Some newly aquired AF metal figures
Porter for the Station
Civilians at the station
312 Smoke in tender
312 Smoke in boiler
Have fun
Jim
Here is an Old Marx
Wow, great photos.
Tom-Spankybird - I love that old Marx. It is really in remarkable condition. Lots of the old Marx I see is pretty beat from lots of love and play.
Jim-SturgeonPhish - Those figures are really great. I have some Pre-WWII figures that I display in a bookcase in the family room.
Keep posting the great photos.
Mitch
I agree with Mitcheir, great figures and love that old Marx train. Here is a morning shot of my Lionel Jr. Hiawatha…
Excellent photos as usual folks.
The Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines is currently just a place to display my trains and accessories and to watch the trains run. Someday I hope to have it looking like a more respectable layout. Until then I collect items for scenes that will be more permanent. I recently came across this building front for a gas station. It will fit in nicely with the Texaco cars that Flyer marketed.
Have a great Sunday,
Northwoods Flyer
Here are some pics from our recent trip along the B&O’s WEST END.
M&K Junction on the outskirts of Rowlesberg,WV. Looks like CSX sent these brand new hoppers to NS’s paint shop.
East bounder heading past the shop at M&K.
“D” Tower in Grafton,WV.
Diesel service racks.
Check out the B&O covered hopper at the sand rack.
Lease units off the Appalachian & Ohio beside the famed Grafton Hotel.
Nice pictures!! Love those early type toytrains. They really do have character.
I’ve been “struggling” to build a small switcherunit with coilcouplers, so I could uncouple the wagons by the hornbutton. Most of the motorunits I had laying around where much too fast to use in a switcher, so I used the motortruck from an old Lionel GP. Inside the switcher needed to be place for the motor, e-unit and a hornrelais from an old scrapped whistletender, together with 2 coilcouplers from a postwar craneframe with pieces missing. Couplers where okay though.
I used a shortened K-line S2 frame and screwed the steps from the GP on it. The coilcouplers where srewed into holes I drilled in the frame.
Because of the huge amount of stuff inside the switcher I’ve cut a K-line caboose into pieces and glued it into a shape simulating a boxcab like locomotive. Some pieces out of the junkbox, some LED’s and a big exhaust for the dieselmotor make it look a bit more like a locomotive and less like a caboose. The enginedriver sits in the canopy.
This is the reason the boxcab is so short. It needs to
Great pics guys, as usual - Daan, very interesting project!
Here’s out little Halloween layout for this year, it was a last minute project:
Happy Halloween, a couple of days late. [:I]
Didn’t try to get to fancy with the layout, dealing with a really stubborn case of the crud.
Today, many of the annual plants were removed from the Garden RR, but here is how it looked this year.
Here’s the other side of the layout:
BEFORE:
NOW:
Have a great weekend!!