The day is almost over but I will start this weeks thread.
 This  equipment arrived in a dimensional train early this week and is being placed in storage on the Wilderson Division  The owner, Hugh Connaghan, owner of the Charlevoix Glass Company,  is hoping that the coming winter will produce enough bad storms that he can convince the  railroad to lease it in exchange for the storage fees.  The railroad agreed to store it only if it can be kept in a secure indoor location to protect all the various exposed machinery from the weather and they are also worried that vandals would do extensive damage which would be the railroads responsibility to repair. This may be the only opportunity to see this plow unless it is called to duty.  
     I think Cookie Gibson is acting as a broker for a 3% finders fee.  I think all parties may be satisfied with the arrangements if it snows. .       Charlie

Just a place for me to try and show some old trains running again. My only problem is at this time is a large hill and the way it is seperating the train board down the middle. I want it as a backdrop for photos taken of my old trains running and sitting. It will be steep sided like the hills along the Lehigh Gorge or the Palisades. So it may be based not in Bergen Point but in mind still going there. Possible I'll resurrect Laurys Station. An with the way I am now putting something together, another layout, is taking a lot of time. I'm going to travel out to Hamburg PA Sunday for Maurer's summer train show and see if I get lucky and find a few treasures there as usual. Who knows what will be there. As for trains for my present layout, In my boxes and trays are plenty of interesting things to run and place around to make things look nice. If only I can make some nice scenery. well we will see, If I can keep going. It seems I can't just post a photo here. I must use a photo handling site like Flickr. A picture is worth a thousand words. So it looks like i must write a thousand words.
frank

Yes, I still live, and I occasionally work on my trains. 

Earlier this year, I did attempt to run a massive train on our club layout.   It did have some issues, but they seemed solvable, all except for the fact that  the train would not fit on any storage track.  It was neat though, that up to that point, the train was rolling with just 2 Scale Trains SD40-2s.  It would be no problem to tack on another SD if necessary.  

I want to say the train was just north of 26' feet, maybe closer to 30.  I knew how long it was at the time, but I've since forgotten.   Still, it was fun trying to run a mega train. I just realized I didn't take pictures of the caboose end of the train, but its still pretty long.   In the final photo,  the distance between the signal in the foreground (by the Conrail boxcar)  and the red lit signal ahead of the Atlas trestle in the far background is about 18'.    There is still a large chunk of that train "around the corner" in the background.  Very long!







For more reasonable trains,  older 4 axle power was the name of the game.  #2856 was a U30B with sound on discount, a deal to good to refuse.  There are not enough U-boat models out there!

Waited at the station for over an hour but I got Pics!!!!!
7-14-2019  Ardmore, PA

Here is the information on the 3 cars:
https://www.broadwaylimited1949.com/railcars

The Main Site:
https://www.broadwaylimited1949.com/

This was fantastic to see!!!

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Maybe we should make this monthly photo fun because of lack of posts.

An old photo from an old ops session at my friends in Apollo, Pa. What if the Zephyr was transferred to the PRR for a through train to to NYC?     
Charlie

I am in need of Aerotrain pictures. There is one in the Illinois Rail museum I believe and I am in need of pictures, especially of the interior of a coach. I have used google and gathered everything there that will help If you have pictures of anything that may help could you please post them or email me at cebowyer1@gmail.com.      Charlie

2019 auction #3: A big surprise for you O scale fans..... we have an O scale anniversary car special, we sure do----

 Well folks, we are continuing our tenth anniversary celebration with yet another car decorated for this celebration. This time we have something for our O scale members. We opened as Big Blue Train Forums on December 17, 2008 and have kept our promise of no ads and no sponsors. This is one way to help get the much-needed funds to keep us going, but a way to give something back in return. We're opening an auction of a hand painted and detailed Big Blue Trains O scale decorated 40' boxcar. The car has been stripped, repainted in Big Blue colors, decorated in our Anniversary scheme and clear-coated by our own ngauger (who is really into G gauge). Along with the new Big Blue logo, it has the “10th Anniversary Special” lettering. Also, note that this car has a unique number that will not appear on any other Big Blue or BB&G rolling stock. We will leave any weathering to its new owner if they think it’s appropriate. This car, we hope, will become treasured and be a show of pride for your membership and support of the Big Blue Train Forums, even if you're not into O scale. Please note, for you non-O scale modelers, we have a few more surprises in store, but this is your chance to own a genuine Big Blue treasure regardless of what scale you model in.


   

   


Now, let’s get started. We are offering a O scale, 40’ boxcar #BBT100218 to the highest bidder. Here are the bidding rules:

1.     There is no minimum bid and no reserve, the highest bidder at the time the auction closes will get the car.
   
2.     Please keep your bid raises in increments of at least a dollar or more.
   
3.     You can bid publicly by posting it in this thread. This thread is for bidding only; any comments or questions should be made in this  thread by PM to either ezdays or ngauger.
   
4.     If you want to enter an anonymous bid (just like the rich and famous do), you can PM either ezdays or ngauger and we will bid on your behalf, (we will post the bid amount, but keep your name confidential, just like at those big auction houses). You may also want to give us the maximum you would want to go and we’ll bid for you by adding the increment that you specify above the last bid, up the maximum that you have set, again, just like Christie’s does for the big boys.
   
5.     The auction will run until July 15th, at which time we will announce the winner and ship the car to them.
   
6.     The successful bidder will pay all shipping costs.
   
7.     Payment can be by PayPal, check or MO. We will give the winner instructions on how and where to pay.
   

I know I am not here much any more. But I have a problem and don't know where to get advice. We are contemplating moving which means disassembling a 500 +- square foot layout with about 300 cars and around 75 locomotives. I no longer have most of the boxes the rolling stock or locomotives came in. What is a good, safe, economical way  to move this much rail road. I am not saving any sections of the layout, as this is not feasible. I will be salvaging track & buildings for new layout. here are a few pics of what my problem is. I am sick about this, I started this layout in 1996 the thought of this large undertaking is overwhelming.

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here is the address for my photo bucket if you wish to see many more pics. https://s21.photobucket.com/user/lesterp...ary?page=1

CR 9617 leads WPMA-19 thru Whiskey Point.

Bruce

   

I've been having an issue since the conversion to the new software.  When I try to post a picture using the old code [img] followed by the location of the image and then the [/img] it doesn't work.  The software drops the directory location and converts the [img] to [Image: followed by the file name of the image.  Any thoughts or suggestions?

Tom