Here is an oldie from the files to kick things off this week. I really enjoyed last weeks offerings. Keep up the good work gang.
From the N Scale Forum: There were a few strange happenings out west in the late 50s. Here the station master at Riordan is frozen in shock as a string of PRR hoppers and a caboose clear the station under special orders. "What's next?" he asks himself. "Will I be seeing KCS, NS, or CN through Flagstaff?" ZOOM for full size More strange sightings to come!
Russell Great looking scene! Pete What a cool looking scene! While on vacation I caught these two wanderers parked in the train station in Orlando.
Here is another picture from vacation. The now over two hour late northbound Silver Meteor is arriving in Orlando on July 18, 2005. I just had to sneak this one in. Here is one from the beginning of the vacation:
During our vacation in Orlando we found this little gem tucked away on International Drive. It shares it quarters with a sightseeing helicopter tour. The only name I could find for the place was Model Train Exhibit. It was an indoor G-Scale layout. The place was huge with about 5 different trains running along with several trolleys. Some of the bridges towered over the walkways. Many of the trains took several minutes to make their circuits.
SNFF 7 24 05 Hi, all, I've been really busy, so not time to even organize most of the National Train Show photos. Regardless, still making a little time to continue to ballast the Kato Unitrack on my little 4 x 4 Santa Fe layout. It's painstaking work, takes time, but it'll be worth it when it's done. Here I'm *very* carefully doing turnout, one very tiny section at a time, to make sure I don't glue it shut: Here's the progress, we've made our way all the way around the Prieta Grade module's cosmetic curve: Another angle: Finally, visited Detroit on business this past week, and went to the Henry Ford Museum specifically to see the C&O Allegheny 2-6-6-6 locomotive. Here's the view as you approach down the aisle, she is big: And a side view of the cab. The loco is so big that shots are hard to make: Enjoy, all! [ July 23, 2005, 12:27 PM: Message edited by: atsf_arizona ]
Tompm, I've been there! It's a short walk from the convention center. Don't they have helocopter rides as well or is that next door! Anyway, cool display!
John: That Allegeheny is big! I started to say larger than an N scale layout, but it is larger than most any layout! Nice work on the Kato track, too. I have started doing that myself...slow and steady.
You would think it was supposed to be the Santa Fe or something with all the pink ballast. On large locomotives in museums, I know what you mean. I have run into the same thing trying to get photos of the SP cab forward in Sacramento, the DM&IR Yellowstone in Duluth and the N&W 1218 in Roanoke. However, it is still cool to have these big fellows preserved. Thanks for sharing.
Had some spare cabooses to recycle. Put them up on blocks and rusted them a little. More weathering will put these spares to good use! And continuing work on the Texaco pipeline terminal. The Texaco office is the bottom portion of one of those 88 cent Bachmann buildings. [ July 24, 2005, 03:16 PM: Message edited by: sapacif ]
That big ol' G stuff is really cool, I wish I had room for that size! Operationally I hope to never see this, but it was fun to lash up all my Purina cars in one train. I would imagine these will be used for outbound shipping someday when I get to that level of ops. Here they can be seen passing Northland Recycling Center and Hallum fuel distributor. Another unfinished project engine on point... And it looks like crazy Ed at the body shop had a few of his buddys from his dirt track days stop by with their new cars. My how times have changed...
HemiAdd2, thx for that shot, must have been a site to see. Flash, how quickly are you able to ballast a real physical foot of track? I think I must be slow (my perfectionist nature .....) (smile).
Sure was! Glad I caught it when I did, the 3985 broke down, and 6936 replaced it for today's Chey-Den run. Carr, CO, under rainy skies:
