Weekend Photo Fun 7-17-15-??

Scott thanks for starting and keeping this going. great thread every week!!.

Here are a few photos from the TMB club on Long Island

Around the RR.

I recently picked up a Lionmaster Class A to complete my "set". Here's a couple pix of "War Power" on the layout!

New building is up downtown!  You can even see the other one under construction in a picture.

A candy store on the left side, lobby in the middle, and cigar shop on the right of the first floor.  Above that, all apartments/condos.  I still need to make signs for the stores.

In the background you can see the new 9 story building is almost complete.  It will be lighted also but with frosted windows unlike the six story white one in the foreground with some inside details added.  

This week in my series of Observation Cars, we feature one from an iconic passenger train, the Super Chief. K-line again demonstrates how it got it right with the beautiful shiny finish. Hope you enjoy this one.

Beautiful building and beautiful photo.

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

      Bill T.

My Childhood Home.

Scratch built with Evergreen styrene and Grandt Line windows

Happy weekend everyone!!

A nice 2035 I picked up from a Forum member this week!  

How how about this log loader from the same Forum member?  It will go on the permanent layout.  No room on the 4x8.

Also so got this 6110.  I need to look for an appropriate tender.

He sent me some cars and switches too.

Main St. East; gone but not forgoton.

Have a Great weekend!

Bought this for my dad for fathers day

(Retired NYPD)

How SWEET it is.   Talk about eye-candy.  

Thank you, Scott, for starting this up!  It is my favorite thread of the week.....

Working under the layout, I was reminded that i own  this nice O27 starter set from 1962 (New Haven, of course!)

Now, I am starting to see aresult of all my wiring....I just love "night shots"....

Lastly, I worked in the hospital all day yesterday......look what I found when I got to my office this morning!

....a package from the Muffins.....my J passenger set!

Have a safe and great weekend, everyone!

Peter

Here is partial picture of my layout

Trains in the yard ready to run at our recent open house a few weeks ago.

Work continues on TMB3, see 1st photo, but we still remember TMB2;

A picture of Tom the owner of Berwyn Toys & Trains Hobby Shop home layout during the LOTS tours. 

Art

Now open the box and show us Peter.

back when Dad passed his trains on to me, his 6110 barely ran. Mom and Dad were living in michigan at the time, he he found Brausser's I took the 6110 there, and Dean laid his hands on it and it's run great ever since.

10 MTH-Premier Norfolk Southern Heritage Engines with 33 Intermodal cars and 2 86' NS boxcars.

MTH-Premier N&W J with 12 passenger cars

Here is my contribution for today!

Dave,

The 6110 looks great.  The one I posted earlier needs a tender.  I read I need a 6001T for it.  Is that what you have?  I like it.

A ho-hum 2014 Christmas Layout memory

BRETT is one of my 4 grandkids.  The other 3 have their own support pieces.

- walt

there's no number on it Mark, but Dad only ever had two steamers, this one and a 1684. Bought from one of the stores in beautiful downtown Beaver Falls many years ago.

I remember the day we went to Braussers to pick it up, Dean had it looking like new.

ROGERW..............never seen a lash up like that one!

But savor it, open it slowly and enjoy the moment. 

PRR power on the club layout

Election time is coming to the layout. Its going to be interesting on who will win. The "IKE" billboards are up, as well as a van with loudspeaker and "Vote for Ike" plastered on side was seen cruising through town. As to workplaces, the election is being discussed. Who will win?

My guess is you have the correct tender.  Beaver Falls!   Both our daughters considered going to Geneva College there, but one ended up at Grove City and the other at Malone in Canton.

3rd Rail Locomotive from back in the day--N&W Mountain type, the "Water Buffalo". One of my favorites. Needs upgrade to Command Control.

ROGERW

Great lash up and consist. Show us more......PLEASE

Thanks for posting

russ

This shot ( an experiment mistake ) appears to have a bit of artistic value IMO. 

It's of some modern era 2400 style Lionel cars that I outfitted with 12V LED strips.   They're wired directly to AC and at slower, realistic speeds barely show under normal ambient lighting.  So with room lights off and train at speed this is what my Sony point and shoot digital produced.

  Just thought it was unusually interesting and worth posting.

Bruce

Weaver B&O PS-2 Hopper i got yesterday.  

Norfolk Southerns F3 and F7s

My sister is stationed in Germany with the Air Force and I have not seen her or my nieces and nephews for the last 3 years.  They got some extended time to come back to the states this summer.  The youngest one heard I had trains so the first day they arrive it was off to my house.  All the nieces and nephews (4) stayed the night and the youngest just wanted to watch and play trains all night. Even got him a step stool so he could be eye level.

My weekend is starting out fantastic.  I got to see my 17th heritage unit come through town.  Only 3 more to go!

Who can guess where this picture was taken?

