How many Veterans like trains?

@Ed Boyle posted:

Lou,

Should have realized that was the kind of job you did in the service.

Cool!

Ed Boyle

That was back in the day when satellite photos were in black and white. 

Lou

PA ANG 1957-1966, active duty Oct 61-Aug 62(Cuban crisis).

Trains, Dad Standard gauge,1940's, me Am Flyer 1950's, HO 1960's, Lionel O gauge 2007-present.

Built an addition to house for trains in 2009, layout 18-1/2 x 11-1/2.

Tom

In honor of Wednesday

USN (1967 to 1987)  Surface Warfare  NH Joe

Vietnam - 4 Deployments

USS Coontz DLG-9 off the coast of Vietnam

USS Bainbridge DLGN-25 south of Hawaii

G&O Garden Railroad - Veterans Day 2019  The boxcar behind the Lionel SD90Mac painted for the SeaBees (USN Construction Battalions).  It was convention car for 2018 TCA National Convention is Warwick, RI.  My father was one of the original Seabees.  He fought throughout the South Pacific.  

The Seabee Bee - We can build, we can fight!  Note the Tommy gun, wrench and hammer.  

US Army. 1968-70. Joint Security Area, Panmunjom Korea.

Steve

I do !

H3/H53  Jolly Green Giant crew chief.

USAF Engineer 2003-2012

First train in 1972

Army 1966-69 Signal Corp

Thailand/RVN 67-68

US NAVY 1987-93, CVN70 and I have a few trains...

My dad was also in the Navy in VA65 from 62-70 ish  serving on both CVN65 and CV64 and had Marx trains when he was a kid which I still have.

My Grandpa was in the Navy from 43-46 on the AO-58 oiler and saw first hand a lot of the island hopping battles of late WWII in the Pacific.  Great guy and he was a real Railroad man working first in Levenworth Ks and then was forman of the car shop in Coffeyville Ks in the late 60's and early 70's. 

USAF 1986-2006

US Army 1979-1999 Infantry and Special Forces

Army, MP Corps (08/72-12/94) 

1949- 1953 USAF B-29's, B- 36's & B-47's. Keesler AFB, Spokane AFB, Yakoda AFB,  Davis Monthan AFB, Lowery AFB, & March AFB. All SAC Bases. That should cover it.

USAF 65-72  Missile Launch Officer Minuteman system.  Missiles were transported to base by train.   One of my models.

@Dennis Holler posted:

US NAVY 1987-93, CVN70 and I have a few trains...

Nuke?

I was an ET-Nuke on CVN-68

@Ross posted:

USAF Retired, started on Minuteman missile crew.

I pulled Alerts at Delta 66sms 44thsmw

@Nation Wide Lines posted:

Nuke?

I was an ET-Nuke on CVN-68

Yes sir, 2 MMR CMO with two years of drydock i only got one westpac in 90 and Pacex 89 and we were only on station leading up to the deadline for the first Gulf war. Dang it was hot in the IO  lol.

To each and everyone of you.

Thank You.

@Dennis Holler posted:

Yes sir, 2 MMR CMO with two years of drydock i only got one westpac in 90 and Pacex 89 and we were only on station leading up to the deadline for the first Gulf war. Dang it was hot in the IO  lol.

I did 2 westpacs, the last one had us relieving the 2 carriers that were in the Gulf for the war, right around April of 1991.  Got back from the last westpac about 6 weeks before discharge.  We also did about a year in drydock, between the westpacs.

We stopped in Dubai 3 times, while in the Gulf.

Korea,,,,,,,,

U.S.Naval Academy, Nuclear submarines 1967-1976, Submarine Reserves 1977-1987

@JerryB posted:

U.S.Naval Academy, Nuclear submarines 1967-1976, Submarine Reserves 1977-1987

You need a yellow one. Sorry, couldn't help myself.

https://ogrforum.com/...5#152054912703297855
Art, have you been back since your D01 was turned into Minuteman National Historic Site?  I haven’t made it up to it yet, but hope to go at some point.

Army 1965-68 Nike site. Found my Nike flat car I made. Don

@JerryB posted:

U.S.Naval Academy, Nuclear submarines 1967-1976, Submarine Reserves 1977-1987

Jerry,

Jerry,

We are classmates.  I was in 5th Company.  You can contact me off line if you wish.  My email is in my profile.  NH Joe

Raised in the Bronx, NY, with my Dads’ Lionel 0-6-0 227 Switcher and 2-4-2 259E engines, I left home to join the Navy.  Wound up serving from 1955 to 1975.

USS Shangri La (CVA-38),  USS  Hornet  (CVA-12),  USS Harold J Ellison (DD 864), USS Leary (DD 879),  an advisory tour in Vietnam in 1968.

Somewhere along my Naval career, I picked up my Dads’  227 and 259E  and have been adding trains to them ever since.

@Ross posted:

https://ogrforum.com/...5#152054912703297855
Art, have you been back since your D01 was turned into Minuteman National Historic Site?  I haven’t made it up to it yet, but hope to go at some point.

-No Ross I took my kids to Ellsworth some years back but that was before it was a national park.  Hope to get back soon and thought I might go last summer but then Virus hit.  I can tell you that the art on the blast door was not there.  In fact that was a copy of what was done at Minot.  I am modeling a missile receiving station o.n my layout.  I like your base