Lee (P51), you do great scenery work and when you add another detail it just adds to an alkready great looking scene.
Lee, okay....Birthday is over get back to working on the layout. LOL
Johan, I like the water tower.
Mike g, take a break so the rest of us can catch up with you.
PINGMAN, the drywall screw is gone, I took out a small section of track to put in an uncoupling track.
Today I got the track screwed down and ballasted. Now I can start gluing it down......Pics........Paul 2
Paul 2, The track work looks great! I am taking a few days off from the trains so you might want to work a little harder and faster! LOL Just kidding!
I found a Battery Charger for my PS2 engine believe it or not at Stockyard Express in OH. MTH doesn't have any in stock! LOL
briansilvermustang posted:
that is pretty cool Johan, very nice !!
Brian. Thanks.🤝
Johan
lee drennen posted:Lee. Sign looks good and I like the treated post
Matt. Thank you Wow that’s a lot of pie
Jeff. that table looks great you did a good jod on it
Brian. You always know what pics to post they look good
Bob. That’s pretty cool to know if you like me never ridden on a train
MikeG. Looks like your pretty well dedicated Saturday
Bill. You may have a fight on your hands with that cherry pie. Be safe getting that crossing buck hope to see it in the train room soon
Johan. Great looking pic I like the water tank
Not much work went on last night on the layout maybe tonight
Lee. Thank you. 🤝
Johan
mike g. posted:Johan, Great picture! Really captures the area!
Lee D, I look forward to Saturday! But I only have the one switcher! LOL
No train room for me today. I hope you all have a great day!
Mike. Thank you Sir. 🤝
Johan
I took Mom for her daily Dairy Queen Hot Fudge Sundae in Parma, Ohio on Ridge Road and noticed many police cars around an empty Bank building next to Walgreens. They are preparing the bank for a movie filming. I did a double take on the name of the bank. (The bank sign was covered up yesterday.) Is this a case of Truth in Lending?
My work on the layout is resuming as I tested my Western Allegheny H-10 that came back from Lionel Service. It runs perfectly. I am checking the 1931260 Challenger #3985 this afternoon. I added a C&O Chessie GP35 and a B&O GP9 that I bought on Ebay. Both run perfectly after putting thinner traction tires on the engines. The original traction tires were too thick and raised the engine wheel flange too high and out of the switch frogs.
Have a Happy Halloween.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
paul 2 posted:Lee (P51), you do great scenery work and when you add another detail it just adds to an alkready great looking scene.
Lee, okay....Birthday is over get back to working on the layout. LOL
Johan, I like the water tower.
Mike g, take a break so the rest of us can catch up with you.
PINGMAN, the drywall screw is gone, I took out a small section of track to put in an uncoupling track.
Today I got the track screwed down and ballasted. Now I can start gluing it down......Pics........Paul 2
Paul. Thank you. The water tower is not ready yet, a lot work to left. I post more pics when ready. Your track work looking really nice. Hope i can visit there some day with my S.B.R. switcher. 🤝
Johan
Johan, thanks and you can bring your switcher to run anytime. You are always welcome.............Paul 2
John, Now that is funny! I hoe your mom is doing well, and that the rest of your engines come back running perfectly also!
Schenectady Railway is now open happy fall yall!!! Its the waiting station for our local interurban company!!
John Rowlen posted:I took Mom for her daily Dairy Queen Hot Fudge Sundae in Parma, Ohio on Ridge Road and noticed many police cars around an empty Bank building next to Walgreens. They are preparing the bank for a movie filming. I did a double take on the name of the bank. (The bank sign was covered up yesterday.) Is this a case of Truth in Lending?
My work on the layout is resuming as I tested my Western Allegheny H-10 that came back from Lionel Service. It runs perfectly. I am checking the 1931260 Challenger #3985 this afternoon. I added a C&O Chessie GP35 and a B&O GP9 that I bought on Ebay. Both run perfectly after putting thinner traction tires on the engines. The original traction tires were too thick and raised the engine wheel flange too high and out of the switch frogs.
