Thanks, DOUG and BRUCE I'll check it out.
laz57
WOW $28 for a corvair, is that a good price?
Nice shots eveyone!
- NewbieLady, I see you have the MTH "Pool Hall". I've been looking for that building for a long time. Nice scene.
- Alexweiihman, Like the PRR and B&O engines
Super photos. You guys and gals are so creative and your modeling skills are outstanding.
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Ok, I know I'm way late for the Sunday show, but I just got an email from my father with a video of his layout that he ran yesterday for the first time in 4 years, and I just wanted to share. He says he'll have more vids coming, and I'll post them when I get them.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7292534548144886340
Just watched it & that is very nice !! You can put stuff on Suday Photo Fun any time you want !! Can't wait to see the Aero-train !!
Thanks, John
csxt30 wrote: Just watched it & that is very nice !! You can put stuff on Suday Photo Fun any time you want !! Can't wait to see the Aero-train !! Thanks, John
Thanks I know he would appreciate the compliment. He has been working on his collection for years, and has everything from the Post-war Berkshire to the Aero-train on his layout. He has very strict rules about what he runs and everything had to have run on PRR during the 50's, thus all the steam, the Aero-train is the one exception to the steam rule because he saw it when he was young and it made a huge impression on him then, so he finally relented and added it. I personally think it compliments the others very nicely. He's told me that if the Aero had been used more then he would not have added it, but since it was in service for such a short period of time then he thought he could add it and keep his integrity. BTW, he's tubular all the way! Here is a still of his rail-yard with each of this trains, I personally have never seen then all in person.
nice video - is that a post war 726 in the foreground or a repro?
and of course - tubular track!
Frank53 wrote: nice video - is that a post war 726 in the foreground or a repro?and of course - tubular track!
Indeed that 726 is older than I am, and almost as old as my father. My grandfather bought each of his children a locomotive shortly after they were born, and the 726 was for my father (the oldest of 3), and he's getting close to 60 now himself. Notice the white chalk in the stack; I still remember my grandfather putting the smoke pellets down in there and crushing them. This new fangled smoke liquid is all new to me. In the pic below is the 726 on my grandfather's Christmas layout, my dad is the one with the "hair", and I'm in the stripes.
Oh, yes as for the tubular rail as Hank Williams Jr. once said "It's a family tradition."
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