Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun Cyber Attack Edition. I'm in South Carolina most of today and I will start the photos. I am not sure how much of the forum will have to be dismantled to fix the current problem but if this thread gets lost, I'll start it again tonight.
Last week of the VMT we finished the Pirates of the Caribbean layout;
Video of the "flame effects"
Over all video of the Pirates
Let's see your pictures (with English comments)
Scott Smith
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Nice job with the Pirates layout, Scott.
-Dave
When is the Amtrak going to pass by?
Maybe it's coming from the west.?
Here it is!
A 2016 Christmas layout memory 
A bit more of the Summer part of the layout. I like this scene because my Grandson is a Boy Scout and LOVES camping.
- walt
Was at the EASTEC Manufacturing Trade Show at the BigE this week. Although it's one of the largest manufacturing trade shows in the US, it only took up 3 buildings rather than the 4 the Amherst Railway Society show uses.
No trains, but you could really outfit a company to make trains with either numerically controlled tools or additive manufacturing. (3d Printing)
TGIF! Nice pictures everyone. Here are some of mine:
Mike,
All the pictures are good but the first three are exceptional. 
Just finished an ERR upgrade on a Williams Camelback ,medium steam sounds, fan driven smoke unit , LED lighting, and GRJ's super chuffer.
Way back in 2001, I bought MTH's Premier EMD FT 103 demonstrator set, 20-2277-1, which was sold as an A-B-A set. While it's a super set that runs, sounds and smokes great to this day, it was not an accurate depiction for the real FT 103 that had two B-units, for an A-B-B-A arrangement, when it debuted in November 1939, shown here.
Over the years I thought about buying a different road name FT B-unit and having it re-painted to match the 103 demonstrator paint scheme, but just never got around to it. Then in 2015 MTH re-releases the FT 103 with separate sale B-units, so I'm in! After some delay, they're finally delivered in August 2016, and I order one sight-unseen, 20-20623-3, below.
I was concerned a bit on how well the 2016 paint scheme would match up with the original 2001 FT set. However once I placed the new B-unit with the original A-B-A set, the paint was a virtual perfect match. The original B is the foreground and the new B is in the background. Looking at both in even lighting, it's hard to tell which is which.
So now I have a full, complete A-B-B-A set of EMD's FT 103 demonstrator set from 1939.
But there was one snafu however with the new B-unit - it does not come with a jumper / connecting 10-pin tether to connect the two original A-units together, despite the image shown on the product page. So after searching the MTH parts pages, I eventually figured out what PN I needed to add (don't have that PN right now though) to the new B. I needed a cable ~ 12"-14" long with a male plug on one end, and a female plug on the other.
Adding it through the new B was no problem, after taking off the shell. The male plug side simply pops into the female plug on the end of the original B-unit, below.
The other side was not as basic. Since the new B doesn't come with a tether bracket to attach the female plug to, I just zip-tied the male plug from the A-unit to it's coupler shank, to keep it elevated over the track, and then just plug it into the new tether on the new B-unit, below.
This new hybrid A-B-B-A FT 103 set works like a champ, and looks pretty cool pulling a long string of freight.
Alex M posted:Just finished an ERR upgrade on a Williams Camelback ,medium steam sounds, fan driven smoke unit , LED lighting, and GRJ's super chuffer.
Alex,
Doug's Camelback look, sounds and smokes great. Kevin, Doug and I will come out to pick them up when ready. Sundays work best for us. Great work.
JohnB
Chris,
Beautiful, beautiful shots!
N & W corral....
I just posted a new YouTube video in my LCJ&I Lines series, on "night operations". This will probably be the last video in the series for this layout; since it's completed, I'm considering dismantling it this summer and beginning a new one in the same (limited) space.
The video link: https://youtu.be/qyT9q3EXw_g
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