Have a Happy Halloween.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
John, I used to live on Chesterfield Ave.
A Lionel Pacific glides in for a water stop.....
mike g. posted:briansilvermustang posted:
yep, that is what the ramp you built for me is being used for...
newer style AutoTrain cars...
No that's a very cool picture! You always seem to surprise me Brian!
Here you go Mike. Something unique for us east coast guys. From our last trip south a couple of years ago
gandydancer1950 posted:A Lionel Pacific glides in for a water stop.....
Wonderful vignette Gandydancer!!
Thanks Bob, now all that means is if I go with some Amtrak Autocars then I am going to have to get a bigger engine then my little F40PH! LOL
Really though, thanks for the pictures and videos! Makes one think! LOL
Its a neat operation they run Mike. We board the train in Lorton Va., just south of DC and arrive in Sanford Fl, about an hour north of Orlando. The trip is about 16 hrs with dinner and breakfast included. For a New Yorker, the I-95 drive all the way is brutal. The train is a nice alternative for folks who don't like to fly. Not having to rent a car on the other end aint bad either.
Bob
Bob, the wife keeps saying one day she wants to take me on a train ride, but I am still waiting. I told here I would like to go back east somewhere. May be one day!
that would be great Mike, come on out and visit all of us over here... 
Time for the Dinner Train on the Plywood Empire Route. Today motive power is ex-C&O #5241, an Atlas SW9. Twilight is fading into darkness as the Second Call train pulls out of the station:
briansilvermustang posted:
that would be great Mike, come on out and visit all of us over here...
I agree Brian, It would be a great trip for me! I am not to sure the wife would enjoy it, but I could always drop her off at her folks place in North Dakota! LOL
GANDYDANCER, that is a really nice scene.
I hopefully got the ballast glued but while I was doing that I decided to add more ballast around the crossover. I had just painted around the X of the crossover. I will have to negoiate for some train time after dinner. Tryiny to tell the wife she should watch her Cavs play tonight. If all efforts fail to sway her then tomorrow I will start the next section of cork andtrack. A few more pics.....Paul 2
The Southern Crescent comes through here. You will be welcome on Bald Rock Mountain. Bring a three rail engine to run on my layout.
Bill
Put some finishing touches on my basement workshop, added a glass table top, hung some RR décor and put up a shelf for the Trainmasters. I so enjoyed getting them out of their boxes, it made me want to lay some track NOW. Still sketching & pondering layout ideas, which is fun too.
mike g. posted:briansilvermustang posted:
yep, that is what the ramp you built for me is being used for...
newer style AutoTrain cars...
No that's a very cool picture! You always seem to surprise me Brian!
There was a power substation just past the Autotrain station in Lorton Virginia, I was call to work at a few times. I saw these in action once; long, long ago! 
Paul, Excellent track laying!
Howard, Great scene!
Trestleking, the workshop looks great!
Lew, Nice train running!
Mark Boyce posted:Paul, Excellent track laying!
Howard, Great scene!
Trestleking, the workshop looks great!
Lew, Nice train running!
Congratulations are in order for a well written enjoyable article!
trumptrain posted:gandydancer1950 posted:A Lionel Pacific glides in for a water stop.....
Wonderful vignette Gandydancer!!
Thank you Patrick!
Brian. Thanks I really like it
MikeG That doesn’t matter I only have one and I’ve posted it for over a year and probably keep posting it
Paul. Yes sir! Fun time is over your layout is so nice and tidy you do such clean work
geysergazer posted:Time for the Dinner Train on the Plywood Empire Route. Today motive power is ex-C&O #5241, an Atlas SW9. Twilight is fading into darkness as the Second Call train pulls out of the station:
Lew
great pics and absolutely love that video thanks for posting
trestleking posted:Put some finishing touches on my basement workshop, added a glass table top, hung some RR décor and put up a shelf for the Trainmasters. I so enjoyed getting them out of their boxes, it made me want to lay some track NOW. Still sketching & pondering layout ideas, which is fun too.
