A rotary snow plow was brought in to clear all the snow from the recent blizzards.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Mike in Kingsville ... time for diversion with my grandson to sit next to the tree and run my Dad's Marx set around in endless circles...
... time for diversion with my grandson to sit next to the tree and run my Dad's Marx set around in endless circles...
Now that's Christmas!
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
Nice work everyone.
Hope all of you had a good Christmas.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
More progress on the highway and bridge...
Guardrails installed...
Speed limit established...
Warning signs in place...
Photo angles explored...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Just another GN unit....
Oregon Trunk Website
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Once, I lived along the Boston & Maine's Fitchburg Line, in Concord, Massachusetts. On a fall day, I was sitting in my living room and I heard a whistle. To no one in particular, I said with great excitement, "That's a steam whistle!" I ran outside in time to catch a glimpse of a steam engine puling a string of coaches. This was 1973.
I had the presence of mind to immediately call the B&M, and ask to speak to the dispatcher. They put me right through, and he told me that it was a charter, because someone was both rich enough and cool enough to hire a steam train for his wedding. I asked when the train would be returning home, and got an approximate time that it would again pass by. I took the day off, and this time, I had my camera ready.
Now, we're going through old slides. To my great surprise, I found the silly adapter that lets me scan slides into my computer. So, it all came together on this weekend.
I suspect that this was the last time that steam ran on the Fitchburg Line, and perhaps on the B&M as a whole. It was a glorious day.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Great pictures this week, and a time for diversion with my grandson to sit next to the tree and run my Dad's Marx set around in endless circles. At 10 months old he is happy each time the train comes by- and so am I!
Mike Habersack http://rail. habersack. com
Maryland - the land of pleasant living...
Happy Holidays Everyone!!!
Great work & excellent photography again this week!!!
What NE Iowa Needs Now!With record snowfall this season, I whish I could be out to see if any plow flangers are at work, however I doubt that we have had enough snowfall at one sitting to require one. This is a freelanced snowplow based on an ore car with a shifted front truck. The engine is a custom painted (as a patched ex-IMRL) Kato SD45, & it needs hoses & weathering. Since I don't yet have a snow shelf display, I used a white trash bag that I crumpled, & laid over the track, the background is a poster board, with a Photoshopped gradient added in for effect.
Just a little Christmas time work on my RPO letter and paper separators.
Wishing the best to you and yours in 2011.
DC
http://uphonation.com
How about a little "year in review?"
The big news for 2010 was the commencement of the major reconstruction of the peninsula, and the beginnings of the "final system plan" implementation. Here's where we were at the beginning of the year:
The old temporary loops that served for several years to keep trains running. Operations under these circumstances led to the discovery of a number of problems with the original track plan, and a near complete revision of the staging yards and this part of the layout were devised. In January, we began with the construction of the new west end staging yard on the opposite side of the room, and by June, we were ready to start tearing things up. Here's the same view as above during the "deconstruction"
With this out of the way, I could install the revised east staging, which went from being a through yard to a return loop.
Once that was in place, I could begin reconstructing the main lines on the peninsula. We had a work group in late June to get the main right of way work done.
The net result was this tangled mess...
Since June, I've been gradually adding the base scenery, and detailing scenes as time and resources allow. The main lines still aren't connected to staging yet, and the yard still needs to be totally reconstructed, which in my present economic state may take years. But I've constructed a small yard for Elkins, and have completed the Thomas Sub from there to the Paper Mill, so I can at least do some point to point operating and bump a few cars here and there.
Elkins Yard
Thomas Sub main west of Thomas
Thomas Sub approaching Elkins.
Here's the latest project, a highway bridge to provide access from the Fifth Dimension into the town of Thomas, W.V., and the scenery around it. The overview shot can be compared to the first shot of this post to give you an idea of the extent of the surgery thus far.
Highway bridge is installed. Still working on some of the details, but the highway is aligned, and the surrounding scenery is roughed in.
Looks like a snow day today... Should get some more done. Also have a couple of decoder jobs to catch up.
Finishing up a small industrial area at Cedar Bluff
Larry
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Santa travels by GP-35 on the Los Angeles Model Railroad Society layout ...
... and by 2-6-0 on the Oakhurst Railroad ...
Merry Christmas!
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Covina Mike Those screens look like just the ticket for sifting out the right size ground cover. Do you know the source?
Those screens look like just the ticket for sifting out the right size ground cover. Do you know the source?
I assume you are referring to my post.....
The screens were purchased through Amazon.com from Fisher Scientific located n Rochester, NY. Cost, $35.70. Total with shipping and Tax, $43.45.
Nice screens, they tend to stick together, but I figure will loosen up as they are used.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
yankee flyer Hey all I finnally got my 4-4-0 equiped with a DCC decoder. I had a lot of trouble finding out how the little beast was wired, here it is. Have a good day. Lee
Hey all
I finnally got my 4-4-0 equiped with a DCC decoder. I had a lot of trouble finding out how the little beast was wired, here it is.
Have a good day.
Real nice
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
Thanks, Ratled. I appreciate your help.
Some of the engines on the South Valley sub.
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Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
Here are 2 sources for screens... WARNING - they are a little pricey. http://www.promackmining.com/mining_supplies/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=185
http://www.camelminingproducts.biz/classifier-set/
I have both sets and for MRR'ing I would get the second of the 2. You could make a set of your own for cheaper
ratled
Modeling the Klamath River area in HO on a proto-lanced sub of the SP “The State of Jefferson Line”
Merry Christmas everyone,
No new trains for me. But my mom got a new camera, which means I get her old camera, which works, unlike my old camera . Just a pic:
Jamie
Cape Vincent Southern Railroad
HO scale Horseshoe Curve in 5’x10’
My YouTube
These photos of his train were taken by a member, on our club's layout.
This one is the train crossing CPR.s Stoney Creek Bridge.
Same train different location on the club's layout.
Jack W.
f-unitYou have a unmarked and unplacarded tank car in the back ground on the ground, time to call in the hazmat crew.
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Jeff so much for Xmas for your little town. You have a unmarked and unplacarded tank car in the back ground on the ground, time to call in the hazmat crew. Good luck to you and yours.
San Dimas Southern slideshow
That is an insanely cool layout with the trains up in the tree Dave!
Here's my Christmas tree layout for this year. I constructed a ring of N gauge toward the top of the tree, a ring of HO in the middle and a larger Marx 027 layout at the base of the tree.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Nice start everyone!
(Tom, I hope those kitties of yours are having a great Christmas and that you are still doing the piano thing these days!)
I got an early Christmas present a couple days ago. Just a set of mesh screens meant to be used by science students for separating materials in experiments. I set to work separating some stone I got at a local Limestone Quarry. I can separate it into 5 different sizes from 1/4" and larger down to a very fine stone dust. It will be used for various purposes in and around the Quarry scene on the SLOW. Oh, and yes I have checked it with a magnet to make sure there are no ferrous metals present.......