Great pics Al!
Andy
Thank you
Al, The layout photographs are really great! Thank you for sharing!
Jim, I'm sure you do need to remove the sidewalks very carefully. I just thought of cement, and couldn't resist the jack hammer joke.
Bar GP7 #63, Johan, your layout pictures are fantastic, you ad so much to the forum,
P51, Lee, your video with beautiful music is Awesome, so much neat scenery and truly a great Imagination...Do some more videos, they are 5 Star ratings...
Mike g., Congratulations on your 1 year Anniversary...Your progress is amazing. Your workmanship is great. Thanks for the update.
Paul 2, wow, your doing a great job on your scenic detailing. Wow.
Mark Boyce, very nice choice of spray painting, great idea....
Lee Drennen, keep the trucks rolling...Neat trucks, nice layout...
Briansilvermustang, Wow, I love your pictures, keep the BNSF rolling....
CSX Al, all I can say is your craftsmanship is awesome, I love the Remington building, the Lumber Mll building, and recently your layout pictures. Wow. Looking at the Remington building brought back memories of when I worked for Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Co., Louisville, Ky, where I sold Remington Guns and Ammo. The building had walkways To adjoining buildings to. Thanks for posting so many cool pictures. Pictures are gifts given to me by Remington Arms.
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Larry, Thank you!
Those are certainly some nice mementos from Remington!! Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company certainly had an impressive building! That lit sign atop is really neat looking!
briansilvermustang posted:
I see older DT&I engines, along with the GT RR and the Ann Arbor RR,
sometimes about 20 minutes away from me Mark...
we need another road trip and Marci grab some pics some time...
Delta Oh. close to home...
http://www.railphoto-art.org/c...oledo-and-ironton/#!
https://www.american-rails.com...ailroad.html#gallery[pageGallery]/2/
some trains around Toledo... https://youtu.be/7zaDdTdGwWE
here is a lot of what I grew up with... https://youtu.be/QW21Dxxfwik ...
Brian thanks for posting that great video it has it all Chessie, Stealth CSX, Conrail great job
leapinlarry posted:Bar GP7 #63, Johan, your layout pictures are fantastic, you ad so much to the forum,
P51, Lee, your video with beautiful music is Awesome, so much neat scenery and truly a great Imagination...Do some more videos, they are 5 Star ratings...
Mike g., Congratulations on your 1 year Anniversary...Your progress is amazing. Your workmanship is great. Thanks for the update.
Paul 2, wow, your doing a great job on your scenic detailing. Wow.
Mark Boyce, very nice choice of spray painting, great idea....
Lee Drennen, keep the trucks rolling...Neat trucks, nice layout...
Briansilvermustang, Wow, I love your pictures, keep the BNSF rolling....
CSX Al, all I can say is your craftsmanship is awesome, I love the Remington building, the Lumber Mll building, and recently your layout pictures. Wow. Looking at the Remington building brought back memories of when I worked for Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Co., Louisville, Ky, where I sold Remington Guns and Ammo. The building had walkways To adjoining buildings to. Thanks for posting so many cool pictures. Pictures are gifts given to me by Remington Arms.
Thanks Larry appreciate it!
Jack118711 posted:
Got a Lionel die-cast depressed flat car and a Lionel die cast stock car :-)
Jack I like it C&O stock car
Hi guys, my computer went to the blue screen this morning after my last post. So I am posting from my phone to let you know it will be a little before I do detail response.
Painted the other color onto bldg.
Yardmaster96 posted:Saw the DT&I post. I have an old 1971 DT&I Yardmaster set, hence my handle, I got for Christmas in 1971. It has the GP20 yard switcher, a DT&I work caboose, one of those two wheel, two truck, wagon style box cars sporting General Mills logo, a gondola loaded with upright tanks, and a log dump car. I had no idea DT&I stood for Detroit, Toledo and Ironton until last year. Since I have the set, three of my switch track were named for the set. I retired it from service and shelved it for display.
DT&I was a new surprise to me just a few years ago at a Greenbo Train show . My friend and his 12 year old son informed me of the I standing for Ironton. I later learned Henry Ford began the road to support his industry...
mike g. posted:Hi guys, my computer went to the blue screen this morning after my last post. So I am posting from my phone to let you know it will be a little before I do detail response.
I don’t like the sound of that Mike. I hope you get it resolved soon and inexpensively
WOW Al that is one awesome building! In an evening or two?? The Remington Arms is super cool too!
