briansilvermustang posted:
heading out to the engine shop to pick up B&O #946...
which has just been cosmetically restored...
and will now be on static display at the train museum...
Can't the museum raise the finds to put her back in steam? Surely your relationship to the RR will help you convince them to let her run in excursion service!
Picked up Williams Western Pacific F3 AA units. These go back to the Golden Memories series.
Look fantastic and of course are great pullers like one expects from Williams.
Hey Farmerbill...can you tell us more about this layout? Looks very nice!
PRRMiddleDivision posted:Hey Farmerbill...can you tell us more about this layout? Looks very nice!
CHRISTOPHER N&W...
L.I.TRAIN posted:Here are a few photos of a Lionel Grand Central Station with a custom base made by Harry Hieke
Wow!!! Awesome model. I can't tell you the number of times that I have have met people next to the information booth clock in GCT. It was probably the best known meeting place in NY before cell phones. Do people still meet there or do they just find each other by calling on their cell phones?
Does the model have the Oyster Bar Restaurant? I used to order a bowl of oyster soup while waiting for a New Haven train to CT.
I haven't visited NY for over 20 years. I need to get back for a last look someday. Thanks for memories.
NH Joe
Thanks Brian. Neal, that's the one!
It was also featured in O Scale Trains.
Finally got a caboose!
Just after sunrise in the yards at Notch junction, a car knocker who had been sent up to the roof of the water tower for a minor repair, takes a photo looking to the north over the roof of the engine house toward the depot behind it. On the west side of the engine house waits a Silver Dollar Line freight loading LCL at the backside of the depot. To the East, in front of the depot, rests the Texas Eagle as passengers board for the trip to St. Louis. To the East of the Eagle is the caboose and last three cars of a Fast Frisco Freight which will follow the varnish up the joint track to the junction with the Frisco's Eastern Division at Monnet. MoPac's #1310, a USRA 2-8-2, rests in the engine house for the shop crew's TLC.
The second photo was taken at track level in the yard, still looking North. This shot was taken under the chute at the coaling tower. The sandhouse and double-spout water tank are to the left as we look at #1310's tender in the distance. On the right, the long string of T&P varnish stretches back toward the depot.
The third photo, still looking North, was taken with a telephoto lens from the slope of Roark Mountain atop the tunnel portal on the south side of North Indian Creek. Here we see the power for the Texas Eagle, T&P 4-8-2 #907, at the head of the train. Behind it, we see the power for the FFF, Frisco 2-8-2 #4100. On the left, we see a gondola loaded with coal for dumping into the pit beneath the coaling tower. At the very edge of the lower right-hand corner of the photo, we catch a couple of cars from a peddler freight on the curve of the double-track mainline.
One last photo in the morning light was taken by a brakeman in the caboose of that peddler fright as it passed NT Tower at the junction. He caught the massive T&P 4-8-2 ready to move onto the yard throat toward the main. He also caught the tower operator leaning precariously out over the stair railing in an attempt to get the attention of the engine's fireman. The coaling tower looms over the scene in the background.
All in all, it was a busy early morning for shutter bugs at Notch!
Worked on Brewery front some more tonight. I cut out the two loading dock doors and made false interior spaces and painted them tonight. I am going to reuse the one wooden loading dock door in the interior back wall of the dock. The other dock interior will probably get a photo applied to to it (like bottling floor of brewery) I will be installing micro warm light LED chips in the ceilings of these two dock insides so that you can see the interior space. I also got these awesome 3D printed bottles with the old fashioned wood cases and also some beer kegs which haven't arrived yet. I paint the cases wood tonight and will be applying translucent brown paint to the bottles. I will be starting painting tomorrow after making and attaching mounting brackets to hold the light box on the back of the front.
