An oldie from back before I had a digital camera. An Arnold Rapido Pacific that I made to resemble an ATSF prototype.
Good morning from mostly cloudy and rainy Northeast Ohio! Finished another Intermountain PS1 40' Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and lettered with decals from the Ann Arbor Historical Society. Car was in paper service from Wisconsin to points all over the map. Many of these cars went east on the car ferry to the Ann Arbor in Frankfort, MI. Car was built in 1950 with the standard boxcar red and black paint, then repainted in 1962 with the bright red paint scheme along with the Packers Football (three part decal). The 5th Athearn ACF 4600CF Covered Hopper kit I have completed, painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was in use on the system hauling grain products mostly on the southern end of the system. Car was built new in 1973 for the DT&I replacing older lower capacity cars that were on lease. ] Brought out an old picture I took on the Strongsville Club layout, PRR N1s 2-10-2 with a coal drag going up the hill with a string of coal hoppers, its normal life on the the PRR with the return trip hauling ore to the steel mills. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Good morning all. A pair of Alco's moving a train through Palisade Canyon past a recently completed scene on my home layout. Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone !
Yours truly on the right as the conductor, chewing out the engineer for arriving in Hannah Vista late.
Finished the ice house loading platform and have the basic ice house building done, will dress it up this afternoon. Hopefully I can complete the project today. Joe
Holiday weekend bonus photo - No train in this one, just a lonely bridge waiting for the next train. This bridge was built from a Central Valley kit. I like it when they have the year of construction on them as that helps to set the era of the layout. This line was built by the WP a few years earlier than 1918 but at least it's close.
Model railroading isn't only about trains. Trains run on tracks, across bridges, through towns, and switch industries. Without all that, it's just around a Christmas Tree....boring.
I see such quality on here that I hate to not mention others but I decided to pick you out in this case. Great work!
I started to wire up the yard today, I soldered all of the feeders and ran the main bus. I only got one set of tracks wired (the main) before I ran out of connectors.
The yard crew is taking a break awaiting their next work order while the road crew ties down and heads out for grub or what not.
Oh Man, memories of Rutland's milk trains between northern Vermont and New York City, interchanged with the New York Central Harlem Division every night at Chatham, NY. I used to see them every afternoon pounding up out of Bennington, VT on the Rut's Corkscrew Division behind a Consolidation on their way south. Sigh.
" The summer of '89*..." I got my first real six-string Bought it at the five-and-dime Played it 'til my fingers bled Was the summer of '89 Me and some guys from school Had a band and we tried real hard Jimmy quit, Jody got married I should've known we'd never get far Oh, when I look back now That summer seemed to last forever And if I had the choice Yeah, I'd always wanna be there Those were the best days of my life Ain't no use in complainin' When you've got a job to do Spent my evenings down at the drive-in And that's when I met you, yeah Standin' on your mama's porch You told me that you'd wait forever Oh, and when you held my hand I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life Oh, yeah Back in the summer of '89, oh Man we were killin' time We were young and… Enjoy & Relax...... Dirk & Sven * Bryan Adams: The summer of '69