Sunday Photo Fun 10-29-06

[Frank53]

Pery:

I am just blown away by the quality of your layout. The work is just exceptional.

As an aside, the tubular track rocks.

 

[mitchelr]

Chuck, Very interesting. I was just thinking the other day about how many leafless trees I was seeing. Seems the norm to have leaves on the trees for Halloween.Cold weather and lots of rain here in Illinois. But this is sounding more like the coffee pot. Nice comparison photos!

Some pre-war talk on the forum lately. Here is a redone Am. Flyer.

 

Paul - Gorgeous Flyer - show us some more next week   I love those pre-war trains.

Mitch

[FJ and G]

thanks on the bridge info. I should have known. Pratt has fewer diagonals. Would be interesting to see a strength test between the two. I think Warren would win.

[Brutus]

Great pics everybody!

[perry1060]

Web,

My layout is definitely a tight fit

 

 

[palallin]

Friend's layout is progressing nicely too:

A 1941-era Alco RS-1 engine, sporting Washington Terminal livery, crosses the double-track Pratt truss bridge that now spans the new harbor on the Port of New York & New Jersey Railroad. Construction, painting, and weathering of the bridge was a fair-sized project!

someone on this forum suggested he change the water color to match scale scenery. I brought this up to him but he likes it as is. Hey, it's his railroad! :-)

 

Just an FYI:  Atlas has its label wrong.  That bridge is a Warren truss.  FWIW, pics of its prototype can be found here:

http://bridges.midwestplaces.com/mo/butler/mengo/

[pbjwilson]

Excellent Work Gentlemen, Great pictures from everyone. I enjoyed seeing tha MTH 49er. How does it run? I have the same loco and tender and the four passenger cars. So far they have yet to hit the rails, still in the boxes. I see the passenger cars on ebay from time to time. After seeing those pictures maybe I should start looking for the two car add on set? Thanks again to everyone for posting cool pix! Kevin T.

Kevin,

The 49er is a beaut. Runs real nice and the color combo cant be beat.

A train like that cant waste away in a box! Open 'em up and let 'em roll!

 

[Anonymous]

Hello all. After a exhausting day at a swap meet and show, Im finally able to post on Photo Fun. I sure got a "steal" this time. I got a 397 coal loader, in excellent condition, just a bit dirty, for only $25 hehehe

New workbench im making for repairs...

A pic or two of my layout showing it up on its legs (for visual guessing on things, will be diassembled again so I can take it into my room) And using what Tom used, the FleckStone paint. ITS EXACTLY how I wanted my layout's roadbed to look like!! I used gotham grey. My can jammed up though, so I will have to send for a new one from Plastikote.

roadbed

NUTS, time to go to school again !!!

Jerry 

[waltrapp]

BuckeyRiveter asked "Walt, I'm glad you posted because I have wanted to ask you about your Christmas layout.  Is it in sections that come apart?   What is it built on?"

Riveter: I will be posting some in-progress pictures later this year that I took while building 2006's version.  Someone suggested it so I started taking pictures from day one this year.

Basically, it's a floor layout.  I lay blueboard on the carpet with Homasote on top of that.

"Is in in sections that come apart?" - Well, the layout is 100% temporary - EVERY year.  I re-design a new track plan every year.  I pull up the Homasote adn blue board and store them til next year.  But all of the track, wires, scenery, structures, everything, is removed and boxed til next year.  Nothing is ever glued down, not even the ballast on the track.

That might account for why it takes me 6 weeks to set it up and another 6 to tear it down, huh?

I love the time that I spend planning a new layout from February to July each year.  Never get tired of the layout this way!

- walt

[FJ and G]

Friend's layout is progressing nicely too:

The factory is a weathered and detailed MTH product. The warehouse on the right is a kit-bashed Lionel product



A 1941-era Alco RS-1 engine, sporting Washington Terminal livery, crosses the double-track Pratt truss bridge that now spans the new harbor on the Port of New York & New Jersey Railroad. Construction, painting, and weathering of the bridge was a fair-sized project!

someone on this forum suggested he change the water color to match scale scenery. I brought this up to him but he likes it as is. Hey, it's his railroad! :-)

[AKKevinT]

Excellent Work Gentlemen,

Great pictures from everyone. I enjoyed seeing tha MTH 49er. How does it run?

