Model Train Journal

Happy Friday!!

NS 13R heads through Reidsville, NC on the Danville District with SD70ACe 1104 leading


NS Dash-9 9876 leads 51X westbound through Christiansburg, VA


UP SD70M 5132 leads NS 927 southbound through Gretna, VA on the Danville District


A pair of classics - EMD SD40-2 diesels & N&W signals at Radford, VA. NS 3214 is working the yard w/ local turn V39.


Strasburg 90 steams past the shops as it prepares to pull the first passenger train of the day


Some pics of Lucia & Lorenzo at the RRMP -

I hope they grow up to be rail fans and model railroaders.

Took a stroll through York yesterday. I was looking for a couple of 314X-series Flyer passenger coaches to complete a set but came away empty. Picked up this refurbished Flyer 3322 2-4-2 from one of my favorite member/dealers:







Wheels are a bit out-of-quarter, and that link-coupler tender may not be correct...I'll need to check. From around 1934, this pretty much rounds out the Flyer motive-power I've been looking for. I need to get the layout back on-line so I can get to running stuff again.

Spring York attendance looked to be comparatively light, so I expect over on that other forum there'll be considerable gnashing of teeth over the perceived death of TCA. George, I missed you if you made it over...hope you found the stuff you were looking for.

Healey

healey36 wrote: ...snip... Spring York attendance looked to be comparatively light, s ...snip... Healey

A friend went there Thursday and was very, very disappointed.

I have been to York once, in 2010.
There were so many vendors selling a lot of the same thing that I didn't see how anybody made any money.

Not sure why he was disappointed, unless he planned to meet someone and they didn't turn up. Member halls were packed with folks selling stuff, as were the dealer halls. Only saw a couple of table gaps in the member halls. Can't say I saw a lot of guys buying stuff, but then, like most of us here, I think we've pretty much hit saturation.

The thing that I continue to not understand are the folks that trot out various gear and attach 1985 prices to them. It's so obvious that there's still a massive amount of stuff out there and not enough buyers to sop it all up...stop trying to sell a pre-war Lionel 2-6-4 for $375...ain't going to happen. When I see that, I figure the seller is just in this for the social aspects...he knows he's not going to sell anything, or very little. Standard gauge is pretty much a dead commodity, yet folks were still asking $3,500 for a State set...they're crazy. Talked to a number of guys who said the bulk of their sales come from eBay...given the volume of stuff to be seen at York, I suspect there's not that much being sold there either, certainly not at York prices.

Most of the buyers at our local January show are not interested in pre-war and have little interest in post-war stuff unless they are old guys.
Younger people like the sounds and design of modern products better than the old.
What I remember at York, other than dealers and importers, most were selling pre and post war stuff.

I have not seen a toaster oven in a kitchen for a long time.

What are you saying, lol?



Healey

It's the polite way of saying " you eat to much leftover pizza".

Here are some shots from York. This model of the railgun "Dora" was in the Orange Hall. It is a kit and was priced at $1,000. This seemed to be the York for railguns. There was another fully assembled model of "Leopold" in the Red Hall.



Coming home from York, I stopped at the top of Allegheny Mountain and snapped a few photos of the old tunnel entrance. This would have been used by the South Penn Railroad had it come to pass. Because soil tests showed it was unstable, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission dug a separate bore about 25 yards away. The tunnel entrance has been closed off for safety purposes. I'm told it is filled with water and snakes.











George

robert. wrote:It's the polite way of saying " you eat to much leftover pizza".

I don't understand the concept - what is "leftover pizza" and how does it happen?

....a few photos of the old tunnel entrance.

Thanks, George! The South Penn was supposed to come through the next valley over from my place in PA. I have a real photo of a family picnicking at the Roxbury tunnel about 100 years ago.

Love the photo of Lorenzo and Lucia beside GG1 4935 Christopher.

Your photos have taken a strange look recently. The look is reminiscent of colorized black and white photos.
I didn't notice the look in the GG1 image until my eyes moved to the reflection in 4935's windows.
Looks like the artist failed to color the reflections.
And the reflecton does not look anything like what I would expect to see in the ceiling behind the photographer.

webenda wrote:Love the photo of Lorenzo and Lucia beside GG1 4935 Christopher.

Your photos have taken a strange look recently. The look is reminiscent of colorized black and white photos.
I didn't notice the look in the GG1 image until my eyes moved to the reflection in 4935's windows.
Looks like the artist failed to color the reflections.
And the reflecton does not look anything like what I would expect to see in the ceiling behind the photographer.

Not sure what you mean. I haven't changed any of my post processing techniques. Still using Adobe Photoshop & LIghtroom w/ the same presets. I think the GG1 interior is just that color. The GG1 shot probably has the least amount of post processing of the batch.

christopher2035 wrote:Not sure what you mean. I haven't changed any of my post processing techniques. Still using Adobe Photoshop & LIghtroom w/ the same presets. I think the GG1 interior is just that color. The GG1 shot probably has the least amount of post processing of the batch.

Very interesting. Thank you Christopher. If you had not posted that image I never would have known the engineer and fireman (or would it be the conductor?) were separated by that gray electrical panel. Here it is again from a Wikipedia image.
GG1 Cab by Wayne Benda, on Flickr