Lets See Your Norfolk & Western

Always regret selling my Lionel JLC y6b.

@J 611 posted:

Always regret selling my Lionel JLC y6b.

They're beautiful models for sure

3rd Rail N&W 475. The detail is incredible. There’s video of it running on my YouTube channel.

I don't have a whole lot of N&W (a lot more of its successor) but this is the biggest of the lot, reaching back to a buy-anything-cool thread from August 2023 (page 343):

Here's a link to the original BACL post with clickable (bigger) versions of the above images, among others.

Also, the same Class A, after hours in my hotel room during York, and a few months prior to getting its PS3 upgrade (top two pics).

York haul thread where the above pic appears in clickable form

---PCJ

@ryanexpresstrains posted:

3rd Rail N&W 475. The detail is incredible. There’s video of it running on my YouTube channel.

So jealous, I have been searching for one! Congrats !

Two more classic N&W engines …

My only N&W engine.  It's a MTH Rail King Y6b with Proto sounds.  I bought it from Trainland many years ago when they were clearing out Proto sounds equipment.  I believe Proto 3 was still on the horizon but Proto 2 had been around for a while.  I've added a homemade auxiliary tender.

Railking

Does this count !

@boomer0622 posted:

Does this count !

That's awesome! I'll have to take some pics of my N&W relics too.

All of my N&W engines are under the knife being repaired right now, or haven't arrived yet.

All Lionel Legacy, I have a J class #600, a 2-8-8-2 mallet #2020, and I will be getting the new 2-6-6-2 mallet just released very soon. I've also got about 8 N&W coal cars, but I need a lot more!

Lionel Modern Era 611 J.

All you OGR N&W fans ...

Thank you for sharing your passion!

I too love the J-s  (have 4), and one day hope to get the Y6B and A-class. Your pics and videos are especially cool on your layouts ...very inspirational.

I wish Lionel would make Vision versions, or at least remakes, of the real big N&W engines like the Y6b ... just like they tend to do with the popular UP Big Boy.

Great post!

- Ken Gillig

Railking

A few new N&W items…

And a real N&W switch lock…

Tom

Here's my N&W fleet operating on the Free State Junction Railway.  

0-8-0 Switcher MTH RK scale.  

I like the close distance between cab and tender.

Lionel scale J class 611 from 2005 cat.

MTH RailKing Y6b Mallet.

Just got this Class A

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Some MTH 19th century N&W…

Tom

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Lionel Vision Line N&W Class A #1201.

I know, some people like the red stripe, some people don't.  I'm one of the I like it people.

I thought that I had posted this before; maybe elsewhere...

But, anyway: my N&W "cheater" K-2, from years ago.

Lionel factory-weathered Warhorse J, larger pilot wheels ("General" spoked), scale 2-wheel trailing truck, FWH under running board (needs doing better), scratch-ish tender. The tender was lengthened using original frame, trucks re-positioned farther apart, scratch-built body (styrene underpinnings, scratch brass shell), original TMCC electronics.

A lot of work for a cute but, at the end of the day, a loco that's still Postwar-size. Also, it runs poorly. Pullmors are a strange lot: sometimes they are smooth, steady and good enough for today. Sometimes they zoom-bog-zoom-bog...this is one of those. Gearing, I guess. Great sounds.

The Lionel "J" was my childhood favorite Lionel PW loco. Never had one until this Warhorse.

Looks pretty serious.

I finished up a N&W C30-7 recently.

It is a MTH PS1 that detailed and painted. I painted the handrails, stanchions and the airhorns to match the MTH painted body shell. I repainted the number boards into the correct white background with black numbers

I also modified the truck frames to achieve a reasonable resemblance to the trucks used on the N&W engines. I milled off the under frame brake cylinders and the added the upper type cylinders.

I added some cut levers and windshield wipers. Topped it off with the firecracker antenna.

I may weather the unit. The PS 1 system is a bit shaky. The engine runs fine, but the sound is messed up. There is no volume control and the bell rings constantly. It appears the boards may have been modified. I could also just end up gutting the engine and making a dummy unit out of it…

Tom

I gotta get these guys back on the layout for exercise.

Postwar Lionel 746 J and Modern era Lionel passenger cars: