longer with us.....

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

Great pictures Peter!

Very nice, Walt. The old drive-in looks like it's hopping.

Not much to show this week. The Western Union guys were on-site to wire the telegraph poles:

Still cleaning up other parts of the layout. Lots of stuff to sort and pack.

PD

Showing off the propane tank I printed from the new OGR 3D Catalog.  Busy week hopefully some better pics next week!

Out of town this weekend so I’m pretty much limited to posting images already on my phone. So here are a couple of police vehicles as well as some roadside route markers and destination signs. Note the weathered Ford F150 in the parking lot in the third image:

I finally got my All Nation NW2 painted.  The doors handles are brass wire with a small length of brass tubing.  I built the spark arrestees and found them on Shapeways after I finished them.  The chassis is in the shop being converted to 8 wheel pick up. I built a ribside caboose for it too.  Switchers are my favorite locos.

Malcolm,  Your work is without equal, the sine qua non!  I cannot imagine how you do it.

Waiting for my daughter's train to arrive last night, I was able to catch the Northeast Regional coming into Union Station around 11:40 PM.

Pulling in, next to the Acela........

Peter

Do you think we'll ever have an O gauge model of an Amtrak ACS-64? I sure would like one.

MELGAR

Melgar, maybe you could talk Atlas into building you one and while you're at it, try getting them to build some MoPac cabooses too, I need a couple.  I loved your layout shots and sure wish I had the space to build a decent sized layout that I could work on without having to do it from a ladder.  I now have my around the doorway layout (11'X12') running, I can run Legacy, TMCC, DCS and Conventional on it. I have 0-72 up front and 0-81 ( both Atlas 21st Century track) in the back.  I ran my Legacy GS-4 yesterday along with the 21" Daylight cars that go with it and the passenger cars don't really like the 0-72 curves.  I could hear them squeak as they went around the curve and then I moved them to the back and the car diaphragms didn't really like the 0-81 curves that much, they would rub a tiny bit as they entered the curves.  I'm adding some buildings on top and will post a video or two as I get things more proper looking.  Now I need to find and unpack my scenery materials and start making some trees for it in my spare time.  I plan on adding some clouds to the sky blue walls just to give it a little added look.

Peter, loved your pics also, the 2nd to the last where the man has his arms outstretched like he's getting ready to wrestle a bear or something, I wonder what kind of a story he was telling.  Malcom, you did a really nice job on the switch engine, great looking spark arresters, now days, it just never fails, you take your time scratch building something and like you said, as soon as you finished them, you found some already made.  Great looking job on them and I'll bet yours are every bit as good as the others maybe even better.  Good thing is, you had the satisfaction of building them yourself.

Great shots and subjects this week guys, thanks for the interesting material and thoughts.  Have safe and wonderful weekend.

North East Regional pulling into Boston, Back Bay Station'..

https://youtube.com/shorts/Qhyen2ESzts?feature=share

@MELGAR posted:

Do you think we'll ever have an O gauge model of an Amtrak ACS-64? I sure would like one.

MELGAR

I'm in!

Peter

@J. Motts posted:

Peter, loved your pics also, the 2nd to the last where the man has his arms outstretched like he's getting ready to wrestle a bear or something, I wonder what kind of a story he was telling.  

J........that's noneother than OGR's own Ed Boyle! I'm sure he was telling a good story!

Peter

@PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Out of town this weekend so I’m pretty much limited to posting images already on my phone. So here are a couple of police vehicles as well as some roadside route markers and destination signs. Note the weathered Ford F150 in the parking lot in the third image:

Neal,

Very nice scenes here. Do you find your signage online and print it in O Scale?

Dave