Midwest Monday

Well here is a special issue K-line boxcar that was part of the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the John Deere Plow Company of Columbus, Ohio in 1992.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here is a special issue K-line boxcar that was part of the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the John Deere Plow Company of Columbus, Ohio in 1992.

Best Wishes

Don

Very nice Don Thanks for sharing it so where have you been hiding this little gem???

@lee drennen - Lee, humorously and somewhat red-faced, I will admit that I have had this car for some time. However as you can see in the pictures it is mounted on a nice piece of oak with a neat section of track...so I put it on my desk for ornamentation.  I have been looking right past it for most of the year !  Glad you liked it however.  Thanks for your comment.

Don

Good evening MwM fans!

I found some more AC&Y action:

Have a great week, everyone!

Tom

Here’s Today’s MWM

Well today fans of MwMon I have decided to post an entry from the "Nickel Plate" or New York, Chicago, and St. Louis RR which covered parts of New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri...

The Lionel NKP #8040 2-4-2 from 1970-1972

The Lionel #6919 NKP caboose from 1986-1991

Best wishes, hope your week goes well

Don

Good afternoon, MwM fans!

Some Penn Central action featuring coal and steel:

Have a great week, everyone!

Tom

Hello MwMers,

Fresh from French Lick, Ind. I never had any Pluto Water (thankfully) but I liked the car.

Regards,

Bob

I don’t have much midwestern rolling stock on my roster, but I do have two very colorful entries from the Milwaukee Road…

And now a question for the Milwaukee roadies amongst us… I really like the dark red trucks on these two cars. Was that a standard on the Milwaukee Road???

Great contributions guys see here on next weeks MWM.  

Here’s what for today’s MWM. I took this one day when stuck in traffic while delivering around St. Louis. Enjoy your day

Happy MWM !!!

MW power and rolling stock😜.    
Lots of MP.  
As good as it gets !!! 😉

@lee drennen posted:

Here’s what for today’s MWM. I took this one day when stuck in traffic while delivering around St. Louis. Enjoy your day

What yard is this Lee ?  I don’t get to look much 😳😮🫣when driving into St. Louis.

@TrainBub posted:

What yard is this Lee ?  I don’t get to look much 😳😮🫣when driving into St. Louis.

@TrainBub posted:

What yard is this Lee ?  I don’t get to look much 😳😮🫣when driving into St. Louis.

It’s by the Amtrak station it’s not a yard just a bunch of tracks  I was sitting on westbound I-64/40 when I took it. That’s one of the things I miss about working up there Rail Fanning and getting paid for it 😂

Well WsM fans, how about the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad with lines in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin as well as Ontario (Ca).  I guess that qualifies as "mid-west".

Here is the Lionel 8008 Chessie System 4-4-2 from 1980 along with the Lionel 9381 Chessie caboose from 1980 as well.

Next we have the Chessie System #9016 hopper car from1975-1979,1987-1988,& 1989 uncatalogued.

Finally the Lionel # 9740 Chessie System box car from 1974-1975

Well Best Wishes to all

Don

Good afternoon MwM fans!

Penn Central and AC&Y diesels work the interchange track:

Have a great week, everyone!

Tom

Great stuff guys so I’ve been so busy lately playing catch-up for the chores I didn’t get done this summer because of the Heat. Thanks for sharing your pics

Well some other folks were going "Canadian" today so I thought I might post some Canadian Pacific rolling stock that I have in my collection.  CP stretched from Montreal to Vancouver and also served Minneapolis-St.Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and Albany, New York. So although on the northern rim, it certainly did serve some key mid-west markets.

So starting off is the Lionel #9057 SP style caboose from 1978-1979

The Lionel #9758 CP Rail boxcar from 1975-1976

Finally one of Lionel's 9464 premium box cars from the year 2000

Best Wishes

Don

Well again I am a little short of anything that I can claim to be from the "Mid West" but here are some attempts.

The Lionel 7931 0-27 type boxcar from "Town House" appliances in Niles, IL.

Another Illinois box car from the Illinois Central Rail Road, "the Main Line of Mid-America".