Jeff at JDS LTD did a PS-2 upgrade on mine. It also has a Fat Boy speaker, Proto smoke, Proto coupler, LED lighting and he repaired a broken front step while he was at it. I could not be more pleased.

Great video, Roger.  Very awesome power demonstration!

You also well captured the problematic paint job on the 20-20275-1 Savannah & Atlanta Heritage unit.  As discussed in older threads, the white stripe is too narrow and the road name is nearly invisible.

It would be great if MTH would reissue the S&A Heritage with the proper width Tuxedo white stripe and visible lettering in gold Dulux.  MTH is already reissuing the Pennsylvania Heritage in the 2015 v2 catalog, so the precedent is there.  This would finally complete the series with perhaps the most classic of all the Heritage styles done right.  Of course, demand drives production.  But hope is eternal.

Thanks again.

Bryan      

Hello RidgeRunner, I knew the paint job wasn't right with the Savannah & Atlanta engine. I had already committed to my LHS that I would purchase engine and I didn't want to go back on my word................rogerw

Hello Panther97, It was for 2 reasons, #1 the Southern is one of my favorite railroads along with Norfolk Southern and Norfolk & Western. #2 The Southern was one of the 1st Premier engines released by MTH when they started shipping the NS Heritage units..........rogerw..

And lots of kudos and respect to you for that. 

I recall your detailed comments in the older threads.  I too kept my MTH version for similar reasons and then bought the Lionel from my same dealer so I'd have a better looking version to run.  Painful on the wallet, but the right thing to do.  Hopefully a certain manufacturer might do the right thing too...   

Hello RidgeRunner, This is the 2nd Southern engine where the paint job was wrong. The 1st engine that had the wrong paint job was MTH-Premier Southern SD-24 engine (PS-2). It was painted in Southern Green (I know that isn't the correct name for color). It was cataloged with the tuxedo scheme and instead MTH painted it green. I spoke to MTH about it and they told me that I could return it to my LHS for my money back or they would send me a correctly painted shell when they re-release the correct painted version. I decided to keep the Southern Green version.

Hello Panther97, Here is some pictures of the Savannah & Atlanta engine and a Southern SD-70ace which is a fantasy paint scheme. look at how crisp the Southern paint job is compared to the Savannah and Atlanta................rogerw

Laz, who doesn't like the NS F units in the Tuxedo paint scheme.

New addition to the yard.

Here's more compare/contrast info.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...atlanta-stripe-issue

Thought these photos were in order since 611 rides the rails once more....

Hi Scott! Is that the new trackage on the VMT layout that Bev had mentioned?

River City 3 Railer's new bridge for our walk-through! This is 28" x 9.5". Bridge Boss was incredible to work with.

We made a engine Craddle today...

Mark Boyce:

    You are correct. You need a Lionel 6001T tender for the 6110 engine. The 6110 engine was part of the Scout set that got me involved with this hobby in the first place. My parents gave me that set in 1950 when I was five years old, and I still have it!

Good luck!

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie

Hi Scott! Is that the new trackage on the VMT layout that Bev had mentioned?

Yes it is...Gargraves donated all the track and we installed it over a couple of months. We still have some fine tuning to do on it.

 Here are some pictures from my layout.

Scott Smith

RMT - Walters Sterzy-Gentral items completed................

...a couple favorite views looking toward the inside of the township...

FrankM.

at-home in Moon Township

A couple of recent photos.

Figures that, with the law of averages and lots of photos, I would take one or two decent ones...

Bruce

Walters Sterzy-Gentral items completed................

Your missing the original one!!

I don't think he will sell you this one.

Scott Smith

Was not on his decal list.

He probably has a model of that number already.

Thank you, John!  I'm glad to see it was your first train, and you still have it!

Never thought I'd find a Kentucky-themed PRR poster, but...

Been working on a Walthers kit...

Train shop in an old Reading station in Palmyra, PA:

Andy

Had a business trip to Cincinnati this week and found a little extra time to see the train sights! If you ever make it to Cincy you have to check out the awesome Union Terminal! The old control tower is open Wednesday through Sunday and makes for some great train viewing in the yard as the intermodal traffic is non-stop. I was told the Tropicana orange juice train also rolls right through the yard!!

Ann Arbor (WAMX 3879) at Ottawa Yard in Toledo, OH. This unit was repainted this past month and after a petition by Ann Arbor employees to Watco, they kept the DT&I orange paint scheme the unit received when the AA bought the engine from Conrail in the 80's.

Finished up weathering the EM1 and more work on scenery and the town. 

Check out my Facebook group. Linganore Valley Model Railroad.  

Word has it this may well be the next Harry Heike "big" project.

A few layout photos....

The trolley stops at the station. In my area (Potomac, MD) we have lots of old abandoned electric railway lines. The National Capital Trolley Museum is also nearby. 

My B&O F3 leads a short freight on the upper loop. 

