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Sunday Photo Fun 4-23-06

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Sunday Photo Fun 4-23-06
Posted by spankybird on Sunday, April 23, 2006 7:47 AM
Good Morning all,

This week we wanted to share some of our American 4-4-0’s with you.

The first are Lionel





These are MTH







Click on the pics to enlarge them


By the way, have you ever seen the first American 4-4-0




And have you ever seen a steam engine blowing smoke rings?
Look at this one.



tom

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Posted by tmcc man on Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:07 AM
Hey, no more quizzes on diesels. Come on guys.
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Posted by tmcc man on Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:09 AM
Nice pix Tom, especially the smoke rings from the one engine.
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Posted by tmcc man on Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:40 AM


I will try to post a few more later. Here is the new background on my computer. It is Rockville Bridge in Pa.
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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:58 AM
NICE PICS TOM.
COLIN, I see that bridge at least once or twice a week when I go down to Harrisburg, I only live 30 minutes away.
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Posted by zwbob on Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:22 AM
From this:



To this:



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Posted by Frank53 on Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:43 AM





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Posted by Demon09 on Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:33 PM
Here is the new Polar Express set I got on Friday....


I took pictures of each box I opened (feeling very much like a little kid again [:D])

I won't bore everyone with each picture, as I am sure you all know what the inside of a starter set might look like....





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Posted by waltrapp on Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:47 PM
it's nothing but a faded memory now! Thank goodness for pictures.





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Posted by jefelectric on Sunday, April 23, 2006 1:34 PM
As I mentioned on the coffee pot we had a train wreck.





A few others of the, still unfinished, layout.





The new Broadway Limited cars I purchased at York.



I need to get some more work done before posting anything more.
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Posted by johnandjulie13 on Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:56 PM
As usual, great pictures everyone! I hope to be able to start contributing now that I have something built. Keep those trains rollin'!

Regards,

John
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Posted by wrmcclellan on Sunday, April 23, 2006 4:56 PM
Here are the CTT Forum Gang and Coil Coupler airplane photos from York...

Here is the first pass of the airplane over the fairgrounds (can we say Neil Young financed????). Had to resize these for the forum. The first banner says "LEGACY DANG" which is likely referencing the annoucement by Jerry Calabrese at the TCA Museum Lionel presentation that TMCC II release will be in 2007 (According to John who was able to attend the presentation).



Here is the second pass of the airplane over the fairgrounds with "WWW.COILCOUPLERS.COM" on the banner.



Here is the CTT Forum Gang that was able to make it for the photo op and some fun discussions. Kent Johnson got tied up in the CTT booth and was not able to join us outside the Orange Hall for the photos.

Left to right are CTT's Bob Keller, George Lazar (LAZ57), Bob Mitchell (mitchelr), me (wrmcclellan), John Fullerton (jefelectric), and CTT's Neil Besougloff. George's wonderful wife Pam took the photos (has to be wonderful if she was at York right!). Can you tell which person in the photo teaches junior high shop class?



And here is the photo where someone's wife exerted appropriate parental controls.



I also got to meet and spend a while with another CTT forumite, Dave Baran, of DM&M Railroad Company. Since he was manning a table and selling his great telephone poles (yes I bought some) he was unable to join us.

Have a great evening all!
Roy

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Posted by darianj on Sunday, April 23, 2006 5:46 PM
Great pics as usual everyone![:)]
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Posted by pbjwilson on Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:18 PM
Hey Giz - Here's a Lionel loco set from the sixties pulling K-line cars



and my son Jordie - Turned 7 yrs. old today!



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Posted by pbjwilson on Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:23 PM
It's spring - gotta have some flowers -





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Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 24, 2006 6:27 AM
Nice pix, all.

Paul, nice flowers. Did landscaping for the outside toy trains. You can see some of the plantings here. Also, the rains filled up Hound River Canyon.

I've still got a lot of Zurich Switzerland train photos left that I'll try to post now and then. These are some trolleys crossing lake Zurich.











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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Monday, April 24, 2006 7:11 AM
I loved the photos of you guys at York. I was disappointed to see how small of a guy LAZ really is in person. Since he owns an 800 lb bear, I thought he would be 7' 9" tall and weigh at least 400 lbs.

One of these Sundays, we need to do a whole series of train wreck photos.

Good photos guys.

Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum. Smile, Wink & Grin

Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..

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Posted by 1688torpedo on Monday, April 24, 2006 8:54 AM
Nice Photo's everyone! Looks like laz was having some fun with Bob(Mitch) in the first photo & Bob Keller was enjoying it as well[;)][:P][:o)][:D] Too bad the 800lb Bear could not make it to York. PBJWilson- Tell Jordie "Happy Belated 7th Birthday" Hope he got a 1688 as a present.[;)] Take Care all.
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Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 24, 2006 9:43 AM
More progress on my buddy's layout. We're competing to see who can do the most spectacular scenery and he's winning by a landslide (well, I have created some better landslides outside). [:D]








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Posted by wrmcclellan on Monday, April 24, 2006 9:57 AM
Dave - very nice!

Buckeye - If you met LAZ in person - an 800 lb bear is no match!

Roy

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Posted by laz 57 on Monday, April 24, 2006 10:00 AM
ROY,
You're too kind. Had fun talking to you and all DA GIZ.
Wish we had all DA GIZ at YORK. Then I'd bring my 800 lb. bruin.
laz57
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