sunday Photo Fun 4-17-2011

[Northwoods Flyer]

phillyreading

Northwoods Flyer,

I would like to know where you got the building with the girder style beams, blue plastic(from what I can tell in the photo), I remember them in red plastic from the late 1960's.

Lee F.

Lee,

As mentioned above, the girders and beams are from Kenner's Girder and Panel Building sets.  I have a set from my childhood that was actually the Girder and Panel Bridge and Turnpike set.  I think that the pieces from that set are red.  I have picked up sets at garage sales and the Goodwill over the years.  Those sets are the ones you see in the black and blue skeleton of the new city hall on the Blueboard Central.  I didn't have enough of one color of girders and beams to complete the building in one color so the front is black and the back is blue.  I have checked on eBay occasionally and you can find them there.  I have also seen them in yellow.  So that is 4 colors that I know of for sure.  They are still fun to play with.

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

[rtraincollector]

yeah I used it with my matchbox cars and the HO train set we had then that was befor I was given a Lionel super O set

[stebbycentral]

rtraincollector

Lee your talking about rector-set  ( thinking of wrong thing but know what you were talking about as did have them) from the 60's and I remember them being around in the early 60's maybe late 50's ( telling my age again) my brother had the one for making buildings and it had plastic walls to go with it I had the one for making road ways and it had plastic road to go with it I could build the road going up and down and all and it was red girders. I'm wondering if they didn't come out with them again in the 70's or 80's but in blue now that you pointed it out

The Girder and Panel building sets were manufactured by Kenner in the late 50's.  The beams and girders were red in the original sets.  It appears that the building sets have been revived by another manufacture, as part of the current nostalgia toys movement  The modern versions have blue and black plastic parts.

The thing that I remember from the set that I had in my youth was that it was deliberately scaled for use with HO trains and Hotwheels cars.  I would assume that the modern reproductions are the same size.

 

[rtraincollector]

Lee your talking about rector-set  ( thinking of wrong thing but know what you were talking about as did have them) from the 60's and I remember them being around in the early 60's maybe late 50's ( telling my age again) my brother had the one for making buildings and it had plastic walls to go with it I had the one for making road ways and it had plastic road to go with it I could build the road going up and down and all and it was red girders. I'm wondering if they didn't come out with them again in the 70's or 80's but in blue now that you pointed it out

[phillyreading]

Northwoods Flyer,

I would like to know where you got the building with the girder style beams, blue plastic(from what I can tell in the photo), I remember them in red plastic from the late 1960's.

I just bought the Reading(Old Reading Beer) beer cars from RMT, I see that others have posted the Schaefer and Rhiengold Beer covered beer hoppers from RMT. Each car comes with a plastic figuire.

Lee F.

[Anonymous]

rtraincollector

I use photobucket all the time no problems here and macs are normally not attacked like regualr PC's

Love this misconception...

You just don't hear about the MAC attacks like you do the PC attacks because MACs do not have the market saturation that PCs do. Hackers want recognition and you don't get that by creating a virus that hits 5% of users, you get it by hitting 95% of users. Also, Microsoft is still viewed as the Evil Big Brother and the more 'negative press' they get the better for Mass Media. IF Microsoft controlled the PC manufacturer, OS development, application development, etc, etc that Apple does for MAC you would hear so much clamoring it wouldn't be funny, but yet Apple is permitted to do this with not only the MAC but the i(can't hear you)Phone, iPod, iTouch, iPad, MACbook, and not a single peep from the Media about a Monopoly...

[rtraincollector]

I use photobucket all the time no problems here and macs are normally not attacked like regualr PC's

[crip]

My attempt at using Shutterfly didn't work. I'm using a MAC. I used Photobucket before with no problems,but heard they had a virus and stopped using it. Any suggestions for posting photos would be appreciated.

 

                                             Thanks in advance Mark(CRIP)

[Seayakbill]

The Easter Bunny Train is taking shape.

I heard of elephant ears on steamers but not bunny ears.

[balidas]

Yes Crips photos I can't see.

That Weaver boxcar is beautiful! Nice find!

[rtraincollector]

If your talking about Crips niether can I.

[balidas]

I can't see the pix.

[fifedog]

 

Following seayak's lead, here are some more YORK booty...

WEAVER's new wagon-top boxcar, and man-oh-man, did they get this baby right!

Checked the B&O Color Guide, and they were spot-on with the graphics.

Next up, when I saw this Dept 56 Garage Sale, and all the knick-knacks that it came with, I knew I had to have it.  Mind you, this is from the original Snow Village collection, so it is a little larger than recent offerings.

So, I decided to place it in my town of Meyersdale, as part of my Maple Syrup festival scene.  Hey, anything to cover up the "footprint" of the MTH firehouse.

WHEW!  Rich and the boys almost took out all the merchandise on their next run.

Not for my layout, but one for my NASCAR collection, is this 1:43 Racing Champions pit scene (circa '92-'93).  I bought it thinking it was Davey Allison's 28, but closer inspection showed Ernie Irvan's signature.  Anywho, folks post from time to time about having a racetrack scene on their layouts, and a string of these would be a good start...

[crip]

Platform and dump bin built from scrapwood during the winter/spring/winter weather spell we're having.

[Northwoods Flyer]

Last week on Sunday the town just to the north of us was devastated by a tornado.

This is a photo of the tornado that hit Merrill Wisconsin by Samual L Hall.

Merrill is a delightful, typical Wisconsin small town.  One of the businesses hit was a dairy operation, as you might expect here in Wisconsin.

The damage has been extensive, but thankfully there was no loss of life.

The managers of the the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines decided to offer help and sent a number of milk cars to Merrill to help in the transport of milk to market.

I managed to catch a few shots of the milk cars as they passed through town on their way north.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And to top it all off, this weekend we have still been getting snow and cold winds on the back side of the storm that has roared through the south and up the Atlantic coast.

 

Here is hoping that we all stay safe

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

[dougdagrump]

Getting ready for next friday's museum run. There must have been something strange in that new batch of smoke fluid.

The Easter Bunny Train is taking shape.

[stebbycentral]

spankybird

Here is a  pic of Ken's AF Northern

 

and here it is in action VIDEO

I think you linked the wrong video.   That is so obviously a Pensylvannia K-5 on the S-scale track.  Although that's perfectly in keeping with the GG-1 following along after it.

[spankybird]

Here is a  pic of Ken's AF Northern

 

and here it is in action VIDEO

[Seayakbill]

New acquisitions for the S&Y RR from the York outing

 Canadian Pacific inspection car and a couple RMT beer hoppers