Sunday Photo Fun 7-24-05

[spankybird]

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

[Roger Bielen]

Tom - is that an authorized crew member on the caboose, or a crew fringe benefit?

[waltrapp]

Gettin' around time to have an 'Iron' and start thinking Christmas! (reminder: click on to enlarge)





- walt

[zwbob]

[dougdagrump]

Walt, I've already gotten the request from my wife for our Christmas layout but next on the agenda is going to be a halloween layout in the garage. Since the kids have to climb steps to get to our front door for "trick or treats" we decorate the garage and sit in there to hand out the candy. My wife saw the new halloween 4-4-0 and cars from Lionel and wants one. Kickin' around some ideas using some of the Spookytown stuff from Michaels and maybe utilizing two reversing loops so the train can run in and out of a giant pumpkins mouth. [:D]

[cheese3]

Nice pics guys!!! I am convinced that my next layout is going to be O scale. I love the look of it.

[ChiefEagles]

Ft. Worth Texas [right up the street from the Holiday Inn].
Talking about grain elevators, some "bigguns" there and two big yards [narrow down to go under highway and expand on the other side].










Hundreds of these waiting near the above elevators.

[Frank53]

Holy buckets Chief - your new layout looks so real! [;)]

[ChiefEagles]

Lots of hard work and stayed up all night to finish. [;)] The sunflowers were the hardest to do. [:D]

[Frank53]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ChiefEagles

Lots of hard work and stayed up all night to finish. [;)] The sunflowers were the hardest to do. [:D]

I'll bet those telephone and power lines were no walk in the park either! [:D]

[waltrapp]

dougdagrump: there's SO much great Halloween stuff out there that I considered setting up early and, like you, creating a Halloween-themed layout to use for a few weeks. There's as much great Halloween stuff as Christmas stuff, for train layouts that is, it seems.

I love your idea. Maybe deliver the candy on the train to the kids!

- walt

[dougdagrump]

Walt, Initially I was thinking of using some dump cars to deliver the candy to the kids but I "dumped" that idea because sometimes we get large groups coming at the same time. Although I guess I could use this delivery method when we only get two or three at a time. I wonder if the automated loaders could handle small candies to refill the dump cars ? Hmm, tootsie rolls on the log dump cars, sounds good to me. [:o)] [:D]

[csxt30]

Great photos again ! I deliver the long pretzels to my Grankids in a godola car. Maybe pretzels would work on the Log Loader ! [:D]

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cheese3

Nice pics guys!!! I am convinced that my next layout is going to be O scale. I love the look of it.

WHAT?! Not a huge N scale empire?[:p][:D][;)]

I wouldn't mind having an O gauge layout. We have a Lionel Phantom III that is begging to be run on more than an oval.