LeapinLarry that is some cool stuff also! I just ordered some cool custom P mags for my AR!
Mark the jack hammer may be the right decision!! But Al has me thinking of at least trying a laser cut kit or something.
I hope Mike gets his computer fixed! I had my SIL put a solid state hard drive I think in my desktop. Which I prefer to use instead of a tablet.
Waiting to see if Nassau is all good with my early order. Lionel asked them how in the world I knew about one of the engines I ordered but it is a good part # lol
Jim
mike g. posted:Hi guys, my computer went to the blue screen this morning after my last post. So I am posting from my phone to let you know it will be a little before I do detail response.
Mike, you MIGHT be lucky. Turn it off and open the case and spray it with compressed air. MAYBE dust got into the wrong place.
Mike g, you have gotten a lot done in a year.
Mark, nice engine you bought.
CSX AL, along with Mike g the Remington building will be another great addition to the layout. Your pictures of your layout show off your work.
This morning I went to Michaels and got all I needed to paint my own backdrop and this afternoon USPS dropped off my package from Scenic Express with more ground turf and white water paint. I was suppose to go to a Tuesday night get together tonight but the road I had to head out on had a huge multicar accident and with the snow showers coming down I talked myself out of driving to it because it was more then an hour one way. So I have been watching some Bob Ross episodes to refresh my mind so I can start painting tomorrow. Pics .................Paul
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Mark. Thank you. I was kind of running out of house tonight to take my son to his soccer practice, so I only had a minute to upload and post building photo. Now I've got time to catch up while he's practicing.
LeapinLarry, those pieces give from Remington are great.
Mike, I hope you get your computer back on line. Nothing worse than blue screen of death.
Jim, it's fun building all the kits and scratchbuilding. Plus when you're all done building the layout, it is unique to you. I have quite a few new ideas I plan on building soon on the layout. Stay tuned 😊
Paul, thank you, looking forward to see what you do on the background.
paul 2 posted:Mike g, you have gotten a lot done in a year.
Mark, nice engine you bought.
CSX AL, along with Mike g the Remington building will be another great addition to the layout. Your pictures of your layout show off your work.
This morning I went to Michaels and got all I needed to paint my own backdrop and this afternoon USPS dropped off my package from Scenic Express with more ground turf and white water paint. I was suppose to go to a Tuesday night get together tonight but the road I had to head out on had a huge multicar accident and with the snow showers coming down I talked myself out of driving to it because it was more then an hour one way. So I have been watching some Bob Ross episodes to refresh my mind so I can start painting tomorrow. Pics .................Paul
cant see the price on the grass and flocking . Didn't know Michaels had that stuff!
Jim
BAR GP7 #63 posted:Run mine Boston & Maine Transformer Express.
Johan, I admire not only your craftsmanship but also the way you have captured the true essence of a North American railroad. I live about 48KM from the GE plant that builds those big turbines. Here's a few pics that my wife took from the car as we passed there about a month ago.
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Jim. the bags of turf and the Woodlands Scenic white water came from Scenic Express.....Paul
About 10 years ago when I built my layout I had two 027 switches as the cross over between my 2 mainlines. It wasn't functional, as the curves were too sharp for any rolling stock I own to pass through. I just put them there to fill space/connect the 2 lines. So I corrected that with 2 Ross #4 left hand switches. Now everything can cross from one main to the other without help from "the hand of god."
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really like this one...
Marci's pictures... she does a lot better taking photos 
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BAR GP7 #63 posted:Run mine Boston & Maine Transformer Express.
Bar GP7 #63, great shot and your scenery and weathering are spot on. Great work.
I played around with my saftey orange 8111
The DT&I was owned and was partially electrified by Henry Ford around the early 20s. He also had his fair share of the Virginian in another pocket. He just couldn't secure the river crossing to WV to complete his plans for an electrified supply railroad stretching to and from the deepwater port of Newport News Virgina to Detroit or the connection to the east west lines along the way. He didn't like to let others exert any influence or be able to dictate his doings. Without control of the crossing it wasn't going to happen. After about a decade he stepped away from dabbleing in railroads.
Too bad. He wanted to change that industry too, feeling they could offer better service more cheaply with higher net profits; Government, RRs, and the unions just hadn't applied themselves well.
As a kid I would look along rails like this and wonder why the electricity on the poles wasn't on the arches and powering the trains 🤔.