You room is looking good like those shelf’s
gandydancer1950 posted:A Lionel Pacific glides in for a water stop.....
Very nice pic we have so many talented people here
Well no intermodal Freight today no trains will be in either so they asked me to stay home. Last night I worked on a couple Boxcars that need some repair and one needed a truck swap.The Borden’s Reefer need Kaydees and I put a set of 3 rail trucks on the Pacemaker All Nations Boxcar
geysergazer posted:Time for the Dinner Train on the Plywood Empire Route. Today motive power is ex-C&O #5241, an Atlas SW9. Twilight is fading into darkness as the Second Call train pulls out of the station:
Geysergazer,
Thanks for the video, runs and sounds great. For me no digital sounds will ever match up to the clickey-clack of the wheels on the rail joints and the sound of the motor itself.
The only thing better is the roar of a postwar F3 pulling a load
Brian, good photographs of some Midwest trains!
Lee, I do not see any of the photographs in your latest post of last evening's "a couple Boxcars that need some repair and one needed a truck swap"
briansilvermustang posted:
Niiiice, Brian! A CZ kind of day. Burlington, Rio Grande and WP.
Guess Ima hafta' dig through my Timetables and see if I have a WP Timetable.
So what else did I do in the train room? I installed another mini-panel at the old junction, which is where the Dinner Train is stored between runs:
I'm experimenting with eliminating the green indicator lights. They blind me during nighttime operation. Red, of course, is OK.
No green light. Really, all that is needed is the red to show divergence from the Main. The prototype uses Green as a positive proceed as a fail-safe (in case a red signal fails) but I don't need that.
Minor setback in doing the 2046 shell swaps. Turns out that postwar shells have a little indentation molded in to accommodate the brush holders atop the whistle motor, and the 1993 Trainsounds shells apparently have that feature deleted.
So, I got clever and put a dab of white paint on the tops of the brush holders:
Next step is to drill out the white dots a bit, and voila! Instant clearance.
Mitch
I've been working a quick method to build a curved tunnel....
I took a shipping box, cut it, keeping most of it's length so that it would form a box (upside down U) over the tunnel track, plus an additional 1" on each side for tabs (think of a U with little tabs sticking out horizontally at the top, then turn it upside down to become a tunnel). I added vertical cuts up one sides of the U and across the roof, repeating the cut every 3 inches, so that the the cardboard could be bent into a "smooth curve". I then pinned that down on the layout to position it, tested clearances with articulated engines and long 21" passenger cars, then hot glued a thin long strip of cardboard along the length of the outer curve so the tunnel would retain it's shape. After that dried, i added a sheet of plaster cloth across the top and the side with the open slits (ie, the outer curve) for some added rigidity. When that dried, I removed the pins from tabs, lifted the tunnel off the track and added my decorated foil lining. I used 2 sheets of decorated foil running the length of the tunnel section, one for each wall and 1/2 the ceiling of the tunnel. I laid the foil into the tunnel, hot glued the foil to the tabs/bottom edge of the tunnel, then ran hot glue down the center line of the top of the tunnel, glued the other edge of the foil to that, then pressed the foil in to follow the walls and curve to the top of the tunnel. I then used screws to anchor the tunnel to the layout (the track would remain accessible later. Tested it with TMCC/Legacy engines.
The results are shown in the vid below taken with my lionel caboose..
btw, the tunnel lining is nothing more than crumpled foil, a quick spray with some gray primer, a few streaks of some stone textured spray paint and then a dry sponging with some white paint for the rock veins.
Mark Boyce posted:Brian, good photographs of some Midwest trains!
Lee, I do not see any of the photographs in your latest post of last evening's "a couple Boxcars that need some repair and one needed a truck swap"
I know it took forever to load and then I went here and they post so I went to bed then check this morning they wasn’t there. It’s Halloween ya know
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