WEEKEND PHOTO FUN 4-3-15-??

 

Having G gauge fun restoring my Dad's Kleinbach train station from 1984.

Here's a great idea for a Miller sign:

 

 

 

 

 

Hey New Jersey HiRailers....what do you think?

 

Peter

Hell Gate Bridge - Picture taken from Randalls Island in the car ..... 

 

Great thread and photo's everyone. Scott thanks for keeping this going for years.

Wow - starting the 3rd page and it's just Saturday morning!

 

Milwaukee Road No261 emerging from under the switch tower and under a bridge 

 

 

Passing below a single Rio Grande 'Aspen Leaf' PA with a short consist

Here is my micro layout contest entry from awhile back. As you see it is Easter themed so appropriate for this weekend. 

The Island of Egg in the Easter Island archipelago is the location of the worlds only licorice jelly bean mine. On the unusually shaped island there is only the one town. The town of Egg. As you see it is modeled in early spring.

The whole Layout is 18 inches round using Kline super streets. The land form is two huge plastic eggs and the rock forms by the waterline is dry brushed bark. The water is painted aluminum foil. The woodwork is coffee stir sticks and dowels. The tunnel can clear a Kline Plymouth but I like the Porter look better. A rebuild may be in the works. I also need to make the mine house.

Looks like some of those drivers need to hear from Operation Lifesaver! 

Look what made the roster.

Nice to see some East Coast freight on the Rio Grande....

 

Now, this is the way to go to the Masters;  NS business train in downtown Augusta, GA on 4/1/15; photo by Joseph Johns:

  

 

Silver Lake--Clever, timely, and well-executed; simply terrific!

 

Tom Morris--C of G heritage livery one of my all-time favorites.

This will be perfect for my UP steam era RH area on the other side of my new layout.  Been waiting for this one.  Hope to pick up one of your TT early next year.

 

I miss K-Line.  The passenger cars were incredible and I add more of them to my fleet every time a set is for sale.  

 

Beautiful scene by the way.

Happy Easter!  I am replacing this little guy with a new 3rd Rail Southern Pacific S-12 0-6-0 switcher when produced later this year.  I like bang for my buck so have reserved the green boiler version originally used by Espee to assemble passenger trains.  I don’t have a problem using a green boiler locomotive away from the big cities--an all black locomotive would be prototypical.  I’m going to have to expand my layout to include an 0-54 circle of Atlas track to accommodate.  The beauty of this is that I will build a 1930’s gas station and a wooden trestle for scenery.  

 

 

Happy Weekend end!!!

My RR world is limited for now to a 10' circle. I can sit for extended periods of time and watch the train.  Best therapy ... 

 

 

 

Working on replacing my realtrax with Atlas track and adding super elevated curves.  Then taking the Polar Express for a couple test runs.

 

 

Rusty, what kind of gas station are you building? Don

My wife likes to surprise me with additions to the layout from time to time.  She loves to decorate for every season.  So here is what I found when she asked me a bit ago if I noticed anything different.

 

 

 

So I guess the townsfolk of New Aberdeen will be greeted with an Easter peddler when the leave worship service Easter morning.  Then they can enjoy the gazebo with bountiful flowers.  We won't see any flowers outdoors here in Butler this Easter.

Here's my contribution this week, playing musical trains with my grandson....

 

 

 

 

Paul

Nice work on the scenic work and tunnel portal.

Don

A very old pic from the archives....came across this while preparing an NMRA clinic and thought it post it for this week's edition of Weekend Photo Fun

 

 

 

Dave, as always, absolutely outstanding photos of your great layout.  I absolutely love that junction. 

Regards,

Jerry

Sharing a chilly with some buds, while watching trains...

 

Jonny wrote;

"Looks like some of those drivers need to hear from Operation Lifesaver!"

 

Yes perhaps it would be a different set of movies if they had some O Lifesaver courses! The drivers never learned OL over 7 movies of Fast and Furious. This set of scenes is from the end of the first movie, just missing the speeding train and then hitting the green truck pulling out, and the Charger rolls!

 

Brian / Paul "orange car driver" could have learned from the first movie, dieing in real life in a high speed car run crash. Fast 7 opened this weekend, nice memorial to Paul in movie end.

For Scale Rail.  Don, I liked the look of this old-timer.  Lots of parts in this kit, but given time I should get it finished.

 

Round up of recent conversion of Pola/LIMA/AHM/Atlas cars......

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More to come!!! THX

Hmmmm, Paul\Matt from Colorado by any chance?

No my bad spellcheck was off

running some Pennsy Power

 

L-R..RK M1a    671   $18 e bay 675 

Bill, what is the Northern Pacific steamer in this photo?  Thanks.  Jim (rawlesq@earthlink.net).

Wife and I went by a park in Germantown with a few train related items.   Lots of old signals and a few railcars. 

 

 

This is what happens when you buy too many trains.  

 

 

 

 

Not not much progress on the layout.  I've been under the tables adding bus wires and more feeders for aging Fastrack.   A single set of feeder wires currently isn't enough for a 96ft around the walls loop.  It used to be, but the Fastrack connections must have loosened up after years of fast running Amtrak trains.

They should cover that window in the coupola if they want to keep thier caboose. It looks nice now but it doesn't take long for things to go downhill. Nice caboose.

Jim, that is the Lionel Northern Pacific Challenger.

Mike,

 

Nice Lego Gantry Crane you've got there.

 

joe

Coach Joe,

 

That was my first Lego Crane.  My Son and I like this one better.

 

Speaking of spell check...

 

 

 

 

 

Night operations ...