We have really been busy this week at the museum, so here are some pic from there.
This is part of the Trolley Historical Society that has joined the museum.
work continues on the large ‘O’ gauge layout.
An ‘S’ gauge American Flyer tin plate layout has be started.
Thomas the Tank layout is being displayed at the museum.
Foam road bed has been cut, painted and added to the tin plate layout.
For those who are new to the forum, clicking on the pics will enlarge them.
Great Tom !! I can’t wait to see the trolley & the layouts !! Looks like lots of progress being made there ! I also have a friend interested in the S-gauge & still has his flyer train ! I’m trying to bring him up soon !
Thanks,
Photos from Roger’s Corners, Ohio Elevation 936 Feet
It has been awhile since I posted some photos. I have been very busy at work and so I thought today, I would share some “work” photos.
As several of you know I worked on a grade separation project near Cleveland and many of you have seen this photo of the construction in progress.
Here is the finished product. Cost? $22,000,000. And you think O Gauge Trains are expensive?
And just after I took the photo above look what roars through.
Here is a current project. Can you believe they want to build something like the bridge pictured above here? Well that is what we are looking into now with a feasibility study.
Who would like to bid on the concessions for the Baltimore, Ohio and Wabash Railroad?
The Baltimore, Ohio and Wabash Railroad, headquartered in Roger’s Corners, Ohio was contracted to move the Buffalo Sabres Zamboni to and from the games.
Does anyone know of a K-Line Switcher like this for sale? I need some parts to make mine run great again. A plastic gear broke off from the axle. Incidentally, this switcher has a TAS TMCC inside. It was my first conversion.
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had teh good fortune to be at the local hobby shop when a fellow came in looking to sell a couple of boxes of post war trains. The shop didn’t want to buy them but gave me the green light to make make him an offer on them.
Picked up a very nice set of F-3’s a bunch of rolling stock, track, operating accessories, etc for a very reasonable price.
Never had Santa Fe’s before - they’re pretty sweet:
So here’s the first piece of MTH rolling stock I’ve ever bought… It’s the Alaska Railroad crane car (unfortunately that was the only road name they had in for that piece… I don’t even run any ARR pieces other than that…) It still makes for a great MOW look though…
And the new Soo Line boxcar I got off ebay from Industrial Rails…
You can sort of see the new siding I added around the mainline here, inbetween the figure 8 and mainline…
Here is an attempt at making the yard look busy… Clutters of rolling stock and a Chessie 4-4-2 steamer sit on the track sections…
I am making my first attempt at posting pictures on the forum. My wife and I agreed to place a loop of track in the dining room above the windows. First picture:
I have many trains I can’t run so she suggested Level TWO. Second picture:
While work was being doen to finish level two, Madge came in and asked when we were going to do Level THREE!!!
The last pictures give an overview:
Thank goodness she likes trains. Our honeymoon was on Amtrak in December of 1995.
Here are some pictures of the camera installation in my Reading FA.
First picture shows the high intensity headlight mounted on a wood spacer to line it up with the lens. It is fed from the left hand circuit board. The right hand PC board is the power supply for the camera. The camera is mounted on the cab ceiling with double stick foam tape. Antenna is visible fastened to ceiling with double stick as well.
This is a closeup view of the cab. The gray ABS plastic is the crew seat that I added. Very spartan crew accomodations in this loco. The camera is positioned so that you are looking out the left hand windshield as the train runs, that gives a view of the outside of the curves. I had to remove the original lamp as it created a glare on the windshield for the camera. The headlight does spill a little light into the cab.
This is an internal view of the powered unit, which runs as a pusher, with the TAS, TMCC conversion.
Here is another project that I am working on. A military train. Just added wood floors to these Weaver flat cars, which greatly improves the appearance. I need to add blocking and tiedowns and maybe weather the wood a little. Also going to add some tarp covered crates front and back of the tanks.
I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed all the picture posts.
Buckeye, I would guess a lot of the cost involves keeping the line in service while the work is being done.
I noticed the new Weaver wooden flat car floors did not show up in the other picture so here is a closeup. Weaver just started making these. Very nicely detailed.
great photos everyone.
Frank, that is a great story, never happens to me. Is it for real, or are you going to get us again? I don’t have a hobby shop anywhere near me so the chances of that happening are very slim.
Dennis
Wow, what a trolley.
Hope these come out. The yard end of the layout. New beacon atop Mt. Seaman Farms and the 031 loop for the 248 on this end of the layout- along with fake siding (unconnected) for the tanks. Front end of my beloved GG1. You can barely see the man repairing his 1906 Indian motor cycle in front of the billboard.
yup - happened just last week. All I did was stop in on my way home for a can of paint and some bulbs to fini***eh Lionel project:
Here is the rundown of what I picked up:
A very nice A-A set of Sante Fe F3’s. The front paint is suprisingly nice, although it does have some rub and what have you on the silver. These were in the original boxes with liners, and the box for the powered unit is a brick. They were wrapped in the original wrapping paper and according to the seller they hadn’t been out of the boxes in at least 30 years. We put it on the display layout at the store and it tooled around in forward and reverse really nice and smooth.
The whole set is seven cars plus a caboose.
The rolling stock is very common, including a Sunoco two dome car, a Bucyrus Erie Crane, a NYC gondola and a Lehigh Valley Hopper. All of which I don’t mind having, and I have been tyring to pick up these at reasonable prices to building longer frieghts and future yard scenes.
The boxes were for the most part typical and partly flapless:
Came with a nice transformer - original box with instructions:
