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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Another Train Thursday

Well, the usual , up at 04:30am, coffee, Donna off to the truck company at 05:30am, then make sure Adam is up and ready for Sam to take to school. I thought  maybe I would include some more train pictures of the models at the club.100_0964
This is not a club picture it is the Lionel O Gauge train from when I was a kid, we put it up under the Christmas tree. How many of you had or still have one of these, when I was a boy my Dad and Grandfather would fill the front room with Lionel's. What memories. To think they are almost 60 years old and still run like a top due to cleaning and lubrication. Not many toys last that long.
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A street scene from the club,the yellow 55 chev 210 post is a model of Sam’s first car.
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How about a roundhouse picture, yes the turntable will slowly turn an engine like like the real thing.
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another roundhouse view.
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the ole swimming hole.
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Look’s like Sam’s parked the 5th wheel and the gang is waiting to take some pictures.
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Always time for a volleyball game.P1010595
A Missouri Pacific freight train.
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Nickel Plate 759 has a Rail fan Special at the station. This locomotive is at Steam town in Scranton Pa. Hopefully it will be rebuilt and returned to excursion service.
Well I hope this is entertaining to some , it is really a trick to get clear and sharp pictures of models that have a believing depth of field. Also we have surrounded the club layout with a Plexiglas fence to keep little and sometimes big fingers from causing unwanted damage.
Be Safe out there. Sam & Donna.

3 comments:

  1. Great model train photos...Yea, the good old Lionel...they just don't make 'em like that anymore...

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  2. I had to do a double take at a few of those model train photos - great pics, thought a few might be real!

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  3. Thanks for the compliments, I really need a little better digital camera,one that not only had a zoom and normal lense, but a macro for getting down into the scale of HO railcars, 1/87th normal size, then maybe they will look as close to real as it gets,Sam & Donna.

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