Weekly Photo Fun 10/2 - 10/8/15

[bdw9535]

The Mannheim Yard Shop in 1980.

Bruce

[faraway]

Me too Just swapped street and rail cars to go true blue .....

[bdw9535]

Reinhard,

Always enjoy seeing the Conrail blue on your layout.

Bruce

[Green_Elite_Cab]

keeping that Conrail theme going, testing my train for the Mid-Eastern Region NMRA convention in Mout Laurel, NJ. We're hoping to have everything running early this year for the associated open houses.

[e-paw]

cool shot sir.

[Charlie B]

Northbound at Beaver Falls, Pa 10/01/2015. On the left side is a small scale hydro plant with 3 Leffel horizontal turbines that are over a hundred years old. The plant was built in 1983 with new Generators from Ideal Electric (Mansfield, Ohio).    
Charlie

[kamerad47]

PRT 2457 & crew shoving a empty C&D gon & tank car threw the crossing to park as needed near the end of the line!!!! :o hock:

[modelsof1900]

This newly purchased caboose of N&W gets a reworking to a correct model.



Brake is wrong, absolutely! So I removed all components in a first step.



For looking the process of reworking open the gallery on my website, please - with picture titles in English. You will find also two drawings of underbody arrangements of prototype - and very divergent to that of the model!
First of all the hovering cross bearers and bolsters need to get their full structure which are lacking at original frame.

[Green_Elite_Cab]

cool shot sir.

Thanks! I took it with one of those new-fangled "smart phones". It definitely doesn't take pictures as well as my camera does (its been sent back for repairs), but it works well in a pinch. Definitely happy I retired the old flip phone.

[Ralph]

I've been working on signals lately. They are a simple design using track power to illuminate bi polar red/green LEDS to indicate direction of travel. Even with this basic set up they can enhance operations.

A pair of GP9s hauling a transfer run from Mayfield to West Mill's Float Yard has to wait for a fast freight headed by a trio of six axle U Boats.



Once the train has passed by, the transfer run gets the GREEN and can access the main.