Weekend Photo Fun 6-22-18---??

                                                  Two eras passing by.................

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Bill

Here's a few shots of two hoppers I just weathered. The first is a toy-like Lionel O-27 hopper which had great graphics simulating an old PRR H-21 hopper converted to an icebreaker car. For some reason, Lionel painted it in boxcar red rather than black, but otherwise, the graphics are identical to the prototype. It was used to break out icicles in the Gallitzin Tunnels west of Horseshoe Curve.  Even though undersized and toy like, it was a good car to stick on one of the short tracks around my newly completed turntable, so I weathered up the 15 year old car for display on that part of the layout. There is also a photo of the prototype:

While I was at it, I also weathered this Weaver Lackawanna cement hopper weathered using acrylic paints and chalks:

Happy Weekend everyone.

A chipmunk got into the basement and ran around on the layout. Grand Army Plaza and the Normandy invasion monument were trashed.....

That little dark thing in the foreground is not a piece of coal....

Peter

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

Some more 1:1 photo fun.  1: ex-ATSF SD75 helps out with Westbound CN Autorack train.  2: Eastbound intermodal lead by CN ES44DC 2242   3: Toronto could have used him in Anaheim last night! Too bad he missed his train...….

Scene is not quite finished, but its getting there:

For my 50th LCJ&I Lines video, I'm celebrating by running 50 freight cars at the same time on my small layout. This involves creating a 3-diesel Lionel Legacy lashup to provide motive power for heavy diecast coal cars, and running two consists simultaneously, since one 50-car consist can't fit on my track layout. It all fits, just barely.

https://youtu.be/UngKNhLKEVc

New to me CC2s 😍:

https://youtu.be/oHvFs-TxL3Y

                     AWESOME  Bob and Pennys484...

Engineer saw "TAG" & tried to get the train moving to fast around the hairpin

To the rescue.

Derailment two years ago in Baltimore Howard Street tunnel 

Who needs speed control to run at 30 scale mph when you have a Postwar ZW putting out 10 volts and a 68 year old 2343 F3 with twin horizontal motors.

Hooked up the Ford Showroom........one of the last things I got before KLine tanked....I suspect there aren’t many of these out there.......here I am testing it before I put it up on the layout.....

Peter