Weekend Photo Fun 12-7-12-?

Here's to another weekend of holiday madness!!  Hoping to go out and get our tree in the next couple of days.  Meanwhile, let the trains run!

- Mike

"Small layout...Big dreams"

 A new addition to the layout...

And a blast from the past...

Run some trains and have a great week end folks!

 Warm while LEDs in a G gauge Aristo Dash 9.

"Early morning sun burning through the fog....."

Have a great weekend everyone!

Alan

Great shots you guys - really like your lighting Mike! You're learning from Alan.

Here's our Southern E6's out for a run on the (deceased) layout. The Tuxedo A unit is a custom painted Lionel while the striking Tennessean is MTH. I'm offering the MTH ABA on the For Sale board this weekend to raise some cash...

Here are two photos that I posted last week on a thread concerning the modeling of highway guardrails.  I liked the photos and they got buried at the end of a thread, so I thought I would repost them here.  Top photo is from my layout, and the second photo is of the real thing.  The highway is Pennsylvania state route 103 in the tiny hamlet of Longfellow, about 12 miles west of Lewistown PA.  Scene is not quite finished.  The scene represents 1966, and the mainline of the PRR Middle Division is just out of view to the right.  The highways in PA were in deplorable condition at this time, with the emphasis being on construction of interstate highways.  You can see on the contemporary photo of the prototype that the highway is in much better condition.

Nick's Earthmoving, Coal, and Gravel (named for my oldest Grandson) in the early morning:

A closer look at the coal dock:

Steve C.

 That's a great shot! Are there more pics of this layout? Very nice

Still trying to create some 2012 Christmas layout memories

This is where I'll be some day if I keep buying train stuff

- walt

 That road looks more realistic than the real one!!!! Wow

Morning at Garfield Depot.

Great to see everyone's photo's each week.

One of our club members had an open house to show the progress he is making on his layout. A lot more details added and some ballast going down. New buildings and a few more signs and fine details.

From a visit to Mark's open house last night;

Top shot front of passenger yard. 

The other end of the passenger yard.

Above this passenger yard

This track leads to a loop of track and buildings over photo 1, passenger yard below.

In the distance you can see the lower part of the layout, photos below in distance.

Neal, that roadway surface is so realistic!!  Great shot!

Larry

Here are some more photos.

Subway line 3 tracks;

Custom built metal bridge this is at the bottom of the stairs as you go down from the top to bottom level of the layout room.

Also in the shot above you can see the different levels of the layouts loops of track.

The 3 levels shown on the left are hidden return loops that run underneath the upper part of the upper detailed track.

As my kids say " I want this " it's way more cool than my digital version

car show

dinosaur dig, but some dinosaurs showed up to check out all the action.

Christmas came a little early this year.  I musta been a good boy.  Aristo-Craft G scale FA1 Pennsylvania.  Now, should I buy another A unit or hold out for the B unit?

Rick

G&O News - The G&O garden railroad holiday show was last weekend.  Here are a few photos.

Santa watches children running trains.  The layout has four transformers that allow children to run trains.  Two transformers control 3-rail loops and 2 control G gauge loops.

Here is a photo to the snow scene.

A Lionel Legacy engine speeds an express consisting of LIonel holiday cars full of presents to waiting children everywhere.

Here is another express headed by a K-Line Trainmaster.

A third express headed by a Williams engine.

A Lionel Christmas Story train heads through town.

There is a lot of action on the slopes.

Another photo of the Christmas Story train.  The speeder with Santa on the upper loop is from K-Line.

Enginear-Joe, RICKC and Joe Barker  My wife has been recently bitten by the "G" scale bug.  I have to admit, that scale is pretty impressive.  Even more impressed, I was with how well even the low end stuff operates at slow speeds and how smooth they run.

Ryan

The annual G gauge layout at our local garden center    

New items...

If you love trains, then, you've gotta love even bigger trains!

OMG, Enginear-Joe, I hope that quote wasn't from a particular tv show.  Possibly on on Wednesday nights?  LOL  One of my favorite shows!!  LOL  Trainshiners?

Rick

A suspicious character waits on a South Boston sidewalk for the new First Timers bar to be constructed.

A few extra Photos from the Mohawk Valley RR Project Jim P and I teamed up and built and was featured in December OGR.

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Don that smoke in the tunnel looks just like a cat! lol or is it the other way around.

James

One of the store cats takes naps in the tunnel or a break from Johnny and Janey Q. Public when they are doing to much aaah arent they cute. the other goes top the mountaintop of the RR.

Don...if I haven't told you before, your layout is absolutely beautiful!!!

Alan

Doesn't Scott Smith recognize an old 8 track tape player when he sees one?  Maybe it's ME who needs new glasses? BTW...........I will try and get it together and post this years' Carpet Central Layout pics in a week or so.........there is tree duty to perform first......yep that's a priority!

Where do I plug in the 8 Track tape?

Scott Smith

Conway, New Hampshire Winter Special 2011

Scenes around the Cape Cod Northern.

Downtown Boston

Work started on construction of the Essex Hotel

And my suspicious character now has a nice Southie bar to hang around, across the tracks from the station.  Now if the construction crew will just get to painting the new Downtown Deco First Timer's bar....

In honor of today's holiday in Japan..... "National Think Twice Day"..... I give you my latest updates to my military train!  

Omar Goodness, Chuck (Alentown)  

It took me a while to realize where that was taken.  The building in the background is the Boy Scouts headquarters in Moosic, PA, just outside of Scranton.  Delaware-Lackawanna calls that the Laurel Line branch.  It was built during WWII so the Laurel Line (actually the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley) interurban could serve a General Electric plant.  It uses a switchback to get there from the line now used by the Scranton trolley.

I have never seen a train on that line, although it runs through the tunnel under my house. Good catch!