A New York State of Mind

Arnold, are those 6464 box cars or MPC or mixed? Looking good. Don

Arnold, your layout looks great ! JohnA 

Excellent video Arnold. Thanks for posting it.

Arnold, I am Always in a New York State of mind.

Great freight Hauling video!

leroof.

@scale rail posted:

Arnold, are those 6464 box cars or MPC or mixed? Looking good. Don

Don, they are mixed. I like the colors. Arnold

@John A posted:

Arnold, your layout looks great ! JohnA 

Thanks John. I enjoy tinkering with the scenery. My latest efforts have been to improve the trees. Arnold

@Leroof posted:

Arnold, I am Always in a New York State of mind.

Great freight Hauling video!

leroof.

 

Leroof (who lives in the great State of Maine) did you notice the light blue Boston & Maine boxcars?

I created a NYC set from  Lionel A&B 2023 units. Lionel didn't make any in O27 and O gauge was too big for my sons layout.

This passenger train lead by an MTH Railking RS3 smoking diesel will "Take Me Out To The Ballgame:"

Where, after the Yankee game, we will hopefully hear Frank Sinatra sing: "And here's to you, New York, New York."

LOL, Arnold 

Any place called The Empire State that gives Regents Exams must be OK.

MELGAR

Does Long Island qualify?

MELGAR

Just love NYS...it's a regular Disney Land....always something new to keep us on our toes...

@MELGAR posted:

Does Long Island qualify?

MELGAR

Of course!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!  Absolutely NEVER!!  I am, however, always in a Philly state of mind!!!

I did, however, thoroughly enjoy your videos!

-Greg

Sure:  (sorry it's not on rails, but this is a pic I took a few years ago when I asked for Forum feedback on where this car came from - turns out it was from a Bloomingdale's starter set.  The more common one that was offered as a stand-alone piece of rolling stock was white instead of this blue background that makes it look like nighttime, along with the lights in the skyline that were not present in the other car)

-Dave

Always Arnold!

Yes Mel- Long Island counts

Can't forget it's the home of one of the greatest fighter jets ever made, AND the Apollo Lunar Lander

Gotta give the Bridge Line props too!

And you can't forget taking the 7 Train to Shea Stadium.

@Greg Houser posted:

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!  Absolutely NEVER!!  I am, however, always in a Philly state of mind!!!

I did, however, thoroughly enjoy your videos!

-Greg

 

Sorry Greg.... The Islanders are beating the Flyers......

I have it bad.

Greetings Arnold, of all people, you're asking a Dallas born Texan if he is ever in a New York state of mind?  Fact: I was raised on my grandparents little farm north of Dallas in Farmers Branch.  A couple miles north, The Katy, Frisco, and Cotton Belt crossed each other on a unique three way crossing at Carrollton.  Until replaced by automatic interlocking, it was protected by Tower 77.  As a kid in 1951 I well remember Katy steam on the Denton Branch which ran near the farm. 

But back to New York, I almost forgot what you asked.  How silly of me. There's no place in the universe that can beat New York, New York!  But hey, I like all of the railroads of the Northeast.  MELGAR asked if the Long Island counts?  You bet it does!  Once upon a time in the Northeast, it was even part of the Late Great PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, and like the Strasburg Rail Road that operates in the Keystone State, the "Rail Road" in Long Island is two words and not combined!

When I die, and meet my Maker, I want to board the Heavenly Express.  I'll travel First Class all the way.  It will depart on that secret underground track below Grand Central Station and will stop at the Roundhouse in the Sky, that's found just beyond the Big Rock Candy Mountains, where I will detrain.  There I will be greeted by all the railroaders, railfans, and model railroaders, who have befriended me during my lifetime here on Earth.  I hope to see y'all there too, you hear?

In these troubled times, please PRAY FOR PEACE, ON EARTH, GOOD WILL, TOWARDS MAN!  We're all in this together and must symbolically hold hands and give thanks that we will endure without another terrible world war that can, in fact, destroy all human life on this planet.  We owe it to our children and their children's children as well! 

73

Joe

"161st Street and Yankee Stadium, this is the D Train:"

Arnold

Arnold, 

This topic has made me one happy fellow!

Considering most of my engines and rolling stock are from The Central, I think these photos of my favorite engines belong here...

Bryce

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Arnold, 

This topic has made me one happy fellow!

Considering most of my engines and rolling stock are from The Central, I think these photos of my favorite engines belong here...