You see the arches here and there from the roads. There used to be more. ooh, and double wides, fancier bases (stations?) and poles (cantelever? tensioning? power draw or feed?) The closest here is just a broken arch I think. (not mine, just randomly chosen)
How do you like that little 0-27ish collection of points between arches?
(I think it would scale out to about 0-72", but still tight )
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Ran some trains last night. Here's my WM BL2 number 81pulling a mail/express train.
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leapinlarry posted:Bar GP7 #63, Johan, your layout pictures are fantastic, you ad so much to the forum,
P51, Lee, your video with beautiful music is Awesome, so much neat scenery and truly a great Imagination...Do some more videos, they are 5 Star ratings...
Mike g., Congratulations on your 1 year Anniversary...Your progress is amazing. Your workmanship is great. Thanks for the update.
Paul 2, wow, your doing a great job on your scenic detailing. Wow.
Mark Boyce, very nice choice of spray painting, great idea....
Lee Drennen, keep the trucks rolling...Neat trucks, nice layout...
Briansilvermustang, Wow, I love your pictures, keep the BNSF rolling....
CSX Al, all I can say is your craftsmanship is awesome, I love the Remington building, the Lumber Mll building, and recently your layout pictures. Wow. Looking at the Remington building brought back memories of when I worked for Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Co., Louisville, Ky, where I sold Remington Guns and Ammo. The building had walkways To adjoining buildings to. Thanks for posting so many cool pictures. Pictures are gifts given to me by Remington ALarry
Larry: Thank you. I really appreciate your kind words.
Johan
Lou1985 posted:About 10 years ago when I built my layout I had two 027 switches as the cross over between my 2 mainlines. It wasn't functional, as the curves were too sharp for any rolling stock I own to pass through. I just put them there to fill space/connect the 2 lines. So I corrected that with 2 Ross #4 left hand switches. Now everything can cross from one main to the other without help from "the hand of god."
Lou and it looks great! No more sky crane eh? Thats good!
Jim
CSX Al posted:BAR GP7 #63 posted:Run mine Boston & Maine Transformer Express.
Bar GP7 #63, great shot and your scenery and weathering are spot on. Great work.
CSX Al : Thanks. I always love a watch your amazing building projects, they are all a first class work.
Johan
Steamfan77 posted:Mark, Joe, I’ve seen it from the other side of things. I used to work for Verizon, and I’ve been in many customer buildings and their data rooms. The customer records are so fouled up, they don’t let us touch anything. As a result, they wind up paying for circuits that are no longer in use. So, they blame us
. Nice progress Paul, every little bit counts. Johan, I really enjoy your posts. Your work is top notch.
Andy
Andy, no offense intended. It was both party’s faults, really. And one only has to look under my train layout to know that I’m part of the problem! 🚂
BEFORE/AFTER:
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looks GREAT Sam very nice !!
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modeltrainsparts posted:BAR GP7 #63 posted:Run mine Boston & Maine Transformer Express.
Johan, I admire not only your craftsmanship but also the way you have captured the true essence of a North American railroad. I live about 48KM from the GE plant that builds those big turbines. Here's a few pics that my wife took from the car as we passed there about a month ago.
modeltrainsparts: Thank you very much and a special thanks for you, because you post those nice pics. Here in Finland we can see also sometimes when they transport those giants on the rails.
Johan
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That load is huge!!!
carsntrains posted:Lou1985 posted:About 10 years ago when I built my layout I had two 027 switches as the cross over between my 2 mainlines. It wasn't functional, as the curves were too sharp for any rolling stock I own to pass through. I just put them there to fill space/connect the 2 lines. So I corrected that with 2 Ross #4 left hand switches. Now everything can cross from one main to the other without help from "the hand of god."
Lou and it looks great! No more sky crane eh? Thats good!
Jim
Well unless something jumps the tracks. Then the MOW sky crane has to come back out.
samparfitt posted:BEFORE/AFTER:
Looks great. Is that foam or plaster, or a combination?
" IZZY"... you been leaving paw prints around the house...
who ? not me...
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Eggcellent! What a Good Dog. Brian, it looks like Izzy has figured out Photo Shop...
Lew
A couple of gruesome hours assembling this cardstock frigate. Then a pleasant hour elevating Sodor Island, adding sparkle, and adding a dock.
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Lou1985 posted:
Lou, good upgrade with the Ross switches; it really looks nice. Had to look twice to convince myself your using 027 track. Paint, extra ties, and ballast really makes the track work pop! Great job detailing the 027 and your layout. Cheers, Dave
