I have been scanning negatives and photos for the East Liverpool (Ohio) Historical Society and I have been given permission to share the railroad related ones with Big Blue. Some of the negatives are 8x10 so there are a lot of things in tha back ground that can be enlarged. I will post some of these pictures here from  time to time and I may even post some hoping for more information than I can provide. 
I will start with the only color slide in the collection so far. As close as I can guess, mid 50's taken on the west side of East Liverpool  under the Ohio River Bridge to Newell, WV.      Charlie

Went scouting tonight and found a great place to take some pics 

http://www.septa.org/rebuilding/news/rou...-2019.html

Nothing new from me so here's an old shot of Conrail 8620 at Pier 32.

Bruce

   

Some times ago, I bought two undecorated Proto 2000 50’ Automobile boxcar kits in a train show at 5$ per kit.  After documenting the project, I couldn’t be sure that CNR, my favorite road, ever had this type of car with a door at the A end. I put those kits aside and decided to use them for parts.  The excellent Proto trucks and metal wheels are actually being worth more than the price of the kit. Furthermore, the previous owner had started the assembly of one of the kits and some parts were broken or missing.

Two weeks ago, while visiting a local hobby shop, I found two Proto 2000 50’ Automobile boxcar kits decorated for the CNR with the correct A end for the prototype at 12,95$ per kit.  Although I like to paint and letter my cars myself, I decided to buy them and have some easy modeling.  Proto 2000 kits are generally nice kits with small and delicate parts that makes nice cars. 

   

In no time I had both ready to be put on the layout.

   

I then thought that I should have a look back at those undecorated kits with the end door. I also did more search on the Internet and found that GTW had such cars and a look at an old photo convinced me that the kit is right with the prototype.

I decided to build the kits and replaced the broken and missing parts on the underframe the same way I did on more challenging kits in the last few months.

   

Those cars have deep side sills and those parts will be barely visible when the car will be on the tracks but I know they are there.

Here is a photo of the cars waiting for the paint shop. Note that on the closer car, I had to make the tackboards as I had used the one that came with the kit for another project.

   

Easy modeling but fast and good results.  A few hours of pleasure too.

Many of you have noticed my posts and pictures. I have many pictures stored on my computer and they are included on 3 active external hard drives as well as the 1TB drive in the computer. I keep at least 3 backups in full resolution. I have scanned glass plate negatives that I have done for the East Liverpool Historical society and a couple other history collectors. My fee for scanning these old plates is keeping an original for my personal collection, and of course, the right to share any railroad related images. 
Locating pictures was easy with the xp search, but later versions of windows have not exactly been friendly to search. 
I had bought a program that worked great but when I updated my computer I could not install it without paying another 65 dollar fee for the program.
Everyone that knows me knows my first name is Cheap so I searched for another free program and came up with Agent Ransack. The name sounds scary but I read about it, downloaded it and I am very impressed with this little program.
I can search 7 TB of connected hard drives in less than 5 minutes for the most part and the results are placed in order with the same name files across all drives listed together Here is a screen shot of the results    
I still have a lot to learn, but this really fills the bill, you just have to name your files so you can search them easily. It will find any string of characters that you want in a file name 
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
Charlie

   
   

Here are my first attempt at a pair of SD45M's these are from a pair of 1960 ERA GP40'S.

ERIE RR Aka Tom

You might have noticed, we have a new look at the top of the page. A new logo and logotype. This was custom drawn by our own webmaster and my son, Pat, aka: Duffy or Flatt Bear... (please, take a bow Pat. , and thanks ) We thought we needed a bit of refreshing and updated look, it started a few months ago with new forum software and a new basic look. We are, after all, approaching our teen years, we reached puberty when we turned 10 years-old just about a month ago. We have other things in store, we'll be announcing those as we go, but for now, we hope you like what we've done so far. The thing that we won't change is the use of the nickname that we acquired many years ago when we started out as "The-Gauge". We were "Big Blue" back then and we will remain Big Blue. We were all blue back then, and we are still all blue. Our motto then was, "Keep it gauged" and it's still part of us today.

Anyway, keep looking for more things happening as we go through our tenth year. Spoiler alert: we may have some contests, we may have a few auctions and who knows what else we can cook up. Suggestions are welcome, we are here for your fun and enjoyment.

anyone here remember what rolled roofing that was split down the center to make a decorative edge was  called ? or do you have an old photo showing it ?

The Canyon State RR was formed back in 2002 located in a garage and on a door mounted on a mobile base. A few years later, we moved and the CSRR was made more permanent since it had a room all its own. Eventually, it was doubled in size to a U-shape and even had a backdrop. Unfortunately, when we decided to downsize in 2014, I had to put that room back the way it should be. For some stupid reason, I removed what I could from the layout and brought what was left to the local landfill. I would like to think it got destroyed in an earthquake, but that’s just my world. Everything that was not destroyed by that really localized quake was packed up and remained that way through four moves. I still miss that layout and I miss building things, but I now have the time, space and desire to start again, and I hope that I can document my progress from a thought to  sketches to reality.

Here are a few photos of my old layout, like most layouts are, it was a work in progress. I hope I can reuse most of the structures that I was able to save, especially the scratchbuilt ones:

   

   

   

   

   

have  4 Walters cornerstone kit's that I decided to sell , Walters lists l 3 of the 4 as discounted ,  all kits are complete  price includes shipping by usps ground  to lower 48 Alaska and Hawaii will be 5$ more , pick up addable I will knock 10$ off price. out of the USA contact me and will give you a price including for shipping to your location but these are large heavy kits  photo's addable on request .

Miranda's banana's box (OOP) open 1 part off sprue but there instructions and sign sheet  included  40 $ gone
Milwaukee beer and ale  box opened but all parts on sprue's , Walters has it on sale for 65$ , my price 50$ gone
Midstate marble products (OOP)  box open all parts on sprue's with instruction sheet and sign's 35$ gone
Headquarters building (OOP) box open  inner plastic bag  not opened  50$ gone