Good morning it's time for Weekend Photo Fun.
This week I worked on the new downtown area of the tinplate layout.
Monday I was in Lexington and drove by RJ Corman
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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Nice start Scott! Lionel Centennial SD90 out and about.
Centennial SD90 and Lionmaster SD80 in a MU. These MU as good as any Legacy I have.
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@SIRT posted:Another RARE find!
Weaver offered the some of the most accurate cars in the business. Really miss that wide selection of road names and
Ooh Don like!!!
This week I'm again posting photos of something other than pictures of my layout. Many of you know that I live in Pittsburgh, but probably most of you don't know that we actually have a subway here...in fact many Pittsburghers aren't even aware of it. But it has always been one of my favorite things about my home town. While no one would ever confuse it with the NYC subway or the DC Metro, I don't think there is any city our size that has anything like it. It is only two miles long (though the full rapid transit portion of our 24 mile Light rail system including the subway is about three miles long), but it is quite impressive with beautiful architecture and a portion that actually goes under the Allegheny River. Though my pictures were taken right after cars pulled out in both directions and there are no passengers on the platforms, it is heavily used. In fact, it is packed during Pirates and Steelers games.
I went out for a walk this past weekend on the North Shore and poked my head into this station (the North Side Station) which serves PNC Park. I always thought it kind of looked like a DC Metro station with its high vaulted ceiling. I kept hoping MTH would make an articulated light rail vehicle like they use here in Pittsburgh and in many other cities, but I could never convince them to do one. Anyhow, enjoy the pics!
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Came across this old photo today of our FIRST set-up at a local nursing home with our new modular layout. We used ScaleTrax which looked pretty realistic and had wide curves so we could run scale sized equipment. One of the lady residents came over to my wife at the time and said "See that train over there - That's the Santa Fe Super Chief. I rode it from Chicago to California when I was a girl". My wife was impressed! We had a lot of good stories from those visits. The most memorable was a man in a wheelchair who sat by the tracks with his face beaming like a little boy - very excited. A nurse took me aside and said "That man has been here 7 months and this is the first time I've seen him smile!" I get choked up even now when I relate that story - what memories did we unlock in him that brought such joy?
That's me to the left with Professor Dave Alsop (center) and Ed Rynning (right) in photo. Both of them have passed and are missed in the club. This first outing was over 10 years ago now! We really generated some good will with these set-ups around our area but as we've gotten older it has become impractical to manage them anymore due to us being older and less able to physically handle the work!
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@c.sam posted:*
Came across this old photo today of our FIRST set-up at a local nursing home with our new modular layout. We used ScaleTrax which looked pretty realistic and had wide curves so we could run scale sized equipment. One of the lady residents came over to my wife at the time and said "See that train over there - That's the Santa Fe Super Chief. I rode it from Chicago to California when I was a girl". My wife was impressed! We had a lot of good stories from those visits. The most memorable was a man in a wheelchair who sat by the tracks with his face beaming like a little boy - very excited. A nurse took me aside and said "That man has been here 7 months and this is the first time I've seen him smile!" I get choked up even now when I relate that story - what memories did we unlock in him that brought such joy?
That's me to the left with Professor Dave Alsop (center) and Ed Rynning (right) in photo. Both of them have passed and are missed in the club. This first outing was over 10 years ago now! We really generated some good will with these set-ups around our area but as we've gotten older it has become impractical to manage them anymore due to us being older and less able to physically handle the work!
Great picture and story!
That's what it's al about......thank you for sharing......this is what we've all missed during the pandemic......
Peter
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The most memorable was a man in a wheelchair who sat by the tracks with his face beaming like a little boy - very excited. A nurse took me aside and said "That man has been here 7 months and this is the first time I've seen him smile!" I get choked up even now when I relate that story - what memories did we unlock in him that brought such joy?
That's a great story. Thanks for sharing that. Anytime we can make someone smile is what it's all about.
Great job on that covered hopper, SIRT. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one.
Layout take down continues.......but I realized, it was 10 years to the month when it was started, as the saying goes......."with a little help from my friends"......
Looking forward to the attic being finished and starting the new layout........
Have a great and safe weekend, folks!
Peter
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A 2020 Christmas Layout memory 
The last of the images of the small town (lower left in overall view). All Catholic churches set up a CHristmas-time manger, right?
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The new Sunset GP9 and GP7 in PRR
I am glad Scott offered the rarer passenger version of the GP7 with the air tanks on top. The Pennsy ordered only handful of them. There is a photo in Wither's book "PRR DIESEL LOCO PICTORIAL VOL 8 EARLY EMD ROAD SWITCHERS" of one pulling a passenger train under the wire in Camden NJ, So that's all I needed as an excuse to get one.
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Starting my weekend with the Reading and Northern excursion to Hogwarts.
(someone asked about this Loco’s pulling power on an earlier thread, so I got curious if I could pull my six heavy weights. No problem there)
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Man - You're OUTDOORS on a sunny day Rip that mask off quickly!!!!
Another temp 7’x9’ layout built out of boredom. I’ve been showing images of the 1st one the last several weeks (Easter) and decided I enjoyed that enough to do another. This was built back in mid-February. As I’ve mentioned before with my Easter temp layout, I have so many beautiful Christmas pieces that I could never use them all on my 11’x14’ Christmas layout and I dislike having them just sit in boxes where I don’t get to enjoy seeing them, so I did this temp Christmas layout.
- walt
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Great photos, videos, and stories everyone! Here is my fun photo for this fine weekend! Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Be safe = Be well!
Ariel shot of downtown Patsburg. 
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Patrick, most ariel shots are terrible'.. This one is very good and highlights this part of the layout'. Nice shootin'''...📷😊