I also worked on repainting a Twin Whistle engine house and will be installing a couple lights in the interior and I want to add to red lights to the front. Thinking of 3D printing a lamp base and use a LED inside of a red bead
And last night I worked on painting two fronts from DSL shops. The bank and Goldblatt's fronts. I'm not done painting the Glodblatt's front yet. This is also going to be a Woolworth's and Dave from Crescent Locomotive works is working on this sign along with a few others, like the brewery sign.
The Red sign is really going to pop with the gold letters and black diamonds
Great idea for masking the windows SIRT. Looking forward to your progress on that REA building
CSX Al posted:Worked on Brewery front some more tonight. I cut out the two loading dock doors and made false interior spaces and painted them tonight. I am going to reuse the one wooden loading dock door in the interior back wall of the dock. The other dock interior will probably get a photo applied to to it (like bottling floor of brewery) I will be installing micro warm light LED chips in the ceilings of these two dock insides so that you can see the interior space. I also got these awesome 3D printed bottles with the old fashioned wood cases and also some beer kegs which haven't arrived yet. I paint the cases wood tonight and will be applying translucent brown paint to the bottles. I will be starting painting tomorrow after making and attaching mounting brackets to hold the light box on the back of the front.
I also worked on repainting a Twin Whistle engine house and will be installing a couple lights in the interior and I want to add to red lights to the front. Thinking of 3D printing a lamp base and use a LED inside of a red bead
And last night I worked on painting two fronts from DSL shops. The bank and Goldblatt's fronts. I'm not done painting the Glodblatt's front yet. This is also going to be a Woolworth's and Dave from Crescent Locomotive works is working on this sign along with a few others, like the brewery sign.
The Red sign is really going to pop with the gold letters and black diamonds
Al outstanding!
Here is a little project I've been working on for the next Christmas season:
The deer is from Model Power set #6177 (purchased from Scenic Express), and his "nose" is an Evan Designs red pico LED.
I plan on putting him in my Polar Express Reindeer Stock Car. Next up is to make a base for him to stand on inside the car.
Andy
‘Way down Texas way, dawn is breaking . . .
Ralph M posted:Feeling Conrail-ish...
That's awesome Ralph, I really like seeing others' CR modeling. Thanks for sharing your CR consist!
For the Western PA area folks: While running errands yesterday, my son and I happened upon the Buffalo and Pittsburgh local working around the AVR interchange and the Eidenau wye. Here's a couple iPhone pics my son grabbed of the train coming off of the east leg of the wye heading toward Butler.
Thoroughbreds at speed!
nmp... what a great Christmas display !!
Thank you FrankM
Anthony K posted:For the Western PA area folks: While running errands yesterday, my son and I happened upon the Buffalo and Pittsburgh local working around the AVR interchange and the Eidenau wye. Here's a couple iPhone pics my son grabbed of the train coming off of the east leg of the wye heading toward Butler.
GP20?
luvindemtrains posted:Anthony K posted:For the Western PA area folks: While running errands yesterday, my son and I happened upon the Buffalo and Pittsburgh local working around the AVR interchange and the Eidenau wye. Here's a couple iPhone pics my son grabbed of the train coming off of the east leg of the wye heading toward Butler.
GP20?
For this consist, I believe 887 is a GP9 rebuild, 2039 is a GP38, and 926 is a GP18 rebuild. I'm pretty sure 887 and 926 are both of N&W heritage. MTH used their GP20 tooling to produce a Railking scale model of the 926, and it's fairly close to the prototype.
JCOVERT/Jeff C , Thanks for voicing your approval of my little vignette, posted for Weekend Photo Fun 2/17-18, and Thanks for articulating specifics about the scene that you particularly liked.
Thank you, all!
FrankM
Andy Hummell posted:Here is a little project I've been working on for the next Christmas season:
The deer is from Model Power set #6177 (purchased from Scenic Express), and his "nose" is an Evan Designs red pico LED.
I plan on putting him in my Polar Express Reindeer Stock Car. Next up is to make a base for him to stand on inside the car.
Andy
OH man that is cool! Gives me an idea! Thank you for posting!
Jim
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