Hello ALL:

For those scale modelers here interested in scale model "EL" trackwork and details, here are some track level and adjacent scenes along a small sections of my O-Scale NYC EL's extensive EL mainline. Uncovered "EL" style 3rd rail is modeled to accomodate both wood EL cars and steel Subway car type 3rd rail shoes of both IRT, BMT and IND rolling stock. 3rd rail is wired for "hot" to also operate guest train cars using functional 3rd rail shoes (like Vern Gillman and Steve Olsen transit cars) - which was done on my EL layout at some train shows over a decade ago. ALL my track crossing diamonds and special work are hand built.

Most of my two large train layup yards trackage is all built by
hand-made and laid ties and spiked down scale rails .

Regards - Joe F
NYCTMG Webmaster

Awesome track work Joe, and with a live 3rd rail that's one hell of a layout one which I never get tired of viewing,
and with your photo system makes it all the nicer to see, thanks for these great photos. Karl M

Hello Karl (M) and Mattie (G)

Glad you both like the new hi-res image views of my Layout...and here are a few more scenes BELOW you both and any others so interested here may enjoy !

Karl...I like your motto - I have been doing that with my various cameras since the early 1950's.... and am glad I recorded and saved on film everything I did of which most is gone today and but memories (people, places, things, transit, etc)

Also, Happy Thanksgiving to you both and ALL !!

Regards - Joe F
NYCTMG Webmaster

Breath-taking, Joseph Frank. I can hear it and smell it all - thanks to your seeing. Every scene is perfect.

Hello Murph

Thanks also for your kind and appreciative compliments on my modeling work ! I have gathered you appreciate all of the fine modeling exhibited by myself and many others here on all of the MTJ forums. Here are a few more streetside photos











Regards - Joe F
NYCTMG Webmaster

Excellent! Thanks! Now, I'll have all these photos to enjoy many times today and beyond. They have to be savored, carefully scrutinized in every aspect, let alone as a whole vista. They are as handsome as can be - all of them. I think I can hear some of that charactreistic screeching those trains made as they passed overhead or nearby in NYC.

I have the theory that there is a line, vague, elusive, and defiant of explanation or definition, where craft-work is separated from artwork. Sometimes, that line is breached or surpassed. These subway/"elevated" scenes have crossed that line. I consider the vignettes shown to be artwork because they tell a truth we can recognize at once. I'll bet, if you contained them on a diorama and displayed them at an avant-garde art gallery/studio in NYC, for example, folks would say, "Oh yeah, that's perfect. I can see that truth" and would feel the scenes were being displayed at the proper venue.

I keep saying it, there's no rail like TWO RAIL. Joe those diamond cross overs are my favorite tracks in the system. Yours look better than any three rail could ever look. The time you took to make it prototypical was worth the time. I plan on going two rail whatever it takes.

Hello ALL:

Here are THREE more track view done in "mood lighting" replicating near end of day early evening . These are directly from my computer via attachments.
For all those many previous interested viewers to my other photos on this thread.

Regards - Joe F

Hello again ALL:

Here are THREE more views of night scenes featuring an IRT EL MUDC and IRT Q Type cars.

NOTE -- Seems the MTJ Forum site will load ONLY 3 "image attachments" from my (any ??) computer via computer BROWSER files-linking connection per posting. When a 4th or more is attempted to be loaded, it, they, do not load but is, are, replaced by a fourth, fifth etc., image duplicate replicating the THIRD image of the first 3 attachments loaded - heh ! When I load those 4th, 5th, etc., (up to again, only 3) images to a new seperate post, they load up and show fine, but only 3 at a time !! Could it possibly be a glitch (or "attachment file" count limit factor) in the MTJ Forum "phpBB Group" programs software . Perhaps our MTJ Forum owner BILL or MTJ Webmaster DALE can explain why this happens.

Anyway, for those many previous viewers so interested, hope you enjoy the THREE extra images in THIS posting. And dont overlook the OTHER THREE images on the immediated previous post I just made.

Regards - Joe F

Joe F, Let me ask you about this photo in particular. It affords a partial, long view of the overall setting, suggesting a fully fleshed-out NY avenue , indeed! Can you post shots that provide a broader perspective so that we (your fans) can appreciate the entire vista? Just seeing the upper portions of those edifices suggests an entire world, there, with endless things to see and marvel at.

Hello Again Murph !

Thanks for again stopping by here ! Re; "fleshed out" (??!!) street scenes below the EL on my system, did you CHECK OUT the photos way above in the MIDDLE of this thread ? Actually, they dont belong, heh, with "track and R-o-W scenes" on this thread, but I posted those street level and under EL images anyway. So see if those are what you mean by, heh "fleshed out" lower scenes - let me know ! I have MANY MORE ---here are 3 additional ones BELOW!

Regards - Joe F

Yes, that's it! Thanks very much! And yes, I have viewed many of your previous shots; at least, around the time since I started responding to discovering them. I'll look forward to as many as you wish to share further, of course.

Hi Joe, It looks like the board policy settings is three attachments per page, and that's why it is duplicating any additional attachments, it's a weird way to deal with it, I'm going to check and see if that is normal behaviour. I think we can bump that limitation.

Hello Dale (Shy Guy-webmaster)

THANKS much for the reply - and was good speaking with you via phone tonight about this issue....(re: "NOTE" above) and glad I could alert you about the situation. Just seemed ODD to me that the MTJ server program(s) allows loading way more than 3 pics per post when those pics are posted using EXTERNAL [IMG] image URLS (from a photo web hoster) rather than allowing only THREE images per posting via those images posted directly from a computer via the BROWSER format connection !! Thanks for your phone imput and whatever assistance you can provide !

Regards ! - Joe F