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Sunday Photo Fun 7-10-05

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Sunday Photo Fun 7-10-05
Posted by spankybird on Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:48 AM
Back in the days when Steam was King, water towers were needed for the Steam Engines. When water wasn’t available locally, the RR need to ship water to the towers via a water train.










Do you remember Petticoat Juction [?] Sometimes the local girls just have to cool off in the water







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Lets have some fun [:D] [:)] [8D] [:p]
tom

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:55 AM
No mountains down here in Florida
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Posted by csxt30 on Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:55 AM
YES, every steam RR needs water !! Great shots. [:)] I decided mine needed Grain silos. Not done yet & just pretend the tank car is a covered hopper ! [:D] Thanks, John
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Posted by jonadel on Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:55 AM
Good Morning,

Another very warm weekend in Iowa but that's OK, we know what happens in Jan/Feb. We travelled to Cedar Falls where our oldest son & wife live and one of the many great things about the town is that that's where Caboose Stop Hobby is located. Absolutely a wonderful store with owners that know what they are talking about and are very gracious. One cannot leave the store with empty hands, that would be rude, so the following is what we brought home.

The MTH BB1 with the Pantograph down


With the Pantograph up


A little closer


Two new Atlas Reefers


Not train related but this was after two days of fun bike riding (for us) 50 miles and still able to smile! That's the Cedar River in the background, great trails in the area.

Jon

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:42 AM
Jon, better be nice. You do not deserve that one [lady]. [;)] CSX30, I have been slowly collecting the cars and now I have the MTH engine [CN SD70] for the grain train. Now I will haul your grain. [:D]



EPA is after me as it smokes too much for a diesel. [Tom [;)]]

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Posted by zwbob on Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:33 PM


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Posted by waltrapp on Sunday, July 10, 2005 1:42 PM
I see that there's a Christmas layout thread going on right now. However, since it's early July and his is done, I don't know if he meant a Christmas layout or a Christmas-themed layout.

I think it would be cool to have a Christmas Layout Sunday Fun thread some week. Only people with Christmastime layouts would share photos and stories.

Here's a night and day story of one of my Christmas layouts past: [;)]





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Posted by cheese3 on Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:27 PM
Walt, how did you take that picture with the blured head lights?

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:50 PM
Once Again, GREAT job with the Pic's. Walt : What is the size of the Layout ? Looks like a lot happening. Kind Reagards to all Steve
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Posted by waltrapp on Monday, July 11, 2005 6:13 AM
cheese3: I set my Canon AE-1 SLR on a tri-pod and open up the shutter for 5 minutes. I close-down the aperature to F22. I used 100ASA film for this particular exposure.

Then I just run all of my trains all over with all the room lights out. This was the only year that I didn't have a Christmas tree on the layout. When I do and I shoot one of these, I"ll shoot one with the tree lights on for a minute to a minute and 1/2. I do play around with street lights and such - shutting them off after 2 or 3 minutes lest they overwhelm the picture.

Redhawk97: thanks. It's in my living room, sans all furniture. 14'x15'.

- walt

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