Western Roads Wednesday

Here is some western smaller stuff (O Scale).

A general merchandise train and coal train.

                                        BN ex- Northern Pacific GP9 w/road specific details.

Northern Pacific

ATSF and SP, can't get much more western than that.

Last week I posted actual photos taken at the Tehachapi loop and in the town of Tehachapi.  The following photos were taken at the San Diego railroad museum in Balboa Park.  The museum members model the actual loop and the loop's approaches in HO.  They also operate the loop in a prototypical manner.  This one of the five layouts at the San Diego Railroad Museum.  It is well worth the visit.  NH Joe

@ New Haven Joe- thanks for posting San Diego Model Railroad Museum pictures they look spectacular. I can just imagine how wonderful the museum must look in person. 

American Flyer  GREAT NORTHERN 4 4 2 with Presidential  cars  by Lionel/MTH

The AT&SF passing through on the S&Y RR

                                             MTH F3 B unit I repainted w/ road specific details.

Here are more photos that I took in the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in 2018 just before Halloween.  These photos are of the club's 3-rail O scale layout.  It is decorated for Halloween.  This is one of the finest 3-rail O scale displays in the country.  The members are super friendly and will often let visitors run trains using either Legacy or DCS.  The museum was dark this day and I was in a hurry so the photos do not do the display justice.

The group has several display cases for vintage and current O gauge trains.  Most of the trains and other items on display belong to the club's members.  I was told that these displays are changed on a regular basis.  

This is an overall view of the layout.  Ghosts and goblins are flying from the ceiling.    

The airport is better than it looks in the photo.  

Ghost City.

Freight cars and locomotives.

It's Wednesday and a Santa Fe 5011 class Texas is leading a string of SFRD refrigerator cars east.

AT&SF Yellow Bonnets

Spokane Portland & Seattle

MRL power is ready for assignment 

The Northern Pacific

                                                                      MTH BN ex-GN GP30

I visited the Colorado State RR Museum in May 2016.  These are a few of the outdoor displays.  NH Joe

@New Haven Joe posted:

I visited the Colorado State RR Museum in May 2016.  These are a few of the outdoor displays.  NH Joe

              Joe, I really enjoy your pictures from the Colorado RR Museum! Thanks for posting.

Bensenville, IL Sept. 1976.  Taken by my Evil Twin.

Rusty

                                      RIDES LIKE A FEATHER' 

D&R (Dandanelle & Russellville) SW1 in Russellville, Arkansas...

P.S. No pictures of D&R engines in Dardanelle, due to NO bridge across the Arkansas river.

Engines at the Arkansas Railroad Museum....

UP Railroad Jenks Shops...

What's more Western then the "Friendly SP"?

The Puget Sound Sounder and UP City of Las Vegas.

I’ll throw in some Western Road consists, with a couple ringers thrown in.

                                                         Lionel Santa Fe F3 #19C

Tacoma Rail SD-70 ACe

A couple of UP engines idling with the garbage container train near the Fairmount Ave. crossing on the Puget Sound & Pacific.   I took the shot a couple of Sunday mornings ago during my daily walk with the wife.

Larry

Western Railroad 027 version on Wednesday 

More Santa Fe

my PFM L77 2-6-6-0 in Grande speed lettering rolling past my CB&Q coaling tower and water tank at Burham in Denver. 

 Water tank and coaling tower are scratch from CB&Q plans. 

It's Wednesday, so Blue Goose time.

Time for some maintenance ...