Weekend Photo Fun 9-14-18---??

The layout is in the basement and during the ‘85 flood there was around 4 feet of water in the basement. Knowing this I had to get everything of the floor until the hurricane passes;

Scott Smith

Action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

   Bill T.

Technically not a photo but a quick video of my Lionel Scale Turbine running on my floor setup.  Nothing too exciting I admit.  O72 really doesn't do justice.  Got this last year at the Lionel Warehouse Sale.

Lots of things this week......1st of all....a family wedding in Albany NY.

We were going to fly, but decided to drive at the last minute.

A stop at the Clinton Station Diner.....

The passenger saw service on the real Blue Comet.....

I was tempted to get the Hercules......

Next a visit to the Mohawk Valley RR in Rotterdam NY.

Don Klose told me that he and Jim Policastro helped build the layout in the shop....

Peter

Next, my wife and I drove to Pittsburgh to visit old friends and see their new home. 

While there, I connected with Neal Schorr and toured his magnificent Pennsylvania RR......Neal has posted pictures here many times.....but the pics DO NOT DO IT JUSTICE! It is magnificent in person....

Thank you so much, again, Neal!

Peter

Peter,

Was just getting ready to post some pictures of my own, but then came across what you posted. Wow, thanks for all the images! I appreciate you posting them and sharing them with the OGR Forum members. It was great to have you visit, and the best thing is all of the friends such as you that I've made through the hobby over many years.

Some Favorites.

Neal; love the back drop comes together very nice! 

DOC posted:

Some Favorites.

Doc

I always wished Lionel would do the bottom F3.  I seen it once at a Greenberg show years ago.  Later I found out it was produced by Hudson.  Always thought they looked great.

Happy Friday have a great weekend!

Just finished installing original Lionel electronics in this 2-10-4 

Work continues on the K&P breaker kit. Finished the powerhouse, water tank, transformer,  added a conveyor chute between the breaker and power plant for the generator's boiler fuel supply, added a loki engine house and some HOn3 track:

Work also continues on the backdrop:

Inspiration:

(Oh great it's that guy building his grain elevator again!)  

Yeah but look I 3d printed a sign for each side at the top and it's looking better!   I custom designed a sign using my printer and used my late grandfather's name, E.E. Lacey.  I know you can already tell I'm kinda proud of this cause I keep posting these dang pictures but it's looking better every day!  I have a few more details to add such as vent hoods on top maybe.   

The raised lettering of the sign made it super easy to paint the letters.  Just touch the top with the brush, or a paint pen in this case.    

Happy Friday!

working on more wiring & running some postwar classics this week! 























NS Dash-9 9694 leads eastbound 20Q as it ducks under the classic PRR signals in Summerhill, PA. 


N&W 611 puts on a show as she rolls on the grounds of the NCTM in Spencer, NC


UP SD70ACe 8371 hustles 22A through Wabun, VA in the early morning hours of 10/27/17


NS SD70ACU 7292 (ex UP SD90MAC 8064/UP 3519) leads 83J through Welch, WV on the Pokey at dusk

As some guy wrote "A switch never more" or something like that. Once they pull these, the railroad never returns.

Alaska RR on the TMB;

Pennsy4-8-4...any idea where this photo was taken? Perhaps Millerstown on the Middle Division?

A 2017 Christmas Layout memory

The WPLA building, while HO scale, is on the layout because it was a gift from a friend.  Doesn't look completely 'wrong' based on comparing it to the guy approaching it.

- walt

It was part of my airport scene:

Double heading GG1s     Lead unit is a Williams  'BlackJack' with  the Lionel JLC 2nd

                                         Another GMO unit...……………..

Running Chessie this time around. I prefer my lashups with un-matched equipment. To me , it's more realistic. Stills & video. 

Anyway, first up is an SD50 + U30C + SD40-2 train:

Next a Chessie train with a heavy Western Maryland presence:  GP35 + SD9 +GP40

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Pennsy4-8-4...any idea where this photo was taken? Perhaps Millerstown on the Middle Division?

Hello Neal.  Probably somewhere on the Middle Division. That's actually a picture I took of my TV screen while watching the green frog "The Pennsylvania Railroad" which is videos by Emery Gulash.  I will try to take a look at the video later and see if the narrator mentions where this is.  I think he mentions the locations very often in the video and there are several often repeated hot spots on there. 

