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Sunday Photo Fun 2/26/06
Posted by Kooljock1 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:32 AM
Oooh! Oooh! Mr. Kotter! Can I go first?!?!

New York Central power on the point:



LIONEL Pennsylvania "Baby K4s" power. An original on the left pulling a train of factory weathered "Turn of The Century" reefers, and the re-make from last year on the right, up-graded with TAS cruise, pulling this year's PRR Baby Madison cars:



Let's see yours!

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Posted by dwiemer on Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:00 AM
nice shots jon
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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:19 AM
Jon, you are allowed to be first. Nice pics













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Lets have some fun [:D] [:)] [8D] [:p]
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Posted by Kooljock1 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:24 AM
Come on and sing it Spankybird! "12-20 W-G-A-RRRRR! In your home or car!"

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Posted by csxt30 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:34 AM
Nice pics. everyone! Here are some, of my new Atlas switch tower with the new little HO gooseneck light I added to it and my new WP Caboose, & my NYC cab.



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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:52 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Kooljock1

Come on and sing it Spankybird! "12-20 W-G-A-RRRRR! In your home or car!"

Jon [8D]


Today it is 99.5 FM Country Radio

But you are showing your age, and yes it is a Cleveland Radio Station.

The other one is WELW, AM 1330

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Posted by MartyE on Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:07 AM
Hey Spankybird...

Why don't you have a burning river on your layout? That should heat things up![:D]

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Posted by mitchelr on Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:33 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxt30

Nice pics. everyone! Here are some, of my new Atlas switch tower with the new little HO gooseneck light I added to it and my new WP Caboose, & my NYC cab.




csxt30,

Love that switch tower. The gooseneck really makes it stand out. Excellent work.

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Posted by zwbob on Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:00 AM
Tom- WELW...POLKA RADIO[:D][:D][:D][:D]

Here are some pics of a finished expansion to my layout









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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:04 AM
Nice pics GIZ,

Hers my pic of the LIONELVILLAGE in the back with the Southern Crescent getting ready to depart.

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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:08 AM
QUOTE: by zwbob
Tom- WELW...POLKA RADIO


And home of the Captians (single A team of the Indians). BTW - the radio station is walking distance from my house.

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Posted by csxt30 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:43 AM
Laz : very nice !!
ZW : which water tower do you have ? I just got the # 138, from 1992, has red roof like yours, but from there down on mine seems lighter. Thinking of repainting mine.
SPOUT UP !


SPOUT DOWN !


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Posted by darianj on Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:40 AM
Nice shots everyone. Alway a joy to see.
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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:42 AM
Mornin' All !
Great photos as usual.
zwbob, The first thing I thought of when I saw the photo of the steamer coming out of the the shed was the race horses breaking the starting gate.

For my contribution, this is my Atlas SD-35 making it's debut. [^]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:07 AM
waiting on the Boston & Albany freight


Texas & Pacific about to depart

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:14 AM


Good morning all,

Could spring be in the air??? Saw some swimmers and boaters on the lake this morning.





Dougsagrump, Are you bucking for a membership in OTTS with that engine ?? Does it run as smooth as the Atlas SW 8/9 ??



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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:22 AM
Tim, It is just as smooth as silk and even though it isn't the latest version of RS the sounds are great. I grew up in No. Ky and at one time was a fireman for the B&O so I gravitate towards B&O and any/all of it's various forms in the later years. [^]
After seeing Tim's boaters and swimmers I thought of something that I have never seen on a layout. The folks who base their layouts on the far northern roads, does anybody ever put an "ice-fishing shack" on a frozen lake?[?]

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Posted by tmcc man on Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:40 AM
dougdagrump, that is a very nice SD35. Great pix everybody, very nice job. I want to start a new layout, but have to start raising funds for wider curves, and other things.
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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, February 26, 2006 11:52 AM
Ice Fishing in Spanky's Cove



I think it's Chief



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Posted by mickey4479 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:03 PM
Photo of a spur where I have a barn that I scratch built and a Lionel grain tower. Scenery is still in progress.

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Posted by waltrapp on Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:16 PM
Wow, these are some awful nice pictures. AGAIN.

From my 2005 Christmas layout:





Overall:


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Posted by mickey4479 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:19 PM
Photo of my scratch built ice platform and ice house.

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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:23 PM
Tom, I don't think I would want any fish that he caught. Based on his shack makes you wonder what he's using for bait. [:O] [X-)]

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Posted by mickey4479 on Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:47 PM
Another view fom town area. This is a great thread. I see alot of talent out there and neat trains and layouts.

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Posted by lyle_styles on Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:56 PM
Here are a few pictures of areas on the layout that I had posted questions about.

Hope this turns out today. LOL

This is of the planking I have put across the Truss Bridge alongside the corkroadbed. I may put another run of these plankings on each side yet to make it three wide.



This is one of covering the wires to lockons. I forgot to put in a short section of the Add-a-Tie product opposite the lockon to fill in the gap. Will save that for later though. The lower part of the picture is a portion of the liftout section.



I am going to stop at these two to see if I did this alright. I had saved the pictures (5 x 7) at shutterfly so I hope they are large enough.

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Posted by lyle_styles on Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:02 PM
Oh boy, now what did I do? LOL

I believe I used the right symbols to get these on the page. Not sure why these aren't able to be enlarged.

I'll get it eventually.

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Posted by lyle_styles on Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:10 PM
Another attempt to get this.

I had purchased a chain link fence kit and this is my first section on the layout. The kit was a little tough for me to figure out but when I did it was alot easier for me to do. There is some soldering involved and I haven't done much of that in my life. LOL



I just previewed this one and it shows the link to the picture. The previous pictures, I copied the url before the picture was enlarged and this one I copied the url from the enlarged version. Let's see what happens.

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Posted by lyle_styles on Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:12 PM
Got it finally, I had used [ when I should have been using ]

Sorry about all that.

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Posted by lyle_styles on Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:15 PM
Here is a redo of the first two pictures.






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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:31 PM
Today I am painting an engine shell making a burned out K Line switcher into a C&O dummy.

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