Weekend Photo Fun 8-22-14-?

       
       


Thank you for that compliment!

The bridge was built 70" long and the piers where 13-1/2" to the deck. C-C on the piers is 11-1/2" However, 5 of the piers where cut to 8-3/4" and one arch panel was cut. So the installed length is about 66".

Jim at BridgeBoss makes a similar viaduct bridge and has offered us custom heights and detailing. He's also a forum sponsor. Www.bridgeboss.com. He makes them with whatever height piers you need and can construct them to whatever width you'd like. Single, double, triple track etc. We have several of his bridges on our layout. He has a table at York in the Orange Hall. 

 

He he also made the train sheds that Adman Al and we have on our layout. 

My youngest daughter who will be 5 on Thursday wanted to put a sticker on one of my trains.  I let her put it on my 3rd Rail Phase I E7 sample shell.  She then told me, "Daddy that's a locomotive."  I'm the proudest dad ever now.

 

The video is from the previous weekend running my "Snowbird Limited" on the Paradise and Pacific Railroad in Scottsdale.  I had my helper with me again and she liked the horn quite a bit as you can tell!

 

 

It's railroad history day on my layout! I dug out some of my old scratch/bashed On30 stuff and placed it on the "Dual Gauge" O-27 tracks....

 

Love that LNE livery......too bad it was just a regional and relatively obscure northeast road that died when its commodity traffic dried up!

 

 

 

Jonathan, you've got a little cutie on your hands!  I'll bet she has daddy wrapped around here little finger! 

 

Looks and reads like you've already learned to enjoy them NOW... for they grow up way too fast.  My daughter is 36 years old... and we (wife and I) did spend quite a bit of time doing things with her when she was a child... but I can tell you this much for sure: Now that she's grown and has a life and family of her own, I see that it wasn't ENOUGH time!

 

 

 

Reefers on the ready line at the Chesterfield County Fair....

 

 

I had a smaller version of this train set when I was a kid too. Was my first as well.

I think that's the best-ever nose emblem, applied by the cutest locomotive painter.  

Jonathan, that is precious. This is what memories are made of.