Weekend Photo Fun 2-10-12-??

This was the initial planning stage , did not bother with landscaping as I wanted to run the trains   

Thanks Scott for starting this week , was waiting and watching for your first post 

Love this picture from Patrick's RR.  Thought it was worth a re-post.  Too bad you can't see the hobo hotel just around the corner.  It is one cool accessory with harmonica music.  When I was there in December I heard the music and couldn't believe it was coming from there.  The Hobo's are floating in the water tower on little rafts.  Nice accessory.

Is that Louis?

B&O YMCA

Railroad YMCAs were located at many railroad division points and terminals to provide lodging and also to provide services to train crews who were away from their homes, families, and churches

The model is a MTH country house with an added side porch left over from a previous project. The three dormers are from Ameritown Dream house kits and the stone foundation is flexible stone wall from Chooch Enterprises. The mullions were removed from the windows. The building has been repainted the in way it was common in the 1950s.

Richard E  Rochester NY

Scott Thanks again for getting us started of the weekend photo fun.

More progress on yhr 15' wall section of our layout. In this area we will have a Grain Mill and Storage complex, Power Plant Complex, and a Coal mine complex. The Power Plant is pretty well done and we are working on the coal mine area. Alan Graziano is working on the upper level support systems for the coal mine. Alan has fabricated the small boiler house with water treatment tanks and aux fuel supply tanks.

A different perspective

Finally pulled the trigger on a set of the “Fleet of Modernism” passenger cars.  I was persuaded by MTH’s most recent release including the observation car named “Juniata Narrows.”

The RS-11 makes a nice addition to the early N&W diesels.  And the NS Genset with horse looking in the right direction makes a good companion to the NS OCS F-Units.

Three new cars are added to the LCN&J roster. Thanks Matt for the Whale gondola.   

Photos of the crews busy at the engine servicing facility

Race day!

Around the layout:

Jim

Hi everyone,here's a couple of engine shot's

THANKS,ALEX

The build date on my colorful Burlington refrigerator car is November, 1961.  That’s a 1931 Chevrolet truck pictured with it.  In 1960, there were still a few old clunkers on the street where I grew up.  However, they weren’t as common as my photo would have you believe.  The guy across the street had a 1930 Ford Model A coupe with the trunk lid removed and a wood box inserted to make it into a pickup.  There was also a white 1938 Dodge coupe and a dark green 1939 Chevy coupe.  Lastly, my wheels, a 1934 Plymouth coupe which I had paid $25 for.  Have a great weekend, Jim

Photos are from the Angels Gate Hi-Railers Club and the recently completed roundhouse that was scratch built by David O'Connor, a long-time member of the club.

I love those old Marx tinplate trains.

I also love Lionel Postwar 027.  Here is my workbench where I am refurbishing Lionel 2018 and 2037 engines.

Another 2011 Christmas Layout memory

Looks like a traffic jam is in the works with people lining up hoping to get a glimpse of Santa:

Santa is more than willing to go along and greet the passers-by:

Even in daylight hours!

- walt

That is a very nice job! It really turned out well and makes me want to make one similar for my layout, thanks for sharing.

Art

Here's my newest acquisition a basket case Lionel postwar 2025.

Here's the before, lots of missing paint, casting defects and corrosion pitting...

And here's the after restoration....

It runs like a top and smokes pretty good once I cleaned out the smoke chamber.  Next up is applying the numbers and working on the tender.

Paul

A picture of my namesake engine.

Just a few shots to test out the new photo posting procedure.

Oops....both ended up as thumbnails.....what should I have done so they show as a full pic?

REV

when you are doing the upload files process and after you select (and "OPEN") the image file, a checkbox will appear that asks if you want to embed the photo into the text.  Select it.

- walt

OK.....i'll try it.......Thanks Walt.....here goes....looks like it worked.

My turn now, see if I can post a pic as well.

Ken  Nice roundhouse.  Are you coming to Lincoln next weekend for the train show at the event center.  If you do and have time come check out our layout.  It should be a good show.  Nick

The workers and supervisor are deciding on what type of railing/fencing to add to this large support/platform.

I've got Western Maryland fever(!)...picked up a couple more items to enhance my WM 'stable'

This GP9 makes a cool 'odd couple' lash up with the FA and with teir 'circus' apint, you can't miss them going down the tracks.  Love the snow plow too.



