Weekend Photo Fun starts now!
The Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club built a teaching layout for the museum. This N-Gauge layout purpose is to teach 4th graders about the different Regions of Virginia.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Another grab shot of Port Royal. This is the residential area. I'm just in the process of laying out the details...people, vehicles, signs, etc. Hence, I still have to glue the milk box carrier in his hand and pull out the piece of plastic from the cab, etc, etc, etc. But it was a cool pic, so I figured I'd post it. Port Royal...still not done, but getting there!
Here's an additional photo showing one of the 1950's style street lights I added to a Lionel utility pole. It has the ruffled metal lamp shade which I barely remember from when I was a young child. The lamp shade is from Berkshire Valley with a Miniatronics 1.5 volt bulb installed. It still needs to be hooked up.
Around the RR.
The beginning of my O Scale Journey. Have a great weekend stay warm
SIRT posted:
P&LE #1646...…………..
As always superb weathering staging and photography.
beginning of the CSX merger...
The fellas in the NJHRers certainly practice their craft well. I'm still enjoying the photos I grabbed while there recently and will continue to discover new details as time goes on. Some magnificent structures provide the background for the trains creating an overall very realistic experience. I really like this layout!
First stop was at The Train Station in Mountain Lakes NJ where we first learned about the devastating fire at Bill Harrison's home on Christmas. I knew Bill many years ago when he lived in New Orleans and wanted to say hello.
With all of the recent chatter about the new LIONEL theater cars, I found this photo of a BNSF theater car last night made from a full length, stainless dome car--
LIONEL has made shiny, fluted full domes--might be interesting to see this one modeled.
pennsy484 posted:
Great depth perspective.
After seeing this set on in threads on the forum and in some videos, I felt a compulsion to get it! 😂 This is my first lion chief set, or any starter set for that matter. Very impressed. Here are some pics and videos, check out the video of it pulling 20 cars (most of them scale freight) up a 4% grade. Won't have any problems pulling the add on cars. Can't wait for the aquarium car! Nice strong smooth locomotive!
Pennsy484...nice pic!!!!
Here's my contribution to the fun for this weekend! 
A 2018 Christmas Layout memory 
I've been showing this Lenox product the last 2 weeks. It's very nice. Has a smoke unit that funnels the smoke thru the chimney. It has the option of no lights, select the color light that you want, or rotate the lights thru the 7 or 8 that it offers:
Here's another shot of it. I had it cycling thru colors and just happened to catch it blue here. The big lighted metal train was a gift from my sister sadly just a few months before unexpectedly passing away. I've tried to find a place for it on the layout every year since:
-walt
Pennsy 484
That is a very well composed scene. The way the photo guides your eye to follow the winding road to the switch tower, work its way up the mountain ridge to the water tower and eventually end at the white flowering bush is classic art composition at its best!
Springfield, Mo was the home of the FRISCO RR, but also home to the Campbell 66 trucking Co. ( "Humping to Please" was their motto). So I had David from Crescent Locomotive build this custom truck terminal for me. I hope you enjoy and thanks for looking.
Seeing the Lionel 2-10-4 offerings in the latest catalog has inspired me to take some photos of my 2-10-4's. The MTH C&O T1 is over 10 years old and running strong and smokes up a storm. I know these have some small errors namely the firebox covering some of the back wheels, but I thinks it looks great and its my favorite version. I would by a 2-rail version is MTH offers it again.
Rich
Dave, Neal, and John, thank you so much for the nice comments. Peer feedback is so important!
John, I did really make sure to retain a glimpse of the shrub with white flowers on the right there, thanks for noticing that! I need to figure out how to reduce the shadows on the backdrop from the signal bridge and water tower, either with lighter paint at the shadow locations or with a lighting solution. The darkness of the shadows breaks the illusion of depth there. I lightened those places a bit with the photo editor.
Rich Battista posted:The MTH C&O T1 is over 10 years old and running strong and smokes up a storm. I know these have some small errors namely the firebox covering some of the back wheels, but I thinks it looks great and its my favorite version.
Rich such a coincidence that you posted this. I have the MTH PRR J1 and I had it out running the other day. Yes the drivers, while the same size as the Legacy version, are spaced too far apart and cause the rear drivers to infringe the firebox, but otherwise it is such a great looking and running model (well I think the tender is sighly incorrect in its coal bunker size and is the Q2 version, but that is hard to notice for me) .
