Sunday Photo Fun 12-5-04

[spankybird]

Here are some other Christmas cars from years past.[:p]








This car we painted ourselves and added the presents









[:D]
tom

[dougdagrump]

Great cars Tom. I usually just make mine up, temporarily of course, with stuff from the craft shops, Wal-Mart etc. They've got some great miniature batterry operated lights and stuff.

[fjerome]

UP division hard at work. Portland Rose heads toward Union Station in Winter Park while the Big Boy with reefers in tow takes the Portland Yard bypass over Lake Oswego and the SD90 Mac heads for cargo unloading.





new electrical substation

[ChiefEagles]

Great photos guys. fjerome, love that substation. Good job.

[Buckeye Riveter]

I need some snow
[:)]

Yes, it is outside going around an inflatable Christmas Tree on the Deck

It's the Sam Club's Christmas Special with LGB Track. (Bachman track is junk.)

[fjerome]

substation was actually built by mark borchardt (who posted a pic of his work on OGR). i cannot do that sort of stuff, so he built two for me so my power lines actually begin and end.

here is the other end.

[daan]

Fjerome, do you have a website where more photo's of your layout can be seen? I love it!

[cnw1995]

Let's see if this works. My first contributions to this thread.

[cnw1995]

Hurray, it works. Here's some more- let me know what you think! I've expanded some from this day: http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmurphy/pictures.htm

[wrmcclellan]

Wow Doug,

Not only are you spanning the globe with 0-27 track, I think you have the first layout base built on concrete and cinder block. Talk about rugged!

Nice pics. Classic toy train approach.

Regards,
Roy

[cnw1995]

In the first picture, an MPC FA sits on a pre-way bridge that's part of my longest siding, and the planted telegraph pole and an attempt at ballasting. I have to try to electrically split this siding in two - as I try to park 2 trains there. In the background, there is a plasticville barn and pre-war Britains figures - the long blue line after that is a blanket I cut up and placed in a small corridor to crawl back there. In the 2nd photo, you can see the sailboat in a plastic table-cloth pond surrounded by 'beach' roof tile fragments and the rest of the elongated oval. In the 3rd picture - you can see the 248 in the foreground siding - the concrete wall of the crawlspace - this is directly at the end of the staircase - the Ballyhoo train, gateman. Note the button batteries on cart on the freight platform - then in the 4th shot, we look to the 'left' - and you can see my burgeoning tank farm - complete with asthma inhaler piping and my planted pole. In the next shot, you can see I've tied yarn around the wood blocks carried in the cars so they can be grabbed by the Marx crane - I don't have enough cars to actually transfer them yet. You can see the airport with roofing tile runways and my prewar freight cars too. I've done this in a bit under a year.

[cnw1995]

Thanks, Roy. The foam boards actually rest on rock fill that I've covered with flattened cardboard boxes and plastic bin lids - it's not close to level - but I consider the grades a bit of an operating challenge!

[Anonymous]

I have just officially become a member of Angels Gate High Railers! They have a beautiful layout in San Pedro, CA.

These pictures were taken yesterday. My son and I had the pleasure of running the layout for about 5 hours yesterday:









Models are all MTH Premier Scale. All were run in command mode via DCS (three TIU's in Supermode).

TMCC 3751 was also operated in command via DCS Handheld.

[spankybird]

Doug – glad to see that you have joined the fun – nice pics

Richard – I am also glad to see that you have joined the fun.

I was starting to think that I was the only one posting on this.

Join the fun more often

tom

[fjerome]

daan

her is the website.

http://homepage.mac.com/fjerome/BAMenu.html

[insfil]

Really enjoy your Sunday Photo Fun, great pics! What do you use for the roadbed on
your long stretches of track and do you use the same for sidings and yards?

[daan]

Fjerome, it looks fantastic!! The family in the layout is a very nice touch. Great to have such a train room!