Superb and ‘purty’ work from y’all gents. I are sorta speachless![;)][bow]
My contributions are a pair of Front Range boxcars. The first is, of course, one of my Wishram boxcars with decals by Don Manlick, and the second was completed with Herald King’s nice decal line. I miss those guys and Champ to boot!![C):-)]
Hi Everyone,
Some really nice stuff shown this weekend in WPF. I haven’t contributed anything for about the last 2 months (busy at new job) but I did recently finish a N scale (Blair Line kit) radio transmitter tower.
The kit is actually a old time TV tower but I wanted the tower to instead pay homage to 94.7/KMET, a Los Angeles FM rock (AOR) radio station that I listed to alot when I was attending high school/college years ago. The radio station itself is no more, as “the Mighty MET” signed off for good on February 14, 1987.
I plan to install this on a hill located in the background of a future layout. The tower is about 8 inches tall so I would have a hard time fitting this under the glass top of my current coffee table layout.
Jeff B
is that rpo just a stationary post office or do they have an actual RPO mail contract and deliver mail to towns on the route?
shane
I’m late, but I’m here! Here’s the latest progress on my layout:
Here’s a video from my live steam club, the Adirondack Live Steamers, that I also uploaded this weekend.
Enjoy, hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend.
Thanks again to all that have made this another great edition of Weekend Photo Fun.
Don: I like your custom boxcar. The blue color and slanted slogan remind me of Allen McClelland’s VIRGINIAN AND OHIO. Is that intentional?
Jeff: Your radio tower look great. I have a small etched metal model of a tower I was considering adding to a billboard to advertise a radio station. After seeing your model, I believe I will need to do it.
Harrison: Thanks for stopping by. I was surprised to see a steam locomotive on your layout.
I will see you all next week.
-Kevin
Shane - They only go from downtown Titusville PA to the Oil Creek state park, stopping at Petrolium Centre, Drake Well Museum, and on to Rynd Farm where there is a run-araound track for the locomotives to get to the opposite end of the train, so they don’t deliver much at all, but they do have the actual RPO contract and have taken mail deliveries to the state park office, Drake museum and Petrolium Centre, and can send, via the RPO, outgoing letters/postcards from the park or the little refreshment stand/gift shop located at Rynd, the main station in Titusville’s gift shop, or the museum.
The RPO does have it’s own special RPO contract postmark that they put on outgoing postcards.
The parent company owned tracks end at the run-around track at Rynd however, and a freight railroad takes over ownership from there south, and insurance will not let them have the excursion consist on their tracks, otherwise I think they would continue into the next town and would still deliver mail there as well.
