Along with the 4th of July also comes the local parade!
I am a person with a very active inner child. This is why my wife loves me so. Willoughby, Ohio - the home of the CP & E RR. OTTS Founder www.spankybird.shutterfly.com
Here's a Marx 666 I recently gave away. The cab number made me uneasy (boogah boogah).
A post war set of passenger cars disappears into a tunnel at Mount Meenow.
A post war crane car and a log dumper sit on a siding on the Jumijo.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
spankybird your parades are just fantastic
this is also crane day on the layout
Here is a picture of the Franklin
Load of coal
Sawmill in action
Drum loader in action
Rounding the bend
A couple of shots of Back Bay Station.
My 2025 with new rubber stamped silver cab numbers.
Spanky: Great Parade!
Raymans: Beautiful crane! The lights on the front are great, and the 2460 is awesome.
Sturgeon-Phish: Who made the Monon gondola?? The osterich is the best!
Jaabat: Nicely done!
Living vicariously this week,
Kurt
jaabat wrote: My 2025 with new rubber stamped silver cab numbers.
Jaabat- beautiful 2025 i am envious tell mine returns. Thats reall nice i love the 2025. I had to send mine out to someone who knows what they are doing. I cant wait to see mine run the rail's. Very nice job on it you done.
Very nice pics as always to everyone, love them all
Just playing with some signs.............
Some really great pictures today, Everyone !! Don't really have anything today but Chuck : wonder if you'll deliver some milk here tomorrow morning ?!! 2 gallons please, 2% !! Dairy looks great & maybe you can throw in some Ice cream sandwiches too ? !!
Thanks, John
Nice pictures again! specially the crane and back bay station are great!
My contribution:
Serious power in the eagle canyon..
Ans sd26 and Geep emerging from a tunnel in the desert..
An Alco rumbling across the trestle bridge at forrest road.. (landscape not finished yet)
A berkshire crossing the small bridge in the wetlands on a hot summer afternoon..
The berkshire waiting for departure in Kennsington station.
As usual, very nice pictures guys.
raymans, I just love wreck cranes. Have 4 of varios sizes. Is your's the Lionel TMCC version?
Here is a picture of Bennet Leven's E7s comming around the Horseshoe Curve yesterday.
The Reading Historical and Technical Society HO layout at Reading Days at the PA RR Museum on Thursday.
This was one of the smoothest HO modular layouts I have ever seen. Didn't see one glitch the whole time I was watching.
Guess that is enough for one day.
Blueberryhill RR wrote: Just playing with some signs.............
Chuck, Shouldn't those signs have BLUE lettering?
John, yes TMCC w/sounds in the crane car
I really enjoy this crane
Girder Bridge
Cost for RTV to make mold: $7
Cost for each 12” section of Resin: $2
Time to make master: 4 hours, including making rivets on cardstock, gluing coffee stir sticks and sealing
Time to make resin copies: about 4 minutes to mix and pour and wait time of 1 hour to cure
Directions: use spray paint of color of bridge you want to spray in mold. Acts as mold release and paint embeds into the casting. Attach girder to wood with wire nails;
Mistake: used what I thought was smooth wood but grain pattern came out in master and castings. To correct the mistake, simply made small batch of RTV and skimmed over the surface to fill in the wood grain impressions. RTV sticks to RTV so RTV repairs can only be made with RTV as nothing on earth sticks to dried RTV.
Note the wood grain; I later sanded this casting down and corrected the RTV mold
2 castings in place (2 feet)
Curly spokes (handmade)
Started with Bachmann wheel casting (casting easier to carve than metal so master is casting), scales to 20 inches in 7/8. Used drill and needle files to make curlies. Didn’t use template. Simply freehand drew curlies on the wheel.
jefelectric wrote: Blueberryhill RR wrote: Just playing with some signs............. Chuck, Shouldn't those signs have BLUE lettering?
Hmmmmmm.....Now there's a thought.
Hi all,
Great shots!!
