Weekend Photo Fun 12-14-12-?

Some photos of model train displays that I set up with our railway historical group. We have volunteers on hand during the year with this Railway display and run the mini rail during the Christmas holiday season.

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Looking forward to seeing all the great photos everyone posts each week!!!

The first photo is looking in through the outside window from the street. This is a busy corner across from the underground that comes in from the airport. The building is the local community centre. The building is very cold and damp at night open venting at the top to the outside air at night so cheap stuff on the layout nothing good and in case it gets attacked by little kids or tempting items to steal as volunteers cannot see everywhere the kids run.

These are a $10 set of cardboard houses that I found at Toys R Us many years back. And a plastic engine and foam block cars with Provincial stickers, one for each province for box cars, train stationary for display only. 2nd shot from inside.

3rd photo is the main village that works. Train must run on its own unattended and be reliable, all day and evening for 2 and half weeks. So on the engine the whistle, smoke and reverse unit were gutted and it runs on a DC power pack set to momentum. This and all lights on the village are wired to a motion sensor. When people walk up to the front of the display the lights all come on church bells play carols, and the momentum switch has the volts come up slowly so the train does not start with a jerk. Cars are old beat up Lionel 0-27 cars that have the couplers taped shut and are repainted and decorated with stickers and bows and gondola's carrying little presents. The whistle from the engine is under the display to a door bell button so the kids can press it to make the whistle sound. Much louder then when in a tender.

Buildings are all Lemax lighted and most figures from the $ store.

Setting up the mini rail ride on train is a big task like a model railway we have sectional track and bolt it together. Photo 4 shows the front end view of the display area with the Mini Rail loco green in front layout behind (people come from other side of fenced off area to see it) and behind is the 374 Steam engine full size. This engine was the first in Canada in 1887 to pull the first passenger train from across Canada into Vancouver. For a brief history; http://www.wcra.org/index.php/...ion/location-history

And you can search 374 Vancouver for more photos and details.

Here is a photo of the building during the 1986 World Expo on transportation, the remains of the roundhouse with the 374 on the turntable.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadagood/3068540737/

This was the Canadian Pacific Roundhouse in the Vancouver waterfront industrial area, was many more stalls the Royal Hudson steam engine was first rebuilt here. It was later converted to the roundhouse community centre with the 374 pavilion added on the side. Inside the building the original timbers can be seen and the engine smoke boxes still in view;

http://greenbuildingbrain.org/...use_community_centre

The floor of the 374 display is paved with bricks with the names of the many people that donated to the preserve and pay for the rebuild of 374. Photos 5 on you can see the bricks on the floor around the engine.

My posting above is from the TMB Model Train Club on Long Island. We attracted over 600 visitors and the visitors expressions tell the whole story.

LI TRAIN,

  WOW those faces tell it all!!!  Well done!!!!

My two train buds getting ready to decide which train to knock off the track next. 

The destination is the objective (even if I really didn't know where I was going), but the fun is in the journey...

PRR theme this week -

Our new addition

Can you believe John traded his Camaro in to get this roller skate

How do you separate the photos--tried two methods and no luck???

The 1225 scale PE Berkshire at sunrise.

I hope he got a pair of them!

Richie

kj356:

Thanks, those photos bring back some great memories of discovering 374 in the restored roundhouse during our most enjoyable 2009 stay inVancouver.  She is a beautiful locomotive.

 Here's a shot of me in the right hand seat of 374: 

Fireman's side:

Put your cursor at the end of each photo and hit your ENTER key to add a space.

Oh Oh...livestock loose on the platform!

The Electric City Trolley Station & Museum in Scranton is hosting the annual Festival of Trees this year, and I was in charge of the Steamtown tree this time around.

The theme this year is "Green Christmas."  Recycling and nature are dominant features of each group's tree.  A volunteer decorated with spruce cones.  She also came up with the lights in the lantern idea.  One of the rangers put glitter on soda pop bottle bottoms to make them into snowflakes.  I applied the photos, and the park donated the Pennsylvania Flyer train.

