Midwest Monday

Well its a cold and rainy day here in central Texas so I guess I will stay inside and play trains!! Today, I have an item from Lionel that takes us to the railroad known as the "Frisco".  I really didn't know much about this RR and given its name, did not think it was "Midwest", however that was very wrong.

This is the description of the RR I found in Wikipedia: "The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark  SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States  from 1876 to April 17, 1980.  It was purchased and absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railway in 1980. Despite its name, it never came close to San Francisco." It did however spread across the heart of the mid-west.

The RR's most famous slogan or tag line was..."Ship it on the Frisco" and for many years they had a great reputation from shippers and other customers.  It had some of the best routes through the mid-west and southeast  and today the BNSF sill utilizes many sections of those routes.

Here is the Lionel #6014, 0-27 type, Frisco boxcar, produced with an orange body in1957 and then re-issued in orange in 1969. Note that just above the number 6014 is the notation..."SL-SF" obviously referring to the proper name of the RR, "The St. Louis - San Francisco" Railway.

Well best wishes and hope you have a great week

Don

@DETROIT: Glad you joined, was feeling a little lonely today.  Great video.  I really like these new smoking switchers and diesels, guess I will have to put one on next years Christmas list .  Liked the coil cars as well.  

Best wishes

Don

Some first generation diesel power leads a train through Killbridge:

Tom

@Don McErlean Don, great photo and wonderful backstory! The only thing missing is the couplers! LOL

@DETROIT Cool little B&O video!

@Tom Densel Tom wonderful video of your Pen Central power!

Thanks to you all for sharing today!

@mike g.:   Your right, I didn't notice that detail in the picture.  What happens is that where possible, I turn the trucks on my shelf display cars inward to give me a little more space on the shelf.  I forgot to turn them around for the picture !  By the way, they are standard Lionel knuckle couplers in plastic.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@mike g.:   Your right, I didn't notice that detail in the picture.  What happens is that where possible, I turn the trucks on my shelf display cars inward to give me a little more space on the shelf.  I forgot to turn them around for the picture !  By the way, they are standard Lionel knuckle couplers in plastic.

Don

Don, now that you said that I went back and looked and can see them plain as day! What a great idea, I just might have to try that to get a little more room!

Happy MWM gang here’s what I have today. How about a Nickel for your thoughts this Monday.

New Atlas Premier heavyweights (3007044).

Here's my only running Midwest locomotive, a Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range M3 Yellowstone.

Great looking trains guys! Happy Monday!

Here is some Union Pacific on this marvelous Midwest Monday!!!!

@lee drennen :  Beautiful Nickel Plate switcher...Lionel???  Hey its an Alco though right, it should be making copious amounts of black smoke !

@Mike H : Beautiful GM&O heavyweights , lovely color scheme.

@Lou1985: Wow...what a smoker!! Great engine and she really puts out the smoke!

Well today MWM fans, I decided to pick on a little (class II) railroad that runs in northwestern Pa and northeastern Oh.  The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad - at least as interpreted by Mr. Marx.

Here is the "brown" B&LE # 90171 boxcar from about 1948.

Here is a "candy apple" red version from about 1953 (plastic knuckle couplers set date)

Here is a plastic 4 wheel caboose from about 1975. Note in pure Marx cost saving practice, this appears to be an 8 wheel car but the black trucks are just a facade, it is in fact a 4 wheel car.

Well here's hoping you have a good week.  Best Wishes

Don

My Midwest motive power all in one place. 😉

@Don McErlean posted:

@lee drennen :  Beautiful Nickel Plate switcher...Lionel???  Hey its an Alco though right, it should be making copious amounts of black smoke !

@Mike H : Beautiful GM&O heavyweights , lovely color scheme.

@Lou1985: Wow...what a smoker!! Great engine and she really puts out the smoke!

Well today MWM fans, I decided to pick on a little (class II) railroad that runs in northwestern Pa and northeastern Oh.  The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad - at least as interpreted by Mr. Marx.

Here is the "brown" B&LE # 90171 boxcar from about 1948.

Here is a "candy apple" red version from about 1953 (plastic knuckle couplers set date)

Here is a plastic 4 wheel caboose from about 1975. Note in pure Marx cost saving practice, this appears to be an 8 wheel car but the black trucks are just a facade, it is in fact a 4 wheel car.

Well here's hoping you have a good week.  Best Wishes

Don

Thanks Don for the complement it’s a Weaver RSD12 and sorry that’s a Dow tank car I think it was made by Kunan??

A Penn Central RS-27 and a GP35 struggle to move a coal train out of Cleveland:

Tom

@Wally W posted:

Here is some Union Pacific on this marvelous Midwest Monday!!!!

Well done on this video! I remember singing that song when I was a kid.  Those were great commercials.   

Has George sung the Union Pacific song on a Friday Livestream? 

Thank  you all for some outstanding Pics and Videos I think this has been one of the best MWM yet and you guys made it possible. Thank You

Well here it is, Monday already and most of us are just starting the week.  At least the weather we had  at the end of last week (snow/ice) is gone here in central Texas and replaced by cold but sunny days.  Today I have some rather unusual cars for you.  These are (or could be) quite old, dating from as early as 1914 but extending on out to the 1920's.  They look to be very close to American Flyer 1107 type cars but are un-numbered.  That is because they are "Overland Flyer" cars, a product of the "new" Hafner Manufacturing Company formed in 1913 when William Hafner split from William Coleman Sr. of American Flyer. The 1914 line of Hafner Overland Flyer cars is very nearly identical to the 1914 line of American Flyer 1107 cars and the reason for that remains a bit of a mystery to this day.

