Don, thank's for the picture, got it saved! I've been doing some creative thinking, plan "K" is in the works!
TumbleWEED

Happy Halloween from Bruce Goettel and Mr Natty BOH!!!!!!!!!!


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The Transylvania Express with a 'skeleton' crew:>))

The haunted pickup was seen roaming around town delivering pumpkins to good boys and girls. Who's driving?

Starting to build around the step down from the top level to the main level downtown area:

Looking good, Frank!

Chris
LVHR

Samplingman,
We have a similar interest.


The locomotive is a restored Lionel 153.

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Originally posted by Putnam Division:
I'm in San Diego this week for a meeting. I was able to take a side trip to Balboa Park and visit the San Diego Model RR Museum. Here are some shots from the 3 rail layout. This part of the layout was decorated-up for Halloween.

We had several "Halloween Specials" on the rails today, unfortunately there weren't very many visitors. Tomorrow should be crazy, The Kid's Club is meeting.

The classic PostWar Hallowe'en:

Not really Halloween but the colors are autumn like.[IMG][/IMG]

Just aquired this beauty, the burlington Zephyr, I am trying to convince myself that it is alright to keep this one.[IMG][/IMG]

Here are some shots of misc freight going into the tunnels[IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG]
Lastly a little peek of my lionel grain elevator not yet finished.[IMG][/IMG]

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Originally posted by jaabat:

Excellent shot Jim

Stevin, looks like a lot of blood coming out of that grain elevator door....Hope no Halloween killers have made it their secret hideout....

Not the brute, but a scary, reptile like creature on our G gauge layout.

Happy Halloween!

Serows1:

Where did you get your Texas Special? Looks MTH to me.

BNSF....pumpkins....Where is Linus?

A pumpkin I cut for my wifes uncle who retired from NS.

Hope everyone has a safe halloween.

The Amtrak Acela World Series. My daughter Tammy's art work.

Pictures around the layout

Happy Halloween from our family to yours!

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Originally posted by DominicMazoch:
Serows1:

Where did you get your Texas Special? Looks MTH to me.

Thanks Dominic, it's a WBB Texas Special AB with three passanger car set I picked up about 6 months ago, runs great.

Paul

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Originally posted by jaabat:

I really like this shot Jim, nice job on the road!

Paul

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The haunted pickup was seen roaming around town delivering pumpkins to good boys and girls. Who's driving?

Jaabat,

Two great photos! Love the gentle rise up on the road up to the tracks, the stone wall, and the subtle weathering on the pickup truck. BTW, what brand is the truck...Athearn?

Good work!

Below are a a couple of shots representing the beginning and end of my Halloween consist. The whole consist, with some action shots of individual cars, can be seen on YouTube: Halloween on the Red Carpet Central







Happy Halloween!
Andy

Zach

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Originally posted by PRRMiddleDivision:

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The haunted pickup was seen roaming around town delivering pumpkins to good boys and girls. Who's driving?

Jaabat,

Two great photos! Love the gentle rise up on the road up to the tracks, the stone wall, and the subtle weathering on the pickup truck. BTW, what brand is the truck...Athearn?

Good work!

Thank you, Frank, Paul, and Neal. These photos were taken several months ago when this area of the layout was still under reconstruction.

The pick up truck is a cheapo $2.00 special from Walmart. I just threw a little detailing and age on it.

Jim

I had not been too fond of halloween until my freshman years in North America, when getting a costume to go to campus halloween parties was a fun thing to do. We were up all night and still had to show up for classes at 8 a.m., the next day, to listen to a Prof. who looked at best.like a halloween clown, talking senselessly about DNA... Still stunned from the parties, we were all yawning and looking for our own DNA.. in the textbook that is

Anyway I have always loved clowns and remember fondly putting on a red nose for someone special on a train platform on Halloween to surprise that person...

Anyway here is my contribution to this thread.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

As usual thanks for the great photos! Prairie

Be careful, he might very well be on that circus train in link right after...



Amazing circus train:

http://www.railpace.com/photogallery/new/circus.jpg

Fall is here and I've re-entered the mancave to continue work on my booming metropolis.

Thanks to the guys in the subway section for mentioning the Lemax subway entrances and bus stops. I grabbed a few. Great price and the scale is almost right on. A cool way to add something different. Thanks!!

I thought I would post some Harry Potter style scenes from my toy style layout. I hope everyone likes them.....

Nice stuff! thanks for sharing!

MartyE !!! lol.. i was scrolling thru not looking at names... saw the truck and knew it was you!

ha!

Here's that old rust bucket that Gomer keeps saying he's going to fix up.





And an over all view of the gas station I made from an Ameritown garage kit. The pumps and soda machine will be replaced with better ones soon.

John Sethian - Excellent John, I love that.

Here is my pumpkin colored engine. Happy Halloween!!!

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Here's that old rust bucket that Gomer keeps saying he's going to fix up.

Nice work! I really like the rust bucket.

NEW ENGINES and DCS from Jimmy !
Had 9 Proto2 trains running around at the same time.
Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Folks,

Love those pumpkin colors! Haven't posted here in a while but decided to have a halloween parade too. Happy Halloweeen! Cheers!

My new to me MPC New Haven Caboose:

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Originally posted by Frank53:
My new to me MPC New Haven Caboose:

That'll go great with those new NH F-3 sets from Lionel.... They'll complement that sweet set of 2242's you got.....man nice stuff!

Mike,
Great shot of the BNSF coming out of the curve in Lemont! Do you know if there is a walkway over the bridge(Lemont Rd.)? I think that would be a excellent place to get a photo of the train as it crosses the river?

Franktrain

My wife Debbie and I took a weekend vacation trip to Charleston SC last weekend. Since we missed the opportunity to see Disney's A Christmas Carol Train Tour in Spencer NC, we were able to catch up with it in Charleston SC. The train was brought into Ansonborough Field (downtown Charleston) by a South Carolina Public Railway switcher. One of the crew said it was a railroad regulation in that area. Enjoy the tour.

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Frank and Jim,


Nice shots from the both of you! The work you guys do is excellent, and photographs beautifully. Thanks for sharing.

Frank,

Yes there is a protected sidewalk on the east side of lemont road. That would make a great picture. I know there is a protective chain link fence on the bridge but I cannot remember how far north it runs. You would need a pretty decent lens to catch that shot.

The picture above was taken from a newly constructed parking garage attached to a large condo building monstrosity. It is 4 stories and offers some decent views of the westbound trains especially.

Happy Halloween!!

Main street station all dressed up for Halloween


#5 Ward Kimball waiting for a green


Mickey pumpkin


Some very nice carvings


My house all lit up for the evening!

I got see a Texas Type with a couple friends last week.



Big Welds!



Dave

King Mouse,
Is that in Galvaston?

Franktrain

Hummm now lets see the theme this week seems to be Orange for some reason!!!

What can I find that is Orange ahh yes did see some Orange trains on my recent trip!

Riding the Royal Gorge train try the dome lunch train food is great;

The great layout in the back of ALMOSTA JUNCTION,
North of Salt Lake City;

Following 4449 on its return from Trainfest in Montana;

And Idaho;

How d you like DCS Steve? IMO it will be hard to ever go back. I love it.

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Originally posted by SIRT:
NEW ENGINES and DCS from Jimmy !
Had 9 Proto2 trains running around at the same time.
Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John Sethian - please start a separate thread on your efforts - that is AWESOME! KUDOS!!