Midwest Monday

Don. Thanks. I enjoy your stuff keep posting we all enjoy your offerings

Detroit. Glad you posted that EL maybe I’ll start putting a “Plug” in on different threads and you guys do the same. SWSAT and a picture a day would be a good start.

Since I now live on former CNW trackage I thought I better add a representative to my fleet.Rich in SD

Happy Monday. Hope all is well today this is a Vintage Atlas O Gondola I repainted and decaled in Nickel Plate Road.  Have a good week

Rusty

@DETROIT posted:

Old but never posted clip for MWM.  Downriver Detroit on a Monday.

Detroit. Nice DT&I where did you get those Dixie Ohio Express DOX piggyback trailers? Thanks for sharing

Thanks Detroit

@DETROIT posted:

THANK YOU! I don't remember where I found the first, probably ebay.  The second (other road number) I found at Stockyard Express.  I think Clyde (the owner) had both road numbers in his personal collection (he was thinning) so he may still have one.  Then some guy on ebay was selling two tofc, no box with NS flats (too new for my time period) but they had DOX trailers.  I bought them just for the trailers.

Sorry I am late today, medical appointments this morning in Ft. Worth took up most of my day.  Following Lee's lead, here is my Lionel NKP boxcar , an O-27  car offered between 1986-1991

Happy MWM to everyone, great pictures all.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Sorry I am late today, medical appointments this morning in Ft. Worth took up most of my day.  Following Lee's lead, here is my Lionel NKP boxcar , an O-27  car offered between 1986-1991

Happy MWM to everyone, great pictures all.

Don

Don. Hope everything was ok at the Dr. visit. Nice looking NKP car could even work for Boxcar Sunday. Thanks for sharing.

@Rusty Traque posted:

Rusty

Rusty sorry I skipped you yesterday very nice pic very convincing thanks for sharing

Well guys, last week I was late on Monday (7 pm) and so to make up for it, today I am going to be early (7 pm Sunday!).  Wife has an early medical appointment in Ft. Worth tomorrow, 108 miles one way so its up with "the chickens" to get her to where she needs to be...

Anyway, I have another boxcar today to support "Midwest Monday".  This one from the "Cotton Belt" route  (St.Louis & Southwestern).   This RR went right through Waco, Texas (where I live) on part of its more southern main line.  In fact the main road that runs about 2 miles from our house is named "The Cotton Belt Parkway" from years past.  Cotton used to be a big business in Waco, in fact we still have the "Cotton  Queen Ball " and crown one of our young ladies, the Cotton Queen (today its a big charity event).

This is a Marx 6" car from 1940.  I am showing the cobalt blue one, but they also came in Brown, Orange, Crimson, and Yellow as well.  Mr. Marx was never one to not use up his tooling and make cars available in whatever colors you liked.

Well have a good week, best wishes from this early poster.

Don

Good Morning Midwest Fans. Today we have a Weaver RSD12 pulling a mixed manifest. Have a great week

Don, that little box car looks like its seen better days! But its nice to see it still around!

Lee, wonderful little midwest selections of cars! Nice video, thanks for sharing!

Here is all I have for today a little run by the nuclear power plant!

Here is my Midwest Monday photo of the Great Miami Railroad #1 switcher in Hamilton, OH.  There were 3 units used at the Champion Paper Mill(2 Geeps & 1 switcher) until it was sold in 2011.  I took this picture in 2005, NW #1, ex-PRR #9169, and in 2011 I read that it was scraped.

Here some of my new midwest items:

Lionel MRS Alco S2 (from the set: 2022040)

Atlas A.R.T. 40' steel reefer (3003913)

Atlas SLRX 40' wood reefer (3001504)

Atlas Missouri Pacific REA 53'6" wood express reefer (3001006)

@DETROIT posted:

Penn Central GP30 and C628 arriving in Detroit on a Monday with steel, chem and other.

Morning, not being that schooled on trains and how many engines are needed. But I do want to ask so I know, Are those 2 Penn Central engines really strong enough to pull that much steel along with tank cars? If anything I could see the dozer on the last car putting it over the limit!

tnkMarx, that sure is a SWEET looking Miami switcher!

MikeH, wonderful collection of box cars and you also have a wonderful switcher to move them right along!

@DETROIT posted:

Mike - couldn't you hear the strain?

I'm sorry, I must not have had me heating aids in. I will check it out again!

@MikeH posted:

Here some of my new midwest items:

Lionel MRS Alco S2 (from the set: 2022040)

Atlas A.R.T. 40' steel reefer (3003913)

Atlas SLRX 40' wood reefer (3001504)

Atlas Missouri Pacific REA 53'6" wood express reefer (3001006)

Mike. Thanks for posting I really like the St. Louis Refrigerator car company car there’s a lot of History behind that company.

@DETROIT posted:

Penn Central GP30 and C628 arriving in Detroit on a Monday with steel, chem and other.

Nice run Detroit

@tnkMarx posted:

Here is my Midwest Monday photo of the Great Miami Railroad #1 switcher in Hamilton, OH.  There were 3 units used at the Champion Paper Mill(2 Geeps & 1 switcher) until it was sold in 2011.  I took this picture in 2005, NW #1, ex-PRR #9169, and in 2011 I read that it was scraped.

Nice pic never heard of that rail thanks for sharing

Great pictures everyone...Tnkmarx I loved the Great Miami, having lived nearly 20 years in Dayton, Oh.  You know a Marx 1988 switcher might look good repainted for this railway.  MikeH - great cars, loved the St.Louis Refrigerator Car .  MikeG - nice scene, but does that hopper car glow in the dark after passing the nuclear power plant? BTW - you are right about my little Cotton Belt car, it has seen better days, but then again being 4 years older than me (it was born in 1940 and me in '44) ...haven't we both!! (LOL).  Detroit - neat steel train,love the gondola cars with the rolled steel covers.  Lee - neat train and an unusual engine RSD-12.

