MAINLINE Monday...

a KCS freight coming into town....

a little while later, a Amtrak mail train gets on it's way....

heading out of the yard on to the main line @ Clem's......video...

CEO working in the yard.... the main lines appear to be busy today.....

Closest thing I have to a main line....

very cool !   i like the commuter train,  looks good, watching it again...

Rolling some of my E5’s 

briansilvermustang posted:

very cool !   i like the commuter train,  looks good, watching it again...

Thanks Brian. Since I live on LI the LIRR is the only game in town. I don't get to see all the cool freight drags that some of the guy's across the country do. This set is from K-line, called the Greenport Scoot. Here's my OP with the details.

https://ogrforum.com/...23#73087246085582823

a Amtrak mail train getting ready to head out on the main.....

up in Alaska, a passenger train speeds down the main.....and then slows down to cross the high bridge over the Stepsup Canyon gorge....

In 1952, the East Local comes roaring out of Martin, with a pair of Fairbanks-Morse 2800-Class H16-44's.  These two locomotives will soon be renumbered into the 3000 Class.  Eddie Wilkes, the regular Engineer on the local, likes the Fairbanks-Morse locomotives.  They accelerate instantly and quickly when the throttle is opened, and they are the best locomotives on the Santa Fe for kicking or dropping cars.  Eddie has them moving right along on the 40 MPH curve.

This came through on a detour through Kansas:

Rusty

PWC 773 super o set

Hello NUMBER 90

I found a missing traction tire in your video, its on the upper track, left of center.  

Clem K

Number 90 posted:

In 1952, the East Local comes roaring out of Martin, with a pair of Fairbanks-Morse 2800-Class H16-44's.  These two locomotives will soon be renumbered into the 3000 Class.  Eddie Wilkes, the regular Engineer on the local, likes the Fairbanks-Morse locomotives.  They accelerate instantly and quickly when the throttle is opened, and they are the best locomotives on the Santa Fe for kicking or dropping cars.  Eddie has them moving right along on the 40 MPH curve.

Yes, zebras!  ATSF should have gotten some H24-66 in strips!

clem k posted:

Hello NUMBER 90

I found a missing traction tire in your video, its on the upper track, left of center.  

Clem K

So, that's where it went!  Thanks, Clem.

some more mainline running @ Clem's........

Here's something from the Free State Junction Railway's mainline

Number 90 posted:

In 1952, the East Local comes roaring out of Martin, with a pair of Fairbanks-Morse 2800-Class H16-44's.  These two locomotives will soon be renumbered into the 3000 Class.  Eddie Wilkes, the regular Engineer on the local, likes the Fairbanks-Morse locomotives.  They accelerate instantly and quickly when the throttle is opened, and they are the best locomotives on the Santa Fe for kicking or dropping cars.  Eddie has them moving right along on the 40 MPH curve.

Tom - I really enjoyed your story with the video!!  Awesome!!!  Those H16-44s are really looking great in those zebra stripes!!  Love em!!

Brian - great thread idea!!  Also great pics of your mainline trains!! 

steam heading out on Clem's mainline......

what is heading down your main line today ?  

getting ready to head out .....

triple heading down the mainline.......

later, down at the station train watching......a long coal drag  goes by on the upper line...  

soon,  a piggy back train comes thru at the station level....a busy train day....

a Southern passenger train pulling out of the yard on to the main.....

hope there is room for that Southern passenger train to get through with all them Amtrak trains running today......

                       what's running out on your mainline today ?

Got my motors runnin', head out on the mainline...

Rusty

wow, that song happened to be on the radio when I took a look at this.......

          get your motor running,  head out on the railway..........

          what's on your mainline today.....

                     intermodal  trains keeping the  2 main lines busy today.....

                             main line running at Clem's...

                             what's on your main line today...

Just,added these today to the main

On the main line today.

Someone from Ohio wanted to come up to run trains.  My contribution, sure hope Brian doesn't get mad at me for posting a video

Lionel Legacy Delaware & Hudson RS-11 smokin' diesel hauling big oil:

That smokin' Delaware & Hudson RS-11 hauling Eastern coal and logs:

Just bought this one. Pulling a short mixed freight tonight...