Found this nice MTH Premier WM Caboose...



I really like 'loud & proud' paint schemes like this and Chessie System.  
In an era of mostly drab locomotives, these really stand out.

I am new to this forum so I will give this a shot. If it don't work will someone let me know what I need to do?

 Tks,

 Kev.

Okay I did a cut and past from Shutterfly on the first picture, it looks okay and a attachment on the other two. I see why the first attachment did not post, but why is the attachment picture distorted?

Thanks, Kev

Keith....I really like that platform.  Is that textured paint that you used?

Alan

"The Apprentice" has been busy again, having painted the sides of his PE Tower Car project. The Home Depot paint looks like it matched the PE colors pretty well. I'm still trying to help him track down some parts. He has some more work to do on the roof and chassis before adding paint.

I can finally add to this thread....some shots of my new 4x8.

Here is an update on the granary complex.  It has changed quite a bit over the last week or so since I posted the earlier pictures.....

Alan

Alan, thank you! Your granary looks great.

The paint is Rust-oleum American Accents "Stone Textured Finish" paint in Stone Pebble color. I purchased it at Wal-mart. I first primed the MDF with Glidden Creamy Buttermilk (Home Depot).

Lionel 282 Gantry Crane and Barrel Loader busy at work.

A couple of pics of my scratch built Summit Tractors building.

I completed a refurbishment of a Lionel post war turbine shell this week.I was able to keep the vast majority of the original paint. Its for sale if anyone needs one. Free shipping!

Before:
The shell had some kind of glue stuck to the ladder, and red sparkly stuff stuck to the boiler. No chemical paint stripping, media blasting, etc., was employed. I wanted to save as much of the old paint as possible.

After:

The lighting makes the paint look much flatter than it really is. I may take new photos with better lighting. It has the same perfect post war Lionel sheen as the 726 in the background. In this photo, you can see that sheen towards the front of the shell, where the light wasn't as harsh.

A few more as I wander around the layout. Here's a Lionel 4-4-2 that I repainted pink for my daughter. It's been running this week after a long sleep.

I've begun making new trees. These will replace ones I made a few years back. Here's an example.

Another shot of the turbine shell.

From Christmas layout to Basement Carpet Central all in a month or so!  Some great shots and great layouts!  Looks like the easier posting is making this weekly thread pretty popular!  My Carpet Central is in such bad shape financially they had to get an old tired E6 Atlantic to pull those shiny new PRR passenger cars!

Some more closeups from my first layout.  Standing around the Coke machine with some tall tales, while a loose plank is being secured in the sidewalk.

Aerial view of the muddy creek and the old rickety bridge.

Coming around behind the station to switch some cars.

Dusk is falling as the early evening express leaves the station.

Alan, I love to see pictures of well done buildings!

If I may ask, what did you use for the roof shingles?

Jim

A new look; No bare plywood on the layout!

Love it! Where can I get one?

Looks good Bob. I like what you did with the engine stalls very cleaver!

Nice!   My mom worked at Schlitz when she was pregnant with me.

I know this is not a train, but I jost posted my first picture and always wanted to post on this thread. This was a present that I made for the boss on his 60 th birthday. This is Erics Tankie Bar

Love those Miller signs.

The Miller Signs are a hit here too

Is this the U36 from the MPC Quaker City Limited set?

A couple from my layout.

Disney World Train Station snap together model from Ebay

Now that is funny, hope Farmer Bill doe's not see that. Speaking of beer its about that time.

This is a mini scene between two mainlines

Seven Disney Train stations kitbashed together.....

Rich M.,

What kind of diesel is that?

Nice shot, different.

lowen

A couple of my engines.

Simplicity at its best.  On the carpet with Lionel's initial foray into the Pre-war Celebration Series, Set # 269E Freight Train.

Hi Jim (jd-train). I make my own shingles using .010" thick styrene sheets. I scribe and texture the styrene with various pointed tools then cut the sheet into strips and apply  these to the roof. The second pic shows a shingle roof before trimming and painting.

Some MPC. Chessie U36C leading the Royal Limited set and the always wacky Radioactive Waste Disposal Car.

