Sunday Photo Fun 6-29-14

[spankybird]

Here is a layout that has been 5 years in the making. See what happens when the owner takes off for the summer to go boating.

this is from 5 years ago.

and as of today

watch?v=mZzqpUz97Uo&list=UUSQNa0qBpnV4H9FUhXebQqQ&feature=share

[M. Mitchell Marmel]

NICE layout!  And, in return, here's some Lionel in two foot gauge:

There is, of course, a story behind this.  On Saturday, June 28, myself and other members of the Sugar Creek Model Railroad Club set up some trains for the amusement and edification of the VA's National Veterans' Golden Age Games (http://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/gag/index.asp ) in Fayettevillle, AR...

This was the debut of my shining Marx 666 engines which, despite running on track which could be charitably described as my "bottom of the barrel stuff", performed remarkably well.  My whistling station (see http://cs.trains.com/ctt/f/95/t/230529.aspx) also made its debut to much praise.  

Anyhow... One of the other exhibitors was a podiatrist's office giving away little foam rubber feet.  I had a Lionel 3309 sans satellite launcher knocking about my 'cheap freight cars' bag, and, well, as soon as I saw the little rubber feet, I just HAD to do it!

Incidentally, I'm seriously considering getting a new Lionel 0-6-0 Docksider.  We gave the club's Docksider a bit of exercise, and it's a nice mover (and would probably look spiffy sporting a trolley pole!)

All in all, a fun day indeed! 

Mitch

[sir james I]

Nice layout. Toy train pics are always fun to look at.

[Northwoods Flyer]

We just got back from a two week vacation to Maine to visit our daughter.  Its a long way from Central Wisconsin.  We put almost 3,000 miles on the car.  We went out through the US and came back through Canada.  We stopped one night in Conneaut Ohio.  There is a small railroad museum there, which opened too late in the day for us to go inside, but the view was still pretty nice.

There was plenty of live rail traffic too.

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

[JamesP]

This is a project I finished a while back, but just got around to shooting a video and uploading it a couple of days ago... so here it is, a "Marx" windup Zephyr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpwG-Gw4w6A

- James

Edit: I had trouble getting the video and formatting to work, thanks to SpankyBird for making it active below.  Apparently, the latest version of IE is being finicky, had to fix it while logged in w/ Firefox.

[spankybird]

JamesP

This is a project I finished a while back, but just got around to shooting a video and uploading it a couple of days ago... so here it is, a "Marx" windup Zephyr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpwG-Gw4w6A - James Edit: Not sure why, but the normal toolbar isn't showing at the top of the message box. I can't seem to make the link active or insert as a video. I'll try to edit it later from a different computer, sorry for the inconvenience.

SpwG Gw4w6A

[spankybird]

Northwood,, here is some of what you missed on the inside at Conneaut 

[Dave632]

Southern Pacific AA.

[Northwoods Flyer]

Spankybird,

Thanks for the interior photos of Conneaut.  I peeked through the windows and it looked like a nice collection.  I look forward to a visit there sometime when I can actually get into the  museum.

Northwoods Flyer