around the coal tower
Spokane Portland & Seattle passenger train by Andy Petersen. Atlas F-3’s and Golden Gate passenger cars.
I have been working on scenery this weekend
and I finially finished the track cleaning cars
Paul
HI GYZ,
NICE PICS GYZ! More pics of the OIL CAN set.
laz57
PAUL, love your track cleaning cars.
RAY, great looking tree.
laz57
Good afternoon everyone,
Great Pictures everyone.
Paul, I assume that they are real spikes in the track cleaning cars, correct?
Well, about two weeks ago a track maintenance car arrived on the interchange track from the Sodor Island Railways (Doug Murphy). I have been keeping it busy doing maintenance on the catenary while it is here. Now that we are finished with it, we will be sending it down South a bit next week.
thanks Laz
that’s my FIBY Tree (found in back yard)
My newly acquired post war 50th Anniversary Union Pacific Passenger Set offered in 1950 only:
Video → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIG5_opIoNU&feature=channel_page
A Yarn for the End of Summer
It had been the topic of conversation and speculation among the Old Guys down at the coffee shop for quite a few days. It seems that there had been a rumor going around that the owner of Wausau Widgets, Nils Jameson, ordered something big from back east. No one knew for sure what it was, but there were all kinds of opinions and theories. Jameson is a fellow who is known to have some interesting ideas and theories about business, and life. Nor did anyone know how the rumors got started, but some of the Old Guys had questioned the station agent about anything big coming in by train. He was very discreet about the whole thing and wouldn’t say a word to discount or confirm the rumors. One of the clerks on the other hand wasn’t quite so careful. He let it slip to his wife, who told her sister, who told her hair dresser, who told the sister-in-law of one of the Old Guys that there was a special shipment coming in for Jameson late in the week. It was from some place in the Mid Atlantic region and was from a company named Ornitho-Fifeus.
Folks kept an eye on the inbound freight each morning to see if there was anything unusual. On Thursday morning the party line phone at the coffee shop jangled away. One of the regulars who lived south of town had stayed home and had seen the train coming… and it had an extra box car. Before you know it there was a regular parade of folks headed for the station to see what Jameson might have ordered.
Right on schedule the daily freight pulled in to town.
Greg too cool!
Jim
Yes John, they are real spikes I found locally, I just ran them under a wire wheel to clean them up. Because the track cleaning car pads are spring loaded the wieght is needed to keep the trucks on the track.
And John, I really like your track crew, thats a great scene!!
Paul
Northwoods Flyer - Thank you Sir. [;)]
jefelectric - Can’t wait for that work car. Have an ambitious signal job.
Northwoods Flier - GREAT YARN![tup][tup] Thought I might see some Jameson Irish Whiskey come out of one of those cars (I have some sitting here beside the computer[;)]).
Pat
Nice pics guys, thanks! Love the multiple track looks on some of the layouts 
I’ve been a member of this Forum since 2005, this is one of the BEST SPF editions I can recall! It is complete with nostaglia, scenery, excellent photos, a fantastic story line. Occasionally, I get the courage to post some photos and then I see some work that a lot of you guys have done, and my images don’t belong in the same thread. Maybe we need another thread??? “Photo Fun Wantabees?” Anyway, great job!!! Very impressive!!!
Tom, I’ve seen A LOT of pictures of your layout, but I’m never bored! The different “themes” you create with your layout, makes it seem like you layout would fill 3 or 4 buildings. (Maybe it does)
Raymans, The scenes you have put together are as good as in ANY of the magazines. Truly impressive!! (and envious!!)
. Bill T Realy like your layout and city space utilization. All you need is a few trees, and your there! (You sure are way ahead of me! I may have to pull up all my “grass carpet”, LOL)
Paul, Now you “Say” you’ve been working on Scenery, realistically, did you photo shop the “third” rail into a existing photo? Man !! Do you ever do good work! Wow!!! Please post more!!! (What is orange superstructure in the background? Bridge? Crane?
Laz, Good job on the oil can set ! Like them logs too !
John, You did a great job on the photography, those guys look like they are talking! Can practically hear them. Also, the pictures really show the cantanary well. (Since I’ve seen your layout, I know that the maintenance car is only doing a routine inspection.) The camera work is great!!
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Here is my first scratch building attempt in progress. A equipmet shed that will be placed at trackside. The shed will soon recieve a corrugated roof as well as a board by board wooden door and trim around the door way and corners
Thank you Don for the kind words, I am a LONG way from finished and doing scenery is allot more fun that I thought it would be. It is just very time consuming, I spend hours on one area then look at the clock and say I can’t believe this is all I’ve done! The orange super structure is just a pair of Lionel floodlight towers for the adjacent yard, here are a couple of older shots that show the area better. Post some shots of your layout, I would love to see them. [:)]
Paul
Hi Don, thank you, the layout is taking shape. That section is 8 x 22, two more similar section to work on this winter. Trees are in the process of being planted, the forest service is working diligently on the project.
Ray:
nice shots and nice work on article of your layout in upcoming CTT.
Bill D