This pickup truck in Western Maryland livery caught my eye at Engine House Hobbies last week or the week before. I need another pickup truck on my layout like I need a hole in my head but this caught my eye in the case and told Ken, the store owner, to pack 'er up. 

My new CSX Imperial ES44 was pulling a C&O Passenger train on the outer loop. 

Soon to be replaced by Amtrak, which I hadn't run in several months. 

My new Long Island Imperial 2-8-2 Mikado was on the inner loop but replaced with my Y6B with a freight train. 

Gotta go.....now off to the Corned Beef King for an early lunch....

It also occurred to me that Monday, 7/20 marks 2 years since I left the local park railroad as the engineer, assistant manager, etc. Time flys! Never thought I'd say it but I do occasionally miss those days....

Your's truly at the controls. October 2010, first Halloween run of the year. Losing daylight fast. A freshly washed #281 in the lead.

The brand new engine, delivered 6/18/14.

281 was one of the last built with a smoker....

That whole entrance way, crowned by that facade, tells us how travel by trains was viewed back in those days, doesn't it. Reminds me, in emotional tone, message and drama, of the approach to the Chateau de Versailles from the gardens and fountain side of the palace outside Paris

FrankM.

GEF, Your scenery is always so masterfully done, I actually find myself often looking more carefully and second and third times to make sure I am not seeing real life. Apparently - very, very apparently - you know exactly of what you speak. I have seen many small towns and neighborhoods like the ones you have crafted as I grew up and traveled around Appalachia and can readily see the truth of what you craft, including the engines you have selected to include. Wow. And WOW again.

FrankM.

I (we, I am sure) eagerly await the development of that new old neighborhood you have wet-our-appetites with a few buildings so far (!!!!!) seen in those other two photos of unfinished areas. Can't wait!

This is the Hall of Justice from the SuperFriends cartoon.

Amazing Grace!

Have a great weekend...Rich

Had a chance to take the new Golden Gate Depot - El Capitan down to Old Town San Diego and run on Gary Hickok's layout. Its a an ABBA set of TMCC F7's with 2 powered units, the lead A and B, and ran all day for 6 hours, pretty much non stop. I had another B unit but the dang coupler wouldn't stay closed due to the weight of the train. I hate 3R couplers!

I don't like the Lionel F7's for many reasons, but I have to say....they ran all day with no problems. The Odessey system worked great, and kept them at a constant speed up and down the grade.

The CAB LIGHTS bug me and are getting ripped out, and Kadees.

Here are some photos of some interesting postwar single dome tankers and a caboose that I picked up and ran at the Great Train Show in Pomona, CA. We had a lot of fun!

Nicely Done!

Jeff Davis

I always like to arrive at the office and have a train package waiting for me. Brightens up the whole day.

I love night shots too!

Jeff Davis

Wow, nice office, I am truly humbled my friend. My office is no nearly as elegant.  Ok, what is in the box? 

John,

It is a MTH PREMIER N&W J set. Peter posted earlier in this thread or another, can't remember. Sorry I'm getting old. 

Weaver Models made the DuPont ALATHON plastic pellet ACF Center Flow 4-bay covered hoppers in two variations. I found them at two model railroad shows.  

Beautiful. Congratulations on your success of crafting it. May we see all sides of it?

FrankM.

And my thanks to the following posters for their Likes" of my submissions to this weekend's (7/17/15) Photo Fun:

dk122trains; rail; WestinghouseEMdemoguy; paul/matt; cocoloco; Joe B.; Lionel Grandpa; And Hummell; tr18; Paparay; rickoshay; L.I. Train; Richard Cuozzo; rdeal; Mike McCutcheon; C.Chancey; Rixster; Walt Rapp; Laidoffsick; Chugman; Spence; GEF; Alibatwomble; Bill Webb; Chessie1971; laz1957; Bill T; Al Galli; paul2; trainroomgary; pennsynut; J Daddy; trainman713; Pat Kn; wmtrainnut09.

I appreciate your reach-back.

And sincere thanks, also, to the following posters for their approval through "Likes" of the photos I shared in Weekend photo Fun for (7/10/15):

kjstrains; Walt Rapp; HudsonJ1e; Spence; Bill T; Chugman; tr18; Serows1; Scott. Smith; Passengertraincollector; Laidoffsick; laz1957; Fred Brenek; Steamer; RustyKamel; dk122trains; HenryJ; pittsburghrailfan; Lionel Grandpa; trainman713; mikek; BAR GP7#63; Alex M; Number 90; C. Chancey; Bryan in Ohio; Alibatwomble; BANDOB; trainsRMe; Pingman; CAPPilot; chessie1971; RichardE; cocoloco; trainroomgary; TRK; Gary Graves; Gerg Houser; Andy Hummell; leavingtracks; rdeal; Frank Razz; Mark Boyce; 56f100; Putnam Division; L.I.Train; Alex M; AZGARY; trumptrain; c. sam; wmtrainnut09.

FrankM.