Weekend Photo Fun 7-18-14-??

These two arrived this week , just need to pluck up the courage to start them. Oh yea they are O scale running on N gauge track. James 

Scott......Love that dark blue N&W F unit!

 

Peter

Some old shots....

 

 

Everybody's working....

 

 

 

Rush hour....

 

 

 

 

Pulling the days consist off the interchange...

 

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

 

My 5344 blowing some Rings….







Thanks Everyone for the All the Great Pictures every week

K.C.

UNDERGROUND...

 

 

 

Some views from the coal loading area. I also replace one of the company row homes with this barn. Have a great weekend. 

 

 

 

The Pittsburgh to DC bike trip that I posted pictures last week, has two very good days on the trail (Great Allegheny Passage) before we reached Cumberland and the C&O Canal Path part of the trip.   Additional pictures.  The ride is uphill to the Continental Divide at the village of Deal, PA just before the Big Savage tunnel.
Start point is the Boston Bridge, McKeesport, PA south of Pittsburgh.

First break is West Newton.  Old P&LE railroad to Connellsville where we will switch railroads and continue on the Old Western Maryland Connellsville extension.

The support equipment.  Just about anything you would need.

Switch railroads. We biked through downtown Connellsville to the Western Maryland Right of Way.

The Yakagany river.

Ohiopyle for the night.  First day's ride complete.

Tomorrows ride.  Frostburg MD.  in this direction.   Uphill all but the last 10 miles.

Here are a few more shots from last weekend.

 

In honor of the LOTS convention being in town, I brought a couple of my LOTS custom cars to run:

 

 

I also brought a bunch of other custom/special-run cars to run:

 

 

And a few of my local favorites:

 

 

My train, at various times was pulled by various combinations of my NKP 765, PM 1225, PRR and NKP Heritage diesels in combinations of two, and for a while all four, and for a while, fellow PIHR member Bob P. lent his Monongahela Heritage diesel and dummy for a 4-unit all-Heritage diesel consist.

 

 

More photos from last weekend can be found on this thread.

 

Andy

Just got back from a trip to Greece. Saw these ancient Greek trains at the Parthenon. Two railers will be happy.

 

Ray Marion

Great shots fellas!

 

Some heavy iron moving though the yard and around the trestles

Andy, love the Hummels. 

A 2013 Christmas layout memory .

 

Three of my Pittsburgh related Miller signs.

 

- walt

 

For Heaven's sake man, where's your humanity? You threw out a miner and his family so you could put up that old barn????

 

Very nice old barn though!

That has to be one of THE most artistic/creative scenes I've seen you model, and you model some great ones!

 

What an awesome photo

 

- walt

Its Friday ... and we are just counting the cars go by!

 

 

Traffic is busy on Mannhiem Rd in Chicago on a summer morning over UP's Proviso Yard.

 

Art 

 

 

Have a great weekend Everyone!!

 

Alan

Here's an oldie and moldy. Now that the mountain branch is complete, I'm bringing these guys down to the club this weekend for another run on the branch with a longer train in tow. This photo was a "cab hop" test run.

 

Wow, Mannhiem never looked so good.

 

And that would be in Bellwood/Stone Park...

 

Rusty

Hobos having a good time before jumping a train heading out of the yard.

Here is another photo of Marty Fitzhenry's wonderful layout.

 

 

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Beautiful pictures everyone.

 

Here's my VL Hudson with MTH NYC chrome plated passenger cars

 

Alex

 

Here are pics from an older layout of mine

Completely agree. Well done sir1

SIRT.....thanks for the inspiration for my subway to be built under my big city. 

GREAT work!!!!

 

Great photo of your turntable area and control station.  Very impressive Brian.  Thank you for posting.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

Have a good weekend and be safe.

 

Joe B.

 

 

Great photos tks all for posting.

Love the bike ride rail trails are fun and good history.

 

Here is progress on the "Wedding Cake Train Layout"

Wedding cake in the form of a snowy mountain will go where the castle is now.

 

Click each photo for a larger view.

 

Last photo my cheap $1 store trees.

There are various plastic fake green things at the $1 store that are good for modelling trees and bushes.

 

In the 3rd photo the trees over the engine are made with the wood rods and wrapped in double sided tape and tape on plastic vine stuff from the $1 store then spray with glue and sprinkle with ground foam and coarse turf. They come in plastic vine looking stuff for a $1 or 2. Just pull the bits of the vine sections off of the main plastic vine and clip the little knobs off the end and tape on, wrap bottoms in another layer of double sided tape.

I guess you could drill out some larger tree trunk things from branches and glue the ends of the vine in but that takes a lot more work and time. This a bit faster.

 

The last photo shows most of the others trees I made. These come as plastic mats about a foot square these little plastic things are stuck to a plastic grid thing that is used as a mat. Just pull them off, put them on the wooden rods as shown as tall as you want you can shape clipping off some of the points as the top etc.

Spray with glue and sprinkle with ground foam and coarse turf.

There are some mats that look like grass and other shapes. $1 or 2.

 

Still need to add in some more ground cover.

Ballast went well and trains look great running through the 2 tunnels. ON30 Bachmann train runs really slow love the gears moving.

 

More pics of a Train Theme wedding to come in the future!  

 

Not much time for trains the last few weeks, with a ton of stuff to do during the summer, but here are a few shots -

Set 1621WS - 1959 -

Set 1471WS - 1950 -

Lackawanna out of the tunnel -

We also got a new puppy this week - Chloe - 11 month Black lab out of the shelter -

The photos aren't great, and the sun wasn't cooperating ("cloudy-bright" days can be

annoying), but, a couple of years ago:

 

The town of Atmore, Alabama, near the Florida line, north of Pensacola (FL) and NE of

Mobile. The first photo is on the Alabama Gulf Coast (now a subsidiary of G&W, along

with everything else), train heading South toward Pensacola on the old Frisco line. I

find the road name on the first unit (now repainted) to be amusing, considering that

this photo was taken in the Heart of Dixie (Alabama's slogan):

 

 

 

Same spot, same day. The train timing could have been better. The CSX train is 

Southbound to Mobile from Montgomery on the old Louisville & Nashville.

 

Atmore AL is actually a substantial small town of several thousand people in slightly

rolling countryside, and has this interesting crossing involving two railroads and US Hwy 31. It begs to be modeled. The "urban" area is mostly out of sight in the distance:

 

 

 

Found 2 old photos cleaning out a dresser drawer in the attic.....the 1st one from 1980 while living in Baltimore (catch the 70s look on my upper lip!) and the 2nd one from about 1986 having just moved to Richmond from Philly.

 

 

 

Peter

 

Wow! What's with the crane and Rr tracks? Are the greeks finally looking to stabilize the parthenon?

This should be one happy dog, Chris. Good for you!