Sunday Photo Fun 11-19-06

[wrmcclellan]

A couple of pics for this week.

First the old and the new on the club layout.

Then one of my favorites, my PW Texas Special.

Dave - thanks for letting us know why Santa won't be visiting this year.

Don - my dad had a buddy at work that bragged about his $7,000 hunting dog. My dad, being the rather frugal man that he was commented who the heck would pay $7,000 for a dog? The reply was he didn't pay $7,000 for that dog, he traded two $3,500 cats for it.

[dbaker48]

Went to the Cal Stewart meet in Pasadena yesterday.  An interesting side light and story unfolded.

The meet itself was nothing what I was expecting, Cal Stewart used to be huge, with lots of new items, and small specialty business represented.  Oh wellll

This was an interesting curiosity...  a $253,000 Train !!!!!

Wasn't for sale, just display...













I talked with the owner, and of course he so extremely proud of the purchase as he is the "3rd owner", and the boxes is what he was really excited about.  I didn't ask if had them validated as original sense there are so many reproduction boxes available.  Nor did I ask if he had seen the 4 repro 20th Century sets on the trading floor.  When I came back by the display 45 minutes later he was in a huge argument with one of the staff, it seems that the local news station was covering the event, and the reporter interviewed a show staff representative, and DID NOT talk to the actual owner.  The owner was somewhat disappointed that he didn't get the publicity.

IMHO, I certainly would prefer any of the layouts, shown on the other posts here than even have this  anywhere around.  Actually, I think the value was $253k, only to him, cant imagine anyone buying it from him for 10% of what he paid.  Maybe 1%.

Doug W - Did you make there?  I was looking for ya,

[waltrapp]

That's one TOUGH set of pictures to have to try to follow up on!  Nice!!!

The Ghost of Christmases Past keeps hinting about some other visitor, but not yet.  I sense something's in the air pretty soon though!  Back to 2005 we went last night.

- Happy Thanksgiving Guys! - walt

[perry1060]

Great pics all. Here's my contribution...

[daan]

A real railroad accident.. luckily it was only candy and not uranium or liquid gas

The mountains are growing, an eagle has already build his nest on top of it..

The male is searching for food, I guess apart from some coal and sawdust there is not much to find yet.

In the city there are some laterns installed. The wiring will be behind the buildings, so the wires to the laterns will later be embedded under the street.

On the parking area of Kennsington station there is also light.

And of course a railroad crossing with lights.

The steamer runs through the valley in construction, scaring the only animal around..

[FJ and G]

Visited my sisters in Lancaster; stopped off and visited John (jefelectric) in Elizabethtown, Pa., and also some trains in Lancaster and Gettysburg. Got lots more photos of John's layout I'll put up later this week as well as some of his very interesting toy train techniques. On a later date, hoping to visit Mitch in Gettysburg.

 

Here's a couple shots of a railroad going thru Gettysburg (CSX).

 

Gettysburg's New Oxford station in distance

 

 

Gettysburg cabin car

 

 

In Lancaster, I spotted this Lionel-like coal dumping pier. Went under the pier to see how the coal is dumped to awaiting trucks below the pier.

 

 

 

Here's some shots of John's layout, where a big disaster occurred yesterday.

 

Engineer Santa is driving the candy express and has opened the throttle full speed ahead, to deliver candy to those boys and girls who were not naughty. Actually, he's going faster than the posted speed limits.

 

 

 

Rounding the curve, Santa's train rides on one rail for a split second and then topples over, spilling candy everywhere along the right of way

 

 

 

 

This year, Santa won't be coming down the chimney to fill the stockings, as he's layed up in a hospital in a full body cast.

[spankybird]