Weekend Photo Fun: 18, 19, 20

[New Haven I-5]

 Thanks! That was taken before a monsoon hit.

[twhite]

 Should I enter this photo in a contest?  Any comments?

New Haven--

YES!! 

I like it!

Tom

[4-6-6-4 Challenger]

Thanks for the comments.  I know I have been talking about starting it for quite some time but finally got every together and have an idea that will work with that space I have.

Kyle

[New Haven I-5]

 Should I enter this photo in a contest?  Any comments?

[simon1966]

Here is a visiting Reefer getting spotted at the mine complex, delivering some perishable supplies.  The mine crew must be getting some better fare for a change?

 

[Packers#1]

Aggro- Great weathering. i'm surprised the car can even roll, LOL.

4-6-6-4: Finally! Some benchwork. Great job.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Nice work on the benchwork.  As to the wall-plug, you could hide it with a scenic backdrop if you don't plan on using it.

I did the same thing with a light switch that I never use. Just put the backdrop right over it. 

[twhite]

4-6-6-4--

Nice work on the benchwork.  As to the wall-plug, you could hide it with a scenic backdrop if you don't plan on using it.  If you do plan on using it, just extend the backdrop out the width of the plug.  It should work. 

Nice work!  I like your Burlington reefer--those BREX reefers always looked good!

 

Tom

[4-6-6-4 Challenger]

FINALLY! some benchwork.  I am going to be adding another 5ft on it next weekend.

What would you do to hide the plug-in I cant put a building on it because that is going to be a bridge right there.  I was thinking of making a sandbar and put some large trees on the sandbar to hide it.  Any other ideas

Here is a new fruit growers express CB&Q reefer

[jasperofzeal]

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Nicely done.  Why does it have your name as reporting marks?

[twhite]

Just some silly stuff this weekend.  We had a post about 'pets on the layout', so here's a couple. 

My best buddy Don and his Great Dane 'Fido' (spelled P-h-y-d-e-a-u-x), who can never pass up the single fire hydrant in Sierra City. 

Meanwhile, me and my cat Lowell up at Bassetts sitting on a pile of ties waiting for a train to watch:  Don took this after we hit the saloon in Sierra City, so it's a little out of focus (so were we, LOL!)

Tom

 

[mike33469]

 

1st attempt at hand laying track in over 25 years.

When i previewed this post thumbnail enlarged now it won't, what went wrong?

[R. T. POTEET]

Boy! It sure took a lot of plaster to create this scene; do they ever plan on painting it?

[Brian M]

We decided to re-model the yard's eastern end on the club layout, and install a small locomotive facility - here's what it looked like this afternoon:

 

The keen-eyed will note my patent method to semi-fix buildings to the ground and/or backscene, inside the locomotive shed in the middle picture. Yes - I use Lego; with the top brick (white) stuck to the side of the building, and the lower brick (blue) stuck to the concrete.  They remain very stable, with no wobble, but can be easily removed - the loco shed straddles two baseboards on a portable layout. The Lego will be disguised soon. 

Brian

[simon1966]

I caught a couple of reefers in a cut heading out of the yard.

[New Haven I-5]

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[Grampys Trains]

Hi Maurice: Thank You!  That is a commercial one from Realistic Backrounds.

[V&AL]

 conrailpolice

you need to call the police and get that guy laying out in the middle of the feild .Looks like the train hit him. He might be hurt or dead.lol hagd

slow train Ed

 

actually you might need t ocall the Center for Disease Control... looks like folks are dropping like flies!!  someting more serious than a loose train might be the cause!

[slow train Ed]

 conrailpolice

you need to call the police and get that guy laying out in the middle of the feild .Looks like the train hit him. He might be hurt or dead.lol hagd

slow train Ed

[0-6-0]

Hello some great stuff here. here is my 120 ton steam crane it's a tichy kit it was a lot of fun to build but kinda hard. I still need a boom car for it . Have a good weekend Frank

 

[Maurice]

Grampy -> sharp looking layout, especially like the backdrop. Is that a commercial one or did you make it yourself?

 

Steemtrayn-> That is Mayfield yard of the O&W, or it was. I believe those cars are gone now as new road went through there. There were some real beauties in there.

[CSXDixieLine]

 

Jamie...I've been here over 30 years, and going to Emory for over 2 years, and I just found it by accident day before yesterday! Glad you got out of the rain. Got a link to the video? ... Rotor

I did not get any video from the station that was good enough to keep. However, here are a couple of videos from the overpass there a couple of months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQW8OkP8l14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNmRSuh1VQ

Should have posted these on the WPF thread for May 23-24-25

Back on topic, I am doing some n-scale mockups of Atlanta depots (Lawrenceville and Tucker) to see how buildings will fit on my layout. No pics yet, maybe next weekend.

Jamie

[loathar]

AggroJones -I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall watching how you do that magic sometime!

[AggroJones]

Time for some before and after....

 

 

[Rotorranch]

I've been taking pics of some of the local train stations lately. I found out there are a couple more, so I'll be looking for them soon.

This is the Emory University Station in downtown Atlanta. It's now a bar & grille called "Dooley's Den", named after Emory's unofficial michievious mascot, a skeleton from science class.

Rotor

Rotor, The Emory station saved my butt from a thunderstorm the other day when I was shooting some CSX video over there! Also just saw some historical pics of the old Seaboard "Silver Comet" making a station stop at Emory. I have been living in ATL for 15 years now and never realized that was an active passenger depot at one time. Jamie

Jamie...I've been here over 30 years, and going to Emory for over 2 years, and I just found it by accident day before yesterday! Glad you got out of the rain. Got a link to the video?

I found this link today while researching the Emory Station. It lists many depots still standing here in Georgia by county. I just found out there is one less than 5 minutes from my house!

www.rrshs.org/Georgia

Rotor

[conrailpolice]

Heres mine for the week

 

[Flashwave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPC9c4i0Lhw

Nothing real major, but a vid I'm dumping on ya's. I may add sound later, including a decoder in it.

[Flashwave]

I guess it is Friday. Ugh.

 

 

What's hauling the Palace Cars?

[myowngod]

Gramps, I love those night shots.

Berlingo, your 4th and 5th shots are amazing!

Here's what I've been working on the past few days.
The first one is a quick, easy, cheap project I made.  This is just a test section to see how it would look.  They're guardrails for roads.  I made them from the figure 8 stirring straws for coffee.  I split them down the middle and glued some I-girder to the back.  I have them paint 3 different ways: a lightly rust section, a newly replaced one, and a heavily rust section.  I want to see how they would look.  I'm going to use these 1st on the club layout around the bridge overpass I've been working on.

Another project I started is the city viaduct from Micro Engineering.  I'll use this on my Dad's layout to represent the high line in Philly.  This proto viaduct is an eclectic mix of bridges.  From plate girder, to towers, to truss, to stone and concrete arches.  I don't know why they used so many types, but it looks cool.

The towers were a breeze to put together, but the girders are a little trickier to assemble.  It is a double track 150' section.  In my version I already have the warren truss bridge, now this girder, and I'll have to find someway of making the stone arches.

I also started to weather the BIG warehouse that is located behind the main yard on my Dad's layout.  I'll post those pix later.

I'm going on vacation for 1-1/2wks. so I might not be able to get them up for awhile.  But it does mean I'll get down to my Dad's a few time to work on the layout.  So when I do get back I'll have a ton of pix and videos.  Stay tuned to my progress thread in my signature below.

[RRTrainman]

Russellville train yard is coming in on time wiring is coming along nicely and ballasting will start soon.