Weekend Photo Fun 7-20-18-??

A runaway engine caused by weak TMCC signal resulted in this mishap.

Thinking about going back to MPC era semi scale?

Lets finish up with some real trains.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Getting closer to finishing up the Bordello and pool hall.....

jcovert posted:

Getting closer to finishing up the Bordello and pool hall.....

Great job one of my favorite projects it has great character!

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

    Bill T.

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory 

- walt

Just finished a Korber 305 sand house 

Scenes from train running this week......

Have a great weekend, folks!

Peter

Another outstanding job Alex. Time to get out to that new pool for a swim.

Some UP, NS and CP power

CP brakeman riding Tomahawk Railway 86102

Does anyone make a model of this car? Terminal Grain Corporation 855880

Captain John posted:

Another outstanding job Alex. Time to get out to that new pool for a swim.

Thank you John   Hard to get near my pool, the work keeps coming LOL !

Alex

Joe A, nice work on the Rutland boxcar. I had to double check who was posting because it looks like SIRT's work.

Alex another fine build. I have one of those sand houses still in the box.  I bought it from Ernie Korber himself at a long ago train show at Stony Brook University here on Long Island.  Whenever I get around to building it I hope it comes out half as good as yours.

CHRISTMAS 2011 Memories 

coach joe posted:

Joe A, nice work on the Rutland boxcar. I had to double check who was posting because it looks like SIRT's work.

Wow, thanks Coach Joe...that’s some really high praise!  Steve (SIRT) has been a major influence/inspiration on me getting involved in weathering.

It's a warm summer evening in Spencer and we see Myrtle waiting for her husband to pick her up after work.  A young lady is in Sportsman's of Spencer getting golf lessons from the pro and some tips on a new set of clubs that are sure to improve her game.  Wardell Buffet, Warren's younger brother, is catching up on the day's stock market results and wishes he had invested in railroad stocks too.  And traffic is moving again now that Spencer's new traffic signals are working at the corner of Main and Fourth Streets.

Art

Babysitting this morning.  My four year old grandson loves running the trains.

Layout is still just a 4x8 with temp track so here are some pics of Chicago and Northwestern Station for your enjoyment!!

dk122trains posted:

jcovert posted:

Getting closer to finishing up the Bordello and pool hall.....

Great job one of my favorite projects it has great character!

Thanks.  Mike Lynch helped with suggestions, and general thoughts.   Love the structures he built for you!

Chugman posted:

It's a warm summer evening in Spencer and we see Myrtle waiting for her husband to pick her up after work.  A young lady is in Sportsman's of Spencer getting golf lessons from the pro and some tips on a new set of clubs that are sure to improve her game.  Wardell Buffet, Warren's younger brother, is catching up on the day's stock market results and wishes he had invested in railroad stocks too.  And traffic is moving again now that Spencer's new traffic signals are working at the corner of Main and Fourth Streets.

Art

I like that there is a story behind what we are seeing. Hopefully Wardell finds something to invest in.

It's A day on the layout today! N&W #1234 with a string of empties is headed west when it meets #1218 headed east with a string of loaded hoppers.

                      that is awesome TOM

Chugman posted:

It's a warm summer evening in Spencer and we see Myrtle waiting for her husband to pick her up after work.  A young lady is in Sportsman's of Spencer getting golf lessons from the pro and some tips on a new set of clubs that are sure to improve her game.  Wardell Buffet, Warren's younger brother, is catching up on the day's stock market results and wishes he had invested in railroad stocks too.  And traffic is moving again now that Spencer's new traffic signals are working at the corner of Main and Fourth Streets.

Art

Here in Spencer, NC at S. Salisbury Ave. (N. Main St out of Salisbury) and 4th you will find the Little Choo Choo Shop selling toy trains.  Across the street is the NC Transportation Museum (Old Southern Shops). No Wardell Buffet that i know of.

Here is the mural on wall two blocks north.

Ron

For this weekend's fun.  Shots from around the layout.

Scott, since you started with a MTH RRC, here's a repeat of my MTH RRC;

Action on the old TMB

MTH RailKing Pennsy L-1a, looking like the day it was retired:

 No. 1627 never looked better.

PD

Waiting to get on the train.

Paris 2 Pictures,Third Picture Chartres

Side yards (lots)…

backyards... and front yards, around town...

FrankM

Some bonus picks from this past weeks Team Track Tuesday...

Here are a few shots of the town of Port Royal. Most of the structures are done, though I have a few more houses to build. First photo shows three kits where I chopped off about the front inch to use in front of the backdrop. The second photo shows two full size buildings. Sully's Tavern is right out of the box and not a kit and the corner building is a heavily reworked MTH structure.

I build my towns on 2 inch thick pink foam in the workshop as evidenced by the furnace, tools, etc., in the background. When done, I drop the whole town into the layout.

Lots more work to do...sidewalks, utility poles, street weathering, but it's getting there...

Frank, Pat and Mark D, great pics again. You guys are an inspiration to how scenes should look. PRRMIDDLEDIVISION, your buildings are well done. Tonight I decided to add two braces to the back of the angular building I am working on. Once I glued them into place I turned the building on its side and used my trusty weight to hold them together till the glue dries. Mark you can see once more I was still too lazy to go use the table I built for this exact purpose. Still hoping sometime tomorrow to cut the roof and base and glue them into place. Pics.................Paul

intermodal transport gone wrong

a few older photos of the Cuyahoga Valley RR.....

Here are some of the trains we will be running at this weekend's Greenberg show in Monroeville, PA:

Andy

Andy Hummell posted:

Here are some of the trains we will be running at this weekend's Greenberg show in Monroeville, PA:

Andy

Nice. More layout images of that ever elusive mystical Train of Tomorrow!

Some shots of recent work on the River City 3 Railer modular layouts......

1st, the small venue layout.....

Then, the Station Module from the large layout......

Peter

coach joe posted:

Joe A, nice work on the Rutland boxcar. I had to double check who was posting because it looks like SIRT's work.

Alex another fine build. I have one of those sand houses still in the box.  I bought it from Ernie Korber himself at a long ago train show at Stony Brook University here on Long Island.  Whenever I get around to building it I hope it comes out half as good as yours.

Hi Joe 

Thank very much for the kind words 

Alex 

Some more 1:1 action from this week. I got some interesting lash-ups for sure! A rare CN GMD-1 joins GTW GP40-2 for some local switching.

CN GP9RM and GTW GP38-2.

Another rarity around here. A UP flared radiator SD70M leads a pair of CN SD70M-2s on an Eastbound freight.

A pair of CN/IC Dash-8 "Blue Devils" running a Westbound freight. Notice the hand painted number board on 2456 and the patch work on the 2455. A couple of cool modelling potentials.

What was the old Flemington Station, and the trestle over Hampton Corner.The old station is now a bank. I don't know what it was after being the station, but I do remember it being a small restaurant for a number of years in the 90's. It wasn't a bad place to eat, can't remember what it was called, just remember eating there a few times. The trestle I think has a build date from the 1920's(maybe 1920), think it is on the support.

                      " got COAL ? "        N&W RR 1961 Marshalling Yard.

First time weathering stuff and it turned out to be great!

Wow Where is this

bluelinec4 posted:

Wow Where is this

                                N&W RR 1961 Marshalling Yard.

My daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter are visiting my grandson's summer camp in CT, so I thought it appropriate to run some East coast trains in their honor:

Union Pacific and Amtrak will once again be on the move later today!

                      this looks like the same yard taken recently...?

briansilvermustang posted:

bluelinec4 posted:

Wow Where is this

                                N&W RR 1961 Marshalling Yard.

 

                

Tells me what it is not where it is

bluelinec4 posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

bluelinec4 posted:

Wow Where is this

                                N&W RR 1961 Marshalling Yard.

 

                

Tells me what it is not where it is

 

                 Norfolk & Western Coal Yard. Lambert's Point, Norfolk, Va

                     https://www.nwhs.org/archivesd...p?index=s&id=559

Frisco decapod tender/engine 1632, so big it takes 2 pictures to capture

Coming into downtown RingoesNorthside of the stationOld equipment on the southside.Heading back north toward the low bridge that so many tractor trailers always seem to misjudge how much room they have. I can't tell you how many times the bridge has been hit and made trailers become accordions, but it is quite a lot. So far this year I think it has been hit twice. One year I think it had been hit at least 4 or 5 times in 2 months.

While in Omaha, Nebraska this last week we went to Lauritzen Gardena/ Kenefick Park and got these shots with a S9+.

We also stop in at Trainland USA, Colfax Iowa.

briansilvermustang posted:

 

That's really cool. 

The RICHARDSON TRGX 3-bay covered hopper was built by National Steel Car. It has not been made in any scale yet. Somebody like Atlas, Bachmann, or MTH would need to make the NSC  3-bay covered hoppers in N, HO, S, & O all at the same time so we could get these covered hoppers in O scale. 

Andrew

Two new LionScale O scale Pacific Car & Foundry 57' Mechanical Refrigerator cars in the orange Pacific Fruit Express scheme arrived from Charles Ro. 

