Sunday Fotofun 12/26/10

[Northwoods Flyer]

RockIsland52

Northwoods.........Holy Name Cathedral by chance?

 

Hi Jack,

While the church on my layout does look like Holy Name Catherdral, the church I attended was a much more modest Lutheran church in the Logan Square area.   

http://www2.elca.org/archives/chicagochurches/zionnlca.html

 

 It really only bears a faint resemblance to the porcelain building.  Things that you remember from your childhood always seem larger and grander than they are in real life.

 

You have a great eye.  Didn't you grow up in inner city Chicago too?

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

[tim o'm]

The holidays have kept me busy, so I am a bit late in posting here.  I hope Santa Claus was good to everyone out there in CTT land.

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This year, the mainline is ruled by Marx tinplate 898 and set from the late 30s.  The loco runs flawlessly, and the cars are pristine.

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Not only that, but I finally opened the plastic on this gem, which I bought in 2005 or 2006.  Hershey's trolley by Bachmann in On30 scale running on HO track.

They operate totally differently, but when they meet up like this, all ideas of 'scale" get thrown out the window, and Christmas fun takes over.  

 

[RockIsland52]

Northwoods.........Holy Name Cathedral by chance?  You are right.....there are so many nice buildings out there for layouts.  Among others, my wife has 3 Thomas Kincade lighted buildings for her under the tree display and, while they are too small scale-wise, they look beautiful with the trains running.    

Jack

[Northwoods Flyer]

fifedog

Northwoods - The BC is really taking shape.  You really are selecting some handsome structures to occupy the landscape.  Nice pics everyone.

Thanks for the compliment fifedog.  Your layout and photos have been a great inspiration.

Its been fun finding structures and figures and other accessories to bring life to the Blueboard Central.

 

I had originally intended to use buildings of the same vintage as the trains, but there are just too many nice looking things out there.  This church actually looks very much like the one I attended as a child growing up in Chicago.

 

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

[fifedog]

Northwoods - The BC is really taking shape.  You really are selecting some handsome structures to occupy the landscape.  Nice pics everyone.

[Northwoods Flyer]

Christmas is always a busy time here on the Blueboard Central. People have been coming and going, and with the kids out of school the energy level seems to be even higher.

I took a walk around town today with my Kodak Brownie and caught a few interesting sights.  Today is the first day that the band that Nels Jameson (the town magnate and eccentric) hired to play for the skaters in the park was on site.  He promised to have them play daily all the way through the Winter Frolic.  I caught them as they were warming up at the depot parking lot.

 

 

 

And as they were practicing the lights on the town tree came on.  Nels Jameson paid to have it brought in and erected too.  Things are really begining to shape up for the Winter Frolic.

 

 

It was a tight fit getting everyone into the band shell.

 

 

But once they started to play it was magic.

 

 

You could hear them playing all over the downtown.

 

 

I thought I would show you a photo of the house that won the decorating contest too.

 

It is very pretty by daylight,

 

 

but by night it just about takes your breath away. 

 

 

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

[magicman710]

UP Genset #2701 spots some cars in the mainline holding siding

AC6000CW #609 waits patiently on track #1

(Testing my abstract photography)

[stebbycentral]

One last shot from the holiday layout.  Not sure how Fireman Fred braves the winter tempratures without his turnout coat, but he says he feels just fine.

And a little boasting:

 

[spankybird]

Santa found this NYC Big 4 caboose (Lionel 1990) MIB for me.

 

 

 

 

[Seayakbill]

Photos around the S&Y RR during the holidays