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@Donnie Kennedy - "Right On!" with those lightening bolts - yours are "lookin good"

@Steve "Papa" Eastman - Great view Steve, I am assuming when you put, "from Menards" that these engines are the new (not yet really open offered) F3 engines from Menards.  Never saw the blue livery, is that also from Menards?

Great photos everyone, Dave Ripp that is quite a picture of the Amtrak train thanks for posting.

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

@Donnie Kennedy - "Right On!" with those lightening bolts - yours are "lookin good"

@Steve "Papa" Eastman - Great view Steve, I am assuming when you put, "from Menards" that these engines are the new (not yet really open offered) F3 engines from Menards.  Never saw the blue livery, is that also from Menards?

Great photos everyone, Dave Ripp that is quite a picture of the Amtrak train thanks for posting.

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

Yes, both are Menards engines. The blue came out a few months ago as a A-A combination, again only a couple hundred produced.

Steve

@leapinlarry - Great pictures, I see that your yellow SF is now an ABBA with 2 B's , neat!!

@Steve "Papa" Eastman - quite an array of Dorfan "crocodiles for sure, If I remember correctly those came apart in two halves for assembly. OBTW here is a real crocodile, these things are enormous (from the German Technical Museum)

German Crocodile loco

Best wishes for a great weekend'

Don

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Unfortunately this loco & tender are having to be sent back for a full refund. Too many problems and negatives to mention here. Disappointed and frustrated. However, I did at least manage to take a few pics of it in situ. On the STD42 curve loop on the upper platform of The VintageHubby's new in-progress Wide Gauge/Standard Gauge Basement Layout. A repainted original Lionel Standard Gauge 1835E with its 1835W tender. With reproduction Lionel blue & silver 309, 321, and 312 passenger cars that I have had for a number of years.

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@Dave Ripp. posted:

Amtrak leaving the Naperville station.

California Zephyr. Naperville was one of our old "haunts" as a buddy and I rode our bicycles all over the Chicago area in the mid '70's to early '80's. This was the Burlington Northern ROW then. I spent many a warm summer's night riding the streets along these tracks and train-spotting. The humid night air smelled of grass and all the flowering plants and trees mixed with warm creosote. It was wonderful. The freights were usually flying by the time they got out here. It was a blast watching 'em (and standing too close). The BN E9 and stainless Budd bi-level commuter coaches that ran on this line back then were Chicagoland's nicest-looking commuter consists. Metra? Phooey!

Thanks for the flood of fond memories, Dave!

@3rail posted:

Front End Friday...ATSF style. If you have time, please check out my new video I posted in this folder highlighting my Lionel Santa Fe "Warhorse" set.

Here is a link to my YouTube channel to watch more of my O Gauge videos:

https://www.youtube.com/c/DonaldKeiser1981

Thanks.

Donald

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Donald two weeks ago it was gorgeous NYC Hudsons, and last week a bold ATSF Hudson.  I believe there are never too many pictures of Hudsons.

See, what did I tell you?  Never too many Hudsons!

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Our motorman is in the front end of an R36 Worlds Fair #7 today, ready to pull out on the El and make it all the way to the Fair,  As I kid, I would always make sure to get in that first car and ride looking out of that front window next to the motorman.  It was the best spot in any train!

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Yes it was!  Even in the subway tunnels where all you could see the signal lights up ahead until you neared a station.

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