Model Railroading > Livin’ Large, near Dallas

We just completed a meet on the far northern edge of DFW, almost into Oklahoma,
sheesh the area i am referring to keeps expanding and people keep moving in and
it's size of the Dallas area where I grew up is amazing now.

Here is a sample of only a few trains I shot.  Mine is the yellow/black T&P GP9
and the T&P steamer with green boiler jacket (formerly belonging to Trainorders.com
member TomSTP).

 

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Can't run them both so the diesel is parked.  Later I let a couple of
kids run the geep for a few hours.

Cotton Belt well represented.  On the real Cotton Belt, these are the same two engines.
The road only had one GP7 and was a passenger engine painted in Daylight colors, 
after pax service ended was regeared for freight duty and painted black widow.  Even
later was painted scarlet & gray but no model of that version.

Pic three is of the turntable with no engine on it.

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My train with all homemade freight cars.  

So many steamer engines we had to double up on the steaming bays

Ladies in waiting, a Garrett, my ten wheeler, and a SP mogul.
A problem with a broken switch had us backed up for a short time.
The track crew was on top of iit and we were moving again shortly.

Thats about all I have, there were probably 25 trains in all running. 
Steam count was eight or nine.  

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Looks like you had fun; some nice-looking machines there as well, and one hell of a turntable.

From the amount of storage tracks and steaming bays, this must be a club, rather than a private track?

pennsy3750 Wrote:
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> Looks like you had fun; some nice-looking machines
> there as well, and one hell of a turntable.
>
> From the amount of storage tracks and steaming
> bays, this must be a club, rather than a private
> track?

Not a club, a private track.

Forgot this one from Rock Ridge.   If you know, you know.
 

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Beautiful!
Bob

Outstanding Shane. What do you haul all your equipment on these days. Im thinking that trailer you built some years ago wouldnt cut it with all that stuff now.
Regards,DK

Is Tom S. inactive in live steam now?
Haven't seen him in years.
Bill Hadley in Ft Worth

Bscale316 Wrote:
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> Is Tom S. inactive in live steam now?
> Haven't seen him in years.
> Bill Hadley in Ft Worth

He's just as ornery as ever, just mad that Fort Worth has become Dallas.

You need the flat people to make that scene correct !!..  Ken 

And so has almost all north Texas, dummit !  (old TOMSTP)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/26 10:56 by eastlandt.

eastlandt Wrote:
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> And so has almost all north Texas, dummit !


Talk to your Governor, he keeps telling people to move there!

WrongWayMurphy Wrote:
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> Bscale316 Wrote:
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> > Is Tom S. inactive in live steam now?
> > Haven't seen him in years.
> > Bill Hadley in Ft Worth
>
> He's just as ornery as ever, just mad that Fort
> Worth has become Dallas.

Lol, that's one reason I bailed out several years ago. Clearly not the way it used to be...

JG