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It was at this point I was told I could expand into the other room if I cleaned up and moved things in it. This  added another 9 feet to the layout.

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Scott Smith

It is a very cold morning in Harrisburg, PA on Nov 17, 1947, when 7,906 people stood in line to tour the Freedom Train. What many were not expecting to see was one of the Friendship Train consists coming into the station and stopping next to the Freedom Train.  This was the only time the Freedom Train met one of the Friendship Trains and the crowd loved it.  There were bands, a parade, and speeches by local and state officials to mark the meeting of these historic trains.

They were parked next to each other for 12 hours as nine PRR X-29 boxcars full of food and other essentials, donated by the people of Harrisburg and surrounding communities, were coupled to the Friendship Train.

I have the trains but not the hundreds of people that surrounded the Freedom Train as the Friendship Train rolled in.  If I ever collect enough figures, including the bands and pom pom girls who must have been freezing in their minimal outfits, I'll do a better re-creation of the meet.

The Friendship Train boxcars are MTH, everything else is Lionel.

Under the bridges in the cut on my 12’-by-8’ layout. Two truss bridges and a two-span girder bridge carry trains across the cut on the main level. This is a non-operating yard used for storage of trains.

No train operations for me lately. Too absorbed with current events.

MELGAR

Scott. You and Josh should be very proud with what you have accomplished at the VMT!

Peter

Photos from the old layout. Click on them to see more detail

For this weekend -Here are a few pics from around Patsburg's Free State Junction Railway.  Stay safe and healthy and enjoy your trains everyone!  

The New York Central RR’s 69th St Transfer Bridge where there was a car float to Weehawken. These  pictures are courtesy of my jogger daughter who lives on the upper west side of Manhattan.

 Here are 2 links for more information......lots of great pictures and history......

 https://untappedcities.com/201...eet-transfer-bridge/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...reet_Transfer_Bridge

Have a great weekend and be safe.....

Peter

A snowy day on the Acela , January 2011. I think this is in Maryland somewhere, Chesapeake off to the right. Tom Hanks outside the train checking to see why we are stopped.

A month off with pay! 

Sub action............

Last game at the old Yankee Stadium...El on River ave peeking through

SIRT, thank you for your excellent use of thumbnails--terrific modeling.

Yay! WPF!

Something to indulge in while being somewhat "home bound".

Alas, I have no completed scenery ANYWHERE on my new layout so I'll refrain from posting pics in this thread, but it's always fun to see what others are up to!

Stay safe and... wash your hands!

Andre

May be I'll spend some time with the detail brushes, removing dust, cleaning.   

MTH  GE  ES 44 AC  Heritage model.  

Weaver EMD Pennsy E-8

Weaver Baldwin Pennsy BP20.  

Edit/Add   Scenery.  Fort Pitt Highrailer modules.  

After several months of working on scenery and putting down ballast, I cleaned up my layout, got things working, took a break and played around with running some trains. Still have a lot of scenery and ballasting to do.

Ken

You guys know how to get me smiling early this week. It's great not to wait for the weekend. It brightens up everything everywhere(hopefully everywhere). Keep up the great photos.

Now I'm in the late 60s and the New Haven engines have been switched out for freshly painted PennCentral black......the New Haven passenger cars have yet to see the new paint.....

Have a great weekend, folks.....and, be safe.

Peter