Recent content by NYC Transit Modeler

HELLO "M" -- Thanks for the comments - appreciated. This is my first time back here since 2019. I have a few websites I daily maintain - plus ongoing modeling projects. I am a retired musician (pianist) worked as such regularly for for 40 years or so - am retired from it since 2010. All my...

Hello Sir (fold a lot) THANKS for the nice comments. I managed an O Scale Magazine (O Scale News) for 18 months -- was an Editor / Columnist for Electric Lines Magazine, and wrote numerous articles for traction modeling magazines -- have been a writer all my life (and photographer among...

Kong is out to dinner at Hongs' Chinese Restaurant -

Some of my HO Scale Mainline New Haven Railroad Passenger Trains -- I customized some of these cars with additional logos where required and some partial repainting where prototypical required... it was not uncommon for a Pennsy Diesel to haul a New Haven RR long distance -Boston MA., to...

Hello again Tootnkumin Well, you have one point there --- but I do NEED to clean the track rails periodically -- both trolley track and elevated tracks. Using a solvent cleaner and small throw away rag or strong tissue on the EL tracks and yard tracks --- for the trolley track I use a diesel...

Hello Mike Glad you like them --- its a LOT of work and skill and time-effort to create all of that ! The OERM -- I have seen many photos of that great traction Museum --I think OERM is the one which has the 2 ex-Manhattan EL Gate cars restored (but with roof pantographs needed for trolley...

Tony -- that was quick -- you ALSO a LATE OWL !!?? --- like me. Too many decades of my working nights is my excuse... regards - Joe F

Hello again Tony ! (staff member) Thank you for the support and honesty. I spent part of a large part of Saturday going thru this thread carefully and re-installing the missing photos (with added improvements and captions for many) -- so this thread will now again be whole and make some...

Hello Guys Well, I model New York City streetcars (trolleys) in O-Scale - but NY City has not had trolleys since mid-April 1957 -- the sole Queensboro (aka 59th Street) bridge Trolley route between 2nd Ave., Manhattan and Queensboro Plaza on the other (eastern) side of the bridge. The last...

Hello Tony ! Thanks again for your candid and honest comments and appraisal of the situation. I noted that it was only on this "Showing Off" Discussion section that my then-Thread posted there was where my photos were compromised, removed, by "a moderator". It was not done, that I can see...

Hello Tony (Staff member) Thank you very much for the very fast reply -- I also sent a "report" using that mode on one of my messages with the photos removed. I was sent an email by a reader who was reviewing this (yeah, its 6 years old already) thread recently -- and who is interested in the...

July 5, 2018 --- U P D A T E WHAT HAPPENED to all the photos I posted on this thread ??? Many are all gone - most notably on messages I posted showing "last edited by a moderator"... What is the purpose of providing photo captions for photos that are removed "without reason or permission...

Hello State Lake Don't know if you are still on board in this forum here, or still in the hobby, since back in 2009, but here is a current reply to this old thread, from me. The "geocities" website link to "kid at 50" 's Chicago CTA Ho Scale EL Layout webpage, is long dead. Here is the...

Hello fellow Modelers ! I model NY City Elevated and Subway Trains in 2-Rail O-SCALE running on fully hand built NYC prototype scale Elevated structures - along with streetcars running below the EL. The streetcars run opn the overhead trolley wire but the streetcar tracks have "changeover"...

Hello O-Scalers I model NY City Elevated and Subway Trains in 2-Rail O-SCALE running on fully hand built NYC prototype scale Elevated structures - along with streetcars running below the EL. The streetcars run opn the overhead trolley wire but the streetcar tracks have "changeover" toggles on...