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KC,

Sorry about the neck issue . I have an issue with my Iphone pictures. Sometime the are in the correct orentation and sometime the are turned 90 degrees. I don't know why and I have asked Iphone folks for help but so far I dont know how to solve it. All the pictures were in the correct position in my photo album but when I posted you see what happened. Thanks for your comments. I like your Lionel Steel ore cars.

Don,

Thanks for posting your ore train picture. I like your idea of the mix and matching BUT, I have had to take it another step. I am having to nix and match road NAMES since I cant find enough of my MTH GTW(blue) , K-Line CN (silver), MTH CN(red), MTH/LIONEL/K-LINE CP RAIL (black), MTH/LIONEL ONTARIO NORTHLAND(blue) or MTH DMIR(brownish red). I was trying to have a long ore car consit of the same road name but have not been able to do so.

GNNPNUT,

WOW Thank you for posting those wonderful video's of Mark Holmstad's trains. It looked to me like ab out 50 ore cars in each of the consist. Your club modular layout is very nice, I had seen some it before whith Rich' GTW Grain car consists. I also saw your modular layout in Owosso MI back a few tears ago. Thank you very nuch for sharing with us.

Originally Posted by John23:

Go to about 2:45 in Charlie's (MichRR714) video to see doubled headed Yellowstones pulling 102 ore cars.  That might be the record, at least for here.

John23 Thank you for pointing that out to me. I did see all those wonderful trains running that nice summer day out doors. That 102 car consist was just AWESOME.

Originally Posted by Between A&B:
Originally Posted by K.C Jones:
Here’s a couple more ore Pictures.



Thanks for looking..
K.C.

Hi K.C.

 

That  set (Lionel Steel) you are showing brings back a bunch of memories. PreY2K, it was at the turn of the O gauge era when the hobby was taking a lot of heat (loosing business) because of its ongoing flood of plastic cars, plastic trucks & even plastic couplers. Criticism was focused on the tendency of Lionel's ore cars to open their couplers whenever a consist hit a grade, with the engine going in one direction & the ore cars heading down grade, out of control on their own. Because the raw material to make die cast products was cheap, incomes were rising, & the hobby was gaining momentum Lionel decided to answer these criticisms by releasing the die cast set  you picture above. Only problem with the set was the locomotive included was completely inadequate to pull the weight of the of the four included ore cars. The set was an important turning point in the hobby for it ushered in the KLine series of high end diecast hoppers, some of which (like the yellow Virginian) are highly collectible today.

 

Thanks for bringing back some preY2K nostalgia. ...

 

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