Sunday Photo Fun 10-1-06

[FJ and G]

My first view of a narrow gauge line was a small push wagon type setup at a lumberyard in upstate New York. The lumberyard has long vanished and I didn’t know how many other hidden narrow gauge lines there are in the country. None of these small lines, to my knowledge, has ever been modeled before. They aren’t exactly garden lines, but are more industrial. I’m guessing that they push these little trolleys by hand.

Yesterday afternoon I came across one of these lines at a local northern Virginia brick factory and thought I’d share some photos of these underappreciated gems.

[RR Redneck]

What is that think anyway?

[Buckeye Riveter]

Does anyone else have one of these???

I used to have one.  Now where did I put it. 

As always, good photos with new ideas and different equipment making this topic a favorite.

[cnw1995]

Drat, discovered the camera's busted - rough  handling by the daughter - she's not going to enjoy replacing it. Where did you get /  what is that nifty Lionel handcart?

[mitchelr]

Spankybird - Love that WM BL2-  I saw the one in you photo and it makes me want to go run mine...

As always, great photos.  This is an amazing group of people.  Keep up the good work!

Mitch

[dougdagrump]

Chief, The photo in question is "N" scale.

Great photos all.

   

[Blueberryhill RR]

Here are a couple of shots of my train room from another angle:

The wall at the end is gone. That gave me 16 more feet. Vacuum gone too.

[railfan23]

Thanks Chuck. I have to believe that that is my once in a life time buy. 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Thanks Bogaziddy. It is a long story has in how I got it. My wife works at a local pawn shop and does all of its *bay sales. I called her up on New Years Eve 2001 to find out what time she was getting off and she told me one of the guys had just brought back some Lionels to be listed. She told me the car numbers and right then and there I told her to find out what they wanted for them and bring them home. She came home around 3:00pm and told me I owed her $75.00 and go get them out of her car . I have tested other stuff forthe store (mostly new items), and I about fell over when I saw them. The only real thing wrong with the engine is the fact that the sound box is missing. So I guess that I really can't say that this is my greatest find but a great find by my wife.

 

Here is a pic for you Chuck

railfan23..... I knew someone had to have one.  There is one more but he has not posted today. That's a great buy for 75 bucks too.

Chuck

[spankybird]

Great pics guys. See Cheif, if you had your tracks off the floor, you might have a lovely young thing pop up thru your layout.

John,  The BL-2 belongs to one of our OTTS members. In fact that is his layout.

BTW - Chief, good to see you join in the fun today !

[FJ and G]

Love that Gulf oil refinery or storage area. I haven't been on forum too much as I'm so busy doing construction; thought I'd share some photos; not O but the previous 3 photos in this post are all toy train O.

Here's my first time doing live steam on temporary grass track yesterday morning. It's still breaking in so didn't get too far with this first run (less than spectacular):







Removed my Mexican Heather, as I discovered after buying it it hates cold (first photo; replaced it with little ruby mums (2nd photo)). It is the closest I could come to Mexican Heather's violet look.





planted some mosses along the rocks; watering them a lot



Built my first gauge 1 switch. It actually was a multigauge switch but changed my mind and filled in the spike holes with exterior wood filler. Keeping the 2 scales separate. OK, so I got lazy and used a door latch for switch stand. Took about 3 hours to build.

[ChiefEagles]

Boise ID, UP Depot restored.  Now a meeting place and park [with big rose garden].

Bells in the tower.

The tracks now.

The bridge just before the Depot.

[note: Shutterfly was really flying today.  Downloaded 50 pictures in about 5 minutes.]

[railfan23]

Thanks Bogaziddy. It is a long story has in how I got it. My wife works at a local pawn shop and does all of its *bay sales. I called her up on New Years Eve 2001 to find out what time she was getting off and she told me one of the guys had just brought back some Lionels to be listed. She told me the car numbers and right then and there I told her to find out what they wanted for them and bring them home. She came home around 3:00pm and told me I owed her $75.00 and go get them out of her car . I have tested other stuff forthe store (mostly new items), and I about fell over when I saw them. The only real thing wrong with the engine is the fact that the sound box is missing. So I guess that I really can't say that this is my greatest find but a great find by my wife.

 

Here is a pic for you Chuck

[ChiefEagles]

Wow, that is a good one.  Where did you get the tanks and etc?

San Diego HO [dull operation wise and look at all the scenery [didn't blow their budget on trees. ].

HO

N gauge in this one.

back to HO

Doug, this one N?

Now this took some work!!!

 

[RR Redneck]

Well howdy y'all. That ole Lionel GG1 and the passenger cars were definately a treasure. How'd you acquire them? Also the San Diego layout is pretty good. Daan your layout seems to be progressing slimingly.

[jefelectric]

Good afternoon,

Beautiful pictures guys.

Tom, Is that BL-2 new?  Don't remember seeing a picture of it before.  That engine should really get a good response from Mitch.

The local LP distributor is getting a delivery via the new Atlas Gulftane car.

 

This area isn't finished yet but I wanted to show of the new tanker.

[ChiefEagles]

No fair.  Perry has pretty lady poping out of layout.

California has trains [real and three rail, San Diego 3 Railers]  This will drive the dial up guys mad.

Near Palm Springs along I 10

San Diego 3 Railers [Dougsnotagrimp's layout ]

LOOK AT THE GUY'S HAND!!!  shame Doug

Take me out to the ball game.

[FJ and G]

Very well done layout, Perry; lovely lady popping up thru the access hatch as well







   

[perry1060]

Fire season in Arizona - above

Layout access panel - above

The past, present, and future - above

Tried to get the firebox glow - above

Horses and men sitting around - above

Air view - above

Waterfall - above

 

[daan]

A few photo's of the Shed County R.R.

This is the table, on the right a look from another angle and the way it's mounted on the walls. No studs or legs, the table is hanging almost completely on the walls to minimize acces problems to the storage space underneath.

The wiring is in place (but still hanging loose, in case I've to add more wiring). The white knobs are switch trowers. I use bowden cables to trow the switches, but they are akward to route through the table. Instead of that I figured that an axle through the table which is connected to the thongue by a stainless steel wire will transfer the movement of the cable to the switch. It's built in under the switch, so unvisible from above. It works very smooth. The white knob is the teflon bearing which is glued in the table to route the axle and make movement easy and without play.

This will later on shield the city from the desert. On the right side a mountain tunnel will hide the shield, on the left side a building and viaduct will fit the shield into the scenery. The shield itself will be painted in the same color as the backdrop and will have the same function on both sides in the scenery. This way I can built completely different landscapes without interfering with eachother. (I have to use some tricks to make a small layout interesting..)

[bogaziddy]

Hey Chuck,

I've got the hand car that came with my Hobos Ridin' the Rails train set that started me back in this hobby about three years ago. What I like better is the 2nd picture showing the FM Trainmaster. I'm getting ready to place an order for Lionel's latest Erie-Lackawanna Trainmaster which is just about to be released. Thanks for getting me all primed up for it.

The Zid

[bogaziddy]

WOW! railfan23, a nice looking GG-1 and three Irvingtons all for just $75 bucks. Care to tell us how you came about these pieces? I tell ya' I'm drooling. Have fun with them.

The zid

[Blueberryhill RR]

Does anyone else have one of these???

A lot of Divcos

 

[railfan23]

Great pics Tom. The big brother to your BL2 is only a few miles from my house.

Here are my pics for today.

Up first is my greatest find, it is in awesome condition, came with boxes and cost only $75.00

 

Today we also have an airshow going on at the local airport.

[spankybird]

Be sure to click on the pics to enlarge them

tom