Which do you like better, the white or the brown barn?
Hereis Thomas Claribell and Anne
Replacing a broken Johnson Rod
Slow down the pace a bit
One of my few non American Flyer Accesories
740 & 742 Handcars
Jim
Jim
Nice photos. If I had to pick, I’d go with the white barn.
Mitch
I like your pictures, Jim.
I would have to pick the white barn, also.
Chuck
I like red barn also.
Mark
Starting over with clean slate.
Well, I guess there’s always one in the crowd. I kinda like the brown one better, but what do I know. Here’s a couple photographs I took while it rained yesterday.
Have a great day everyone.
Phish - I like that whole white barn homestaed, it really shows up nice. The brown one would receive the MAILPOUCH TOBACCO treatment on my railroad.
crip - I’m glad you threw this shot up here. Probably one of the best moments in layout building is when you finish the benchwork, and look out and see this clean slate from which your dreams will arise. Kinda like when an artist looks at a clean pallet.
Step on in to my “shop” boys. Here are my recent projects: PLASTICVILLE TOWER on left, ATLAS rural station in background, and MTH GP20 on left.
I’m generally happy with the finish on the GP20, but not so with the number boards (RailKing “Scale” so they don’t light up). NW picked this engine up from the ILLINOIS TERMINAL RR (nee UP), and it was actually numbered 2008 (however the prototype had NORFOLK AND WESTERN spelled out on its long hood).
I like the brown barn better. It looks more real, looks like there is to much red their already.
Last Sunday took a Sunday drive to Strasburg which had a nice surpise in it. While riding the Strasburg RR. they made ananouncement that the author of Walt Dinsey’s Raiload Story was giving a presentation at the Pa. State Railroad Museum. I am very interested in Disney history so this was a will spent hour and a half.
Here is Michael Broggie signing my book.
Pics from the TCA Museum
BTW Phish, I like the white barn.
Brown barn with the red roof 
Jim - I vote for the white barn, it makes a nice vignette in that part of your layout. I wish that the s-gauge Thomas set had been available when my children were young. We have the Lionel G gauge version.
envfocus - great pictures of your tinplate, it has just the right feel for a period layout.
railfan23 - thanks for the pictures of the museum, that is one of the places on my “to go” list
I thought I would share some pictures of the home of the owner of Wausau Widgets. Its the most stately home on the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines. Its pretty impressive as you come up to it along the tracks.
Of course I took the photos during Wisconsin’s never ending winter.
And did you get a look at his classic 1930 Duesenberg Towncar? Its a Doosey all right.
Have a great Sunday,
Northwoods Flyer
Nice shots everyone…
Here’s a few older ones…
Just for the fun of it I put the camera car behind a flat and ran it around the layout.
First off is the train of choice:
Next is a cropped photo that was taken of the monitor that is fed by the camera car’s wireless cam:
HI GUYS IT’S A WARM DAY IN LITTLE TOWN
Hello folks.
Here are a few shots of the layout at Smokey Mountain Trains in Bryson City, NC. A train collector friend and I visited there a couple of months ago. They also have a toy train museum.
Scott Smith
Thanks all for the opinions on the farm layout. I think for now I’m going to go with the white barn and buildings Amish farm look like we have northeast of here. But I’d need to get rid of the tractors and trucks!
Crip- A photolog of building your layout would be really neat to have.
Bruce- I’ve been thinking about detailing the plasticville structures, you Mail Pouch idea is a great one. I guess I could do a search and find a template.
Railfan- Neat pics from the museum. Did you see where one of the signal tower houses went for $1691.66 on ebay!
SCD- Seeing those pics brought back memories, that is an awesome layout
Jim
Great job guys.
Fifey, outstanding. N&W would be proud.
Went on my First specific Rail Fanning trip today. The 3751, 4-8-4, was making a run between Los Angeles and San Diego. The route went passed our house about 6 miles away, so decided to go and see it run by. What a positive experience for our 1st dedicated trip.
We came across this viewing point, it was ideal! Could see down the tracks for at least 2 miles in each direction.
East View - Towards Fullerton Rail Station, probably about 10 miles down the track.
West view -
When we arrived there was only 1 truck in the above picture. As we waited 2 other pick-ups, pulled up to where we were at, then backed down the acess road as shown. No one said anything to us, even though we were inside the right of way fence. The gates were open to allow crew access. About 10 minutes later a security guard pulled up, and my wife asked if he knew when the steam engine was coming by. The guard said that it was held up on a siding waiting traffic about 10 miles up the track. She then called and asked someone on the other end if they would call and let her know when the engine left the siding. The guard then left, she came back about 20 minutes later and told us it was on the way. Would be there in 10 to 15 minutes.
I had my video camera with us, and while we were waiting decided to shoot some introduction footage while we waited. I was filming to the east (1st pic), and trying to see if I could see the lenses of the signal bridge, no luck. Then panned towards the west, picking up the cars on the siding, and there was a pair of headlights coming down the track. Continued filming the oncoming train, which was the Amtrak Surfliner going to San Diego. As I filmed and
This was in town this morning. i left the layout alone…