Bryce

Bryce, as much as I love NY, I also love NJ. Throughout my life, I've had some of my best times in NJ at LBI (Long Beach Island) and at the former sprawling split level home on 5 acres of my aunt and uncle in Pennington, NJ.

I am also an admirer of the Jersey Central RR, particularly the Blue Comet. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I am also an admirer of the Jersey Central RR, particularly the Blue Comet. Arnold

Arnold,

You have great taste my friend! If I am not mistaken, don't you have a LC or LC+ Blue Comet?

Bryce

A little diversion from this topic for my good Forum friend, Bryce, who has put me at the moment in a NEW JERSEY STATE OF MIND! 

LOL

Here is my LC+ Jersey Central Pacific (Blue Comet locomotive) in action:

Arnold

It would be interesting to have a "California State of Mind", but we are too busy fighting forest fires!

@BOB WALKER posted:

It would be interesting to have a "California State of Mind", but we are too busy fighting forest fires!

Bob, you can start a California State of Mind Forum topic, and post photos of your favorite models of trains from railroads that have had their rights of way through the great State of California, like the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, etc.. 

Here's another idea. If you have any figures of beautiful women, say in O Scale, you can borrow from the Beach Boys great song,  California Girls: "I wish they all could be California girls." LOL, Arnold

My little part of the PRR in New York State.  The Elmira Branch to Sodus Point.

Does this count Arnold?....😉

Pat

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

A little diversion from this topic for my good Forum friend, Bryce, who has put me at the moment in a NEW JERSEY STATE OF MIND! 

Fantastic engine Arnold!

When Covid is over, we will have to run our two Blue Comets Side by side! 

@harmonyards, now that is what I call a New York State of mind!

I see the streamlined Empire State Express is hiding at the top of your photo. If you ask me, that was the best looking streamlined Hudson the New York Central had.

Bryce

MELGAR

That's an early MTH Railking NY Central L3 Mohawk Pre-Protosounds, and my favorite blinking billboard.

Here is the same NY Central Mohawk passing one of the most charming Lionel Postwar accessories, the Animated Newstand:

Love that dog, but that fire hydrant must really stink. 

Arnold

@MELGAR posted:

Any place called The Empire State that gives Regents Exams must be OK.

MELGAR

Oh yes, the Regents Exams, I remember those. Though my railroading interests skew west, I grew up in New York. Here’s a former depot not far from my childhood home. I have no memory of the tracks that once came through here, but believe this once stood on a Boston and Albany line. 

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Arnold, I absolutely saw the two B&M boxcars in front of the Rutland boxcar! One is lighter than the other. I like the darker one best. 

hey btw, an arborist must be at work there. Nice NY state of mind trees!

I have a few. Some are from Christmas, most recent if from Sunday of my upgraded NYC Mohawk #3005.

Always... my family's house in Syracuse is most regrettably no longer mine,  but it will never cease to be my home.

Great memories of the 4 track Water Level route, just west of the E. Syracuse Yard;  great memories of several long gone  O gauge train layouts,  Go Saltine Warriors....  oops!...  Go Orange....  [more politically correct these days!].

@Rich Montague posted:

....I grew up in New York. Here’s a former depot not far from my childhood home. I have no memory of the tracks that once came through here, but believe this once stood on a Boston and Albany line. 

As a Boston & Albany fan, I'm curious as to the town where this is located.

MELGAR

@Rich Montague posted:

Oh yes, the Regents Exams, I remember those. Though my railroading interests skew west, I grew up in New York. Here’s a former depot not far from my childhood home. I have no memory of the tracks that once came through here, but believe this once stood on a Boston and Albany line. 

That looks like the Mellenville station between Ghent and Here is a photo that I took of it in 2015.  Also a google satellite view of the area.  Your photos are summer time while mine are in the fall with leaves gone from the trees.

@mlaughlinnyc posted:

That looks like the Mellenville station between Ghent and Here is a photo that I took of it in 2015.  Also a google satellite view of the area.  Your photos are summer time while mine are in the fall with leaves gone from the trees.

I just did a bit more checking.  Look in Google for Mellenville Grange and you will see a photo that shows that sign on the building.  It's on the national register of historic places.  What was your home town ?

I took my photos on a tour of the B&A's Hudson Branch to get some photos of all points of interest between Ghent and Hudson.  also the Harlem between Ghent and Hillsdale.