Chris Lonero posted:

Neal; love the back drop comes together very nice! 

Chris....Neal's artistry is unbelievable.....it's hard to see the actual 3 dimension to 2 dimension transition.....you have to look hard! It's amazing!

Peter

More stuff going on with the modular group.....more work on the small venue layout.....ballasting, clearing glue off the track, and making the plexiglass barriers....

Peter

So far I haven’t smelled the pungent odor of the grape crush, but the harvest is in full swing so it won’t be long. Track maintenance crummy in this area so 10 mph speed limit. My layout isn’t big enough to feature a vineyard, but do have a short row of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that are just visible between the switcher and the reefer. Have a nice dry weekend, everyone.

Chris,

Thanks for you comments on my backdrop.

Jeff,

Thanks for responding to my question about that photo. The type of highway truss bridge seen at the left of the image was used to cross the lower Juniata River at Mifflintown, Port Royal,  Millerstown, and Newport. There was one at Thompsontown, but I believe it was a recycled PRR bridge and was different than the one shown in the picture. Anyhow, if you look at the topography behind the town as well as the linear fashion in which it is laid out, I think its Millerstown, but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, that photo can't be duplicated today, since when they ripped out the line poles, they stopped maintiaining the right of way where they were mounted, so today it is all overgrown with trees.

PRRMiddleDivision posted:

Chris,

Thanks for you comments on my backdrop.

 

Jeff,

Thanks for responding to my question about that photo. The type of highway truss bridge seen at the left of the image was used to cross the lower Juniata River at Mifflintown, Port Royal,  Millerstown, and Newport. There was one at Thompsontown, but I believe it was a recycled PRR bridge and was different than the one shown in the picture. Anyhow, if you look at the topography behind the town as well as the linear fashion in which it is laid out, I think its Millerstown, but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately, that photo can't be duplicated today, since when they ripped out the line poles, they stopped maintiaining the right of way where they were mounted, so today it is all overgrown with trees.

 

 

Neal, I was mistaken about the video, it is shown in Steam on Horseshoe Curve by Sunday River Productions (not Green Frog's "The Pennsylvania Railroad").  They don't say where, but its in the section showing M1's and says they were used mainly East of Altoona, and Millerstown is East of Altoona.  I'm guessing you might have these videos, so take a look! 

Couple of new purchases from Menards and a free hummer. 

Jeff,

Thanks for filling me in. Yes Millerstown is quite a bit east of Altoona. I'll look through my videos and see what I have. 

Guess where I was ...

Goldsboro, PA, looking at the silos on 3 Mile Island

Getting ready for some excursion fun in the Chicago area this weekend!!!!!

Farmer_Bill posted:

Guess where I was ...

Goldsboro, PA, looking at the silos on 3 Mile Island

 

Goldsboro, PA looking at the silos on 3 Mile Island?

Good guess, BK! 

Farmer_Bill posted:

Guess where I was ...

Goldsboro, PA, looking at the silos on 3 Mile Island

 

Cooling towers.  In fact "Parabolic" cooling towers.

We have to get you off that farm more.

Well here is a vid of CNR 6060 performing breaking tests following a recent shopping 

  Al

I am buying a house 6 miles from there in Elizabethtown PA. I need to buy one of them AEC trains. it is also under the flight path of Harrisburg airport, and right next to the old PRR main to Chicago. trains run there from 90 to 100 MPH. Why would I want a house there, the wife likes it, what else. I figure if a plane falls from the sky, train derails , or #2 reactor pops it cork, I will not have to worry anymore about cutting the grass.

After my newly acquired JLC GG1 (PRR 4866) arrived with truck frames disintegrating due to zinc rot, I finally got the issue resolved last night on both of my GG1's with new truck frames for both.

The worst of the trucks on 4866.  All other ones were showing signs of swelling and cracking.  4925 had become much worse since the last time I looked at it closely and was getting close to the same condition.

Rear coupler was also cracked fro what appeared to be the same issue.

Out with the old.

Finally on display until I have a chance to run it.

Night work around the roundhouse.