There is a cocktail reception tonight at the museum. At least 26 trees are part of the festival this year. It is always neat seeing how other groups look at an idea and run with it. 

Milwaukee Road memories:

Sunrise over the west end of the refinery.....

Alan

Chris,

Great pictures. How are you triggering the MTH signal bridges? Is there any way to get them to work in sequence?

Before and After

Still trying to create 2012 Christmas layout memories

The yardmaster reminds me of someone but I just can't place who

- walt

   After initially leaving the corners of my small round-the-wall layout as just open access space, I have been ever so slowly working on scenicking one of the very,very long reach corners. After Harry Hieke made me a prototype smokestack for the local Denim Mill that I originally used as a desktop ornament, I decided to use the stack and fill the corner with a few highly compressed Mill buildings.

   Recognizing that my crafting days are over I enlisted Joe Fauty of "Model Structures for Model Railroads" to customize and fabricate some Kober structures and AmerTowne fronts representing the Mill proper, Powerhouse, Cotton and Cloth Warehouses and the Mill Village Commmercial area fronts--Company Store,Cafe,etc. Joe is a comfort to work with and he did a great building job and met my goals at very reasonable cost.

   No groundscape work has been done and no people are shown working as the Mill is closed for annual vacation week. However,while the Mill is shutdown the  Powerhouse Electricians have upgraded the 3-phase+neutral grid with four-aught [0000 ga.] lines reaching over to the Mill proper and the connection with the Regional Utility[Duke] for selling the Mill's excess generating capacity.

   The limited area and triangular corner required very selective compression since the prototype Mill is huge--2.8 million sq. ft. The sawtooth roof area of the Mill Building, representing the Weave Room alone, is 8 acres, with a full basement for winding cloth rolls as fabric arrives from looms above through floor slots. Anyway, I won't be dusting the site very often as access to it it requires removing towers for placing a plywood work platform resting on above the tracks risers.

Some photos below I hope: 

A few of our K-Line Hudson to compliment Scott's beautiful GOLD model!

I'm adding some new photo albums to my website later today including the Santa Fe 3751, Milw Rd 261 and Amtrak Gensis.  Here are some photos from these albums.  Hope to have some new Youtube videos posted this weekend as well.  There will be a link to the videos in the photo albums.  Rich

www.toytrainsontracks.com

This is the one I used on the DVD menus except for one modification you see here. 

G&O News - Here are several more photos of the G&O holiday show.

The first photo shows the coupler for which Coupler Mountain is named.  Snow Village is at the base of Coupler Mountain.

This is a photo of Snow Village.  Rail service is provided by the G&O branch line, a Bachman On30 trolley and a K-Line Santa speeder

The next two photos show a G gauge holiday express.  The engine and all cars are by LGB.

This photo shows the train crossing Norris Falls.  The silver bridge on the left is the O gauge crossing of Norris Falls.

Happy Holidays to All,  Joe

Steamtown a few summers back

John-

Bob's Big Boy from a modified MTH Tavern Burger building.

More Can Be Found Here: https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/d...nt/11707689400089824

If I can get to the video compiling project, will share as well when completed. I shake tremendously anymore therefore not going to be great quality I am afraid.

Happy Holidays To All.

Rich, the only word I can think of when I see these images of your layout is "Superb!"

During the last October US train convention in Adliswil (Switzerland) the AM-Tracker club (the club who was in York in 2011) set-up a nice temporary 3 rails outdoor layout.

B&O RDC #400 makes its last stop at the depot before the modular section of the layout is removed in preparation for the B&O Museum show 12/22-12/30.  The O-Gauge Railfan is on the scene to record the run.

Here ya' go, another different kinda Christmas Train!  Russ

Thanks for posting pictures of the Black Diamond!  My favorite model railroad!!

R40 @ JAY St. action...

More in the new CTT !

Train time at Garfield station