Weekend Photo Fun 11-15-13-??

Great photos this week  Here is mine. Night Time on the KGSOUTH

Whew - That really changed the whole character of that shovel Patrick. Great job!

Here's some other scenes from the old layout

RK New Haven RS1 No 661 wends its way along the line.  These RS1's are really nice engines - smoke and great Alco sounds, especially the shut-down sequence. Sounds like an old Model T Ford in its last throws of life!

An older photo that I finally got to looking at when I downloaded the latest 12 gB off my camera.    A two rail Sunset J1a that somehow found it's way into my train room.  I have no idea how it got there.  Neither does the NY&LB dispatcher at South Amboy.  "How are we going to get this around the Bayhead Loop?!!!!!" 

Okay ... once that J1 got straightened out a more traditional K4s prepares for the next run to Bayhead and back.

This came in today's mail.  The Lionel Railroader's Club Christmas boxcar... for 2013! These things hardly ever show up in time for the proper holiday  I was hoping for a St. Patrick's Day or Easter smiley for this one, but "spring break" smiley will have to do.  After all, I received the 2012 boxcar this past spring.

Luckily, the 2013 car arrived in time to make it into the consist of this year's Holiday Spectacular train. This is a pre-amble of the Christmas Train that makes an appearance in town after the ceremonial tree lighting festival.  For the pre-amble ramble, locomotive 2056 was chosen from the fleet of active steamers.

East side, West Side.  All about the town.

A part of the Holiday Spectacular's success is the sponsorship of the train by Hershey's. They sponsored with two Kisses boxcars, and provided hot cocoa at the spectator's tent.  

Patrick....beautiful job on the steam shovel...WOW!!  You are an artist!

Alan

Just received these two new MTH heritage units last weekend.  These fixed pilot versions were just shipped.  As always I filled the gaps and slightly weathered these. I also cut the Kadee hose and added a separate one mounted to the pilot.  Don't like the horn on these as much as the Conrail, but overall these are great models.

Rich

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This is what has to happen when you don't plan ahead. Never got around to painting and ballasting some areas of trackage on my layout. Made a promise to myself that I would have all my track work done by the end of this year. Of course, the eaiser sections have been done which leaves the "hard to reach" left to be completed. Even though I have a  Topside Creeper, I still need to clear things and get atop the layout to airbrush, scrape the top rails and ballast track. Ten years ago, this would have been a lot easier. Trying to get it all to look like the second shot.

Looks good Al.

Some new shots of my crappy basement layout.

New Standard Gauge addiction!

I scratchbuilt some pallets using basswood from Northeastern Scale Lumber...figure by Arttista. 

Yeppers!  Gotta get thru this process somehow!  And you notice I don't fool around with those bar-sized glasses either.  Actually, only 3/4 oz in that big glass.

Beer in next photos

Very observant.

-walt

James, I don't own a computer - I use the library's - so I never tried.  My movie camera uses those mini-DVDs.

I might be able to ask around.  I never thought of even trying - thanks for the push James!

- walt

Uh, see above   Same comments - observant!

- walt

Originally Posted by K.C Jones:      

Patrick H
As always….WOW
You nailed that looks Great

I think I have the same one. Is this what you started with?

 



 

Nice Pictures Everyone..

K.C.

Thanks!    If mine was that nice i may have kept it that way, well maybe not. Anyway i used this one , i beleive i was 9 years old when i got it in 1978.Alot easier to use the EZ stretch line to make all the cables look tight.

I have never seen anything that Patrick has done turn out bad. I wish I could be so lucky and have the items I try and do turn out as nice.

My knees hurt just looking at this picture Al! "Ouch" 

It's a good bet that the guy driving the car on the right was a traveling salesman. The "buisiness coupe" had a huge trunk, and a flat area behind the front seats, to hold samples/sample cases. I think the car shown may be a Dodge Wayfarer. 1952 was the last year for these.

Lone Star High Railers Grapevine Texas Main Street.

Hey Rich, no MTH NS EMD Heritage units yet?  How do you like the semi-gloss paint job on those MTH units?

Larry

My two big modern locomotives.  Matt

The buisiness coupe is a 1947 Chrysler Windsor and the club coupe is a 1947 DeSoto Custom

Made it over to the club today, thanks kevin for showing up to run some trains.

Finally positioned all 7 Woodland and Menards buildings on the East Pittsburg carpet central.

Great effect with the mirror! I almost asked you if WS made right and left oriented models.

Big Chet, when we were looking for a place to retire we checked out Grapevine and almost bought a house there. Nice little steam operation and loved the look of the town. But, glad we chose Maui. Don

Today a B-17 buzzed the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad in the town of Beawslaiw!  It came in very low!

Matt

Today a B-17 buzzed the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad in the town of Beawslaiw!  It came in very low!

Matt

As to real estate for the B-17.  I bought a plastic model (to be built) of a 1/48 scale B-24 that we will add to our O-scale layout.  I don't have an airport or a place for one, but plan to suspend it from the ceiling as if flying overhead, coming in for a landing at an off site airport or having just taken off and climbing. Might even get energetic later on and add sound.

My Dad was a B-24 tail gunner based in Australia in 1944-1945. My father-in-law was in the Pacific too, but we have included a nuclear waste tanker (he worked for the NEC for a few years in Oak Ridge and DC) with his name on it.  I use these two models to incorporate them into our layout.  Both are deceased.