One other thing that for me subjectively is that I don't like the whistle sound, which I believe is the same on the C&O version. This week I changed it to the 5V sound set from the Santa Fe Northern and love the sounds now, like getting a new engine. To be able to do this on a 14 or so year old engine is pretty impressive imo.
pennsy484 posted:
I need to figure out how to reduce the shadows on the backdrop from the signal bridge and water tower, either with lighter paint at the shadow locations or with a lighting solution.
Don't do that!. Those look like shadows created by high clouds!
Pingman posted:Bill T., I was roaming around railpictures.net looking for photos of Empire Builder cars to replicate for a current paint project and ran across the "City of Spokane;" and, instantly thought of your S&Y RR:
Wow I caught the City of Spokane in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Sept. 09, 2016
Steve
Nice images folks! Snow covered tracks here.
My layout 1 month ago.
fun with the railking m1000
drodder posted:My layout 1 month ago.
Is that a Stargate?
Balidas, yes it is.
drodder posted:Balidas, yes it is.
Love it! I've been thinking of a Stargate scene when I finally get to build my layout.
Narrow gauge steam from the Springfield show last weekend.
The engineer side of the SOO LINE 1776 Bicentennial GP35 diesel-electric locomotive made by MTH.
Andrew
Falcon Service
No trains yet today.....but fuel is important.......getting the coal, water and diesel fuel ready for the River City 3 Railers annual pancake breakfast meeting......
This is the egg/cheese/sausage/tater tot casserole......
More pics later.....
Tom, Gilly@N&W is frying up the meat at his home.....
Peter
Pingman posted:Bill T., I was roaming around railpictures.net looking for photos of Empire Builder cars to replicate for a current paint project and ran across the "City of Spokane;" and, instantly thought of your S&Y RR:
very cool observation car, someone is traveling in style.
pennsy484 posted:One other thing that for me subjectively is that I don't like the whistle sound, which I believe is the same on the C&O version. This week I changed it to the 5V sound set from the Santa Fe Northern and love the sounds now, like getting a new engine. To be able to do this on a 14 or so year old engine is pretty impressive imo.
Jeff,
Agreed, the chuffing sounds are good but the whistle... not so much. Honestly, I'd rather sell it and buy a new version with better sounds and the newer tether if MTH remakes it.
BTW. Your landscaping is excellent particularly the ground cover and ballast. Great color, texture and application. My first impression is always that it is a photo of a real scene. Of course, that pesky third rail gives it away.
Great work!
Rich
Putnam Division posted:No trains yet today.....but fuel is important.......getting the coal, water and diesel fuel ready for the River City 3 Railers annual pancake breakfast meeting......
This is the egg/cheese/sausage/tater tot casserole......
More pics later.....
Tom, Gilly@N&W is frying up the meat at his home.....
Peter
Peter - looks like the River City 3 Railers has a great chef in the dining car! YUM!
The circus has come to town and is ready to unload.
I added the sidewalks and cement cap/end pieces for the underpass, along with some ground cover. I installed more retaining wall pieces and some ground cover behind the girder bridge, and installed a cement retaining wall in front of the higher level industrial area on the layout known as “the hole”. I’ll add the street portion to connect that area with Jericho Turnpike (underpass) soon. I also put in a layer of some 1/2” Homasote in the corner and up the side of the grade. I’ll paint it earth brown and put down some ground cover and trees. I think it’ll be nice to give this area a little elevation. Thanks for looking.
Andy
I received the Charles Chips boxcar from METCA this week.
Neal Jeter
As promised.....trains were running ....after the meeting.
Peter
SIRT posted:
#1657 CSX, decorated to order...….
For whatever reason, my favorite diesel locomotive has always been the DASH 8-40C in the CSX “bright future” paint.
Very nice job!
An AAB set of Santa Fe GP7s lead a boxcar train on my layout.
Lucky find from defunct local line
briansilvermustang posted:
Oh, Deere!
Some kielbasa and pierogies headed for the local grocery stores in Coal Cracker country.
Coal Cracker posted:Some kielbasa and pierogies headed for the local grocery stores in Coal Cracker country.
just in time for super bowl !
Sdrodder posted:My layout 1 month ago.
Is that a "StarGate" I see? Secret Military Base.
Short Union Pacific manifest
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