Weekend Photo Fun 5-6-22-??

Thank you for starting this, Scott......great seeing you and Josh last weekend.....

York pics, grouped by genre......

The layouts:

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

My grandson got his first train!  Score a big one for Pap!

The Delta Lines group meeting........Carey Williams brought his reproduction of Chappelle Station.

Thank you, Peter Gentieu for setting this meeting up......

A gorgeous structure!

This was our 1st meeting without Ron Hollander.....Ron, we miss you!

Peter

A lot of people leave York Friday afternoon......but, for those of us that stay, there is Friday evening dinner at the Olive Garden....

Finally, my major York purchase.....a Ross transfer table.......this is the 18" version.... I ordered the 27" five track unit.....

....and, some other York loot......

Peter

OK, finally, I'm back after a 2 month absence due to a home remodeling project!

First, here's a photo of two PRR K4 Pacifics hauling a long passenger train west through the town of Port Royal PA:

And almost a quarter century later, here is a photo of a quartet of EMD four axle units racing with an eastbound trailer train east towards Harrisburg during the daze of Penn Central:

The two K4's are by Lionel and I call that train the "crowd pleaser" since it is the favorite of all the visitors to my layout.

The quartet of PC units is made up of three Lionel GP-30s, the first and last units being stock items from the Lionel catalog a few years ago and the third without the words "Penn Central" lettering being a special run from Mr. Muffins trains...very cool since every unit is painted a little differently. The second unit is an MTH PRR GP-35 dummy unit.

The concrete arch bridge spanning the tracks is a model of the PA Route 75 bridge at Port Royal which is still in use after 110 years. I scratchbuilt it out of sheet styrene with a bit of strip wood from a dollhouse supply retailer being used for a bit of the architectural detail. The curved stone arch bridge was built back in the year 2000 out of 153 pounds of hydrocal plaster and was also completely scratchbuilt.

Enjoy!

A 2021 Christmas Layout memory

Leaving no doubt as to who owns this railroad!!

- walt

Here's one more. This is US 22 in Jacks Narrows looking east near Mt. Union PA. Because of the way it is built, it is very difficult to photograph realistically. I thought I had it finished two months ago, then it struck me that I forgot to include the utility poles which I just added this morning.

@Putnam Division posted:

A lot of people leave York Friday afternoon......but, for those of us that stay, there is Friday evening dinner at the Olive Garden....

Finally, my major York purchase.....a Ross transfer table.......this is the 18" version.... I ordered the 27" five track unit.....

....and, some other York loot......

Peter

A fine looking group, many who I know, or have met over the years. I miss the three day experience; haven't done it in quite some time.

                                         This weeks RARE FIND, CNJ Blocking car!

Scott - thanks for getting us started!  Peter - thanks for all the York pics! Love your new transfer table

Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine weekend!  Hope everyone has a terrific weekend!

Down at the commuter station ... a Western Maryland train is about to leave for Cumberland, Md. as a B&O set of RDC cars depart for Baltimore.  

Spur serving lite industry.

The Kyle Building ... a Walther's structure given to me by one of my trumpet students .. named Kyle.

View from my cabin window ... Mt. Randolph is a wonderful backdrop to the Bollman bridge.  A logging train trundles onto the bridge.

The Patsburg Commuter Station ... folks wait for the next train as a Pennsy set of MU cars traverse the EL.

Williams L&N E units that I bought used many years ago. Foolishly sold off the B unit when someone asked for it but a 3 unit set of scale E units eats up a lot of track! Mine need some work as someone had added PS2 to them including the MTH motors which mesh 'pretty good' with the Williams trucks. Every now and then under a load I hear a 'thunk' which I must assume is a gear jumping. Another project for another day!

As a side note, I bought an AA pair of L&N Legacy E8's when they were introduced because the color appealed to me very much - a brilliant blue and cream but after awhile, it began to look 'artificial' and I sold them and kept these handsome Williams models...

MTH released a pair of Premier line PROCOR OPTIMISER green tank cars recently.

Now Atlas O has a new pair of road numbers for these tank cars in the current PREMIER catalog.

On the real PROCOR tank cars that I have seen occasionally in this scheme, the green looks to be a few shades deeper. 

Andrew

Falcon Service

More pictures from my layout in PA about 8 years ago:

I was adding more figures to my MTH diner so I decided to paint the table tops white.

Neal Jeter

Saturday at York was pretty slow. Here is the parking lot at 11:00 AM:

This is one of the best values of the meet. This color 116 passenger station was only made one year.

Scott Smith

My brother and I have recently moved into a condo that's near the Royal Park Hotel and Rochester Hills Library in Downtown Rochester, MI, and there's still more unpacking to do. Nevertheless, here's my first inaugural run down here in the basement.

Looking for speeding motorists along Route 22 in central PA...