Andrew 

Falcon Service

Great pics, everyone!

Peter

falconservice posted:

The RICHARDSON TRGX 3-bay covered hopper was built by National Steel Car. It has not been made in any scale yet. Somebody like Atlas, Bachmann, or MTH would need to make the NSC  3-bay covered hoppers in N, HO, S, & O all at the same time so we could get these covered hoppers in O scale. 

Andrew

But what color schemes do you have for this model besides boring battleship grey?

jcovert posted:

Getting closer to finishing up the Bordello and pool hall.....

Jeff,  that looks AWESOME, what a great looking build.  That will look really nice on your layout, I've been following your build now for a while and I really love what you've done with this kit.  I wish I had one but I held off when they came out.  My loss.  Terrific work and choice of colors, the detailing looks good also.  Very nice job and thanks so much for sharing your work.

J. Motts posted:

jcovert posted:

Getting closer to finishing up the Bordello and pool hall.....

Jeff,  that looks AWESOME, what a great looking build.  That will look really nice on your layout, I've been following your build now for a while and I really love what you've done with this kit.  I wish I had one but I held off when they came out.  My loss.  Terrific work and choice of colors, the detailing looks good also.  Very nice job and thanks so much for sharing your work.

Hi J Motts,

thank you you so much for you very kind words.   It’s taken me a while, but there was a decent amount of kitbashing and trying new techniques.   Plus, I only get about one hour a day to work on the build.

i think I know someone selling a bordello kit.  If you are interested, shoot me an email from my profile, and I will give you his contact info.

thanks again,

jeff

Better late than never.  Some photos from the Cherry Valley O Scale Club's July 14th Open House.

Rick

falconservice posted:

Two new LionScale O scale Pacific Car & Foundry 57' Mechanical Refrigerator cars in the orange Pacific Fruit Express scheme arrived from Charles Ro. 

Andrew 

Falcon Service

Andrew, nice looking cars, are these scale in size or semi-scale or traditional size.  I'm not all that familiar with the Lion stuff so the reason for my question.  I remember switching those out back in the day when I was a switchman.  Thanks for sharing.

Alex M posted:

Just finished a Korber 305 sand house 

Alex, very nice looking sand house, are you going to put the cross rods that went across the tops of some of the posts to keep the sides from moving apart.

 Here are some pics of my recent activity   First are of another MTH Royal Hudson repaint I’m currently doing and some of Heritage Park s steam locomotive 2024 recently having some recent TLC

The LionScale Pacific Fruit Express 57' Mechanical Reefers are completely 1:48th scale in proportions.  The Mech Reefers are on Atlas O-72 curved track.

Andrew

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

falconservice posted:

The RICHARDSON TRGX 3-bay covered hopper was built by National Steel Car. It has not been made in any scale yet. Somebody like Atlas, Bachmann, or MTH would need to make the NSC  3-bay covered hoppers in N, HO, S, & O all at the same time so we could get these covered hoppers in O scale. 

Andrew

But what color schemes do you have for this model besides boring battleship grey?

The Potash Corp. has short versions of these covered hoppers. 

The Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific have ordered new National Steel Car covered hoppers.

CN is buying new, 55-foot eight-inch jumbo hopper cars with 5,431 cubic feet of capacity.

The cars will be built by National Steel Car Ltd. at the company’s Hamilton plant.

"National Steel Car is very pleased that CP has committed to this significant investment in our industry-leading, 5,431 cubic foot, high-efficiency, Covered Hopper Grain Car. This newly designed and manufactured National Steel Car equipment will provide huge benefits to CP, our economy, and the entire grain delivery supply chain,"

My sincere Thanks to these Forum voices who sent me
"Likes" and Replies for my posting (July20-21) of "Front yards, side yards, and backyards," layout shots. I much enjoyed hearing from each of you:

Mike McCutcheon; Lou N; Dave NYC Hudson; Putnam Division; pennsy484; Brad F; paul2; BAR GP7#63; CAPPilot; jcovert; Alibatwomble; PRRronbh; gandydancer1950; Chugman; bigtruckpete; SouthernMike; CNJ#1601; Dave P; briansilvermustang; Frdige56Vet; robmcc; waltrapp; bluelineC4; Joe B; rex desilets; cocoloco; trainsrob; N5CJonny; drodder; trumptrain; Rixster; play trains; L.I.TRAIN; Pat Kn.

Thank you.

FrankM

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And here we have a replica of the imposing rock formation known as the "Devil's Trashcan" found out in Dog Butte, WY.

Andre