James L. Agneta

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Railfan and Architect in training. Hudson Valley, NY He/Him

Six HO scale steam locomotives (Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844, Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #759, Pennsylvania Railroad 2-10-0 #4390, NYSW 2-8-2 #142, and Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 #265) fill the Albatross Yard Roundhouse, awaiting orders, on the Garden State Northern, the HO scale Model Railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club.
A manifest freight train with Conrail motive power on-point (GE C39-8 #6012 and EMD SD40 #6290) highballs Westbound along the Garden State Northern's mainline, in an area called the "River Scene". The Garden State Northern is the HO Scale model railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club in North Haledon, NJ.
A flyer for the Garden State Model Railway Club's 2026 Spring Shows. The club is open Saturday 3/21/2026, Sunday 3/22/2026, Saturday 3/28/2026, Sunday 3/29/2026, Saturday 4/11/2026, and Sunday 4/12/2026.
After an unexpected stop at the River Road Crossing in Tamaqua PA, due to a break in the air brakes, Reading and Northern T-1 2102 gets back underway and gives a damn good show while doing it.
Reading and Northern T-1 2102 highballs thru Leesport on a Valentine's Winter Rambles Excursion.
CSX symbol M404, a Northbound Manifest, passes Mine Dock Park. The train is lead by CSX 3254 (GE ET44AH), CSX 838 (GE ES44AC-H), and CSX 7597 (Rebuilt GE CM44AH)
USCGC Thunder Bay, a tugboat in icebreaking service, steams north up the Hudson, clearing the navigation channel for other ships.
A Grandt Line EMD 25 Tonner ("Name TBD") and a Walthers Plymouth ML-8 ("Smol") are perused by a Ken Kidder 0-4-0T+T (affectionately known as "Nugget") thru Middletown Yard on the Garden State Northern, the HO Scale model railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club. The background music is the Wrong Trousers Train Chase theme from Wallace and Gromit.
A wedge shot of the tail end of an HO Scale Erie Railroad ICC Bay Window Caboose, showing the interior lighting and illuminated marker lights. The model is a new product from Tangent Scale Models.
A Walthers ML-8 Plymouth Diesel Switcher sits awaiting orders at the Hensler Brewery on the Garden State Northern, the HO scale model railroad of the Garden State Model Railroad.
My 2026 Springfield Haul. Zoom in on the photo to read the annotations!
An HO scale model of a Bangoor and Aroostook ex-troop sleeper caboose, which is an amazing prototype. This was taken on the Amherst Belt Lines modular HO layout.
T-Trak module depicting a Godzilla attack.
Overall shot of the Better Living Center on Saturday morning. Crowds were out, and many were trying to pack a 2-day show into a single day due to the forecast.
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber at the New England Air Museum. This plane is two things... Very chrome and very massive.
A PRR J-1 class 2-10-4 on the head of a westbound hotshot freight highballs thru Middletown Yard on the Garden State Northern Railroad, the HO Scale model railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club.
A plethora of completed HO scale kits... Two Bluebox kits, two Accurail, and one Atlas Trainman.
A Quick and Dirty Photoshop with an NJT ALP-45DP Locomotive wearing a set of "Red-White-Blue "NJT Disco Stripes". It's a bit too French looking, and needs something... more. If anyone wants to take the idea further, you have my blessing. Photo is not mine, and was found on Google Images.
New York Central 813 (ex-Ulster & Delaware 36) in Walden NY working on the Wallkill Valley Branch, October 3 1940. Edward L May Photo
A snowy scene taken somewhere in the Hudson Valley NY. In the center, a disused railroad culvert stands silent among the snow.
A NJT Multilevel train highballs through Norristown towards Jersey City on the on the Garden State Northern, the HO Scale railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club. Once the NJT train passes, a Trailer-on-Flatcar (TOFC) train led by a lashup of Lehigh Valley ALCo diesels (a C430 and a C628), heads westbound.
