It's almost the weekend and since I have to be in Columbia, SC in the morning I am going to start the pictures early.
Second level crossover.
View from the 4th level down to the second.
Here is a Facebook Live video from Tuesday night
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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A new tunnel just opened.
Fun for this weekend! " The roving photographer out and about " 
Another big day running trains last Sunday at the VTC (Virginia Train Collectors) meet....
Peter
Have a great weekend! 
Replacing the entire front truck frame assembly on this Lionel 6-11154 Pennsylvania 0-8-8-0 CC2 Loco , it was cracked in half.
The ubiquitous MTH station. I have been struggling with how to do a passenger station on my layout. I recently discovered the perfect location on the track plan, but it's a vertically challenged area and raised track. I was going to build up the land and use the atlas suburban station but it felt too small for the downtown feel I am going for.
So I came up with a solution. This mth station, raised platforms and breezeway walkway from second floor, overa taxi/bus lane, to trackside platforms.
I did a more concrete/limestone look for the windows and valance and mortar, flat blacked the roofs, Masonite sidewalk.
Work in progress painting not yet complete.
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that is going to be awesome Jeff !!!
A 2018 Christmas Layout memory 
Residents of Rabbit's Hole getting ready to call it a night
- walt
briansilvermustang posted:
that is going to be awesome Jeff !!!
Thanks! It's so exciting to finally figure out a solution! So much time sitting, staring, imagining, and pondering!
pennsy484 posted:The ubiquitous MTH station. I have been struggling with how to do a passenger station on my layout. I recently discovered the perfect location on the track plan, but it's a vertically challenged area and raised track. I was going to build up the land and use the atlas suburban station but it felt too small for the downtown feel I am going for.
So I came up with a solution. This mth station, raised platforms and breezeway walkway from second floor, overa taxi/bus lane, to trackside platforms.
I did a more concrete/limestone look for the windows and valance and mortar, flat blacked the roofs, Masonite sidewalk.
Work in progress painting not yet complete.
Yes! Very much like the Pennsy station in Johnstown where you walk from the station through a tunnel and then up a set of stairs to the platform.
Lew
briansilvermustang posted:
Nice, Brian. I'd like to add this one of the Banner Blue Summer 1960.
Lew
Hello, everyone. Ever wonder how those strings of Pacific Fruit Express reefers got started heading East?
geysergazer posted:pennsy484 posted:The ubiquitous MTH station. I have been struggling with how to do a passenger station on my layout. I recently discovered the perfect location on the track plan, but it's a vertically challenged area and raised track. I was going to build up the land and use the atlas suburban station but it felt too small for the downtown feel I am going for.
So I came up with a solution. This mth station, raised platforms and breezeway walkway from second floor, overa taxi/bus lane, to trackside platforms.
I did a more concrete/limestone look for the windows and valance and mortar, flat blacked the roofs, Masonite sidewalk.
Work in progress painting not yet complete.
Yes! Very much like the Pennsy station in Johnstown where you walk from the station through a tunnel and then up a set of stairs to the platform.
Lew
@geysergazer Hi Lew. Thanks for that information about Johnstown station! Very valuable information for me, really! Very on point for what I am doing. Yet another example of how the forum is great. Google is great, but its tough to simply search and find something like this. Based on your comment, I ws able to get good prototype picture to reference! Here's a capture of Johnstown station from Google street view:
Just trying to reproduce a vintage photo on my layout. Close but I have a 3460 class Hudson instead of a 2900 class Northern, a F3 instead of a FT, and a 5011 class Texan instead of a 5001 class Texan.
There was a post earlier this week about building a model of the CUT Station. I attended the NMRA Convention in Kansas City last year. There is a Model Rail exhibit in the station with several O gauge models of the Kansas City station. One is scale and another is compressed. The Model Rail Exhibit in Kansas City is well worth the visit.
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