I have just watched a youtube vedio about troupe trains.Pretty cool to see how every body worked together.I think there some ww2 vets that model trains.And I am pretty sure that a few are members here on the forum.If your a ww2 vet and model trains lets hear from ya.BTW merry chrisymas and happy new year.
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Vietnam Vet....but I hope you enjoy my WW2 Army train.
TEX
Steve
TexSpecial-thank you for your service.
My Grandpa was a WWII/Korea Vet and loved Lionel trains.
I'm an OIF/OEF Veteran and have done several other 'peace keeping' deployments (Washington slang). Grandpa taught me service to Country and Lionel trains. I really miss him.
I'm a "no war" vet, I managed to slip away just before Vietnam got going. 
My father in law is a WWII vet and a model railroader. When my wife and I dating he would be at the desk building a Walthers O scale passenger kit. He had a stroke a few years back so is not to active today....but still talks trains model and real.
My father is a WWII Veteran having marched across France and Germany under General Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. He is the sole reason for my passion for model trains.
He worked at Michael Brothers in NY when he got home from the service. In 1946, on Christmas Eve his boss said he could take everything he could carry that didn't sell for a 80% discount. My dad hauled two huge boxes of trains through the subway and up the stairs at his stop in Brooklyn in the heavy snow. This included two nice steamers, A GG1 Pass set, 25 or so freight cars, a ZW, a log loader, Lionel Station, and Coal Loader.
Sitting over his desk is one of those consists. I have the Santa Fe F3ABA and matching cars in my office.
My mom and dad will celebrate their 71st Wedding Anniversary on January 3rd.
Paul
68 years since the end of WWII, even the youngest vets at the time, may be 17 or 18, would be 86 today. God bless the few that remain.
I am a Navy vet who served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. I still have the Walthers New York Central caboose that I built on the Bon Homme Richard.I have been involved in O gauge ever since.
68 years since the end of WWII, even the youngest vets at the time, may be 17 or 18, would be 86 today. God bless the few that remain.
My son and I go to the Reading, PA WWII airshow every year and both enjoy talking to the many vets who attend. My son, only 11, is a bit awestruck every time he meets someone "who was actually there" and enjoys collecting all their autographs in the show programs (where there is a section for autographs). To a person, the vets - even those from the opposing side - would talk all day long if there wasn't a line and seem genuinely touched when a young(er) child asks them questions and has a conversation with them. Every year I try to treasure the experience more and more as each year I seem to notice someone who is no longer at the show and wonder if they are still with us.
A heartfelt thanks to all the veterans!
--Greg
SeaBoard,
My Father was a WW II US Navy 46th Bat UDT SeaBee, you know them today as US Navy Seals. On Guadacanal they had some very tough times, my Grandfather thru one of the Navy Commanders sent my Fathers Lionel Work train to the SeaBee's for Christmas. It ran there under a small tree they had set up in the mess hall, I still have that train today, it runs here every Chrsitmas in honor of those men.
Myself I am a Viet Nam Vet, 2nd Group MISF, HQ out of Ft Devens, Mass, very few of us left now. Thank you sir very much for remembering our WW II Veterans, we owe them our very lives and freedom.
PCRR/Dave
The original Tin Plate Lionel that ran on Guadacanal for the US Navy SeaBees.
I am a Navy vet who served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. I still have the Walthers New York Central caboose that I built on the Bon Homme Richard.I have been involved in O gauge ever since.
THANK YOU for being there for all of us, Bill.
Alex
Bill,
Thank you sir for your service, God's Speed.
PCRR/Dave
US Navy Korean War Vet 1949-53, attached to Marine Coastal Force in North Korea for 8 months 1951-52 to repair searchlights, field generators and landing boats ["combat electrician" ].
Photos below shows model of one my adversaries....
Seaboard;
Thanks for starting this thread.
To all the Vets, Thank you for your Service whenever and Wherever.
I to see the diminishing ranks of those from the older wars and mourn the loss.
There is a reason they called it "Our Greatest Generation"
Even those that stayed home scrimped and saved not for themselves but for the war effort.
I wonder if this generation could even do a shadow of that.
