Sunday Photo Fun!!!

[drjohn691]

Williams NW2 switcher.

[Buckeye Riveter]

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[spankybird]

Hi All,

Well this week we invited some of the neighborhood kid to come over for some popcorn and soda and watch the fun of us running our trains. [:D]

[tup]







One reason why we love DCS is that I can set down and relax while I use the remote to run the trains. Spanky wanted to help of course. [8D]




Oh aye, here is the picks of the trains. The first is a Chessie Berkshire pulling some beer refers. The first two are MTH diecast, the next is an Atlas, and the last 2 are wood kits that I got from an O scale and converted to 3 rail.






This last one is one of the few diesel that I have. I got it so the younger kids can identify with what they see now on the rails. So on my layout, it’s the train of the future.



tom

[Jim Duda]

Buck, Spank, and any of you "hpphoto posting to CCT forum" experts - here's your challenge for today: how can you upload a 640X480 .jpg image to it, so that when you post it to this forum you can "expand" it by clicking it to bring it back to its original size? Maybe it's a limitation imposed by the CCT forum software...hmmmm. Does anyone know what the size limit actually is here?

Jim (size sometimes DOES matter) Duda

[Anonymous]

Nice quit kids in your neighborhood Spanky.

Here's an old timer chuffing up the hill that you and your parrot might like.

Click photo to enlarge.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: here's your challenge for today: how can you upload a 640X480 .jpg image to it, so that when you post it to this forum you can "expand" it by clicking it to bring it back to its original size? Maybe it's a limitation imposed by the CCT forum software...hmmmm. Does anyone know what the size limit actually is here?

Jim,
I believe the limitation is not the CTT site but the site you post the photos at. Photo Island seems to be somewhat more flexible with resizing than HP. I believe that the HP Photo Properties Code also sizes the photo and then CTT sets an upper limit. If you notice the HP web site has a place to size the photo before posting it to an auctions site. I don't know of many people that use the HP site for auctions and that maybe the reason. I'll ask the EBAY expert down the street if he knows the posting limitations of the various services.

[ChiefEagles]

Sorry guys but my Nikon software is messing up???????? Got email into Nikon. Wife took pictures of me on my British Leyland tractor plowing up garden. So another day of not working on my layout. Nice photos but a lot of X's like I was getting. Be glad when I can post some TRAIN photos.

[spankybird]

Hi Roger
We do love the

American 4-4-0

Great pic.





tom

[Craignor]

Folks,

Hello again...below you can see Hobo Bob found a quiet place to rest and await the next outbound freight.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Great photos! Craig I have seen the warehouse and it is about the coolest thing made. My dealer told me that you could glue extra people onto the conveyor belt to have more of a crowd working at the dock.

[8D] Some home movies: http://www.gahannawedding.com/Video/IM000856.AVI You will need a sound card and Windows Media player, which most computers have, to see and hear the video. More later.[:D]

[spankybird]

Hi Jim,
This is a little off the subject, but how is theDCS running?

[#offtopic]

tom

[Big_Boy_4005]

I'll throw in some prototype shots this week. The location of these shots will be represented on my layout, and is used by the BNSF, CP, UP, Amtrak, TC&W (Twin Cities & Western), and the Minnesota Commercial. It is the Twin Cities best hot spot for train watching, located just east of downtown St Paul.

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: This is a little off the subject, but how is theDCS running?
Spank and the neighborhood kids

Hey - Mikey should make me VP of sales! Some guys from the local train club stopped by yesterday and they brought some TMCC Oddysey stuff. When they saw how easy it was to program it in the DCS handheld they got REAL interested...then they discovered that they could access all of the functions of TMCC through it and that pretty much sold them on the spot. I ran conventional (they loved the 1/2 volt increments!), TMCC, PS-1, PS-2, any my post war 675. But the clincher was when they took my CAB-1, and ran it with that, trading back and forth between it and the DCS handheld. I told them about the special sale going on until June 1st for the system and I think they will definitely add it to their TMCC layouts.

Sorry for the segue folks...now back to pictures!

Professor Feinberg - I see the ballast shown on your prototype images is a grey color...do you have any showing a darker grey or black ballast? Might help us who have that blackened center rail.

Jim (dark ballast wins) Duda

[Craignor]

Buckeye,

Thanks. The Transfer Dock is fun to operate, and it looks great just sitting there as well.

I like your movie...is that your layout?

BTW, my son Drew, 7, just had a neighborhood friend over this afternoon and I supervised while they played with the trains. They were racing them, on my dual parallel 0-72/0-82 mainlines. They were running Proto 1's using a Z-4000 conventionally, one on each handle. They had the handles all way up, those trains were hauling ***! The kids had a blast. My son Drew is on the right.

Here is a action shot, one consist was an MTH Railking Amtrak F-40 with Superliners, and the other was a MTH Railking B&O F-3 ABA with Streamliners.