I have the same loco and tender and the four passenger cars. So far they have yet to hit the rails, still in the boxes.

I see the passenger cars on ebay from time to time. After seeing those pictures maybe I should start looking for the two car add on set?

Thanks again to everyone for posting cool pix!

Kevin T.

[darianj]

Great pic's everyone!

[webenda]

Great pictures guys. I enjoyed every one.

perry1060,

I really like your western layout. Regarding the first photo, was the bridge wider after the locomotive squeezed through?

[jonadel]

John,

I'll  look for those cars.  I also like your idea about a long consist of short coal cars, hadn't thought of that, then I could use my Lionel coal loader that I've had for 30 years that I bought at a flea market!

Jon

[jefelectric]

Good evening,  Great pictures everyone.

Jon, If you want short log cars the Industrial Rail cars are nice.  I had three from before the time that Atlas bought them out and they were nice.  I don't know if the Atlas are available yet or not.

Here are a few pics of my new K-Line Reading Passenger cars.

 

 

 

 

 

I want to add a few more passengers, need more revenue on my RR.

 

[thatboy37]

nice pics guys.

 

[FJ and G]

chuck,

before/after photo is tracks before and tracks gone? hard to see.

finished over 30 feet of bridgework in a 24 hour period, including ties

[Buckeye Riveter]

Walt, I'm glad you posted because I have wanted to ask you about your Christmas layout.  Is it in sections that come apart?   What is it built on?  I have always thought it was one of the best Christmas layouts posted on the forum.

[waltrapp]

WOW, these are some phenomenal pictures of some beautiful layouts this week!!  Again!

The Ghost of Christmases Past DID indeed visit me again last night and I can again share some of what I recollect dreaming (?) from 2004

Some over and under action:

Models of Family Members' houses that I built:

Overall shot:

- walt

[railfan23]

Here is my reccent York purchase

[mitchelr]

Jon,

The Shay and the Climax look super on your layout.  I think the shorty lumber cars or a coal drag would look great too.

Mitch

[pbjwilson]

Chuck, Very interesting. I was just thinking the other day about how many leafless trees I was seeing. Seems the norm to have leaves on the trees for Halloween.Cold weather and lots of rain here in Illinois. But this is sounding more like the coffee pot. Nice comparison photos!

Some pre-war talk on the forum lately. Here is a redone Am. Flyer.

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Great train pics, guys. Here is an interesting comparison:

October 30, 2005....

October 29, 2006..........

Chuck

[ChiefEagles]

Buckeye, with all of those passengers waiting, you would think they would stop.

BTW: want to see the pictures at almost full screen, hit reply right over the ones you want to enlarge.  Then use the back "button" and go to next section.  Actually larger than clicking on the picture.

Great job guys.

[jonadel]

I hooked up some log cars to my new additions and shot a few new angles.  I'm going to order some smaller log cars for both the Shay & Climax within the next few days, need to make sure it's what I want.

In front of the lumber yard on the main line


A bit closer


The Shay leaving town


Jon

[perry1060]

 

 

 

 

[pbjwilson]

Havent been able to locate a set of 49er passenger cars, so I put together a 49er freight.

And remembering warmer days. This past summer camping on lake Ontario.

Great pictures everyone!

[FJ and G]

Thought I'd take 5 minutes break from bridge building to post some progress photos, then back to building. This is yesterday's work and today, might get 30 feet of bridge built total. Then working on another 30' long concrete bridge. Will keep some progress photos going and will post some of my buddy's 3-rail photos tomorrow...

got nearly half down, tho wood ties and rails not yet spiked and footers need some sheathing and tiny rails need to be placed between the bridge and its footing, but here's the progress thus far (it's just layed there for the photo and for measuring purposes). Used thin rebar from Lowe's (approx. gauge 12)







BB the beagle watches from nearby brambles

[csxt30]

Great pictures & plenty of smoke on Tom's layout !! Those smoke units just keep on tickin" !!

Glad Amtrak is running on time, it looks like !! That is one good lookin' passenger train !!  

Thanks, John