Let's See Your ERIE Power-Steam & Diesel

I’ve always liked the Erie paint scheme.  Would love to see Lionel release a GP7 in the future.

@Toro5xi posted:

I’ve always liked the Erie paint scheme.  Would love to see Lionel release a GP7 in the future.

Lionel had a legacy gp7 and gp9 a few years ago

I appreciate Erie Steam Power...and Erie models by MTH and Lionel make up a good part of the heavy steam on my railroad.

Here's one of the short videos I made of Erie Steam: https://youtu.be/84OZA8UM9LI

BTW: "Erie Steam" - volume I has some great double and triple-heading action of Erie steam back in the day.

@Paul Kallus posted:

I appreciate Erie Steam Power...and Erie models by MTH and Lionel make up a good part of the heavy steam on my railroad.

Here's one of the short videos I made of Erie Steam: https://youtu.be/84OZA8UM9LI

BTW: "Erie Steam" - volume I has some great double and triple-heading action of Erie steam back in the day.

 

Paul Easier to view

Where are you from? Back in the 90s, I had the opportunity to operate and make a few structures for Harold Werthwein's Erie layout. He modeled Port Jervis to Binghamton. The layout was featured in many publications and is considered one of the great prototypical layouts. Here is a photo by John Edwards from 2007.

Will 

is that layout in Columbia nj

I could stare into those train cabinets for hours! What a collection.

@Engineer-Joe posted:

I could stare into those train cabinets for hours! What a collection.

bluelinec4Member Digital Subscriber

Lionel had a legacy gp7 and gp9 a few years ago

WOW. What a wonderful Erie line up.

@bluelinec4 posted:

Paul Easier to view

Love the Triplex lash-up.  I guess the Virginian is leased power. LOL)

@bluelinec4 posted:

Will 

is that layout in Columbia nj

Yes it is, or was. Looking for photos of this, I found out that there were still operating sessions at least until 2018. But unfortunately Harold died last December at the ripe old age of 98. I don't think I had seen him or the layout since the 90s. I expect the house has been sold and the layout dismantled by now. Railroad Model Craftsman was also in NE New Jersey, so a lot of the top HO guys like Tony Koester would show up there.

Will

I was there in 2010   What a gem of a layout   Loved it   The operations were as good as the layout

@Will posted:

Where are you from? Back in the 90s, I had the opportunity to operate and make a few structures for Harold Werthwein's Erie layout. He modeled Port Jervis to Binghamton. The layout was featured in many publications and is considered one of the great prototypical layouts. Here is a photo by John Edwards from 2007.

Will:

     When my sister and I were small, our parents took us to The Glenwood Hotel in Mill Rift (now Millrift), PA. Mill Rift was a flag stop for vacationers who were staying at the hotel and wanted to get back to the city. When I was 6 or 7, the station master(?) handed me the flag to flag down the next train so that the train would stop and the vacationers could go home. He sent me out on the tracks and I waved the flag back and forth a few times and then QUICKLY got off the tracks as the Erie diesel approached. I don't think that any railroad official would have a 6 or 7 year old do anything like that today! Liability? Danger? Death?

    I would sit up on the hotel property with my mother and count the cars on the freight trains as they went by. 100 or more cars was common. We even have picture of a steamer on those tracks from the early 50's. I believe I got my love of trains from the 3-4 years we stayed in Mill Rift.

   An Erie RS-3 would take us from New Jersey up to Port Jervis and the hotel would pick us up at the station and bring us to the hotel some five miles away, across the river.

    John

My Erie Boxcab

Nice stuff. I have a place reserved in my affections for Erie engines... but not just any Erie engine. No sirree... THESE Erie engines:

Yup, the lowly little Lionel cast-frame FA's. I know they're not accurate models, I know the paint scheme is a foobie... but they have such a handsome simplicity that I find very appealing.

Unfortunately, I no longer own the above pair of Erie FA's. They were sold off some time ago.

Andre

@laming posted:

Nice stuff. I have a place reserved in my affections for Erie engines... but not just any Erie engine. No sirree... THESE Erie engines:

Yup, the lowly little Lionel cast-frame FA's. I know they're not accurate models, I know the paint scheme is a foobie... but they have such a handsome simplicity that I find very appealing.

Unfortunately, I no longer own the above pair of Erie FA's. They were sold off some time ago.

Andre

When I was a kid I inherited a 2056 Hudson that my father had bought for my sister  That was my only train until one of my Uncles gave me a pair of Lionel Erie FA's that he found in the garbage  He was a garbageman in Edison NJ and gave me many more train he found that people would throw out.   That FA though was pretty beat up  I took the subway to Manhattan to Madison Hardware and had that guy with the rubber apron rebuild the whole thing  It was always my best running and most liked engine after that

After initially posting a contribution to this thread on Friday morning, I came back just now (Saturday morning) and was looking forward to seeing more Erie trains...alas I couldn't find the thread on the main forum, looked all over and finally found this sub-forum - in the basement of OGR so to speak. Its kind of a shame how interesting model RR threads get "moved to the basement" while the main forum is cluttered with a variety of detail-oriented posts. Anyway, I am glad I found this sub-forum where model trains in-action are featured. You guys have great layouts and Erie Power (the latter being a great book BTW).

And, thanks Blueline4 for altering my YouTube to a easier to view format. How is that done, exactly?

Here's a shot of an Erie Berk blasting out of the tunnel in my old Christmas village:

@bluelinec4 posted:

When I was a kid I inherited a 2056 Hudson that my father had bought for my sister  That was my only train until one of my Uncles gave me a pair of Lionel Erie FA's that he found in the garbage  He was a garbageman in Edison NJ and gave me many more train he found that people would throw out.   That FA though was pretty beat up  I took the subway to Manhattan to Madison Hardware and had that guy with the rubber apron rebuild the whole thing  It was always my best running and most liked engine after that

That's a neat story, Ben. The 2056 is one the coolest PW steam engines Lionel produced.

There's just something about those old Lionel Postwar trains that is timeless. Even though I did not have a Lionel set when I was kid (had a hand-me-down Marx 3/16" litho set), and though my "serious" model railroading roots are in HO... I will always and forever have an appreciation for much of Lionel's Postwar products. (And even Marx, to boot!)

Erie diesel power: Their original diesel schemes were absolutely, positively, one of the CLASSIEST schemes to have ever graced a diesel locomotive, regardless of engine type.

Andre

@Lee Willis posted:

Lee, see you like those unique Erie steam engines too.

Ron

 Lionel Heavy Mikado...

Lionel Legacy scale GP7...

MTH Premier scale GP7...

LC+ Erie Camelback:

Kingsbury steam with Erie gondolas.

@CNJ #1601 posted:

 Lionel Legacy scale GP7...

 

Excellent shot and some good modeling. That low angle really makes it dramatic. As I said earlier: LOVE those classic Erie diesel schemes!

Andre

I can only recall a few carbody look deisels ever. Soo, Mac, and Erie, mostly Eries seen floating across the fields (and one red nose beast whose horn blast had me too shook to recall much else,lol)

I only own one, a lowly switcher. I don't even like them much, but this is my best puller of the lot, and I do run it while others sit idle. Especially in October.