Sunday Photo Fun 1-22-06

[spankybird]

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

[jakeoregano]

Good morning all.

Spankybird - great shots. I can't wait to get my layout started so I can send some 'real' pix. In the meantime, here's one that shows the new shelf I built for my trains. It sits on top of the bookshelf. On it are my 263e and two new additions: a 258t and 262e. The passenger cars are the 529's and 530. They really go with the 258t, but I was already displaying the freight. Below shows my newest GG-1 on the far right...


Have a great day. [8D]

[Anonymous]

Nice Photos

[Buckeye Riveter]

Photos from Roger’s Corners
Elevation 936 Feet

Phase II Addition Progress...All the pre-wiring is completed (See 4th photo) and the front facing board has been added. I will remove it so I can sand it smooth and stain it to match the front facing board on the existing layout. On the third photo down you can see the foam mountain with the caboose inside. The white stripe on the existing facing board is two sided tape where a black table skirt attaches.

[zwbob]

Addition to layout

[Brutus]

Great pics guys - I love that farm scene Spankybird! Is that loco from the MTH Virginia and Truckee set that just came out? Or is it a General? I'm just learning about some of this stuff, so please excuse my ignorance!


Buckeye - man you are really making progress!

Zwbob - is that underneath the layout for storage? Is it a helix or something? I'm definitly going to have to explore dimension -z (up and down) when building my layout due to space constraints.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Buckeye...That has really come a long way, since I saw it last. Are you going with the same styrofoam top as the original table?
Looks great.
Chuck

[jonadel]

Buckeye--

Benchwork is really lookin' good, thanks for the progress shots.

Jon

[zwbob]

Jim - thats inside a tunnel The tunnel is on the corner and I removed the outside walls to gain access. Here are a couple of more photos

[jonadel]

I posted several pic's of the new shelves earlier this week but I thought one today wouldn't hurt. The trainroom in the basement is really getting to be a favorite place to hang out, just think honey if we had a bigger house what we could do...............

Jon

[spankybird]

Jim, This engine is an MTH 4-4-0 Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati RR.



Buckeye - you are years and years ahead of Chief

ZWBob - looks great.

Jon - great looking shelves.

[jakeoregano]

Buckeye the benchwork looks really good. Question: Maybe you've posted this before, but do you have a layout plan you could post? I'd like to see what the finished product is supposed to look like.

Good work.

Dwayne.

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Blueberryhill RR

Buckeye...That has really come a long way, since I saw it last. Are you going with the same styrofoam top as the original table?
Looks great.
Chuck

Chuck, I am only going to use two inches of foam for the top and not the two inches plus the one inch low density this time. The facing boards are in place with screws and now I will remove them, sand smooth, stain, re-install, and then start cutting foam.

Here's the plan view. The bottom of the plan is Phase II.


I think you will be surprised to see how I connect the existing track to the new without much down time. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] The idea came to me after working on the Berea Grade Crossing three years ago. BTW, there is a hidden access hatch beneath the mountain.

[pbjwilson]

The layout I've been working on the last couple weeks. It goes along a countertop, wraps around a pole and through a doorway, into my office with the trains on the wall, and tunnels trough the wall back to the countertop. Hope the pictures give you an idea of this.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Here's newest addition to layout. MTH trolley. Very nice

[Anonymous]

Good morning all. Really nice pics today..

Here's a dilemma.....With only one track ahead, who goes first ????

[Blueberryhill RR]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Buckeye Riveter

QUOTE: Originally posted by Blueberryhill RR

Buckeye...That has really come a long way, since I saw it last. Are you going with the same styrofoam top as the original table?
Looks great.
Chuck

Chuck, I am only going to use two inches of foam for the top and not the two inches plus the one inch low density this time. The facing boards are in place with screws and now I will remove them, sand smooth, stain, re-install, and then start cutting foam.

Here's the plan view. The bottom of the plan is Phase II.


I think you will be surprised to see how I connect the existing track to the new without much down time. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] The idea came to me after working on the Berea Grade Crossing three years ago. BTW, there is a hidden access hatch beneath the mountain.

Very nice plan, Buckeye. That ought to be fun to operate.

[waltrapp]

All these pictures of 'adding on' and expanding and all I have left are pictures on 2005 [:(][:(][:(]







Tom, I swear you keep rebuilding every week! Nice pictures of scenes that I don't recall seeing you post before.

