Weekend Photo Fun 9-20-19-??

Model building at my other workbench!

Virginian El-2B

Ken

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

Here's my photo fun for this fine weekend!  Have a wonder filled weekend everyone!! 

Happy Friday

Busy week at home, so no work done on the layout ( Didn't even get to run them much), but I did pick up this near mint Lake Shore Limited set. I'm really loving these old MPC trains. So much nostalgia for me from when I was a kid. You can find them cheap, they are colorful & they just run 

Debating doing something to change the track plan around or adding more action. Not sure what though. My youngest gets a kick out of just watching them & want to add more for him.

(I own the copyright to the photos below) 
NS AC44C6M 4133 (ex NS D9-44CW 8924 ) leads a SD70 through CP-C in East Conemaugh, PA with eastbound coal train 590


With the morning sun glistening off the carbodies, Amtrak 156 gets moving out of Roanoke with Phase IV heritage unit 184 on the point


With word that the F units may be headed to storage, here's a look back on happier times. NS F9A 4270 leads the OCS down the R Line in Fort Mill, SC as it makes the annual trip to the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, GA


With NS putting the former Conrail SD80MACs into storage, the variety out on the mainline keeps getting thinner & thinner. Back in the Fall of 2018, NS SD80MAC 7208 (ex CR 4115) brings up the rear of C50 as it heads towards the South Fork Secondary in Summerhill, PA


During a Spring downpour, CSX Dash-8 7766 grinds upgrade through Shawsville, VA with NS 65W on the Christiansburg District

trumptrain posted:

darn you!!!  you had to go and post that image of the Aero Train .  Maybe you've seen my comments in the past to others that post theirs how seeing it again makes me so regret selling off my entire collection.  Great train.

- walt

My pictures are now organized.......

1st a recap from last week......

Paddington Station.....arriving from Heathrow and then to the tube....

Arrival Waterloo Station for a walk to our hotel along the Albert Embankment.

Next morning, we took the tube from Vauxhall Station (closer than Waterloo Station) and traveled to Victoria Station where we to a train to Oxted & Kent to visit Chartwell.

Oxted Station on the return trip to London.....

Pictures of 2 more excursions coming up......overall, I am very impressed with the British Rail system......The London tube is great. But be prepared to walk..... my son and I averaged 23K steps daily over the 6 days there.

Peter

Peter - wonderful photos of your trip to the UK!!  Thanks for sharing!

Some guys never grow up and I hope you haven't either.

walt rapp posted:

trumptrain posted:

darn you!!!  you had to go and post that image of the Aero Train .  Maybe you've seen my comments in the past to others that post theirs how seeing it again makes me so regret selling off my entire collection.  Great train.

- walt

Sorry Walt.  I didn't mean to upset you  :- )   Hey, you can always start buying trains again .... and you can begin with a Aero Train set from MTH ... they do show up here on the FS thread from time to time ... not to mention e bay.  Just sayin  :-)    

I agree with you, the Aero Train is a nice train!  I fell in love with it the first time I saw it on the cover of a book titled " The Wonder Book of Trains " in my elementary school library.  My eyes about popped out of my head upon seeing that photo.   When I got the chance, I bought the Aero Train set brand new back in either 2008 or 2009.   It still does passenger duty on the Free State Junction Railway too!

Waterloo Station, again......a trip to Portsmouth and the British Naval Museum.....

Two of the old ships we visited.....

On the train in Portsmouth on the return trip to London.

Near Waterloo Station is the Imperial War Museum.......it is focused on WWI, WWII and the Cold War......these are toys and diversions from WWII, including one from London during the blitz.....

Peter

sxe60 posted:

Some guys never grow up and I hope you haven't either.

I am right there with you!

This view was taken from the rear of my 10’-by-5’ layout looking southeast. The Chromium Process Company (center), Bridgeport Tool & Die (lower left), and the truss bridge are scratch-built. Jenkins Valves (upper left) was built from a BTS kit. The small building (rear/upper center) is the office of The Chromium Process Company, also built from a kit by BTS.

Photo by:

MELGAR

King’s Cross Station.......home of Platform 9 3/4 where the Hogwart’s Express leaves from.........and a trip to York (about 200 miles north)......to visit the British Railroad Museum (and the medieval cathedral).

Pictures from the museum......

Mail car....

An exhibit on the hospital trains of WWI:

The Mallard:

A replica of Stephenson’s Rocket:

Peter

The British do such a good job at preserving their history.

MELGAR

What do you know? A model train layout in the British National Railway Museum...

Peter

These pictures are especially for Rich Melvin....and highlight the work of those who give of their time to preserve Railway heritage.......these are volunteers working to restore two locomotives....

The city of York and York Railway Station from the museum....

The old city and city walls.....

York Railway Station

A modern version of the Flying Scotsman

That’s it....thanks for being patient with all the pics....

Great Britain is a fabulous place! My son and I did tons of things that were NOT train-related. I’m glad I went. 

Peter

Peter,

Thank you for all the pictures from Britain. Wish I could have taken that trip.

MELGAR