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Good morning it's time for WEEKEND PHOTO FUN!

I saw this passing the museum Tuesday evening;

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I missed getting a picture of the 4001 last night. They rebuilt it after the crash.

Here is my National Limited in front of my new National Limited building. My Blue Comet building is still a work in progress on the left side.

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I started my largest skyscraper ever this week.

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I felt that it was a little too wide so I cut some width off. This one will be 3 ft. tall. I am already painting it before putting it together.

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Let's see your pictures.

Scott Smith

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This week, I'm posting some photos of my model of the Pennsylvania  Sand Glass plant (today known as US Silica) near Mapleton PA which is still under construction and has a long way to go...

This photo shows the sand enclosure where the sand is dumped into a conveyor to be taken for processing. Note the chipped up concrete from the equipment banging into the concrete wall:

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Here are some of the plant worker's cars parked at the plant office:

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And here's the loading facility I posted pictures of a few weeks ago made out of a Lionel engine house with various modifications and weathering:

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This is my track mobile that is used to push the sand hoppers around:

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And finally, here are a few I took of the real plant just for comparison:

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Like I said, I have a LONG way to go to get the plant finished, particularly construction of the conveyor system, but this will give you an idea of what I'm currently working on.

It's almost time to plant my flowers outside, so I may be taking a pause from work on the sand plant for a bit. Until then, enjoy!

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Marty, what are the steamers you got double headed? I think there was two, hard to see on the small phone screen.

VL Big Boy and first release Legacy Black 844.  I just reworked the track last weekend to get rid of an "S" curve that was preventing me from doing so. All 3 loops have MU'd trains on them currently.

I also noticed one of the station personnel is taking a nap right next to the tracks.  LOL!

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Another temp 7’x9’ layout built out of boredom.  I’ve already shown images of the 1st one (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

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Great pics everyone!  My photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!   Be safe = Be well!

A boy on his bike having fun at the rail yard. IMG_6594

Maryland short line switchers..... Baltimore & Annapolis, Patapsco & Back Rivers,Canton Railroad, and the MA & PA ... all dressed up and nowhere to go. fullsizeoutput_32e

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More fun photos from our 2011 public layout at Richardson Farms in White Marsh, Maryland.

The carousel.

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A creative farmer plants his field in an artistic fashion.

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Hard at work, Thomas the Tank Engine passes a long coal train.

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A coal train entering the yard behind a PRR B=6 switch engine.

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Loading a truck at the Home Depot. In that our store demo layout was collecting money for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Children's Center, our local Home Depot store donated all of the building materials to construct the layout this first year in 2011.

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