Weekend Photo Fun 2-10-12-??

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.....

My wife posted this on her Facebook account. FYI Hallmark only makes cards that people want to buy. This suggestion is at the bottom of my list but it's on the top of her list.

I am really enjoying all the pictures from all the new people that are joining us now on WPF.

Scott Smith

Atlas O 21st Century Signal.

Probably should have put these in that Christmas Layout Thread, but now its Mid February!  O well better late than never suppose.

Usually get a lot of Oohs and Aahs with the lights out:

More progress on the Water treatment and Boiler house area.

BillP:

Better late than never, nice pictures and nice Christmas layout.

Popssrr:

I just love the design and the work. Jeff Sohn is a pure talent to bring the design to life. I bet you will be happy with these babies.

PTC(BRIAN) Yes I REALLY DO LIKE THE RESULTS. i HAD A LOT OF HTRAT HELP TO BRING THIS ALL TOGETHER AS I MENTIONED ABOVE.

The freight yard will be busy with these additions. Thanks again Brian.

Bill, Great looking engines!  Nice work to all who were involved in the project!

GTW Ralph, Thank you for your nice words. Not a lot of us CN/GTW fans around here so I always enjoy hearing from them

A couple of pictures from my layout.

Popsrr,

I love the colors on the engine. Jeff has done work for my dad and I and we are very pleased. Thanks again for posting.

Jumijo,

I think it is nice that you and your daugter worked in the project together. My son and I work on our layout together and I love it.

Also I loved your sign and flag poles. How did you make it?.

David

A salute to the New York Central.

We have 2 general freights and one short passenger train.

The short passenger train has a diner and club observation car making it a perfect little train.

Nice!  I hope Lionel catalogs this one.

bigo426

Love those postwar sets.

Awesome

Joe S

I just finished these... need to get some blocks and some chain work to lash them down, but I'm happy so far.

Boilermaker;

I have 2 of those Tamiya 1/48 2.5 Ton Cloth top Truck kits sitting here awaiting motivation to build them, You have helped a lot, those look great.

What Flatcars doe you use for them? I've been gathering odd ones, but feel I may have to fix them up a bit to look more like wood tops.

Once again, Thanks to Scott for starting the thread, and thanks to all who posted pictures. They make my weekends. I really gotta get past track on plywood so I can post some.

The flat cars are MTH 41' 50 ton. I had the flats already and needed something to put on them. Its not long enough for 2, so a single truck per car is what works. I think 2 trucks would fit on a 50' flat, but I dont have a 50 footer to test it out (I may order a weaver one just to see if they fit, if not, I'll have to get some M8s or some Jeeps to triple up on it...oh darn).  I've been on the hunt for some more armor, and I found a company called gaso.line that makes conversion kits for the standard Tamiya kit to make the 6x6 kit into other models (water tank truck, dump truck, 40mm gun platform), unfortunately, the conversions cost as much or more than the full model.

They werent hard to assemble, including paint and drying/setting time, they took about 6 hours to assemble. I want to call them and see if I can get some other truck numbers (the decal set comes with 2 truck numbers), so I can build some more.

I think my next project is going to be some M3 halftracks. Or course, with all these flat cars, sooner or later I'm going to need a steamer thats worthy of moving an armored division.... building an army train is fun, but its expensive.

Ahh, Well I have the Steam engine.  Love My Imperial RK Big Boys.

The Military train is forming up nicely.

I have a set of Patton's on Flats, I need to get some more scale flat's I guess, most of my rolling stock is Railking as are all my engines.

I also have some old MPC Flatcars, they are real short. One truck per them will fit nicely. I also have about 8 jeeps now, 2 of them with trailers. But most of them need repaint from desert camo to green.

I lucked out and got a pair of NIB K-Line Troop cars at the Amhearst show, and found a weaver troop car at the LHS Sunday.

I was looking at a thread about painting the wood tops on the flats, It would seem they can come out nice.

BTW, where do you get half tracks???  I'd like a few of those too.

Easy solution is to find Corgi 1:50 scale M3 A1s, they were done a number of years ago but you can find them on ebay (they were also made in 1:72, so make sure you get the right scale). The complex solution is a resin kit made by Kengi Models, they're expensive ($40 per), but they look like they're military diorama grade items.

Been experimenting with making paper "tinplate" structures. This one is built witha foamcore substructure. Artwork was done in MS Paint. I think I need to simplify the details and brighten the color for a better tinplate-like look.

David S Thank you for your nice comments. Jeff does excelent work. Thanks for posting your note.