Enlarge the shot and look at the BLURRRRR!!!!:D]

[waltrapp]

Since I'm relatively new to this forum, posting-wise not reading -wise, I'll mention that I only have a Christmas layout. Here's some shots of my dinosaur park from 2002. I buried a speaker in the rocks thru which I played dino sounds recorded from a rented Jurassic park movie. The visiting kids LOVED it.
Sorry that I can't post directly but the host I use won't allow it. THe best that I can do is post a link. Enjoy

http://pgh_train_man.tripod.com/pghtrainman/id1.html

- walt

[Big_Boy_4005]

Nope Jim, that's the rock I was talking about in the black center rail topic. It comes from a quarry in western Wisconsin, in the town of Dresser, hence the name Dresser Trap Rock. The branch of track that runs up to serve Dresser doesn't get much traffic these days, and Dresser is the end of the branch.

The local tourist train uses the line during the summer, and has occasionally been called on to haul the revenue loads down to the junction and set them out, about a 20 mile run. The Dresser line was part of the Soo Line, until the merger with the Milwaukee Road, when it became part Wisconsn Central. Now the Canadian National has taken over the Wisconsin Central, but I doubt that will change things up there too much. [swg]

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Craignor

Buckeye,

I like your movie...is that your layout?

Here is a action shot, one consist was an MTH Railking Amtrak F-40 with Superliners, and the other was a MTH Railking B&O F-3 ABA with Streamliners.

Enlarge the shot and look at the BLURRRRR!!!!:D]

Those guys have hats just like me! [wow] The movie is a small video clip of my C&O Mikado with layout in the background. I'll post some more video in the future, because it really provides a different perspective of the layout.

[Craignor]

Buckeye,

Nice layout.

Is that the scale K-Line Mike?

[Anonymous]

that video was cool, right at eye level![8D] do it again! do it again![:P]

[drjohn691]

Buckeye, Who's passenger cars are they in the video? Very nice, indeed.[8D]

[Buckeye Riveter]

The engine is K-Line C&O Mikado that was on sale last fall at the K-Line days. This is my first K-Line engine and I was not dissapointed.

Behind the Mike is an MTH Railking Railways Express Reefer Car. (How many of you saw it?)

The four C&O Passenger Cars are all Lionel from last year.

Thank you everyone for the nice compliments about the video and layout. There will be more.

[drjohn691]

Nice job and thank you for the response. Would you know the length or the stock number of the passenger set. Very nice. I have to have them.[8D]

[ChiefEagles]

What I was doing Saturday instead of building on my layout. Getting garden ready to plant. Love those tomatoes though.
[img] http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4dd08b3127ccebb2203fedca50000001610[img]

[spankybird]

Hi ChiefEagles,
you forgot the / in the last img command.

tom

[ChiefEagles]

Thanks Spankybird.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Buckeye, would you know the stock number of the C&) passenger cars on your video. Length? Aluminum?
Thanks for the help.
Dr. John

I'm glad you like the video and the the cars. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

The cars are from the Lionel 2003 Train Catalog, Volume 2, page 54 & 55. They are listed as (6-15169) Chesapeke and Ohio Streamliner 4-Pack $199.99. They are capable of negoitiating O-27 curves, but I use O-42 for my layout and they fly through the switches. They have die-cast metal trucks and are plastic. Several of the doors open and on my B&O set, (another video on the way) I have trainman standing in the doorways.

I purchased the cars last year for under $170 new at Davis Trains in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am hoping that Lionel will make the two pack in the next couple of years. If you go to Lionel's web site where they have back catalogs posted you can get more information. The interior lighting on Lionel's new passenger equipment is equipped to handle the higher constant voltages of TMCC.

I hope this helps.

[Jim Duda]

Hey Chief - hurry up and get those tomatos in...a BLT on toasted whole wheat, with a dollop of mayo and some lemonade sure sounds great! I gave up on hpphoto...this one's from photoisland. Try their image uploader - you'll love it!

Jim (hungry for fre***omatos) Duda

[ChiefEagles]

Hey Jim, us fishing guys use Shutterfly. Shutterfly.com is free. I tried to psot some on fishing board from Nikon site [I have Nikon camera] and they would be there when you reviewed them but became the famous red X later. So us fishermen use Shutterfly. Good picture. If I can get to building the layout, I have the NS deliver you a basket full of those red ripe tomatoes. How about squash and zuchinni? Planting those today.

[Jim Duda]

Chiefster -
Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and pretty much whatever you can grow in your vegetable garden, tossed together with some vinegar and oil, slightly chilled, is my FAVORITE "salad", bar none!!! I'm from Iowa so we gotta have fresh sweetcorn before we go down to Professor Feinberg's basement to run some trains. By the way, did you know his layout is so huge that the phones on each end of it are in different area codes???

Now, get your butt back on the tractor and till some soil!!!

Jim (hungry for fresh vegetables) Duda

[ChiefEagles]

Be flying your way this June [probably]. Fly into "San Anton" and go to Kerrville. Buddy of mine owns restaurant there [best catfish you've ever eaten]. We go down to Amistad and fish. Beautiful arid country. Also fi***Bend on the TX/LA side of Texas and Stillhouse in central TX. Iowa, the ethanol state. Good hunting and fishing there. What you doing in Texas? HOT and HUMID!!! or HOT and DRY!!!!!