Weekend Photos - December 2025

[healey36]

No gripes with the P5100; it’s been a joy to use (except on action shots, which requires a lot of tweaking to avoid blurred images). Almost 20 years old, I keep waiting for it to croak; I bought a new rechargeable battery for it recently, so if anything, that could kill it, lol.

I’ve got a 40 year-old Minolta SLR I’ve been thinking of busting out. Hey, if vinyl is coming back, why not print film? I used The Darkroom to develop a few rolls of old film recently, and it wasn’t outrageously expensive. Might be fun.

[healey36]

Last shot for 2025, the Marx "set" found at a local antique mall for ten bucks:



Sheet-metal loco is reminiscent of the clockwork I had as a kid (might be the same basic toy, just with an electric motor in place of a wind-up). As is true with most Marx stuff I've fiddled around with, it lit right up when power was applied, but it ran poorly. It needs a few bits and a good cleaning, then maybe back in top form.

Glad to see 2025 winding down, then out of here. Took some hits on the health front this year...like the Marx, hoping for a return to better form in 2026!

Happy New Year to all here!

[webenda]

Great find, Healey!

I was rummaging through some old photos when I came across these eBay finds.

Samsung Galaxy A51 Cell Phone Camera, July 3, 2025, 6:47 PM CDT.

The passenger cars were delivered around noon that day, and my wife wanted to see them set up. So I set them up on the game table. After dinner, the sun was illuminating them, so I took a quick photo before taking them upstairs to the door layout to see if they would run on O-27, 27-inch-diameter track.

Wishing y'all a happy new year.

[healey36]

Terrific looking set, Wayne. Did the FM make it through a 27-inch curve? Must have been tight, given the size of that thing.

Saw this video posted on the Marx forum...thought it interesting (precarious):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQj4YAPPmh8

Yet another chest-cold here...ugh!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Terrific looking set, Wayne. Did the FM make it through a 27-inch curve? Must have been tight, given the size of that thing.

Saw this video posted on the Marx forum...thought it interesting (precarious):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQj4YAPPmh8

Has all the ear marks of the basis/potential for another insane horror or Bond movie

Yet another chest-cold here...ugh!

Nasty; been exceptionally lucky of late with respiratory stuff; just another flare of the impending fun from the low back....which does get in the way of bringing in firewood.

[webenda]

Wayne. Did the FM make it through a 27-inch curve? Must have been tight, given the size of that thing.

It was close to achieving a 27-inch-diameter curve, but it derailed. I think I can make it do 27. It depends on how much room there is inside the shell for the motor to swing.