Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun-Hurricane Edition
As I type this out the hurricane has taken the power out in my home. So I am on battery power with my Internet connection coming from my cell phone.
Here are some pictures from the multi-gauge layout we are building in the basement of the VMT.
Let's see your pictures.
Scott Smith
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York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
A 2017 CHristmas layout memory 
Last week I showed a few of the old-fashioned what I call 'tin-plate' accessories that I'm starting to obtain. Here are a few others.
- walt
Scott, now that's dedication. Good luck with the hurricane.
Here are some photos of my Lionel SD45. I added full length handrails, gap filled above the trucks, moved the trucks in a little and weathered it.
Rich
toytrainsontracks.com
Running my Custom painted New York Central F3 Lionel post war engine with all vintage Atlas cars and Caboose. Have a great weekend!
Here's some photos of my newest engines. Amtrak P42s and the NS Bar Code SD70-ACE.
- Jason
After 2 years (maybe 3?) almost finished with my version of the Lionel Dealer Display Layout D-105. Need to wire up the siding to operate cattle and milk cars and it'll be a wrap.
Time to start thinking about the next one! 
Have always wanted to do a Space & Military themed layout. So, maybe...
jdstucks posted:Here's some photos of my newest engines. Amtrak P42s and the NS Bar Code SD70-ACE.
- Jason
What material did you use for your roads? Clay? They look good
Caboose train!
Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
I remember being there. I used to buy trains from Engine House Hobbies in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The former owner's wife is in the red shirt, front row. I cant remember their names for the life of me. Anyone else remember? They moved back to Canada a while back if I remember correctly. Don & Bobbie Murphy must have missed this meeting or photo. They used to run the OC Train Garden in Ocean City, Maryland.
J 611 posted:Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
I remember being there. I used to buy trains from Engine House Hobbies in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The former owner's wife is in the red shirt, front row. I cant remember their names for the life of me. Anyone else remember? They moved back to Canada a while back if I remember correctly. Don & Bobbie Murphy must have missed this meeting or photo. They used to run the OC Train Garden in Ocean City, Maryland.
One of my old haunts, too. Spent quite a bit of $$ with them years ago. Trying to recall...was his first name Ken? Can't remember her name.
Smart-alecky trick or treaters removed two of the stringers from the steps but did leave the outhouse standing.
Power is back-on!!
Years ago the people, someone removed most of the trees on the O-Gauge layout at the VMT. I think they did it so it could be cleaned. It looks rather sad to be a Virginia layout This week I started to repopulate the layout.
Before:
After:
The layout is still a little bare, however it least we have got it started. The big issue is reaching up to the top of the mountain with the trees.
Scott Smith
Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit. 
NS Dash-9 9527 leads eastbound 20T under the PRR signals at Tipton, PA
NS Dash-8 8450 (ex CR 757) leads 201 under the new signals at Radford, VA
N&W 611 stretching her legs at the NCTM with one of the caboose runs
NS Dash-9 9587 leads 201 through the Pulaski District's namesake town. A keen eye will spot the Erie heritage SD70ACe 3rd out
Amtrak P42 89 leads the westbound Pennsylvanian out of the Allegheny Tunnel in Gallitzin, PA
Happy Weekend To Everyone.
Shark Bay R.R get some new rolling stock.
Canadian Pacific's SOO94 on the move again!
Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
And how the get-together has grown
I don't think I've missed one yet--in fact I'm in the back row with the cap 
---PCJ
Engine House Hobbies - Ronnie & Lucie! Now back in Canada.
they look great Johan... like 'em 
E9
briansilvermustang posted:
they look great Johan... like 'em
Thanks Brian.
Johan
It's a beautiful early fall afternoon in Savanna, IL in 1970 and Casey Jones the III, grandson of the famous engineer of the same name, is sitting on his porch with his faithful German Shepard waiting for the California Zephyr to blast by on the tracks beside his home. The train horn scares his dog and hurts his ears, but they both love watching the train cross the river and make a station stop at the nearby Savanna station. His wife is hollering something about whether he planted the flowers in front of the porch like she asked him to? But Casey is lost in his memories of when he was an engineer like his grandpa.
Did I just hear a horn?
