Brand new on the property

 class BS-24m Center Cab. The PRR was known to have tried just about everything. The huge road switcher / transfer units included. They were the biggest purchaser having bought just about every one. Here is one on its maiden run handling some tank car drop offs and on its way back home with a lone N8 Cabin in tow.

Old bridge, new layout

While far from a finished product, this viaduct has returned to service carrying trains over the Elk River.

This structure was originally built by a Pennsy modeler from Wheeling, WV. Later, a mutual friend bought it and salvaged from the builders estate. Turned out, he couldn’t use it and sold it again. I later bought it from the third owner in 2015 and brought it home. Since then, it has been stored and moved once more. FINALLY, I stripped the deck a few weeks ago, mounted the viaduct in place and can now have trains pass over it once again!

It ended up with single track so the curves at each end can be as broad as possible (36” radii) for larger cars.  

new N7 bay window caboose

Here is the new Tangent offering I just finished up for a customer.  Not cheap but these are as nice as anything ever offered.   Here's some before, during and after including my secret sauce for the fade. Plus a couple pics once he got it home to his layout. Enjoy, Steve

Taggers getting my rolling stock

seems like I have left my rolling stock unattended too long as taggers have gotten to it…

Meet

A mixed train meets a commuter train at the water tower near Hunter, TN...

Quiet Day at the Yard

 Quiet day at the yard.  A line of mechanical reefers waits to be loaded at Ward’s Cold Storage. 
 

Joe

Train P437

Train P437 emerges from the north end of Chattaway tunnel with.the daily passenger run fro Cantwell to Chenoa
F7 6012 heads us the consist.  

Oops! I didn't notice the

Oops! I didn't notice the newest Weekly Photo Fun.

Here is my contribution.

3265's world?

Reminds me of a Wyeth painting......DaveB

The Wave

A young boy sits on his fathers shoulders to wave to the crew of SP 8357 as it rolls by.

For you DaveB. I looked up

For you DaveB.

I looked up Wyeth.

I don't have Photoshop, so I'm limited, but here is something.

Newly laid track.

Newly laid track.

Pain in the ash...

Robert Nidiffer digs up some ash near the ET&WNC right of way, near the interchange with the main line to Johnson City.

Residents of Stoney Creek often wonder what he does with the buckets of ash he walks off with, but with wartime rationing in effect, it's one of the few things that is easy to obtain...

Lee, Nice ash.

Lee,

Nice ash.

Under the bridge

Bridge shot

Wow, Deemiorgos, that shot is amazing. I really expanded on it at first, unsure if it was actually a model shot!

CHiPs pings a Chevy!

Yep, I know it's been done many times before. But, I just picked up a California Highway Patrol 1954 Pontiac and could not resist setting up the "hiding behind the billboard" trick:

And, for the other side of the billboard:

OR...CHIPS pulls over.....

CHIPS pulls over the first autonomous vehicle, and then can't figure out who to give the ticket.

(If you look closely, you'll see there is no driver in the 55 Chevy.)

no driver in the 55 Chevy?

Zora Duntov was way ahead of his day....DaveB