Sunday Photo Fun DST Edition 4-02-06

[Kooljock1]

Good morning one hour earlier! Here is Lionelville as dusk settled last evening around 7-ish. In the distance is the metropolis of Plasticville:



Springtime is when a boys thoughts turn to running his first train set! Mine was the "Western Gift Pak" from the early 1960's:



Look! Here are some folks showing up to church an hour late this morning:



Let's see yours!

Jon [8D]

[spankybird]

Spring Has Sprung in Spanky’s Cove – time for car cruse.













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Lets have some fun [:D] [:)] [8D] [:p]
Tom

[spankybird]

Here are some pics of one of Keith’s 1688 Torpedo taken on the museum layout.

[csxt30]

Wow ! Nice pictures, guys !! They're starting to Cruise over here too !! [:D][:D]

[Munster518]

Great pictures everyone, sunday can't be complete without Sunday Photo Fun[:)][8D].

Heres some pics of my friends layout that will soon be coming down with his new move into his new house[:(].



His K-line switcher pushing around my K-line NYC smoking caboose, that caboose is awesome[:D]


John[:)]

[Lafondue]

good pictures everyone...I was expecting more post on this forum since it seem the OGR forum is down.

[pbjwilson]

picked up some Hoppers to go with my Virginian Rectifier

[darianj]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Munster518


Great pictures everyone, sunday can't be complete without Sunday Photo Fun[:)][8D].
John[:)]

[#ditto]

[Anonymous]

I always enjoy these weekly photo spreads that you all share with us , thanks .[:)]
Since I am just starting and have no layout ,Yet, and only have one steamer , so far , I look at this steamer often and close up ..........so I will share a couple of pictures of my steamer , I realize it is low end Lionel , but it does look good really [:)]













[:D]

[Anonymous]

And my newest diesel , a Atlas RS-1 with all the bells and whistles , in my favorite home road C&EI [:p]




This loco from Atlas has some great detail.....




[:D][:D] I actually saw these C&EI locos in use , years ago .[:D]
The Alco RS-1 actually sounds like they did , except for all the doors rattleing also...[:0]

[wrmcclellan]

Some videos again today. These are very large files (6 to 11 MB!), so you need a high speed connection to download them.

Lionel Empire State Express with all 7 cars. The loco is a great puller as we have a couple of serious grades on the club layout.

http://home.comcast.net/~roy.mcclellan/Photos/ESE2_060330.AVI

A couple of run-bys of the K-Line NYC 4-6-6 Suburban...

http://home.comcast.net/~roy.mcclellan/Photos/NYC_Tank3_060330.AVI

http://home.comcast.net/~roy.mcclellan/Photos/NYC_Tank5_060330.AVI

Enjoy!

[Birds]

Nice photos and videos!


CCGRC:

Your steamer looks great!

Is that one of the newer "traditional" sized engines? I'd be happy to add one to my lineup.

Birds

[Frank53]

a new project I'm working on:

[waltrapp]

Remember to use Spanky's constant reminder to click on the picture to enlarge - they look SOOOO much better!

Spanky - lucky thing the police are in the scene in that first picture - he better check on that passed out drunk!!![:D]

If you know North Park in PGH, PA, here's a model I made of Grant Grove in honor of a special person that I met there. Not the lawn area, just the building, the electric, and the outhouse. If you're in that area, it's the grove by the intersection with the cannon. the 2nd grove in.




- walt

[Anonymous]

Recently had a coal spill here at The Rock Creek Mine




Got some heavy equipment in to clean it up




All Enjoy....Tim

[mickey4479]

Good pics fellas. A few photos of my layout.

[Anonymous]

To answer Birds question , yes , the loco is a traditional 2-8-4 . It came in the SP Overnight set with TMCC . I like it [:)]

[Anonymous]

I think I finally got the hang of this. Felix [img]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dd33b3127cce97e478f5e51d00000016100ActG7Ru0ZsWJg[/img

[Anonymous]

I think I finally got the hang of this. Felix [img]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6dd33b3127cce97e478f5e51d00000016100ActG7Ru0ZsWJg[/img

[Anonymous]

[cnw1995]

How I spent my weekend


This is my friend's layout. It fills the entire small room. I'm small enough to climb up on the layout and balance between the tracks to drill and place and glue those elevated track supports and track - atop the existing track. He came up with a clever idea to send 'supplies' to me - he put double-stick tape on the roof of that C&NW boxcar to send track pieces, and screws. He'd put four screws or a piece of track on the tape and pu***he car to me - and I'd take 'em off and push it back. Great check for trackwork. Only derailed it once. Oh my back! But it was sure fun! Next week, we have a gigantic MTH bridge to install in the back

[Anonymous]

My new UP SD90MAC picked up at the Train Show in Wilmington, MA

[Buckeye Riveter]

I'm under the weather, but wanted to check in and see the photos. I think the best thing about this topic is that one can learn so many new ideas from the photos. Many times I have looked at the photos and thought, Wow! I could do that on my layout.

I especially like seeing the structures and landscaping on the layouts and how our members create whimsical and industrial scenes.

Great job everybody! Super kudos to Doug for getting that giant to work properly on the layout. [(-D]

[pbjwilson]

Doug - You'd make a good Godzilla.

[Jumijo]

Some new photos of our layout.

Jim


The Mountain


The new St. Mary's River





Water Tower and River

[laz 57]

NICE PICS again GIZ,
laz57

[FJ and G]

Jim, Paul, and others; way cool photos.

I was gonna lay track over the weekend but got sidetracked with the landscaping for the trains instead.

Namely, the creation of Beagle Lake and the extension of Hound Canyon River.

I used a large-size, thick, black plastic drywall mixing container (about $10 and some change) to form Beagle Lake, which will serve several purposes, one of which is to be a reservoir for irrigation canals I will build leading to the garden. Hound Canyon River leads from the water downspout to Beagle Lake to repleni***he water supply when it rains or when I use the hose, as I did in these photos (the rainspout will actually produce several times this flow).

Naturally, the other purpose is to serve as scenery for the trains. I debated about whether to lay the tracks then the scenery, but in this case, I wanted to do the scenery first and then the tracks. I already have a 6 foot long girder bridge I’ve been working on that will span some of the area you see in the photos and another track will lope around Beagle Lake. That’s the next stage.

In creating the vegetation around the lake and river, I wanted a bit of diversity and small and large trees. Also, I chose plants that “scale” well in my mind so the trains have a natural setting. If you look at the first very closeup photo of the greenish plant; that happened to be growing wild on a mound of dirt in my garden. It looks like parsley but I tasted it and it is not. I replanted it along the river and it seems right at home. If anyone knows the name of it, I’d sure like to know. I placed wood chips over the excavated clay mountains to slow erosion. I’m not quite done with the vegetation and will also need a place to walk!

The river is made with concrete blocks, mortared together. There were some leaks during testing so I applied “Rubber Cement” a grayish powder made by Sakrete. I’ll know this evening how well it worked.

The whole project, river, lake, plantings, and moving rocks around, was completed in a day and a half. Actually about a day as I had to walk the hound quite a bit.

[Jumijo]

David,

I've got one word for you - AWESOME!

Jim

[Anonymous]

Jim,
That layout looks great. We need more pics! The Fastrack works perfectly with your scenery.

Dave,
The new water feature looks awsome!

Mike

[1688torpedo]

Jim & Dave- Both of you sure have done well with your layout projects.wow! Nice photo's as well.Thanks to Tom for posting the Photo's of my 1688 set. They came out nice on the computer. Take Care all.