A Rock Island transfer caboose by Lionel in the hands of a RI GE 70 Ton Diesel switcher by Marx

Here that same GE 70 Ton pulls a RI caboose.

Best Wishes everyone

Don

Penn Central GP20 2109 (Lionel) is assisted by GP30 2202 (Lionel) on the point of a manifest freight:

Have a great week!

Tom

Well, in the last few Monday posts I have sort of favored the Rock Island.  So since I am primarily a toy train collector, I thought you might enjoy seeing some of our more recent "history" in terms of what was being offered in the market a 1/2 century ago.  This is the "Rock Island Express" set from Lionel (MPC) in about 1973 -1975.  It contains one of the first electronic breakthroughs...the "Mighty Sound of Steam",  along with smoke, headlight, die cast boiler & electronic reversing.  The box lid is shown below and after that the inside contents.   Interesting contents include a blue transformer (not black), a "Route of the Rockets" caboose, an auto rack (no cars) and a bulkhead flat.  

Here is the engine, on my layout ready to go.  She runs really well for being 50 years old.   Note that the valve gear on this Atlantic is more complex than the later years of the same 4-4-2 type locomotive offered by Lionel.  Note also the detail cast into the boiler front and pilot.  She was an honest attempt to continue the classic Lionel line and at the time one of the best MPC put out.

Not in the original set, but here are 2 0-27 Rock Island box cars that go well with the consist.

Best Wishes and Happy Thanksgiving

Don

Penn Central Geeps putting in a day's work:

Have a great week!

Tom

Here’s my Midwest Monday offering, an Atlas Rock Island 40’ boxcar via Mr Muffins awhile ago.  The Rock is an interesting RR that went all over the place.

Rich

Well going to school on @trestleking here are some other Rock Island box cars...all Lionel.

Best MwM wishes to all.  Happy Holidays

Don

Here’s a couple of cars from Golden Gate Depots recently delivered MP and T&P Texas Eagle.  

10-6 Budd with 6 wheel trucks

Baggage Dorm

Cheers 😉

Well keeping a bit with the Rock Island RR, here is a Marx 1998 Rock Island, Alco S3 moving freight up the main line.  It will turn it over to the road engines just above the depot.

Here are the Rock Island road engines ready to receive the freight delivered by the switcher above.  These are EMD E7 A-B-A from Marx.

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays

Don

Happy MWM.
Heres the GGD MP Eagle Observation car.

In a departure from Boxcar Red, I picked up this yellow Illinois Terminal 50’ boxcar from Caboose Stop Hobbies in Cedar Falls, IA several years ago.  (MTH 20-93193).   That shop was always tough on the train budget !

Rich in WV

Here is a Weaver and MTH.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Here is a Weaver and MTH.

Nice weathering, Dave!

Art

@Chugman posted:

Nice weathering, Dave!

Art

Thanks Art, it's a learning process.

Great photos everyone! Dave I am with Art, wonderful weathering!

Illinois Central coil car.

I only have one coil car and after seeing Patrick's I decided to weather it. Whenever I see one in real railroading, they are usually pretty rusted.

Thanks for jump starting the thread, Jim.

Here's my PC GP20 mu'd with a GP30:

Jim, I assume you are eyeing the PC U28C in the latest Lionel catalog?  Where oh where is the PC GP9 and GP9B?  I have been wanting a Legacy PC GP9 for years,  I might have to get the black CR unit and put the proper logos on it

Tom

Nice train to watch.

Here's a video of a SW8 pulling a train through Killbridge Junction.  I made sure it had the transfer caboose on the rear for you, Jim!

Tom

@Apples55 posted:

I don’t have much midwestern rolling stock on my roster, but I do have two very colorful entries from the Milwaukee Road…

And now a question for the Milwaukee roadies amongst us… I really like the dark red trucks on these two cars. Was that a standard on the Milwaukee Road???

I am certainly no expert, although a big Milwaukee fan. My two books on their freight cars show both black trucks and maroon trucks. I have no history right off hand as to why they painted both ways. I think the maroon trucks do look good on models as well as the real cars.

Here's some Penn Central action to kick off Midwest Monday this week:

Tom

This is my contribution today.