Art
hclarke posted:Engine House Hobbies - Ronnie & Lucie! Now back in Canada.
Yes, that's it!
Many years ago when I first got back in the hobby I was building a layout and using MTH RealTrax (a move I later regretted). I went into Engine House on a Saturday morning with my list and loaded up several boxes full of track. Ronnie must have been having some slow days because he was ecstatic about the big sale. I think I purchased a number of other items, too.
Good memories.
I finally did the one thing I have always wanted to do to my Amtrak Amfleet End Car, add ditch light. Got this done on Thursday and I still need to fix a lot of light bleeding problems from around the housing. But I will get to that sooner or later.
The lights only work with the headlight.
They are also very bright. Which is good, since the headlight barely offers any illumination on the tracks. I went with yellow lights for the ditch lights, so they match the color of the headlight.
When installing them I used the same resistor that the headlight has on the circuit for main lighting circuit board, 330 ohms. Although they came out much brighter than the headlight, but I believe that's because the lights are sticking directly out of the shell. But again, that's fine since they illuminate everything in front of the car.
My final plan is to put a Bluetooth speaker under the front pilot, so I can connect the speaker to my phone and use an app to play horn and bell sounds. Well at least when the cab car is leading the train, so it doesn't sound weird having the horn and bell come from the rear of the train. But that will be for another time and I might not even do that, since Bluetooth has problems with keeping a good signal.
Halloween Train at the TMB;
Manards boxcars at the TMB;
Smart choices this weekend everyone because if you go to places like this you might finish your weekend here instead. 
This weekend's fun. "Roving photographer out and about on the Free State Junction Railway and around Patsburg"
Christopher2035 posted:Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit.
Christopher:
Thanks as always for sharing these pictures. I have two reactions:
My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week...
My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moooooved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on mooooo ving a few other things around this week...If your daughters aren't walking around with their eyes rolling toward the heavens, you're not doing your job!
Have a nice *dry* weekend everyone. This rain, ending last night with the remnants of Michael, is getting old.
Steven J. Serenska
Bryan in Ohio posted:Smart choices this weekend everyone because if you go to places like this you might finish your weekend here instead.
I love it!
Peter
Page II
Still under construction. Added the 4th level this week.
Scott Smith
Extreme rail fans.....
Peter
New engine added to the fleet today
A few layout shots at dusk......
Peter
Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
Everyone looks so young! In the front row, between Fred Dole and Jim Barrett, is Eddie G in his mid 70s. Where is Jim's other hand?? And way in back is twenty-something Peter C. Think the Lady in Red was one of the magazine's principals - Myron Biggar's daughter Barbara as I recall.
Christopher2035 posted:Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit.
Christopher;
Great photos, as always. Could you tell me what steamer is in the pics??? It looks like my 736 that I purchased long ago, in a galaxy far, far away (sometimes called Madison Hardware). The headlight casing on mine also is that funky gray color... I thought that was a mistake.
Thanks.
One MTH red Florida East Coast 50' box car with one of the new MTH blue Florida East Coast double-plugged-door box car.
I got the new FEC double-plugged-door box car through Mr. Muffins Trains.
Back in the 1990's the FEC box cars used to be in trains on the Grand Trunk Western in Michigan.
Andrew
Falcon Service
SDIV Tim posted:
Did that Coal Turbine fill the room with smoke very quickly?
Johan, I really like the SBR C-10 Transfer Caboose, You do wonderful work!
Rusty
Amtrak No. 3, the westbound Southwest Chief:
Rich Montague posted:Amtrak No. 3, the westbound Southwest Chief:
MTH or Lionel F40PH's?
This beast, Kingman, Arizona. Several years ago. 
Diverging Clear posted:Johan, I really like the SBR C-10 Transfer Caboose, You do wonderful work!
Rusty
Rusty: Thanks. More S.B.R. -items come next year, when i have a time build them.
Johan
Brian, thanks for the parade of EMD demos. I really like that last one on the flat car. It looks like it's heading down south.
Johan, can't wait to see what comes next.
Bryan in Ohio, the prison looks great, right down to the exercise yard and razor wire.
coach joe posted:Brian, thanks for the parade of EMD demos. I really like that last one on the flat car. It looks like it's heading down south.
