Gidday All, Cool wet Friday evening, “her-in-doors” has actually got the fire going., Toasty!!
Old meets New on the AMG, Part ll.
Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One Folks, [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.
Nothing new this week, but a couple of old pictures I took on the Strongsville, OH Club Layout.
A couple of Proto NKP GP30’s leaving a tunnel in the mountain area of the club layout.
The same GP30’s getting a move on after getting the okay from the tower.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
A 1930s B&M mixed train approaches the depot in the fishing village on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
The museum opens Memorial Day weekend, come and see us!!
You know I gotta add some “rust” to these great photos so far!!!
Before:
After:
Great photos, so far, everybody.
Here are some F7’s
A great beginning again this week guys. Keep the photos and ideas coming.
Here is one from the BRVRR:
This little F7 is the only “Home Road” loco on the layout. It has an MRC mechanism, and Athearn body shell and is equipped with a TCS T-1 decoder. It runs very quietly and can pull a ton.
Don’t stop now. Keep the photos coming, you always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Nice Photos everyone
heres something that always gets a lot of comments at open house
it’s my answer to a card holder
quick and simple
pre made just mount it
Yep its the lid to a cassette tape box
Sweet black and white shot.
…a little playing around under the new lights - Sunlight to Moonlight.
The BN’s Columbia River Cannonball stops for a quick crew change, why are there two 1993 ford explorers sitting there? in my world the BN never joined amtrak, they ran cars that were built off of specs from transition era designs but with new technology. The Columbia river cannonball was a short SP&S train that was led up and down the road, maintaining a high speed. 
Good photos, everyone–I always like WPF, it’s one of my favorite threads.
Here’s a ‘panoramic’ shot of Yuba Pass as seen from Wagon Wheel Gap on the San Juan Ridge. The train climbing the pass is Rio Grande’s “Panoramic Limited”, while a cattle train and the Burlington “Pioneer Zepnyr” (on a West Coast promotion tour) are at Wagon Wheel Gap. The year is 1935.
Tom
Hawk Point Mo. on the Missouri & Arkansas Railway.
A Bachmann GP40 I’ve been working on lately. It’s nowhere near as new as it looks but runs quieter than any of my Atlas locos.
Today I just went and picked up the Walthers Pere Marquette lighted cars. I got 9 cars total.
The plating on them are the same as the Super Chief cars.
As always, nice photos everybody! Tomkat, GPaine, Robby…all super nice work!
Here is a Southern box car I have been working on.
Wow, nice stuff the last couple of weeks – and this week, too. Too much work and not enough play time recently here, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Anyway, I’ve been playing with lights again. This time, I replaced some of my MR16 track lites – those hot ones that will burn you – with a 12’ string of line voltage LED strip lighting.
Here’s before, where they dangled in the way. Note that this pic has the overhead flourescents on, but in the other pics below they’re off:
I finally got a nice shot of the LED strip light, which draws only 18W. The MR16 halogen draws 50W each! So you save electricity and save on not having to cool things off in the train room after heating it up so inefficiently.
I’m leaving the tracks in place. I have one spot for the Gold Prince Mill, which is now a LED MR16 (5W), but it’s out of the way where I can’t bang my head into it. And I can still use the track to temporarily add lighting if needed for work or pics. These pics are all with the main flourescents off, but with the blue LEDs on. Other than that, just that 12’ string is making all this light.
Breakaway
Really great stuff as always
Some commercial vehicles around the layout
Jefferey,
The real irony is that Bachmann GP40 looks alot like the first Atlas/ROCO GP40’s on the market in the 1970s and 1980s. Looks like Bachmann either acquired the tooling or copied it…either way, a classic model for sure! I remember starting out in the hobby and someone was running the original Atlas/ROCO model and it was the smoothest locomotive I ever seen. I ended up acquiring one of the first run Atlas GP40s off ebay just a few weeks ago for a different project. Kinda antsy to see how it runs after all these decades (y’gads) hope it performs as well as yours!
ChrisP