Some random scenes:

Nice pics all, as usual!!

Miss C:

Is that you standing by the pink convertible? 

Andre

Yup, that's me, always in the thick of trouble  

Another seedy back alley on the layout 

quote:

Another seedy back alley on the layout 

Thick of trouble indeed!  There appears to be "ladies of negotiable virtue" down the alley!! 

Andre

My first legacy engine.

Alan that LOOKS REALLY COOL.....Hope Eric liked the T  A  N  K  I  E     B  A  R

Alan I have always thought this was one of your very best pictures. VERY VERY NICE

A Northern Pacific Class W mikado gets ready to leave the yard somewhere in northern Minnesota in 1953.

My contribution for this week

How come about half the photos posted are compressed side-to-side?

I'm not quite sure what you may mean by "compressed," but I don't see that happening with my computer.

Can you provide a specific example that I can look at?

2/11/12

Engines waiting to go into service.

When we visited Sonoma recently, we were taking a walk after dinner one night and stumbled upon the Napa Valley Wine Train engines.  We didn't ride on the train, but we did catch the full train the next day moving down the route to the vineyards. 

One more...getting used to posting with the new format.

Joe H,

Some of the photos do seem to be compressed, but if you double click on the image you get an enlarged copy.

Wow, that's a great looking station.  I would like to see more of your layout too!

Red light on the main

Here's a night shot from town.

Yes I love it!  Very pleased with my choice to go with the Santa Fe Northern.  Now to get another oval of track with bigger curves set up so I can run her more than a few feet back and forth!   

Not sure why two sets of my photos posted.

Melissa 

This is my first try at the weekend photo fun thread, but here goes. Still still not finished, but I'm currently on my long week at work which means no play for me.

Many thanks to the forum members who has given me tons of advice on how to proceed with each new step. Until this building, I had not ventured into adding extras beyond the paint.

Hope all of you have a great weekend.

A scratched built Engine House my brother built for me a couple of years back.

UP Power awaiting the call......

A station by Karl Bub-Nuremburg, made in US Zone-Germany.

I will try to put more layout shots on soon.  This was my first attempt on the new forum.  Thanks for looking,

Ray

Kenny Taylor....you did a beautiful job on that building.  WOW...I really like the colors and the detailed painting.  I would be proud to have that one on my layout for sure!

Thanks for posting great pictures everyone.....

Here is another of the city on the layout....

Alan

Incredible pictures this week!  Thanks for posting.

I've always admired this station, but didn't know the story behind it. Alan, are these Disney stations available to buy? If so, where and what do they cost?

I am looking for something like this for my layout.

This hole in the wall would become a passenger terminal, with building fronts to cover up the mess.

I kitbashed a passenger station using two platicville airplane hangers and an HO powerplant. I still have to finish the right side along the wall. Not sure what I will do there. There are industrial sidings on the lower level, so I will have to blend industrial, the passenger station and maybe smaller scale housiing or buildings etc in HO and N scale.

The platform is a standard covered platform extension, with a few additional uncovered sections made from foam food platters, carved with a hot foam knife tool to match the sidewalk markings. I couldn't find the disney station, which would have made a great clock tower addition

Just excellent detailing Kenny!....

Dave - Those Disney train stations show up on the bay from time to time - they are listed as HO but they're not.... You could probably get them one at a time - ship them all to me and then I can box them up and ship them your way in one shipment.....

I would like to see more pictures of that scratch built version out of seven kits..... Very cool.... we have, well, one in the box to start with.....  

I know there is a looong separate thread about the new format, but I have a specific question prompted by this thread.  All my photos are bunched to the left hand side of the page, and most seem vertically distorted.  And I still have the blank white column to the right.  Is there a simple fix?  Thanks

Chris,

I do not know why, but most pictures do appear to be elongated in the verticle direct, or squeezed  a bit horizontally when they are displayed with this new format. However, if you click on the image, it will open correctly proportioned.

My contribution for this week:

Chris

LVHR

Wellllll.......Wilbur.....

Thanks, Chris.  But while this does the trick, it makes no sense to me to have all pictures be distorted and require another step to get them right.  Surely that can be remedied (at least I hope).

Chris Dunn

Chris are you using Internet Explorer?  There is a recent thread about this. 