Here's some very very poor images of a old and forgotton layout. It no longer exists, but I thought it might be fun to post some images.
Website:
http://home.mchsi.com/~ironmaster1960/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
Just a couple more from yesterday's trip.
REA Express Reefer at the Musuem. Cars are positioned on turntable lead tracks so you can't get very good pics as there is not enough room between them.
Weaver Model of the above purchased at the Museum Store. The colors are not a match but are actually closer than these pictures would indicate. Besides no one who has not seen the original would not have a clue.
Blueberryhill RR wrote: jefelectric wrote: Blueberryhill RR wrote: Just playing with some signs............. Chuck, Shouldn't those signs have BLUE lettering? Hmmmmmm.....Now there's a thought.
Chuck, you should get a job working for MTH as a spellchecker! Dairy is spelled slightly different. Speaking of dairies, stop milking it and get some work done! Ok, I'll stop this udder nonesense and moove along now, and that's no bull.
Jim
jefelectric wrote:
I didn't know that they used the Tiemken trucks on boxcars. That is what they are right?
Nice photo.
Like always, great pictures and great motivation for all. The detail is dang near painful to look at sometimes!
My wife and I just got back from St. Louis where we had a great time. Another visit to the Museum of Transportation. The shots, not too well done I'm afraid, are of my favorite units there. They are suppose to be restoring that UP Centennial eventually but a coat of paint right now wouldn't hurt! Easier said than done and everything costs money I know. Later we ended up in the Hobby Station in Kirkwood Missouri. Wow, this is one of the nicest hobby shops I have ever been in. The last photo is of my first Lionel steam engine; an old 1615 0-4-0 goat purchased at the Hobby Station! I already love this fellow. I enjoy the "E" unit hum and it looks at home on the layout and pulls quite respectfully.
My layout looks the same so you will have to settle for the real thing. The wife and youngest daughter went bike riding, I went train watching. This Norfork Southern was heading East with just a small load. You can get real close to the tracks at the point I took this photograph. This is in Mineral Point, Pa.
lionroar88 wrote:marxalot,What is the UP 900081? That is an odd front end for an engine... love the pic of the TURBO Train!
It is a rotary snowplow. Some facts:
History: UP 900081 Builder: UP Omaha Shops, 1966, no serial #Power: Diesel, 3000 hp (built as diesel)Status: Display (retired & donated 1994)
That TURBO train is great. And I like the way they have it sitting right next to this old, old non-streamlined locomotive.
Great Photos
Wayray
kpolak wrote:Spanky: Great Parade!Raymans: Beautiful crane! The lights on the front are great, and the 2460 is awesome.Sturgeon-Phish: Who made the Monon gondola?? The osterich is the best!Jaabat: Nicely done! Living vicariously this week, Kurt
The Monon is a 24127 made by Gilbert '61-'65. Thanks for noticing the osterich. There are several "wild" animals roaming the layout.
marxalot wrote: lionroar88 wrote:marxalot,What is the UP 900081? That is an odd front end for an engine... love the pic of the TURBO Train!It is a rotary snowplow. Some facts:History: UP 900081 Builder: UP Omaha Shops, 1966, no serial #Power: Diesel, 3000 hp (built as diesel)Status: Display (retired & donated 1994)That TURBO train is great. And I like the way they have it sitting right next to this old, old non-streamlined locomotive.Jim
I love this Aerotrain!
This pic really is much better than the one that is on the train museum's website. Very nice.
Jefelectric, nice photos of the musuem in Strasburg PA and the REA Xpress car!
Renovo PRR, what major city is Mineral Point near in PA?
If you want to see some Reading rolling stock that didn't get into Conrail or CSX go to Temple PA, Tuckerton Road betwen routes 61 & 222 business, also go to Leesport on route 61 and turn at the light(Center St.) and go down about a quarter mile you will see old PA trains and some Reading Lines diesels and freight cars sitting near the railroad crossing near the Schykill River.
Lee F.
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