You know all you operators get one thing I really would like to know how you do it.  Sounds- no that's not it, its cool but I understand how that is done.  No,  its how you get the smooth, steady and slow speeds that really look so great.  I am afraid, my old ZW just won't do that.

Best wishes for a great week

Don

My latest midwestern acquisition, I like gondolas in muted colors (MTH Premier version)

Well here it is ...Monday again...luckily for me as a retired folk, I no longer have to be at work on Monday.  So...I am up and looking for some good "Midwest" pictures to post on this thread.  Today, I picked the Union Pacific which certainly runs through the midwest.  The engine is an Alco S-2 in UP livery and it was made by Kline in the 90's.  It does a good job on the inner parts of the Leonardtown and Savannah although it is just about the largest engine the tight clearances can stand.  Today, she is doing the "bread and butter" tasks on the L&S, moving freight from the Savannah State Docks to various customers up the line in order to clear the wharf and make way for other ships waiting offshore to unload.

Here she is pulling some boxcars out of the heavy loaded yard area near the downtown depot.  Busy Monday, even a couple of older Harriman passenger cars standing by to gather up the night shift going home .

Here she is pulling out of the downtown area and passing one of the L&S big customers, "General Door and Sash" which is one of the few downtown with its own siding to offload lumber and supplies for the business.   That "Goodyear" truck is obviously decades too old for this scene, but its an advertising gimmick used by a local tire store to put their name out in the public eye.

W

Well that's if for my Monday morning. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy week

Regards, Don

CN MOW at Eleroy, IL.

Rusty

The old ex-CNW depot in Carthage, SD is still in good shape & "in-service" for a different owner, as of May 2021.

To me, this small town MIDWEST depot is very nice - not just a box, but it has personality.  I took this photo in 2016, but saw a photo on the web from 2018 that still looks the same.

Chicago & Alton Railway Depot - Fulton Missouri

Sorry I’m so late. Don thanks for kicking us off. Those Depots look great.
Detroit. Nice video thanks for sharing. Here’s another video of the Weaver RSD12. Thanks to all for posting today

Here’s on for this Monday. Caught  this one in St. Louis one day.

Your just right on top of it Lee, Even on a holiday weekend!

Illinois Central, Monday morning rail...

Rusty

Well here we are on a Holiday Monday...Happy Memorial Day everyone.  Lee I don't know how you find them but that Conrail boxcar has sure seen better days, neat!  Detroit ... those box cars are soooooo long, that I couldn't run more than one on my layout!  My input for this Monday is the Santa Fe RR.  I know it ran in the mid-west or at least in Texas as the BNSF still runs in the vicinity of my home in Waco.  The old maps say it trans-versed Texas and Oklahoma and managed to get to Chicago so I guess it qualifies as "mid-west".

Here is the black, Marx 1998 ATSF Switcher from 1955-1962 pulling a short Santa Fe train.  This black switcher  with this  livery is much more scarce than the common maroon with yellow lettering version.   His consist today is the Marx orange 3280 Santa Fe medium box car and the Marx 4587 deluxe ATSF work caboose from 1962.

Here is a better look at the boxcar and the work caboose.

Well best wishes on Memorial Day everyone.

Respectfully

Don

Guys. Thanks for sharing this Monday I appreciate it hope you all had a great Holiday.
Mike. I can’t believe I did it being so busy today thanks.

Rusty nice pic.

Detroit. Your always faithful to this thread great pic.

Don. Yes I always get excited when o see one of these old fallen flags. I was thinking the same when I took it.

See you next MWM.

Well hello everyone, I guess I will start on this fine Monday.  Today the road is the C&0 or Chesapeake and Ohio.  This fine ALCO and caboose from Lionel dates from 1960.  This road wandered into the mid-west including Ohio and Illinois and had its headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. It existed from the late 1800's until 1988 when it merged with the B&0 to form the "Chessie System".

Happy Monday everyone...

Don

As long as it's C&O du jour:

Rusty

Don. Thanks for kicking us off. Here’s my C&O Lionel Alco with some Menards cars

Rusty, Lee, Detroit ... great pictures of C&O trains. Fun all around!!  
Don

Hello MWMon fans, here it is nearly 0900 on the east coast of the US and it looks like I am the first post this morning.  Advantage of being retired I guess, I have my Monday mornings free.  Today I will add to a long standing controversy...is Texas in the middle west?   It is geographically about 1500 miles from each coast so that would be the middle and it is west of the Mississippi River so that is the "west"...so I am going to assume that it qualifies.  My input today is the Lionel #210 Texas Special Alco AA units from 1958.  She never was Lionel's top of the line in mechanical detail being one motor, headlight, and horn but the livery was always popular.  However operators on my mostly level layout she pulls her passenger consist or 2400 series cars with no trouble at all.

Here she is, arriving "out of the mountains" on the Leonardtown & Savannah and pulling into the "Small Town" suburban station.  Our Monday morning commuters are on the platform awaiting their ride downtown already concerned that they might be late.  It's 1958 and most of the news is about "space" and "Sputnik" and so forth and not much coverage of nice trains like this which are pretty much taken for granted these days.

Here is the full AA units.  Lionel never made a "210" B unit, however 4 years later they put out the Texas Special #211, nearly identical and there is a 211 "B" unit.  The #211, unlike the single year #210, ran from 1962-1966.

Well hope everyone has a great week.  Best wishes

Don

Thanks Don for kicking us off. Those Alcos are nice

Tom

@Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom - Love It.  Looks like you did custom decals and weathering on B units?  Did you upgrade power unit with TMCC or DCS?