Weekend Photo Fun 2-4-22-??

Scott I am in town until Wednesday morning if your offer still stands and you are available.

MTH PS2 leading a long coal drag.

Stuck in a garage….somewhere near the swamps of Jersey.  

I liked the Menards new Sinclair tank cars, but just missed ordering them they sold out to fast.  I liked the paint scheme and decided to paint up my own. Selected a couple of tank cars from my layout that had boring plain paint jobs,  sanded off the lettering and painted them with Tamiya spray paints really liked the bright Metallic green color. Printed off some decals on the home printer. Here are the results, and painted up the Sinclair Atlantis Tanker truck model in the same paint color.

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this fine upcoming weekend!  Here are my photos of the fun kind.   I'm really looking forward to attending my first train show since 2019 this weekend ... The Great Scale Model Train Show in Timonium, Md.  Have a terrific weekend everyone!!  

RS1 leads a freight train out of the tunnel and over the bridge as folks boat and swim in the lake below.

Sasquatch is in this photo.  Can you spot him?

Stutz Wolp on the ground is ready to throw the switch.  Hogger A.J. Atwater leans out of the cab for some fresh air.

A farmer with a truck load of produce waits on the produce track for his turn to back up to the loading dock.  His load will be transferred to a waiting refer.

On the street where I live.  The Sealtest man has just parked his truck outside my house.  Nothing like having fresh milk delivered to my door!  

    #2117...

Now that the trains are out on the wall......here is one of the sets I like for no other reason except that the colors pop......1571 from 1957.... a low end set lead by a Lehigh Valley 44 tonner......but really good-looking in my opinion.....it was gifted to me by a nurse colleague that I worked with for 30 years.

....and, it's amazing what you find when you go through your "stuff".....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

I'm Batman!

A car I made for my son when he was young!

Haven't posted on this thread for a while.

Let's go with a Lionel Postwar video. This is the 1511 Alaska Set from 1959. An interesting little set to commemorate the 49th state. Nice, colorful rolling stock featuring the eye grabbing Alaska NW Switcher.

@Putnam Division posted:

Now that the trains are out on the wall......here is one of the sets I like for no other reason except that the colors pop......1571 from 1957.... a low end set, but really good-looking in my opinion.....it was gifted to me by a nurse colleague that I worked with for 30 years.

....and, it's amazing what you find when you go through your "stuff".....

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Peter...

Fix this NOW!  LOL!

Happy Weekend.

Brief video of O scale Chessie U30C's with a coal train. Enjoy.

Some early morning action.

K-Line L2 2-8-2.

Just arrived from a fellow LCCA member: My MTH UP Schnabel takes its place front and center on my display shelves:

Peter aka "Putnam Division" posted...

"NH train set pic

NH train set pic

NH train set pic

More NH train set pics..."

Like NH much?

(Couldn't resist.)

Seriously: You've got some nice stuff! I especially like the 209's.

Andre

Kj356, you did a phenomenal job on those Sinclair tank cars, and especially the Atlantis tank truck kit. You should post those photos of the Atlantis kit over on the “Scenery and Structures” forum, where there is a thread entitled “automobiles/trucks 1/43-1/59 scale, let’s see them”. That kit is popular over there, and I think your work on that kit is outstanding.

A few oldies from a bygone era. The time portal in the Gasping Desert has long since vanished, as has the beast T-REX that tormented Castle Canyon for a hundred years ! Let's hope that time portal never reopens !!!

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

Continuing to show a mini-scene on the plateau (hey, when one only has a Christmas temp layout one has to spread out pictures to last 1 year, right)

For perspective:

Boy Scouts on a small sleep over admiring swans before dark:

- walt

A little fun with paper trains!

I recently built this HRM Lasermodels 25 ton Milwaukee Road coaling tower.

My favorite Weaver PS-2 covered hopper.

@MartyE posted:

Peter...

Fix this NOW!  LOL!

Done! Thank you!

Peter

@laming posted:

Peter aka "Putnam Division" posted...

"NH train set pic

NH train set pic

NH train set pic

More NH train set pics..."

Like NH much?

(Couldn't resist.)

Seriously: You've got some nice stuff! I especially like the 209's.

Andre

Grew up near the New Haven east Bronx line.

My Dad’s family owned a house in Larchmont  along the NH’s 4 track Main Line about a 1/2 mile east of the station.......

The New Haven is in my DNA.....

Peter

@MartyE posted:

Peter...

Fix this NOW!  LOL!