- walt

[tmcc man]

Here are my sanded heavyweight passenger cars, here are the progress pics.

The combine


The observation.


My new book

[csxt30]

Wow & Boy Oh Boy, you guys really have some great layouts !! Here's some pics of my new MTH motorcycles & my new Atlas Special Edition Conrail caboose !




Rear mkr. lights flash, plus lots of details, just no smoke !

[tmcc man]

John, that caboose is gorgeous. If I find one at a good price, I will re-paint it, and re letter it for Lehigh Valley. Maybe 2 another for my Seaboard C420

[pbjwilson]

Added a backdrop today. The idea is to give the effect of a night sky.





John - beautiful caboose. Conrail blue has never looked better.

[csxt30]

Thanks Paul ! Nice backdrop too ! I never thought of a night time one, but with house lights off & just a lot of layout lights, etc, that would be really nice !

[FJ and G]

Nice photos/layout progress, all; particularly biased towards Santa Fe (Pigseye locomotives).

Visited my buddy's layout yesterday. He grew up in NY in 50s and recreated the harbor scene and others on his NYC toy train layout. I'll have more fotos up later but busy now at work so here's a small sample of one:



Oh, forgot to mention.

He's sort of details sensitive guy and wants everything to be perfect. Even put barnacles on the pilings; that level of detail! He has a bunch of seagulls on the dock and I mentioned that he needs bird droppings. He looked kinda hurt and said darned if I didn't forget that. I'm sure he's doing droppings as we speak.

[Jumijo]

Love the photos! Tom has a lot going on at his farm. My daughter and I worked on landscaping our small layout's farm yesterday. Almost done.

Paul, nice countertop layout. Love the night sky background. A refreshing change! Also, I'll bet the smoke shows up better against the dark background.

Jim

[laz 57]

Nice pics GIZ!
laz57

[ChiefEagles]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pigseyes



Good morning all. Really nice pics today..

Here's a dilemma.....With only one track ahead, who goes first ????

I'm bigger than you are kid, move over. [;)]

[1688torpedo]

Nice Layout Photo's Everyone. Dwayne- Like your prewar trains & they are displayed nicely.Tim- Looks like the Big Yellow & Red Santa-Fe wins.[;)][:)]. Colin- Good Luck with your repainting. Take Care.

[FJ and G]

As promised, here are more. Wait, who's that knocking on the door??

Why it's BB the beagle!

[FJ and G]

OK, I posted some O stuff so apologies but asking permission to post some G stuff as well...at least you can see his aluminum bridgework which may interest one or 2 folks here.


Ben, whose handle is BennysRR2, lives atop a hill overlooking Amish farmland in Lebanon County, Pa. The hill gets quite a breeze. On Saturday when I visited him, the wind was whipping up so much that the only train that would stay on the track without blowing away was a colorful ACL RS-3



Some koi have taken up residence in the layout's pond. Hey, if you get bored watching trains, you can always go fishing! Just be sure to return them, as Ben doesn't like the idea of guests eating his fish.

Notice Ben's engineering skills with his trademark aluminum bridge. He apparently used a lot of trigonometry and other types of math to get the curves just right. And even with the strong wind, the bridgework does not sway one bit. I took a closeup photo of the construction to copy.





Ben has a giant indoor layout as well that perfectly complements his wall of trains (top shelf is the actual running train, which goes all around the top of his basement.

Notice all of the Hershey's trains, some of which are handpainted? Why so many? Well, Hershey, Pa., is a stonesthrow away from his house for one. Also, Ben retired from Hershey's plant, working in the syrup department. What a sweet job!





Moving again outside, we see that Ben makes use of common materials for the layout. Take this chimney flu, which makes a nice tunnel. Many of his structures are indoors being refurbished in time for the spring running. He favors the low-cost bird houses. He simply plugs up the holes and uses them as buildings, as shown here. The birds are not too fond of him closing up their dwellings, however.





A couple of points of interest on the layout; one of a mine that had a cave-in due to some rodent activity. Also, note the covered bridge. Covered bridges are not just a New England thing. There are several in Ben's neck of the woods as well.





An overview of a portion of the layout does not do the layout justice because the many hundreds of flowers are not in bloom. To see Ben's layout at its best, one would need to return in the spring on a day that's not too windy. We like to make fun of N scale trains blowing over at a mere sneeze, but G scale stuff can blow over too, when Mother Nature breathes too hard.