I finally get to run this train with hope. I hope to keep it on the layout for a while!
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Go Eagles! I have the same set, however now it only goes backwards, I hope that is not a bad omen.
Yes: Go Eagles
Cool train room and train.
Gary
I love the sports related toy trains...someone needs to make more, a new boxcar for every football team, like Lionel did with MLB recently.
I predict an Eagles/Stillers Super Bowl, with the Iggles getting their first Lombardi trophy!
Go Eagles!
You may want to lubricate that engine - I believe it will choke up on the final stretch
John, have you tried a conventional reset? Hopefully it's only locked in reverse.
M J Breen posted:You may want to lubricate that engine - I believe it will choke up on the final stretch
No choking this year. That Eagles train should flying high for a couple more weeks.
I prefer the TEXAS EAGLE!
Dominic Mazoch posted:I prefer the TEXAS EAGLE!
Do you mean Nick Foles? He is not Carson Wentz, but he is a Texas Eagle (one of four on the current roster).
What, me worry?
Nice train. I am waiting for the 49er version.
NH Joe
But where are da playas? All huddled up in that hack?
Dave Zucal posted:John, have you tried a conventional reset? Hopefully it's only locked in reverse.
Thank you Dave, I will try it.
I had a Phillies train once, but it moved to the Phillipines.
Now they're known as the Manila Folders. 
Mitch
(who usually enjoy razzing the Iggles, but they're doing far too well this season)
When that train departed Carson City, Wentzylvania , it was the end for that railroad town.
Fun train, thanks for video.
Craignor posted:I love the sports related toy trains...someone needs to make more, a new boxcar for every football team, like Lionel did with MLB recently.
I predict an Eagles/Stillers Super Bowl, with the Iggles getting their first Lombardi trophy!
Go Eagles!
Ah, you youngsters. That would be great, and technically correct. The first professional football game I went to was the 1960 Eagles-Packers championship game which ended with Chuck Bednarik tackling and sitting on Jim Taylor. At Franklin Field. Its been all downhill since that.
Gerry
Just like in a football game it will taker forever to complete a circle around the layout if the conductor throws a yellow flag at every railroad crossing/foul.
I'm a Bears fan and was sad to see Carson go down. The progress he made this year along with Goff in LA was one of the few bright spots for the NFL this year...
Fun train! Supporting the NFC East in the playoffs - Iggles are worthy of the shot; just hope they don't derail themselves! That 1960 game was Vincent Thomas Lombardi's only playoff defeat - before the dynasty began! His teams won 5 NFL championships -2 Super Bowls! It's great to mix 2 hobbies: sports and trains! Thanks for sharing !
Nice train. Maybe those Beagles won't take a knee for the National Anthem this weekend?
Oh . . . those Eagles. When I saw the topic, I was expecting a concert. 
Quite honestly, not worth the watching.
Number 90 posted:Oh . . . those Eagles. When I saw the topic, I was expecting a concert.
I was hoping for a companoin piece to aquarium cars 
But would have settled for a Walsh solo 
There is a stadium joke in there somwhere 
Looks like the train will be on the layout for at least one more week!
One down two to go.
OKHIKER posted:Quite honestly, not worth the watching.
What's not worth watching?
Any of you in Philly still sober tonight?
What a game, especially the last 3+ minutes.
I stayed home yesterday because both of my boys wanted to go, and I only have two tickets. I did not want to choose between them, so I sent them both. Now, they are already lobbying for next week.
By 11:00 last night, the Eagles has already hit my credit card for the tickets for Sunday. Maybe I should just sell them, and use the money for new trains. Then I won’t have to fight with my kids.🤨
Alfred E Neuman posted:Dominic Mazoch posted:I prefer the TEXAS EAGLE!
Do you mean Nick Foles? He is not Carson Wentz, but he is a Texas Eagle (one of four on the current roster).
What, me worry?
The MoPac, Texas and Pacific, PRR or Amtrak versions.
Yes, for 18 months in the late 40's the train which became known as the PENN TEXAS was called the TX EAGLE! Ran NYP to STL.
John Pignatelli JR. posted:Go Eagles! I have the same set, however now it only goes backwards, I hope that is not a bad omen.
Funny - I thought that only my Chicago Bears train ran backwards.
Don't follow much football anymore (I can now hear my father's voice complaining about what they have done to the game coming out of my mouth!).. But when I did 17-0 was my team!
I have always thought I should take the Lionel Tank Car Accident piece and replace the Hooker car with my Met Tank Car.
Enjoy the games...
Bill
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What scale is that? I can barely see it!
Hehe, I'm rooting for another team, but my favorite Railroad may say otherwise...
Fun Fact: After the eagles won the 1960 super bowl the Reading company had a special train that ran over there system being lead by 5513, a GP30 and followed by another gp.
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There was no Super Bowl in 1960.
From Wikipedia
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl,[7] was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.
GregM posted:There was no Super Bowl in 1960.
From Wikipedia
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl,[7] was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.
Hmm, well my history of football stinks, oh well it must've been in the seventies I guess, sorry 'bout that,
The Eagles have won 0.0 Superbowls
Craignor posted:The Eagles have won 0.0 Superbowls
Welp, then it probably ant even the right sport I was talking bout, oh well.
RDGCO.Productions posted:GregM posted:There was no Super Bowl in 1960.
From Wikipedia
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl,[7] was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.
Hmm, well my history of football stinks, oh well it must've been in the seventies I guess, sorry 'bout that,
No, you were sort of right. The Eagles won the NFL championship in 1960. The Super Bowl didn’t come about until a few years later, when two competing leagues, the NFL and the AFL, decided to have their respective champions play against each other. Eventually, the two leagues merged under the NFL banner.