Done! Thank you!

Peter

Gotta love GG1’s

Custom run of MTH flats with trailers from Stockyard Express.

The new SOO LINE GP30 diesel-electric locomotive 700 from Lionel.

Andrew

Falcon Service

British Columbia Railway Evans Products double plugged door box car from Atlas O.

Andrew

Falcon Service

                       REA #2124...

SIRT,

Great photos as always.  

I really want one of those REA converted troop cars.  The only two I have seen both had warped frames.  Was yours okay or did you get a new frame?

Picked it up at a show. It has an aluminum plate as a floor. Atlas has the Commonwealth trucks I need to get for it.

Never had a problem with my other REA cars. Reefer is a Golden Gate model.

Outstanding job guys, terrific photos and videos.  Steve, I really love your cars, especially the flat carrying the trolley body, weathering is spot on, not too heavy, it looks like it might have been stored outside but was covered with a tarp or something along those lines.  I loved it, very nice job on it.  Pat, great photos of your layout as usual and you always have a good story to go with them.  Perry 1060, very nice looking layout, beautiful scenery, you don't see many dry climate desert scenes that often.  Very well done and nice presentation of it.  Thanks for sharing.  Bar GP7 #63, you have such a beautiful layout, your scenery is terrific, I really love it and the weathering on your track work is really well done and very realistic looking.  Peter, I loved your trains on the shelfs, very nicely done, I need to start putting mine up but have to fix a wall stud that is right in the middle of the wall and it is sitting proud of all the rest, I guess it is bowed out and when the covered the wall they were too lazy to fix it.  You don't know its there until you put the level across the wall and then it shows up.  Nice looking trains, that was really nice of that nurse to give you that train set.  You did a great job on installing the shelving units.
Thanks Scott for getting this thread up and running each week, I always look forward to seeing it.  Have a great weekend guys.  Thanks to all for sharing with us.

Just delivered special runs

Weekend Pennsy Power!

@Perry1060 posted:

A few oldies from a bygone era. The time portal in the Gasping Desert has long since vanished, as has the beast T-REX that tormented Castle Canyon for a hundred years ! Let's hope that time portal never reopens !!!

Perry,

Good to see the Dinos again!!!

They're extinct now over here too!

An MTH Railking 2-8-8-2 passing through a town that also is no more:

@CAPPilot posted:

SIRT,

Great photos as always.  

I really want one of those REA converted troop cars.  The only two I have seen both had warped frames.  Was yours okay or did you get a new frame?

Ron I cannot recall who but someone did make good replacement frame kits.  This is pic on the two had local toy train shop get me years back.

Ron

Mike Wolf, Rich Foster, Joey Kiel, Lon Gates, myself and Ronnie Walter. Joey and Ronnie were two of our repair men. Lon Gates is a great friend that would do anything he could do to help in the store.

ALCos

The UP Big Boy 4014 and Up Veranda 65 in a MU.

falconservice,

Is that Jack, the Menards dog in one of your pictures?

I stopped by the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium. Here are Craig and Chris at the Trackers Display.....

Peter

My newest engine to join the roster now just need to install tmcc

OOH1 Shiny!  I likes shiny.  KJ356, I second what Artie said about the tanker.

Sirt Great weathering as usual on all posts in this edition.  "REA #2124..." I've always wondered what the numbers in your titles reference?

Patrick, Johan spectacular as usual.

Jim P., I never realized you ran a hobby shop like Jim Sutter.

Rock Island pulling a string of Atlas cattle cars in C&NW

@postmastermc posted:

ALCos

Love 'em! 

I really have a soft spot in my heart for Lionel's little FA's. Don't know what tripped my trigger... but I've liked 'em for decades.

Should'a NEVER sold these PW's:

Even these later release ones I should have kept:

Andre

The UP 844 felt left out.

Lionel UP4014, 844, and 65 MU.

@kj356 posted:

I liked the Menards new Sinclair tank cars, but just missed ordering them they sold out to fast.  I liked the paint scheme and decided to paint up my own. Selected a couple of tank cars from my layout that had boring plain paint jobs,  sanded off the lettering and painted them with Tamiya spray paints really liked the bright Metallic green color. Printed off some decals on the home printer. Here are the results, and painted up the Sinclair Atlantis Tanker truck model in the same paint color.

Magnificent! Thank you for sharing all of this magic!!!!

With the Trackers at the Maryland State Fairgrounds at Timonium this past weekend, no mask required.👍