An Eastbound coal train led by a set of ALCo FA diesels, and a NJT Commuter Train, pass by the illuminated city of Albatross on the Garden State Northern Railroad, the HO Scale Model railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club.
A manifest freight led by a pair of Conrail ES44ACs highballs Eastbound thru Perry towards Jersey City on the Garden State Northern, the HO Scale model railroad of the Garden State Model Railway Club.
A Pair of NYSW B40-8s leads an Westbound freight towards Allentown PA, while an Eastbound passenger train lead by a 2-8-0 steam locomotive passes by.
Erie S3 Class 2-8-4 "Berkshire" steam locomotive, Secaucus NJ, August 1948, Larry Berger Collection
A Sequence on how to expand a model railroad layout from the humorous 1975 short film "Model Railroading Unlimited"
Erie 2499, a J-2 Class Russian Decapod. Date unknown. Larry Berger Collection
Louis Kahn in the auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum, 1972
CAR CARDS AND WAYBILLS AND CAR CARDS AND WAYBILLS AND CAR CARDS AND WAYBILLS AND CAR CARDS AND WAYBILLS AND
A page of logos, drumheads, and railroad reporting marks for a fictional crustacean-themed railroad.
Erie No. 26, a GE 44-tonner rolls up and shuts off it's engine. The "Mighty Mouse" theme then starts to play.
An HO Scale model of a GE 44-Tonner, lettered as Erie No. 26. The model starts up, turns on it's light, rings the bell, blows it's horn, and moves off.
C&O L1 Hudson No. 494, with centered headlight and Franklin Type A valve gear, in Cincinnati OH, 1946. Photograph by E. G. Baker, Collection of the Lake States Railway Historical Association
NYSW 142, a 2-8-2 Steam Locomotive, whistles for the grade crossing at Baer, then passes the camera, giving a whistle for the station at Snyders.
A brass crab named "Crabitha", mounted atop the headlight of NYSW 142, a 2-8-2 steam locomotive.
Burlington Northern “Bopper” freight car, another set of experimental cars that had both side doors and roof hatches. They could be used as both covered hoppers or boxcars, hence the name “Boppers” for these box/hopper cars. Prototype No. 800000 sits between sister cars 800004 and 800001 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016. Photo by Mike Danneman.
Scan from a book (probably a Morning Sun book?) giving some information on the Combination boxcar/wood chip hopper used by the Milwaukee Road and BC Rail.
A HO Scale fictional kitbash of a double-ended MILW Skytop car.
Portrait of Lehigh and Hudson River 4-8-2 steam locomotive 12 on October 17, 1948. The locomotive was one of three built by Baldwin in 1944; the last new steam power for the L&HR, which fully dieselized in 1950. Photograph by Donald W. Furler, Furler-22-006-02, © 2017, Center for Railroad Photography and Art
NJT 4210 pulls into Boonton Station as part of NJT's Boonton Scoot service
NJT 4101 heads East to Layover after dropping off passengers at Boonton
A Panning Shot of the URHS Boonton Yard, with a live band playing "Almost Like Being in Love".
NJT Disco Stripe Curtains
1947 Ford Railway Express Agency Delivery Truck
Erie Railroad EMD SW9 #436
Morristown & Erie ALCo C424 #19
PRR GG1 #4877.
A pair of Erie Railroad EMD E8s, numbers 832 and 833, at the Erie's Jersey City Terminal, February 1956
Side view showing an EMD F40PH locomotive, number 1030, repainted into a heritage paint scheme of the Boston and Maine Railroad.
An HO Scale model of the ex-PRR G0.5 snowblower unit on the Garden State Model Railway Club's layout
A lineup of locomotives around the Steamtown Turntable.
Baldwin Locomotive Works 26 powers a 4-car passenger train on the "Scranton Limited Yard Train", while blowing it's whistle for a crossing
Baldwin Locomotive Works number 26 waits for passengers to load for the "Scranton Limited Yard Train". The top-down view is reminicant of how model railroad layouts look.
The backshops at Steamtown in Scranton PA
Reading 2124, a 4-8-4 steam locomotive on display in Scranton PA