To one and all, Merry Christmas !
My father is a WWII Veteran having marched across France and Germany under General Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. He is the sole reason for my passion for model trains.
He worked at Michael Brothers in NY when he got home from the service. In 1946, on Christmas Eve his boss said he could take everything he could carry that didn't sell for a 80% discount. My dad hauled two huge boxes of trains through the subway and up the stairs at his stop in Brooklyn in the heavy snow. This included two nice steamers, A GG1 Pass set, 25 or so freight cars, a ZW, a log loader, Lionel Station, and Coal Loader.
Sitting over his desk is one of those consists. I have the Santa Fe F3ABA and matching cars in my office.
My mom and dad will celebrate their 71st Wedding Anniversary on January 3rd.
Paul
Paul,
God Bless them!
George
Dewey,
We just lost Dominic this year, he was one of your boys, another Marine who fixed generators in Korea at the landing sights. He was a darn good man, and Marine.
PCRR/Dave
God Bless Our WWII vets and all vets!
Merry Christmas one and all!
Thank you all for your effort and sacrifices, and have a great holiday! My brother
was a Vietnam vet.
I wonder if this generation could even do a shadow of that.
I think they can, but let's hope we never have to find out.
As my Grandmother used to say, the WWII generation was from the "Old Stock"...
If you eat well, dont' smoke, watch your weight, don't catch the flu, and make sure you eat a piece of fruit every day and esparges with every meal and you will live a very long long long time.
SeaBoard,
My Father was a WW II US Navy 46th Bat UDT SeaBee, you know them today as US Navy Seals. On Guadacanal they had some very tough times, my Grandfather thru one of the Navy Commanders sent my Fathers Lionel Work train to the SeaBee's for Christmas. It ran there under a small tree they had set up in the mess hall, I still have that train today, it runs here every Chrsitmas in honor of those men.
Myself I am a Viet Nam Vet, 2nd Group MISF, HQ out of Ft Devens, Mass, very few of us left now. Thank you sir very much for remembering our WW II Veterans, we owe them our very lives and freedom.
PCRR/Dave
The original Tin Plate Lionel that ran on Guadacanal for the US Navy SeaBees.
I have family that severed in that war.One in the army and one in the navy.Come to think of it there was alot of vets in my hometown.Heck I most likly waved or said hello to some.But didn,t know it unless some body said something.Yes I am thankful they fought evil.Some of them could build nice train layouts.
Seaboard;
Thanks for starting this thread.
To all the Vets, Thank you for your Service whenever and Wherever.
I to see the diminishing ranks of those from the older wars and mourn the loss.
There is a reason they called it "Our Greatest Generation"
Even those that stayed home scrimped and saved not for themselves but for the war effort.
I wonder if this generation could even do a shadow of that.
To one and all, Merry Christmas !
Its some thing that been on my mind of late.The grade school I went to had teaching history down to a art.They really coved ww2 pretty good and some of the teachers.Their dad or granddad were ww2 vets.Godbless them all.
My father is a WWII Veteran having marched across France and Germany under General Patton in the Battle of the Bulge. He is the sole reason for my passion for model trains.
He worked at Michael Brothers in NY when he got home from the service. In 1946, on Christmas Eve his boss said he could take everything he could carry that didn't sell for a 80% discount. My dad hauled two huge boxes of trains through the subway and up the stairs at his stop in Brooklyn in the heavy snow. This included two nice steamers, A GG1 Pass set, 25 or so freight cars, a ZW, a log loader, Lionel Station, and Coal Loader.
Sitting over his desk is one of those consists. I have the Santa Fe F3ABA and matching cars in my office.
My mom and dad will celebrate their 71st Wedding Anniversary on January 3rd.
Paul
Seaboard;
Thanks for starting this thread.
To all the Vets, Thank you for your Service whenever and Wherever.
I to see the diminishing ranks of those from the older wars and mourn the loss.
There is a reason they called it "Our Greatest Generation"
Even those that stayed home scrimped and saved not for themselves but for the war effort.
I wonder if this generation could even do a shadow of that.
To one and all, Merry Christmas !
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