Ron

Yes, I am.  I didn't see the thread but have downloaded Firefox, and using that browser seems to fix the distortion problem. Thanks, Ron.

However, I still have pictures that are squeezed into a third of the screen and have a white column taking up at least 25% of the screen on the right-hand side.  Is there a fix for this?  (And my apologies to all for inserting these questions into this thread, but the photo threads are my favorite and this new format really hurts them.)

Chris

here's a Marx 999 l repalnted.

How about a little humor

 Who makes that Ashland boxcar.  I need one 

MTH made the Ashland boxcar about 4 or 5 years ago. It came in 2 different numbers.

I used to work for them a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Chris

LVHR

MINING TOWN

Joe K,

Very nice work on the passenger terminal facade.

Feb. 12 will mark the 203rd birthday of Abraham Lincoln.  Since there were no trains in the US in 1809, I'm posting some photos of his funeral train, along with a military escort.

On a sweeter note, Valentines day is in a few days, so I brought out my Hershey's special train, with hugs and kisses for all.

This set is a K-Line product limited edition (no. 519) from 1996. 

Dave...Thanks for the compliment!  The Disney stations come up on E-bay fairly often but lately they have been a little on the high side dollar wise.  They were issued as an HO model but they are almost exactly O scale being somewhat artistically altered from the prototype.  When I started buying them five years ago you could get all you wanted for around $25.00 to $30.00.  Several dealers blew them out for around $10.00 as some that I got from the bay were marked as such.  By the time I got around to getting enough of them to build what I wanted, the price had risen to around $60.00 to $80.00.  Now they seem to be going for well over $100.00.  I think if you use our WTB forum, you may find some kind folks that would be willing to sell at a fair price.....  You never know when Disney may re-introduce them but I didn't want to wait and I wanted a station that had more of a 19th to very early 20th century detailed architectural look....something like the Grand Central prior to the current terminal.  The kit has a wealth of details and the colors are very nice.  I still haven't gotten around to glazing the windows but I will get back to the passenger facilities real soon as I am about to go back over the layout and start more detailing and scenery.  Here are some more pictures.....

Thanks,

Alan

Here are a few more pictures of the station....

Alan

Here is another picture of the station and waiting taxis....

Alan

Restored NKP GP-30 #901 aking it's first public appearence for the members of the NKPHTS Convention that was Held in Cincinnati,Ohio on Friday September 30th, 2011

I'm using Google Chrome (Firefox has gotten rather bloated and slow recently, and besides, you can play Angry Birds inside Chrome as an app ). While the photos are normally proportioned, they're still not centered within the posts.

I think the forum software means to treat them as thumbnails--you can click on the photo and it comes up full-size while the forum dims into the background (although that makes the thumbnail box along the bottom redundant).

I also have the whitespace on the right-hand side. That's the column where the ads, recent posts and the "who's online" box are located. Since they don't run all the way down the page, there is an empty space below where those page elements end. 

I wanted an O scale version but I found an S scale version of a log cabin. This was a laser cut kit from Creative Design. The roof came in four pieces but I would have prefered two pieces.

Are you able to upload photos?  I wasn't able to upload photos with Google Chrome, but I can with Firefox.

Fantastic photos from all who have posted.  Has anyone noticed that the pictures appear to be crisper on this new forum?

Here are some pics of my first Legacy engine and may I say I am so glad I bought it! This engine is a true gem!

You are welcome Mr. Muffin and thank you too!!

Alan

They are squeezed, side to side. If you click on the image it uploads in normal proportions...most times.

Bruce

Too cold to go walking in the woods today, so Ill work on a few projects.

Heres a pre war standard gauge American Flyer Shasta loco Im cleaning up. I rid the shell of 80 years worth of dirt and grime, and got the motor running for the first time in decades. Just waiting for a few backordered parts to arrive, and I can finally send this old gal home.

The station seen below was built in the very earliest days of our layout, when I was leaning towards a tin plate/toy look. My then 4 year old daughter and I built it from a scrap piece of wood. It has too much sentimental value for me to alter it or put it away under the layout. Instead, Ill begin construction of a new station, and place this one in a place of honor right above my work bench.

Now begins the process of scratch building a new station to fill the same footprint as the old one.

D&H RS3 on point

Working on the railroad.....