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These next two offerings have paint schemes that don't exactly match the era I like but I don't mind because Seriously....having a crane on your layout is just too much fun!

 

MTH 20-98750 CRANE TENDER

 

 MTH 20-98750 CRANE TENDER.b

MTH 20-98750 CRANE TENDER.c

MTH 20-98750 CRANE TENDER.d

 

 

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR

I love this car!  Great details.  The platform is all die-cast. Nice 6-wheel trucks.  The crane movement and actuators for lift and cable are manually moved by one of two included separate doo-hickie-like-screw-driver-thingies (that's the scientific term). 

  

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.b

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.c

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.d

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.e

MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.f

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  • MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.a
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  • MTH 20-98746 CRANE CAR.f

Well I have to get back to being somewhat productive....so one final offering for the day.....

 

I hate to sound like a broken record but I love this car too.  Then again would anyone really spend the kind of money we do on a car they don't love?  Nice heavy flatcar with decent details...the Sherman tank is wonderful.  Be careful with all the additional detailed pieces. I forgot to take the mounted "Ma Duce" off of the turret once before putting it away and snapped off the machine gun mount. (I'll get around to fixing it.)

 

As stated earlier this also comes in two separate 6-car sets.  Military train types could make an awesome train with these!  

 

Interesting side note.  Mike's must have made a deal with HobbyMasters for the tanks. Don't know if they still make them or not but they offered the identical Huston Kid along with many other very cool 1:48 military pieces.  I've purchased another tank from them separately that my LHS had in stock... a slightly different version Sherman with soldiers and pieces. Pics of that included too.....

 

MTH 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W/(1) SHERMAN TANK

 

MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W[1) SHERMAN TANK.b

MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W[1) SHERMAN TANK.c

MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W[1) SHERMAN TANK.d

MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W[1) SHERMAN TANK.e

MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W[1) SHERMAN TANK.f

 

 

I know there's a lot of great UP stuff out there that I don't have but I'm sure other Forum Members do....Can't wait to see your pictures when you post them.....

 

 

 

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  • MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W(1) SHERMAN TANK.c
  • MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W(1) SHERMAN TANK.d
  • MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W(1) SHERMAN TANK.e
  • MTH 20-98743 50-TON 41' WOOD FLAT CAR W(1) SHERMAN TANK.f
Originally Posted by 86TA355SR:
 
Originally Posted by david1:

Boy leaving you home by yourself is very good for us UP GUYS. Love those cars and cabooses. 

 

Absolutely!  He made my day at work much better!  

 

It was fun for me to pull the stuff out.  There only seems to be 5 or 6 of us who like to post on this thread....I know other forum members have great stuff we'd like to see!

 

I think you and Aaron should move to the NE. We then could combine our UP equipment and model the entire UP system. What a layout that would be.

 

 Actually, Dave, you should move to the Midwest, Witz and I are fairly close! Just lacking you! I've often thought the same about combining all of our UP equipment and building a huge layout.  We'd need at least a 50X100 Ft building!

 

One thing is for sure, the engine facility would be incredible!  We could even have a full circle roundhouse-confident we could fill it with UP Steamers. Between the 3 of us, the only thing we're missing is a 2-8-0-Don't remember any of us posting one...

 

Dave, I have to agree with Aaron.  The Bloomington/Normal IL area sounds like a great place to start up a Rail Club.  Plenty of places in Normal we could rent reasonably with enough members and Bloomington has a quality local hobby shop too!  Besides western roads might feel a bit out of place in New England. 

 

Originally Posted by david1:
Originally Posted by 86TA355SR:

If it arrives today, I may have a "Challenging" photo to post later.  

 

 

Are you trying to collect every challenger the UP had? I hope so,lol.

That's funny!  Rest assured, I'll run out of money before that happens!

 

As much as I love the ready to run locomotives and rolling stock, my heart lays with wanting to scratch build brass, never made in O Scale, UP items.  As of now, I have 5 steamers on the list and haven't found time to start any of them.  Two different 2-8-8-0 Bull Moose, two different 2-10-2s, and a TTG/Black 4-8-2 MT.  There's always something I want to build, right now I'm working on an FEF-1 with a Pittman can motor, ERR, and a fan smoke unit.

 

I've really enjoyed working with the UPHS during my research process.  Bob is a great guy.   The books they produce are well written and in simple terms anyone can understand.  A great resource at a reasonable price. 

 

Can't wait to see what you build....

 

 

Here are some pictures of my UP that I could get to.

Lionel 18 inch Passenger Cars Converted to Kadee Couplers to close the gap

K Line Business Observation Repaint

Lionel 1937 M 10000

MTH 0-6-0 Switcher

Lionel FEF Legacy

Lionel Big Boy Legacy

Lionel Challenger Vision

MTH 4-12-2 

Lionel Legacy E-9 AA

Lionel SD 70 Ace

Lionel SD 70 KATY Heritage

MTH    SD 70 WP Heritage

Atlas Refer

MTH Caboose

Lionel Box Car

 

 

 

UP 1

UP 2

UP 3

UP 19

UP 5

UP 6

UP 7

UP 8

UP 11

UP18

UP4

UP 13

UP 14

UP15

UP 16

UP 17

UP 10

UP 9

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Things are looking UP!  Good luck with the new camera, you don't have to be a technology champ...sometimes its better to be the CHALLENGER.  Besides your comments were so well ARTICULATED.  Also, posting photos of O Gauge Union Pacific is so much more fun than trying to come up with terrible word-play. 

 

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Last edited by WITZ 41

David,

 

Those are fun! and tighter diameter curves too.

 

That kind of set would be perfect for an around the room shelf layout. 

 

A foot below the ceiling and just above the door/window line would give you a big continuous loop to enjoy a nice long passenger consist like that. Add a tight turning diesel and you would have enough color to catch your eye but it would be distanced enough that you wouldn't mind the simple detail.

 

Better get crackin' on that construction!

Last edited by WITZ 41

Guys it's been awhile since somebody posted on this thread.

 

I have been putting together the Union pacific city of Los Angelos train. Here is some pictures  of what I have so far. All the cars are from K-line

 

The baggage and RPO ARE 60'  and the rest of the train are 72' which is prototypical for the city of Los angelos. 

 

Still looking for a few more of the dome coaches.

 

 

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This was on "that" auction site not too long ago.  I passed.  I would say though I would really like this O Scale 2-Rail Brass Pacific......

 

 

$_3

 

But in 3-Rail to pull my GGD TTG Harriman set, and with legacy, and painted like this......

 

 

Union Pacific 3114

 

I might buy 2 if they also painted it like this....

 

 

Please 4-6-2

 

 

.I know I'm a.......Broken record....skip...repeat....skip...repeat.....

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Last edited by WITZ 41

Arron,

    I still own the original Williams UP City of San Fran Passenger Train, she still runs smooth as silk and she is one of my favorite passenger trains.  She is one big Williams Train and in order to run her I must mix slightly smaller pasenger cars in with the big UP, the original Williams UP was engineered to run on 054 when running the complete train.  Running her from the DCS Hand Held Remote Control via the TR Z4k mode, she runs even smoother than straight conventional, simply an awesome old Williams original.

PCRR/Dave

 

A Union Pacific Christmas Train 005

A Union Pacific Christmas Train 003

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