So here from the era before or during WW 1 are the Hafner Overland Flyer Pullmans for the Santa Fe and North Western RR.

Well happy midwest Monday everyone.

Don

Happy MWM here’s what I have today thought I would give “ Buzz” the spotlight today. I custom decaled this old Lionel NW2 years ago in Indiana Harbor Belt one of my best Switchers

@ChiBoyinLA posted:

My Midwest motive power all in one place. 😉

Beautifull !

@Lou1985 posted:

Here's my only running Midwest locomotive, a Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range M3 Yellowstone.

A work of art !

The Milwaukee Road on MWM!

A Penn Central freight passes through Killbridge:

Tom

Couple of Lionel O27 spline cars

@DG posted:

Couple of Lionel O27 spline cars

Very nice DG.

@Tom Densel posted:

A Penn Central freight passes through Killbridge:

Tom

Tom another great run by the White Worm really liked the angle this time

@jrstengel posted:

The Milwaukee Road on MWM!

I really like those Milwaukee Stock cars thanks for sharing

Well here we are in "Midwest Monday" but there seems to have been no postings since @DETROIT posted last Tuesday !  So here I go bucking the trend and trying to keep our "day of the week" thread going.  I will admit that I like to post to these and look at the other postings its grand fun.

Today, I am sticking close to home and posting a car that has strong links to our current state of residence, Texas.  Wait a minute you ask, Texas isn't in the mid west?  Oh no...well in fact Waco, Texas  where we live is certainly in the west and it could not get too much more "mid" than to be here.   Waco is 1125 miles West of Savannah, Georgia and the Atlantic ocean and 1335 miles East of San Diego and the Pacific ocean. We are 179 miles North of the key location for this car...the "Alamo" in San Antonio the site of the famous battle in the Texas war for independence.  So I am going to define (at least for today) that Texas is in the "mid-west".

This car was the registration car for the LCCA convention in Dallas, Texas in 2011 which I attended.  It really is an excellent car, very robust and quite well decorated.  It carries the number 1836 which is in fact the year of the battle of the Alamo.

So Midwest Monday fans, here is the Lionel Alamo remembrance car  (i.e the famous battle cry..."Remember the Alamo").

For reasons I am not sure about, the picture below seems to render the car in grey...that is just the photo.  The color is much closer to the two earlier pictures, sort of a very light brown or even cream.

The cannon window and the decoration showing the dates of the famous battle.  The flag is the Texas state flag..."The Lone Star State".

The ammunition.  Note the picture in the upper left is of the actual building, the Alamo was a Spanish mission which was already a partial ruin  and inactive from a religious standpoint in 1836.  Today it has been restored, so to speak, to its condition in 1836 and stabilized from environmental damage.  The little circle in the lower left says..."Registration and 11 in the middle".

Well I hoped you enjoyed this visit to what I have defined as the "middle" west

Best wishes for a great week

Don

Well, I am in the west of the Midwest, Omaha, the Union Pacific hub of the old west. In the old Union Pacific Museum which is no more there was an exhibit of the worker that was scalped by Indians out by Lexington Nebraska. His scalp was in a jar if I remember correctly, that he carried around to get it sewn back on.I wonder where it is now?

The reason I mention it is that on the series, **** On Wheels it appears as part of the story.. Does any one know the location of the scalp now. Or the story.

Rich

Back in Youngstown, Ohio, a Penn Central switcher works a cut of gondolas loaded with steel pipe:

Tom

The Gulf Mobile and Ohio weathered and un weathered.

@Dave Ripp :  Dave nice weathering job really looks great.  I also liked that you signed the car...just like any good graffiti artist

Don

I know Iam a couple days late, but I wanted to share this with @Dave Ripp. It my BNSF Auto train! LOL with Auto loader ramp included!

@mike g. posted:

I know Iam a couple days late, but I wanted to share this with @Dave Ripp. It my BNSF Auto train! LOL with Auto loader ramp included!

Mike your a couple days late and I never showed up lol. That car loader looks awesome thanks for sharing

@lee drennen posted:

Mike your a couple days late and I never showed up lol. That car loader looks awesome thanks for sharing

Thanks Lee means a lot coming from you!

@mike g. posted:

I know Iam a couple days late, but I wanted to share this with @Dave Ripp. It my BNSF Auto train! LOL with Auto loader ramp included!

Mike, the auto loader looks great in BNSF orange. 

@mike g. posted:

Thanks Lee means a lot coming from you!

Your welcome Mike

@DETROIT posted:

It's just Midwest Wednesday or Midwest Monday - Wednesday Edition.

I think Jim if you have something might as well post it

MTH Missouri Pacific E6's (20-2737-1) and various MTH Premier passenger cars from 2000, 2003, and 2007.  Special thanks to @rgs455

The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, abbreviated NYC&St.L, was a railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. Commonly referred to as the "Nickel Plate Road", the railroad served parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. (Quote from Wikipedia).  Given this definition, I am posting some of my "Nickel Plate" trains today.

Here is the Lionel (MPC) Nickel Plate 2-4-2 loco from 1971-72

Here is the train that MPC offered in a set labeled the "Wabash Cannonball"

The NKP caboose to the set.

Well happy Monday everyone.

Best Wishes

Don