Welcome to WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!
This past week I have had major computer issues, did you know that laptops don't like to drink sodas?
That has caused me some issues getting photos for this week
Joshua and I have continued to work on the tinplate layout.
I still haven't decided how to handle my train underpass. Should I paint the tile? Your feedback is welcome.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Here's my fun photos for this last weekend in February! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
A great start to the week-end, guys.
A thought on posting multiple photos inspired by John Rowlen;s tireless painting of O scale cars and figures: when posting a cluster of photos (i.e. photos that are not accompanied by text), simply post one large image in the body of the post and leave the rest as thumbnails.
Two benefits from this: (1) clicking on the thumbnails creates a much larger viewable image than if the photo was in the body of the post; and, (2) allows individual photos to be viewed rather than scrolled.
Just a thought.
A brand new Centipede is pulling the Friendship Train in late 1947. The BP60 is waiting to be released while a GS4 passes on the runaround track. The Pennsy had 12 sets of these huge BP60 diesels, or DR-12-8-1500/2 as Baldwin called them. Unfortunately these big engines were unreliable and obsolete even before they were built. They all went from mainline service to pusher service to the scrap yard very quickly.
The BP60 is a Lionel model, and the GS4 (44 tonner) is MTH.
The new Golden Gate Bridge arrived at the G&O on Wednesday, 26 February 2020. This is the G&O's third Golden Gate Bridge. NH Joe
New Haven Railroad FL9 #2043 by Sunset/3rd Rail is stopped at Bridgeport station on my 10’-by-5’ layout. The train stretches around the south curve and is blocking the grade crossing – including the crossing tender’s government surplus Jeep.
MELGAR
Have a great weekend everyone
Here are two slides from about 40 years ago. This is at the Gottard Pass ( the old tunnel) . You drive your car onto a flat car and sit in complete darkness for about a half hour going through the tunnel. The other slide (very sunny) or over exposed. If you look carefully on the bottom level is a Lamborghini Miura. A car ahead of its time. I told my wife to look carefully because you may never ever see one again, less than a year later I saw my second one on Searingtown road in Nassau county NY. I have never seen one again. At the time I thought driving through Switzerland and Italy would be fun, but after taking the train through Austria, Germany and Switzerland last year, I know that riding the rails is much more fun.
From the 100th anniversary at Union Station in 2008
Machine shop in progress, a long sought after DD Kozak’s kit:
A 2019 Christmas Layout memory 
Continuing with using images of the plateau this week.
The left side Overall:
A closer view of the lumber yard:
This switching tower by MTH is special to me: For the last 24 years I have hosted the "Family train party" for my entire family including every niece and nephew, etc. For the last 10 years or so my one nephew has presented me with some type of thank you gift that I could use on the layout. The switching tower was his 2018 thank you gift. I make sure to use every one of them on the layout every year to show my appreciation to him. Plus, they are always nice!!!!!
- walt
Thx man! I scored some other DD kits I've been hunting down for a while. Wish he'd do more O scale kits.
Here's one from the archives. Trains entering and departing Enola yard with the "Iron Bridge" overhead...
M.T.H. Premier automobile carriers in railroad schemes on TRAILER TRAIN flat cars that lasted into the 1990's, before being repainted.
Norfolk and Western
Santa Fe
DT&I and Boston & Maine
Boston & Maine - Guilford
D,T&I - Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Andrew
Falcon Service
PRRMiddleDivision posted:Here's one from the archives. Trains entering and departing Enola yard with the "Iron Bridge" overhead...
Always inspiring modeling Norm!
Happy Weekend.
Nice modeling, BAR! Looks real to me...
Some beautiful modeling and great shots!! Gents'.. Nice'...!!
A shot 2/28/20 in Norfolk Ne. Nebraska Central RR, a Short Line off UP main in Columbus. This flat is set up to haul turban blades. Takes 1.5 flats per blade. The concrete blocks look to be ballast for the offset position of the blade. This track is ex C&NW cowboy line. Cottonwood tree.
Norm Charbonneau posted:Machine shop in progress, a long sought after DD Kozak’s kit:
Amazingly realistic modeling, Norm.
Here are some images of the XTTX flat cars for Wind Turbine Blades in an Eastbound train that passed through Michigan over the GTW on the way back to the CN track in Ontario during January 2020.
Andrew
Falcon Service
SIRT posted:
Nice modeling, BAR! Looks real to me...
Steve. Thanks. 🤝
Johan
What else? More New Haven........I left the F3 up to do another week of passenger service....and added my K-Line EP-5 to do some freight work.....
Straight from Cos Cob? A New Haven voltmeter car.......
For non-New Haven fans, Cos Cob was the site of the coal-fired power plant that suppled the New Haven with its power for the electrified line between New Haven and Grand central.
More info here:
Cos_Cob_Power_Plant,_Cos_Cob,_(Fairfield_County,_Connecticut).jpg
Peter
Slowly coming along, time for inside lighting, it's not deep so don't want too much to show inside and that's why so many shades and curtains. First floor is still vacant but expect it to fill shortly.
Ray,
That might be the best-looking model of a brick building I have ever seen...
How many pieces make up the front wall?
MELGAR
I made two of these for my kids and gave them to them for Valentine's Day. 
I'm sure some folks on here may know where the real version of this exists.
Mel, I appreciate that especially coming from you, I always admire your work.
There are maybe 30 pieces, would have been more but I printed the windows as part of the walls.
Northbound Chicago Great Western just entered their own track from C&NW’s double main line at west of Marshalltown, enroute to Oelwein, Iowa.
Patrick
to the trains... photo by Marci...
scott.smith posted:Welcome to WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!!!
This past week I have had major computer issues, did you know that laptops don't like to drink sodas?
That has caused me some issues getting photos for this week
Joshua and I have continued to work on the tinplate layout.
I still haven't decided how to handle my train underpass. Should I paint the tile? Your feedback is welcome.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
Hey Scott, I like the tile a lot. I might simply suggest weathering it a bit. Looking forward to seeing the scene in completion. Oh, my computer didn't take to coffee, either.
corsair29 posted:
Steve;
That is a very impressive collection on Jersey Central power. The elevated platform on the right looks very impressive too... could you post a wider picture of that???
Thanks.
My "haul" from this weekend's Greenberg show:
Four on the left (Exxon, Gulf, Amoco, Texaco) are RailKing models released in February 2020. JustTrains was the only dealer to have them. Saved me some shipping
The three on the right (Texaco, Mobilgas and Gulf) were unexpected finds--Lionel MPC's chrome tankers. Yes, they are smaller than the RailKing ones. Why do I have these? Well, I have about 15 others like this--almost all petroleum companies, and a few railroad roadnames. Eventually these will appear together on YouTube as "the Chrome Train" along with a couple of chrome-plated boxcars, and the 5-piece K-Line plated aluminum Santa Fe ACF hoppers.
---PCJ
corsair29 posted:Thanks!
Steve;
Thanks. When I asked for a wider view, I was NOT expecting this. That is an incredible scene. Fabulous depth in the buildings, and I love the trolley - got to get one of those one of these days!!!
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