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
Very nice; thank you for sharing. I have G gauge engines also. Have to start posting pictures.
New items...
very nice weathering work; is this an around the wall layout?
Thanx to everyone for the pictures; very inspirational.
Our 5 display layouts.
We're in Midlothian VA at the Village Marketplace Shopping Center (13150 Midlothian Tpke, 23113) and are open:
Fridays: 6-8
Saturdays: 10-5
Sundays: 12-5
Last day is Saturday 1/5
The Christmas Layout.
Our O Gauge version of John Allen's Timesaver with the See, Hold It Run It MTH train for raffle.
Gilly N&W's Halloween Layout formerly featured in OGR Magazine.
The Civil War-themed layout.
Lastly, our mobile main display which is about 21X25. We're hoping to add more modules in the new year.
Come out and see us if you can. We're 2 hrs from DC and Tidewater.
Peter
Don that smoke in the tunnel looks just like a cat! lol or is it the other way around.
James
That must be part of the Chessie system.
doug
Brian...that overall view of your layout always inspires me....just beautiful!
Alan
The Adventures of the O-Gauge Railfan. Today the O-Gauge railfan was out to photograph the return of C&NW FM Train Master #8056. The big unit had been out to Boxcar Bill's for TMCC and sound upgrades. It returned with a mars light addition as well. Prior to entering service, it posed at the local depot. Of course the O-gauge railfan had to get a photo. A special Peter Witt Trolley was used to bring the added crowds to the dedication. The prototype trolley is at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
Look over at "Weekend at the Movies" to see the locomotive in freight service.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
As my kids say " I want this " it's way more cool than my digital version
Here you go! they will build you one!!! http://www.ctcparts.com/engineering.htm
Here's my Santa Fe Railking SD-90 with LED ditch lights.
Been there, done that! 
Yep I do like dispatch panels Yep. Russ
South Station O Gauge Christmas Layout.
layout 2012 first draft is not gonna work out.
Here is some picture's of my lionel fastrack siding i just bought track a few days ago had the switch for awhile so i laid it out last night see how will work in the tight space i have looks like going to work great
dinosaur dig, but some dinosaurs showed up to check out all the action.
I love the wry irony of your modeling them near (below, no less!) the oil/petroleum refinery! Is the pterodactyl attacking some kind of food truck?
Frank M.
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.
Best picture of the week !!! well done
Sirt,
That P-54 is awesome. What brand is it?
Did you see the coffee mug on the EL? It made the 6 o'clock news when BMT service to Flushing was halted!
Not too much to show yet. Just a sea of blue foam. All the track is laid and working well. All switches done and wired. Buildings roughed in too their spot. Hope get a real start on scenery after Christmas.
Here is a Pere Marquette 2-8-0 pulling the afternoon commuter train out of town. She crosses over the river and will be switched out to the mainline.
Tim from the forum made the bridge for me over the summer. It will be one of the frist areas I detail out when I get my scenery started.
Bobby, those are custom painted Lionel’s I did with sounds.
I found a couple of sets real cheap on ebay.
Islandmodelworks has the decals although the road numbers are for the trailers cars, not the electrics.
Who’s checking anyway?
Have to convert 3 more in between customer weathering jobs.
Steve
Canadian Pacific passenger train exits a northbound tunnel, while a NS tank train takes the high road.
REV
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.
For the fourth year, the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks department has asked us to set up a demonstration layout for the kids at the "Downtown on Ice" festival. Here are a few photos:
They lit up the trees when the sun went down. Very nicely done.
The three big hits of the show were Thomas, the Polar Express, and the "Chips Ahoy Box (literally) Car" built by Jack "The Apprentice" Kemph.
The Metrolink train is always a hit among visitors. Metrolink has pretty high visibility in the greater Los Angeles area.
Overall shot of the layout
To further give a few AGHR members some grief, I brought some scale-wheeled equipment down to run on the layout. They ran very well on Lionel FasTrack.
Proto-3 GP38-2
Matt love the chip's ahoy box!
dave
Matt love the chip's ahoy box!
dave
Thanks.
Jack and I were talking about that car Saturday and were thinking of actually building a few to scale dimensions using various boxed products -- just for laughs.
A late entry
Canadian Pacific passenger train exits a northbound tunnel, while a NS tank train takes the high road.
REV
Nice looking rock work there Rev!! Makes that NS Look ominous
Thanks for the pics KJ356
Anyone have an idea who makes those street lights?
The closing shot- taken with my Iphone as we closed our open house weekend with today's show.
Here are a few more shots of my layout I took tonight.
Pere Marquette 1225 sits on the wye while PM 830 pulls her fright towards the bridge.
A sail boat that just came off of Lake michigan waits for the draw bridge to open after PM 830 pulls her train across it.
830 pulls her train past the station up the grade heading out of town.
830 heads over the river towards the mainline. The coaches from the commuter train are parked on the wye.
1225 sits on the other leg of the wye waiting for her train to be ready.
Great photos everyone, really neat.
Great photos this week so much variety.
To answer the ?'s on the photos I posted.
Again this is not my layout but a visit to a club members open house;
Mark reply's;
The street lights are MTH # 64 Highway Lamp Set and the curved steel bridge was custom built by Mainline Bridges (http://www.mainlinebridges.com/)
Mark calculated out the height and curve of his bridge did a mockup on paper all traced out full scale and sent that to the builder and got the finished model back and slipped it into place. 2 track custom built metal bridge.
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