Here we go… Heres a few shots of my layout. I posted them earlier this week, but here they are again. Also heres my newest edition to my layout. A Southern Pacific!!! Its a Broadway Limited with the works!!! You name it, it has it. Now, I model NS but I will give this one a good weather job and a lease patch. I put a shot of the engine and how easy it is to put the DCC chip in. I can’t wait to get it going, and thanks to Tom for helping me.
Well, this week I put up some crossing lights on my layout. They’re wired to a switch and a flasher circut.
Here are some shots of most of my locos in the display rack or not on the layout.
Front row, left to right. Red denotes DCC eqquiped model.
Top shelf: Athearn F7-B, Athearn F7-A,Proto 2000 E6-A, Proto 2000 E6-A fleetside.
2nd shelf: Proto 2000 E6-A, MDC RS-3, ??? RSC-3, Athearn SD7/9.
3rd shelf: Bachmann GP40, Proto 2000 PA1, Athearn PB2, Athearn PA2.
4th shelf: Athearn GP38-2, Proto 2000 E6-B, Proto 2000 E7-A.
Back row, left to right.
Top shelf: Athearn F7-B, Proto 2000 E6-A.
2nd shelf: Athearn F7-B
3rd shelf: Athearn SD40-2, Athearn AC4400, Athearn SD40-2, Proto 2000 SW1200.
4th shelf: Proto 2000 FB1, Proto 2000 FA1, Bachmann GP50, Athearn GP60, Athearn SW1000.
Front: Mehano 2-10-2 T2-a. Back: Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-2.
Bachmann 4-6-0 Hall Class.
There are thirteen other locos on the layout, just over half are DCC.
Hi all: “Grandma, may I have a penny for a gumball”? “Well, let me see if I have a penny”.
“Oh man, I don’t feel so good. Where the heck is my motorcycle”?
Grampy-Nice selection of building colors there! Thanks! I’ve been running out ideas for mine.[;)]
Hi loathar: Thanks for your reply. I’ve tried to use a different color for all my brick buildings. I’ve read that most brick buildings are rarely the same color, and when I was building buildings I started really looking at real brick buildings. And that’s pretty much true. Even slight variations of the same color is realistic. The Suds Bucket aka “Bloody Bucket” is a wood kit. I would think wood siding would be even more colorful.
Had to put the last bit of details on this one over the past week. Now I have to figure out where to put it on the layout. But, that will have to wait for a couple of weeks …
No weekend fun for me … I will spend a lot of this weekend in the air but by the middle of next week I’ll be riding the Grand Canyon Railroad.
Jim
A quiet time at the loco depot, as a GS4, Train Master and 2-8-0 lay over between duties:
Brian
Brian,
Very nicely done! I like the subdued lighting … makes me feel sleepy at the end of the day.
Jim
Is it corny that I bought the “Melissa’s deli” for my layout based soely on the reason that my g/f’s name is Melissa? 
I went out in the back yard to play with my camera, then did the best I could with the primitive editing program I have…
And my favorites:
and the coup de’tat complete with fake sky and background…
You’ll notice that I’ve added flange oilers to all three of these SD’s. This was a simple project, took about 15 minutes per engine, but it really adds a WM flavor.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Lee
No, I don’t think so. I was going to make a Porta Potty company and name it after my wife.
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wm3798 that is some good n scale modeling.Great.
Is that wife? Or X-wife?[:-,]
Brian M I’d always thought Trainmasters were a bit boring to look at, but I might have to rethink that after seeing yours.
Some lovely locos on here already.
No locos in mine. I don’t even have any passenger trains yet, so I really don’t know what they’re all waiting for. OO scale with HO figures.
Mike
Nice AC6000. Have you tried it yet? Looks like the same decoder I installed. Hope yours works (better) than mine did. BLI has had mine for about 8 weeks . I just couldn’t get mine to work with a decoder. I tried everything. When I did have it running in DCC properly it sounded great…that was for about 3 minutes in total.
Good luck,
Tom
I really like that second shot, Tyler - the one of just the signal.
Well Loather its the wife, I don’t have a EX yet. When I told her my plan I got that look. Every guy knows that look.
I have tried my engine on some flex track and it did real good. Now tomorrow I will hit my layout hard and try to get more done. I guess then it will be a good test, and see if I have any bugs.
Well I got a few things done lately
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Great photos, everyone.
Brian, is that gorgeous SP 2-8-0 a kit-bash, or possibly a Sunset brass 2700? Sure looks good!
Well, since Crandell and Terry and I have been discussing Alleghenies, I put mine to work this week with a 25-car freight on my Yuba River Sub. This is the first-run DC model from some years back, with NO traction tires and she pulls this train up and over my 2.2-2.4% grades like she’s only hauling her tender.
Here she is climbing the 2.2% of Yuba Pass (which is being prepared for my new Cripplebush rocks)
On the East Side, heading downgrade on the 2% descending, crossing over Deer Creek Viaduct
On the Deer Creek Viaduct
Just to prove that all my articulateds aren’t necessarily Yellowstones, LOL.
Tom [:P]