The EMD GT46AC International model for South America EMDX 4301 is in Chile now, being shown and will be enroute to destination in Brazil soon. EMDX 4302 and 4303 are going directly to Brazil.
Christopher2035 posted:Happy Friday!!!
Worked a little on the ballast this week. Also started construction of the farm scene. My daughter Giovanna is obsessed with cows, so I decided to expand the farm a bit so we can add more cows! Moved the coal loader towards the front of the layout too. Working on moving a few other things around this week as well as I try to arrange things to give better photo angles. Going to be traveling in PA for the next 2 weeks, so progress will be held up a bit.
NS Dash-9 9527 leads eastbound 20T under the PRR signals at Tipton, PA
NS Dash-8 8450 (ex CR 757) leads 201 under the new signals at Radford, VA
N&W 611 stretching her legs at the NCTM with one of the caboose runs
NS Dash-9 9587 leads 201 through the Pulaski District's namesake town. A keen eye will spot the Erie heritage SD70ACe 3rd out
Amtrak P42 89 leads the westbound Pennsylvanian out of the Allegheny Tunnel in Gallitzin, PA
If your daughter loves cows so much maybe you need one of these:
Port Of Tillamook Bay 101
(Photo from rrpicturearchives.net)
-Nick
Have a great weekend
A couple of photos from a stop at Fostoria Ohio in June. Good timing on our part...... or......really just dumb luck!
Pennsylvania RR.
My daughter recently went to Europe, she took a few videos for me.
Working a on a full powered ABA set of Atlas PRR Erie-Builts. I have converted them over to scale couplers, now all that's left is to install some power tethers and weather them:
Alex M posted:My daughter recently went to Europe, she took a few videos for me.
My wife just returned from 2 weeks in Ireland. She saw one train station and zero trains. Ireland must not be big on rail.
RailRide posted:Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
And how the get-together has grown
I don't think I've missed one yet--in fact I'm in the back row with the cap
---PCJ
Too bad we don't have a larger photo to make the faces more recognizable. In the picture above I'm sitting in front of you wearing the white shirt.
Below, here are a couple of pictures I took during York in April 2001. Most long time Forumites will recognize these characters and where we are. You can't see me because I'm taking the pictures....HB - Ken
Below, here are a couple of pictures I took during York in April 2001. Most long time Forumites will recognize these characters and where we are. You can't see me because I'm taking the pictures....HB - Ken
This was well before my time but I recognize Barrett and Tony Lash - So must assume that you were ay Tony's facility?
Worked today on adding some LED head/ditchlights to my Williams Amtrak Genesis that I recently purchased. The next step will be wiring the motors in series and some other possible lighting upgrades.
Mom & Dad, " TRAINED " me right...
still have my first train...
Farmer_Bill posted:Putnam Division posted:York week starts....the original York get-together.....Fall 2000 or Spring 2001....I can't remember
Peter
Everyone looks so young! In the front row, between Fred Dole and Jim Barrett, is Eddie G in his mid 70s. Where is Jim's other hand?? And way in back is twenty-something Peter C. Think the Lady in Red was one of the magazine's principals - Myron Biggar's daughter Barbara as I recall.
Thanks for the kind words, Bill.......but I was more like 47 or 48.......
My son (8 or 9 in this picture) just turned 26 and just got engaged.....where did the tine go?
Peter
OK, the names of the folks in this photo at the fabulous Tony Lash Layout that used to be in Capitol Heights MD are starting from the left:
Tony's son, I believe his name is Duke. If someone has a better answer, let me know.
Next I believe is Carl who used have a "Ho Ho Ho" in his signature line on the Forum. Haven't seen a post from him for a long time. He is from somewhere in the Northern Va, DC/ MD, Balto area. That narrows it down to about 12 million people to choose from! I think he was active in the National Capital Trackers club also. Can't remember his forum name.
Next is Tony.
Last is Bear Owen, forum name "Bearlead". He is still a forum member but hasn't posted for about two years. Bear is a retired airlines pilot from Colorado. He was an early member of the forum and a frequent poster at that time.
The photo was taken on Saturday, April 28, 2001 several hours after the York TCA meet.
Ken
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