A few shots around the layout
Bill T.
Remember Freedom isn't Free
This is 2 rail O scale layout.
Here is a Williams steamer and MTH 2-3
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I am a person with a very active inner child. This is why my wife loves me so. Willoughby, Ohio - the home of the CP & E RR. OTTS Founder www.spankybird.shutterfly.com
Bill
I enjoyed those shots of the yard as a bustling center of activity, especially that inspection car..I can imagine the "grandees" riding around on a inspection tour while the employees pass the word that the big cheese is around. Another thing is that no one can say contemporary toy trains are not colorful. The orange Plymouth is a wow factor.Love to see a video.
Is that Yardmaster's | Crew Office on the fourth photo (in descending order) a scratchbuild. If not, who made it?
Bruce
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
started scenery on corner.
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
Bruce, the yardmaster building is a TTOS convention commorative from the 1986 Anaheim convention. It was made by the Nostalgia Train Works for the convention. A couple more pictures of the building.
I think the little Milwaukee Plymouth switcher was the first one done by K-Line, it is a neat little switcher. It is towing a Lionel Frisco boxcar equipped with railsounds.
Bill,
It really stands out..a great addition to a layout.
As a one for one trade, here is my most unique building ( at least for me). I have the Marx whistling Girard Station but I came across this, which is a variation of the Wheaton Station, that has of all things, a battery powered whistle.Its going on the wind up layout. I took a side view shot to show the button-battery access.
Here is my new gantry crane in the freight yard.
Hello All, First Picture is of my 385E w/385W Tender, in the background is a 219 crane car and 214R refer car. The 2nd picture is of my 392E w/392W Tender, and a few gondolas and 167 controllers. The 3rd picture is of my overview of layout. The 4th picture is of my tanker cars and crane car. The last picture is of my 402E. Thanks for the great pics. Enjoy!!
lionel2 Hello All, First Picture is of my 385E w/385W Tender, in the background is a 219 crane car and 214R refer car. The 2nd picture is of my 392E w/392W Tender, and a few gondolas and 167 controllers. The 3rd picture is of my overview of layout. The 4th picture is of my tanker cars and crane car. The last picture is of my 402E. Thanks for the great pics. Enjoy!!
I really admire those spoked wheels on the 392E and the engine itself looks brutish, like it has more than enough tractive power. It must weigh more than a couple of pounds. I have seen similar crane cars and wondered, did they ever make a crane tender car for these, or were they stand alone?
Thanks for posting these. I really enjoyed them..I wasn't familiar with these engines, which are very cool.
Yeah, the 392E with the big 12 wheel tender with whistle is very nice. The kids love the chugger sound. It weighs a lot, maybe 7 to 8 pounds, just the locomotive itself. The tender is about 3 pounds. It scary to pick it up, cause it is so heavy, you would hate to drop something this nice and heavy. It has survived for over 80 years now. It can pull about 10 freight cars with no problems. The crane car just has a gondola or you could even put a 520 searchlight car in front of it. This is a nice crane car, common color, but nice. Yeah, no problem about the pics, glad to post them finally. I have a new layout plan for 2011. 15x8 with 3 locomotives running at one time, and 7 switches. Bunch of freight yards to park all my loco and cars that are not in use. Will have an engine house as well for my standard gauge trains, handmade too. Cannot wait til October when it all goes up for Christmas. Bit early, but I need time to get everything perfect. Thanks.
Cannot wait til October when it all goes up for Christmas. Bit early, but I need time to get everything perfect. Thanks.
Sounds great take pictures of your progress for Sunday Photo Fun
Will do!! It takes me about 4 weeks to setup my Postwar O gauge, which will go up the first weekend of October and be completed by Halloween. Then my standard gauge lionel goes up the weekend after Christmas and takes about 2 or 3 days to set all that up. That will stay up til 3rd week of January. Will post pictures of progress of both layouts on same tabletop platform. My standard gauge is easy to setup, does not have any accessories, besides 2 stations, a 124 and a 115. As for my postwar Lionel O gauge, I must have about 3,000+ feet of wiring to deal with and 7 Transformers. (5) Z's, ZW and a KW. (32) 022 switches all powered by fixed voltage. Over 25 accessories. I am trying a new layout design for 2011. Will have to predrill all the holes for the wiring and such. So, It will be a lot of work.
Bruce, I have never seen that version of the Marx Union Station, quite unique. I have a couple of the common Marx stations along with the Marx freight terminal. The freight terminal takes up so much space I had to add a section to the layout for the terminal and the Lionel tinplate factory.
Seayakbill Bruce, I have never seen that version of the Marx Union Station, quite unique. I have a couple of the common Marx stations along with the Marx freight terminal. The freight terminal takes up so much space I had to add a section to the layout for the terminal and the Lionel tinplate factory.
That line up of trucks is really cool and reinforces the impression of a bustling place.Looks like they have some colorful graphics on the trailer sides if that GN one is any indication. I have never seen a large lineup like that which again is very cool.. Unfortunately I suspect the Marx station is incomplete as on the baggage side near the roof line there are a series of square holes that I suspect held up a large canopy.I cannot locate any reference pictures to confirm this. .
Here is a close-up of my 2-6-4 no. 2037 from 1958,
... and her full train set. From what I was told, this was a department store set. It is in terrific condition.
Except for missing track, the set seems complete. Boxes are in used but good condition.
Great photos so far this week!
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