Weekend Photo Fun!

[TrainFreak409]

Well...Since I don't have school today, my weekend has started early! So, this morning we completed our Christmas tree by adding some trains underneath it. Of course, I had to get pictures, so here they are. We are running a Lionel Phantom III with a matching four car set. As well as a Bachmann On30 North Pole & Southern Express.[:D]







[:D][:D][:D]

[DigitalGriffin]

Gosh darn it, I want to post my coaling tower and I don't have my web account yet!

Does anybody know a good free site that allows me to link photos without downloading software to do it?

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DigitalGriffin

Gosh darn it, I want to post my coaling tower and I don't have my web account yet!

Does anybody know a good free site that allows me to link photos without downloading software to do it?

I usually use Image Shack, at www.imageshack.us , but there are others as well, like Photo Bucket, www.photobucket.com I think is the website.

You could always get a Rail Images account, www.railimages.com , but that may take a day because you need to email them.

[MisterBeasley]

Wow, that Phantom is cool.

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DigitalGriffin

Gosh darn it, I want to post my coaling tower and I don't have my web account yet!

Does anybody know a good free site that allows me to link photos without downloading software to do it?

If all else fails email it to me and I'll post it to my URL so we can see it.

[loathar]

I like that Phantom. It looks like a future space train. Photobuckets real easy. No software and you'll be posting in less than a half hour. They automatically put all the code on your pics that you need to post them.

[howmus]

While waiting for an order to arrive from Walther's at my LHS (3 weeks and holding), I have decided to put together some old vehicles that I have had sitting on the shelf for the last year or so. I tackled the Jordan kits first. (&*^%%$#$%%^) Man, talk about small parts. I'm using a 5x optivisor to even see some of them. Then you have to actually hold them in place without shaking or anything while they set up.....

Definitely not my best work, but next time I will have some new ways of doing them (like not using solvent to glue them together and them spray them with dull cote to get rid of the shiny spots so that the glass is ruined!) Oh well......



Can you imagine trying to find your car in the Mall parking lot in 1925? "Well just look for a black one with spoke wheels....."

[railroadyoshi]

Scott, awesome!!!
We,ve had our tree up for some time, but I still havent put tracks around!

I've put all the structures back on my layout so now it looks fantastic, but I don't feel like trying to find my camera...hehehe...I had better get it done.

[ARTHILL]

Digital Griffin, I use photobucket and it works fine. It must be easy because I learned to use it in about three trys. TF409, nice tree. I am learning to look forward to your posts. They are pretty cool.

[TrainFreak409]

More Christmas trains! My older brother has come over for a Christmas party we're having tomorrow, and he brought his train. He isn't a big train enthusiast, but I'm working on him.[;)] This is his MTH Bantam S2 Turbine.[tup] (I sold it to him when I worked at Purkeys)






The second picture is mine and his favorite.[8D]

[cheese3]

Nice pics scott!!!!!! all though your brother doesn't really know me tell him i said hi.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

More Christmas trains! My older brother has come over for a Christmas party we're having tomorrow, and he brought his train. He isn't a big train enthusiast, but I'm working on him.[;)] This is his MTH Bantam S2 Turbine.[tup] (I sold it to him when I worked at Purkeys)






The second picture is mine and his favorite.[8D]

MTH makes some fine trains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

[twhite]

Been working on the Champion Mine in the South Yuba Canyon for the past millenium, finally got it installed, and now have to install the Kentucky Mine in Sierra City. Anyway, here's a shot of my L-131 pulling a freight with the Champion in the distance--the clearance is so tight in the canyon that the tracks have to squeeze between the mine buildings and the #2 shaft entrance.

Hopefully have some pictures of the Kentucky Mine tomorrow or so.
Tom

[ac4400fan]

Tom That Looks great! Nice job my friend [bow]

Carl...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ac4400fan

Tom That Looks great! Nice job my friend [bow]

Carl...

What he said [tup] !

[cwclark]

great pics!...still working on the refinery...scratch built 3 superheated steam boilers, a flare and this cooling tower...the cooling tower shrouds are old nyquil cold medicine dosage cups...works for me!...eat your heart out plastruct!..LOL....chuck

[Budliner]

sweet

[ac4400fan]

Cwclark,Your really comming along on that looking real good! cant wait to see it on the layout

Carl...

