Sunday Photo Fun 10/14/12

[Blueberryhill RR]

Here is a painting in my train room done by the wife's sister.......

 

This one was painted by the wife's art teacher.....

 

This one was painted by my wife Paula.....

 

[anjdevil2]

Nice artwork, Chuck...great artists surround you!!

[AF53]

Great pieces Chuck!

Just some box cars on the layout.

[cmulligan01]

I like the painting. They are nice and it's a personal touch. The ones done by your wife and sister-in-law are they based on anything. The smokebox looks like a D&RGW engine. I'm much younger. My Mom doesn't paint but she excellent at counted cross stitch. She's done several train related ones in the last 25 years. Plus my aunt did a large (12"x20" or so) counted cross stitch years ago. Well Grandma and Aunt Sarah. Grandma bought everything and Sarah did the work. Mom has done one masterpiece for my 2 brothers and I. Mine is the last. One of my brothers favorite animal as a kid was tigers. Mom did an 8"x10" (roughly) white tiger on black material. Looks great. The one that will be mine is a D&RGW 4-4-0, tender, coach from the side going over a wooden trestle  with trees on either side and behind. She did a similar one but different scale, engine tender and several cars on a trestle, from a pattern she bought when we took a camping/train riding trip to Durango in '86. Mom also did some logos when I was younger. Chessie System yellow on blue material and Amtrak for my brother. A San Francisco cable car for Dad. Mom and Dad lived in the Bay Area the first several years they were married. We'll celebrate 35 years in January.

[tjl0824]

Not really Sunday, but yesterdays fun. I got a phone call from my craigslist list ad, and someone was looking to sell their father's "Marlines" trains.  Man did I ever get lucky!

The box packed from the way home

The engines wouldn't fit in the box, so they rode up front with me

All the freight cars spread out on the floor, organized by series in rows. Marx collectors should recognize the rarities.

Now on their sides with the engines put in the right spots

These are all the 3/16" scale series. Someone must have liked Niacet tank cars!

These are all 6 inch, 8 wheel cars with auto couplers on the left, and 4 wheel cars on the right. On the top right are two cars with D-trucks, and a wedge tender with a plastic coupler and black truck side frames to match the D-truck cars. Also in the bottom left is a rare canon car and an out of place 4 wheel wedge tender.

These are all plastic 8-wheel cars. I think there is a Big Rail Work Train set with the 1666 but missing the caboose, and an Allstate set minus the engine, but I'm not quite sure.                                                          

Altogether, I spent $75 for everything, including some accessories as well. For accessories there is 4 right hand switches with controllers (I don't know where the left hand ones went), 4 red bumpers, 2 remote uncoupling units, a crane, a highway flasher, and a cool signal tower which I'm not sure what to call (it's one those that have the round heads and 5 lights that make a + shape).                                             

I guess this could count as Sunday though, because I'm having fun cleaning them all up!                             

Trevor

[dougdagrump]

Friday was Halloween Train Day for the volunteers at the museum, getting an early start.

 

My three waiting for the doors to open and the visitors to arrive.