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Happy Front End Friday everyone! With a hectic workweek behind me, it's finally time to unwind in the Train Room. Today I'm running my two Lionel Legacy engines. On the outer mainline, my beloved Lionchief T1 Duplex is hauling the Broadway Limited (K-Line 15" Fleet of Modernism coaches).

Duplex with KLine Coaches

On the inside track, my brand-new Legacy SW8 is pulling a mixed freight.

Legacy SW8 with Freight

Both engines are geared differently so even at about the same speed setting the Duplex flies and the SW8 crawls. Time for a race!

The Race is On

Here's the obligatory video.

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Well,mits Thursday evening and a good friend brought three of his prized steam locomotives over to run on my layout, and they are great runners. One, a Lionel VL Hudson, another Sunset 3rd rail Sante Fe Texas Northern, another large Sunset 3rd rail steamer 4-10-2 with three chuffs per revolution, all amazing, we had a great train day. Happy Railroading Everyone 298E55BF-AA8F-4E44-9057-E494731A0C1528429F11-A7C3-403A-AE80-A1876731C7B8B85F088C-5B03-4F49-B9A5-A47E27898FE96C9D10E9-2D47-42B9-92F4-8F6E5CBF7D01B2135084-5179-4902-A867-582FF3B25FDF882A3835-D017-4DAB-B601-1561D33209DB3B67F2E9-8530-4170-87E4-E7913FB4E9B51E9DC6C4-DC18-4DCD-B999-FA67BF4DFF852570B10C-D41F-4B09-B805-CBC34DB723AA

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Hi F.E.F. fans, well with Steve's Marx HO and UKE's Thomas and despite all of the beautiful scale locomotives (leapinlarry esp.) I guess I am OK with using one of my Marx trains for today.  OBTW for all you folks in the North, the bitter cold has finally reached Texas with temperatures never going above freezing both yesterday and so far today.  Anyway here is the Marx 995 sheet steel stamped locomotive (stamping the same as the 994) , actually an 0-4-0 but with leading and trailing trucks simulated in the stamping.  This locomotive was brought out in 1950 by Marx specifically to compete with the new Unique lines trains.  It was available through at least 1952 in both black and red as well as a full lithographed "Mickey Mouse" theme.

Here she is with her train of Marx 4 wheel 7" cars (also specifically manufactured in response to Unique Lines) in a set that was labeled ... "The Meteor".

Marx 994 Meteor and train

Here she is exiting the "mountains" on the Leonardtown and Savannah

Marx 994 exiting tunnel

Here she is with her long 7" type tender marked with the number "941" for reasons known only to Mr. Marx and confusing for all us late comer collectors as the locomotive designated product number was 994  / 995 although not printed anywhere on the locomotive, It was also available as a clockwork engine.

Marx 994 Meteor NKP tender

Well best wishes to everyone on this very cold and dreary Friday here in central Texas.  Hope the weather is better where you are!!

Don

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Another chilly, wintry Friday here in the Northeast so it's time to retreat to the Train Room. Today I've cleared out the main lines of the layout so the Big Steam can get some exercise.

On the inside track I have my B&M M1A Mountain-class leading a coal drag. It's an early MTH Railking Imperial engine with a very basic PS2 sound and command system but has been a very reliable runner.

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On the outer line I've brought out one of the titans, my MTH American Legacy black 763e Hudson! It's a big scale locomotive with a tinplate tender, just like how many of the prewar Lionels were sold in the late 30s. It has a modern can motor, traction tires and a very heavy die-cast boiler so it has much better pulling power than the typical MTH tinplate engines.

MTH American Legacy Black 763e Hudson

Today the 763e is pulling my Williams NH heavyweight set with some K-Line "private varnish" on the tail end.

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Here's the Big Steam in action!

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FeF / Saturday

Love this set Nos. 49 and 50; they are my all time favorite MTH engines.  I spoke with Clyde at Stockyard Express the end of the week and this run did so well he will be doing D&TSL Nos. 47 and 48 so if you like them CALL, he's taking pre-orders for them asap.

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SHARP looking Detroit .

Good to hear Clyde is still in business and keeping on the ball. 😉

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