[cheese3]

ok heres a pic from me...

CSX GP-40 idle in the Clinton Yard

I will have some more up later

[trainfreek92]

great pics everyone. just got my Ho under the tree this morning!!!

[Anonymous]

Dear Scott,

I enjoyed seeing your trains under the tree. I'm a "bit" older then you and have never had a tree under the xmas tree. I'm looking forward to this being the first year and putting a train set together for the first time xmas morning. :-) Thank you for your enjoyable pictures. I am very envious of you having picked up trains in your youth. I feel like I've missed out having just begun myself.

Happy Holidays!
Tess

[FastTracks]

Hi All,

A few weeks ago I added a new "Picture of the day" section to the front page of my Port Kelsey weblog. A new picture is added every morning (well, almost every morning) and will contain mostly railroad related pictures I have taken, and the occasional image from others.

I have found over the years that the sites that are the most interesting are ones that change often, and the addition of a picture of the day should help keep the blog fresh in interesting (I hope) I think it might be of interest to others too, have a peek....

http://www.port-kelsey.com/index.php?cat=18

Here is a sample image, to "whet your appetite".....


Inside the cab of one of CN 5700's. For some reason this forum resizes the images, and doesn't always make the full size one clickable, no idea why. The full size version is on the blog if this one doesn't work- Tim

I also posted this message on the main forum, if you have seen it already, please forget that you read this...[^]

[DigitalGriffin]

Here's the start to my servicing terminal
She needs a little touchup paint and some weathering.

Next step, 9 stall Modern Roundhouse!
~D

Here's the direct link to the unresized image (64K)
http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/1922/coaltower17kw.jpg

[ac4400fan]

Nice Pics ,Ok heres a couple of Sleepy Canyon,Im working with these Basil trees i found There working out great



A look down the tracks with the trees on the left



And a look into the river valley finally poured the water

Carl...

[jeffers_mz]

In between bouts of Christmas shopping, I've been working on a trestle for a two track mainline over the Animas River. The last few pieces of track were ordered from Walthers via my LHS and supposed to be in Tuesday, but the holidays seem to have slowed things down, and until that track's laid I can't proceed with foam, so I thought I'd work on the bridges instead.

This is the jig I'm using to get the ties laid so the ends line up straight:



...and here I've got one of my son's Christmas presents doing some of the heavy lifting:



The rails are just sitting in place on the ties, unspiked, but I did finish laying the last of the ties earlier today. A little sanding, notch out the longitudinal braces, add the guard timbers and she's ready for paint.

[tmcc man]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

Well...Since I don't have school today, my weekend has started early! So, this morning we completed our Christmas tree by adding some trains underneath it. Of course, I had to get pictures, so here they are. We are running a Lionel Phantom III with a matching four car set. As well as a Bachmann On30 North Pole & Southern Express.[:D]







[:D][:D][:D]

Scott, how much did you get the Phantom for. I think it is TMCC equipped, correct?? I want to pick one up for my O gauge layout, but have not been able to locate one.

[tmcc man]

Scott, the MTH set he has, is it Proto2, with DCS? I had that, but the board went so I sold it.

[Anonymous]

I scored in bigtime at the greenburg
A B&M spectrum doodlebug for only 20$(normaklly75$ and its discontinued)
also 20pieces of track for only 10$

[Texas Zepher]

It was Christmas Open House today and most crews pulled primo assignments like the "Frontiersman" crack passenger train, or guest trains like the Superchief, and California Zephyr, strings of reefers full of christmas figgy pudding and egg-nog, loads of flat cars with Christmas trees and wreaths.... But everyone was not so lucky. The local packing plant still had to be serviced, so trundling along the back of skid row we go, with stock cars to be set out and then cleaned, and an empty flat car to pick up a rusted out steam boiler. The crack trains got all the good caboose. Well, at least the coal stove is close to everything and helps keep out the single digit temperatures.

[howmus]

Got a few more of the vehicles I've been assembling. This one is a Diamond Reo Tank Truck kit by WS. A bit easier than the Jordon kits but still frustrating at times. Lots of flashing to remove and quite a bit of fitting and triming parts before gluing. I spent most of today on this one and it still needs some touch up painting.