Tom, John Deere colors [green and yellow]. [:D] Everyone needs to watch Buckeye’s video and pat your foot. I have it [and some others of his] saved in my hard drive. Great to listen too.
Currently under construction
This side has the turntable and roundhouse,built into a mountain.
An Amtrak Genesis pulls out from the station, thru the mountains.
A view through the double track 60" long Howe Truss Bridge.
Alas, back to work (on the layout that is)…Tim
Hi GUYS,
Heres my contribution to the ever popular Sunday photo fun.
The story to this part of my layout(under the celar steps) is that where I grew up in NE pa. we come from hard coal country people are Known as COALCRACKERS.
I wanted to make astrip mine operation. When we were kids we played in the stripping holes and one of the games was called bowling fo junk. People would throw away old used tires and other junk and we would roll them down into the holes to see what we could hit. With enough said here are my bowling pics.
MAN. I’m ashamed to post my prictures on my temp carpet layout.
Well, my new Lionel SD80 MAC in TMCC being run by DCS and DCS remote pulling a precious cargo of John Deere tractors and passing a coal train.
Another view.
A close up of the Lionel SD80 MAC [you can just see the diesel smoke comming out if yu look at the coal in the hopper car behind it. light carpet will not allow me to show smoke]
Chief–no reason at all to feel ashamed, you just retired, got a daughter married off and that knife mark on your chest is a pretty good excuse to take things slow. Life just gets better and better, now if it’s next year at this time and you’re still on the carpet we will need to have a discussion[:)]
Hi everyone. I check out your photos every Sunday and for the first time have something to post myself. And its a DOUBLE FEATURE! Today was a big day in San Francisco, because not only did I complete my basic benchwork (and install the wine cellar underneath – this is Northern California, afterall – but I got the new Lionel Overland Freight running, complete with the great new SD-70 engine, intermodal cars, and autocarriers. This new round of autocarriers is made of better materials, and has metal ladders. Its a great looking train, and the sound is fantastic.
Here is a general shot showing the engine blowing diesel fumes past my very first accessory, the lighted Lionel freight station.
Here is another shot of the train as it makes its way into a turn, moving past a bunch of stuff that’s headed to eBay, the sad reminder of my attempt to conserve space by switching to N). Note the exciting riches that lurk beneath the surface. You guys in the South have your oil, and WV has its coal, but here in NorCal, we have our wine.
Thanks again to Spankybird for posting the instructions about uploading photos.
Best to all,
Tom Baker
San Franicsco
Where Stripping is a Career Choice
Tom B., I see you drink PEPSI [born in the Carolinas, actually NC]. [:D] Send me the Cal. wine. Been ot Napa. [:D] Enjoyed the trip. Been to San Francis but no strippers, just China Town [wife was along]. [;)]
I’m full of superlatives today. Chief, your NS engines look really sharp! Tom Baker, is that a Denver Broncos pennant? Don’t feel bad about your N scale goodies - I did exactly the same thing. Laz, what a great looking mine - is the stuff in your gondolas a special color (yellow) because it is a certain type of coal? Paul, can you tell us a bit more about your wonderful engines - are they Marx? Buckeye, I love the evocative feeling of your sepia or black and white photos.
Doug,
The two engines pictured are by Unique Arts. The blue one in the top picture is electric, the multi-color is a wind up. I think these were made between 1948-50.
Unique also made a set of E8’s in Rock Island colors, very colorful. I read in a collectors book, from 1990’s, that these were the ugliest locos made. Today, however, they are very collectable.
Both my engines are lithographed tin with a very simple 0-4-0 drive.
Unique Art made other very collectable wind-up toys prior to world war II. If yoy want to see more go on e-bay in the antique toy catagory and search for Unique Art.
The trains are usually listed in O gauge “other manufacturers”