Weekend Photo Fun 4-6-18-??

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A nurse friend brought me some old trains in her garage....a nice haul....

Some work is ahead of me, to be sure!

Peter

Not fun:

Fun! : running three trains:

https://youtu.be/dScbcxes1lM

GREAT looking layout Pennsy484,  like it alot, would you have a track plan available?

My small Amtrak fleet power roster.

And cannot forget the NCDOT power, the City of Salisbury.

Ron

The Crack of the bat, and voices of the ball players tell us spring is here as the Arbutus Hoodrats take to the field again. 

          switching out some ore cars... setting out a string of empties...

          pushing a cut of full cars up the hill to the ore dock... working hard...

New (to me) Western Maryland F7's by Lionel . Terrific sounding horns. 

Stills:

Video:

Back in the day when the NYC ran through these mountains...   :-)

WHOO HOO! I CAN BE IN WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!  Here's a photo yesterday by my friend Bill K. showing the kids at Medfield Elementary School in Baltimore. Friday was the last day of our 3 day show there. You can read more about it in the "Back to School Again" Thread.

Citizens Protest!

Putnam Division posted:

A nurse friend brought me some old trains in her garage....a nice haul....

Some work is ahead of me, to be sure!

Peter

 

Someone's treasures will once again have purpose.  Good luck Peter.

Lou N

My A/F Polar Express carpet special.

Since spring can't get its act together,  running this makes sense. 

Lionel Legacy American Freedom Train

Some rail reworking

The legendary #4014 has returned after a few weeks in Alex M's repair shop!

She was a bit of a mess, here's what Alex fixed/repaired for me:

• Smoke units - rebuilt/ re-wicked 
• Operating Coal load - repaired
• Rear middle LED market light - replaced and fixed

It's back to the mainline now!  Alex - always a pleasure my friend, thank you. 

My buddy Diego loves posing for pictures - he somehow gets his paws in all my photographs! 

Have a great weekend guys! 

                       a couple night shots I took in Blissfield, Michigan ...

                                       welcome to the Dinner Train...

       this last photo and video are not mine... https://youtu.be/9DVJO5e4hi8

Lionlman posted:

New Morton Salt box truck and covered hopper from Menards.

Very cool! I think its great that the truck and hopper have "Morton Salt Girl" logos from two different eras. She has changed a number of times over the years.

Jim M Sr posted:

The Crack of the bat, and voices of the ball players tell us spring is here as the Arbutus Hoodrats take to the field again. 

Jim:

That's a nice scene.  Where did you get the figures, particularly the pitcher?

I've been looking for one for a while of a boy throwing a rock, but your pitcher looks like he can be adapted to the task.

Thanks.

Steven J. Serenska

                                     and something really different...

                  turn volume down...  https://youtu.be/w_iDP2MGmok

Bleacher bums at Yankee Stadium this afternoon:

Jim M Sr posted:

The Crack of the bat, and voices of the ball players tell us spring is here as the Arbutus Hoodrats take to the field again. 

Love this baseball field and all others in O Scale.

MTH  Proto 2 Turbine freight train with Merle Haggard singing Workin' Man Blues:

                                         Sub run, cars with the pink seats ..............

Wasn't this weekend, but in the middle of moving and can't wait to get it set up!

Who says kids today don't appreciate toy trains? 

Photo by B&O Bill (not me)

briansilvermustang posted:

GREAT looking layout Pennsy484,  like it alot, would you have a track plan available?

Thank you Brian!  Here's what I have from my track plans.  This was done back in 2010 on RR tracks, using MTH scale trax sectional track.  Things changed slightly from this as far as the yards, etc., I added some hidden storage tracks, and I did some easements with flex track to soften the turns on the front of the top track, and did some flex track in other places as well to smooth out some curves.

It is three independent loops, all connected.  072 min except in the storage tracks and one 054 turnout in the engine yard (again, note that the yards and storage tracks are no longer accurately represented in the plans below), I split the grades and probably max grade is a bit over 4%, Legacy and DCS.  I use DCS routes with a couple AIUs, such as what I call clockwise to counterclockwise, counter to clock, clock-bottom-counter, counter-bottom-clock, up down up, etc.  I have three trains parked off the line (coal train hidden behind breaker, passenger train hidden behind mountain, and freight train hidden underneath on right side).  What I usually do is take one at a time out and do several runs in different directions on each loop.  Can also run three at a time.   When I'm done, the trains are parked and the line is clear so I can do whatever the next session.

Its a lot of track when looking at just the plan!  Friends of mine have confided that they thought it would not be possible to scenic it well.  There are always compromises, but I am pretty happy with it considering the size of the room (13 by 17ish).

Upper (outer) loop:

Inner (connected reversing) loop:

Lower loop (has one reversing loop):

All together spaghetti: 

thank you PENNSY484 !!  really enjoyed watching your video and looking at your layout plans, very cool idea, fun to watch, great work, thanks again.