Midwest Monday

The Eagle looks awesome Mike!

A Penn Central manifest freight passes Kill Tower on the Killbridge subdivision:

Tom

My new Grand Trunk & Western flat car.

Well here we are MWM fans...another "blue" Monday.  Well at least its blue (sky that is) here in Central Texas where the temp has gone over 60 deg and the sun is shinning at long last.  Today I have a couple of Marx 6" box cars that are (sort of) from the Midwest.  At least they are close . 

Here is the Chicago and North Western RR box car from 1939-40.  It advertises the CNW passenger service..."Route of the 400  and the Streamliners".  This came in several colors besides this orange although the orange is one of the most scarce.

Here is the Colorado and Southern RR refrigerator car from 1940-41.  Note the predicament of the poor fellow in the door.  Like poor "Charlie on the MTA" he is destined to ride forever!!  C&S was a RR that had lines in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.  It was part of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincey from 1908 -1981 when it became part of Burlington Northern.  For collectors, this variation is called the "man in the door" version for obvious reasons.

Well, there is my "midwest" contribution for today.  I am taking as a given that Chicago is generally considered in the mid-west and both these RR had connections / terminals in Chicago (C&S via the CB&Q).  Best wishes everyone, Happy Monday!

Don

Love the auto loader ramp Mike. As usual, everybody’s showing some great work. Here’s my Midwest Monday.

Mr. Muffin's custom run MTH GM&O Alco RS-1 (30-20869-1).

Great photos guys! I will try and get out to the train room to get something for today!

Ok guys here you go! I don't think you can get much more Midwest than this!

The Coors train had been sitting under the layout waiting for a place and reason to get back out. You guys gave it the reason! LOL

Then you have all 3 I have Union Pacific on top and then the BNSF right next to the lonely Coors switcher!

Tom

Midwest junk!

Well fans of MWM my post today is about a train that is near its 100th anniversary.  This American Flyer clockwork set dates to 1923 or 24.  The set includes the engine, a Type XI , catalog number 16, clockwork locomotive and tender, a coach and a baggage car plus track.  The railway, iaw our theme of Midwest Monday, is the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway although the coach is named "1206 Seattle 1206" under the window.

Here is the set as you might have opened it on Christmas nearly 100 years ago.  Clockwork so no "dangerous" electricity to worry Mom and confound Dad!  As I obtained it, the set only had straight track, which is unlikely to be original as almost all sets came with a loop.  It had quite a bit of straight but no curved, so somewhere in the last century, it has lost some track.

Here is the full consist.  Note that the key is permanent so it can't get lost (thank goodness).  Your question might be...does it work?  The answer is Yes...sort of.  Unlike some of my much more sophisticated Hornby clockwork engines , it has no governor for speed control and no reverse so its pretty much a wind up and let go type engine.

Here are the two cars that came in the set.  A coach, named "Seattle" and a baggage / RPO.  

Here is a close up of the 1923-1926, American Flyer, mighty # 16 clockwork steam engine.

I have some information that this might be a #15 outfit or set which was a cheaper version of the #16, the principal difference between them was that the #16 had two coaches.  The reference data I have says that there was never an 1206 observation car lettered for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul - although in 1924 there was a 1206 "American Flyer Lines" observation.

Well here is hoping you have a great week.  Best Wishes

Don

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Midwest junk!

Dave, the houses and trailers are cool, who made them.?
Rich

@Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom, is that an iPhone video…?

@Bigboyrich posted:

Tom, is that an iPhone video…?

No.  I use a Sony Handycam for all my videos.

Tom

A Penn Central wreck train passes through town after finishing a derailment clean up:

Tom

@DETROIT posted:

Short clip of my new MTH Grand Trunk RS1 on the Charleston Area Model Railroad Club - CAMRC - https://www.camrc.club/   Come and visit if you are ever in Charleston!

Now why did I think you were in Detroit...

@Tom Densel posted:

A Penn Central wreck train passes through town after finishing a derailment clean up:

Tom

Tom, why are you not featuring your AC&Y H16-44 more!?

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Tom, why are you not featuring your AC&Y H16-44 more!?

Ron

Ask and you shall receive:

Tom

@Tom Densel posted:

Ask and you shall receive:

Tom

Another great shot thanks for sharing.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well fans of MWM my post today is about a train that is near its 100th anniversary.  This American Flyer clockwork set dates to 1923 or 24.  The set includes the engine, a Type XI , catalog number 16, clockwork locomotive and tender, a coach and a baggage car plus track.  The railway, iaw our theme of Midwest Monday, is the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway although the coach is named "1206 Seattle 1206" under the window.

Here is the set as you might have opened it on Christmas nearly 100 years ago.  Clockwork so no "dangerous" electricity to worry Mom and confound Dad!  As I obtained it, the set only had straight track, which is unlikely to be original as almost all sets came with a loop.  It had quite a bit of straight but no curved, so somewhere in the last century, it has lost some track.

Here is the full consist.  Note that the key is permanent so it can't get lost (thank goodness).  Your question might be...does it work?  The answer is Yes...sort of.  Unlike some of my much more sophisticated Hornby clockwork engines , it has no governor for speed control and no reverse so its pretty much a wind up and let go type engine.

Here are the two cars that came in the set.  A coach, named "Seattle" and a baggage / RPO.  

Here is a close up of the 1923-1926, American Flyer, mighty # 16 clockwork steam engine.

I have some information that this might be a #15 outfit or set which was a cheaper version of the #16, the principal difference between them was that the #16 had two coaches.  The reference data I have says that there was never an 1206 observation car lettered for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul - although in 1924 there was a 1206 "American Flyer Lines" observation.

Well here is hoping you have a great week.  Best Wishes

Don

Don thanks for sharing your timeless Antique train you never seem to amaze me with these trains

@Don McErlean posted:

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

Sorry I missed this one Don I like that cannon

@Tom Densel posted:

Ask and you shall receive:

Tom

Tom for some reason this video is for me  just black but the audio is there!?.

This is like the last time you posted vids of the AKY.  But all your PC vids are perfect!

This is somewhat eerie!

Ron

@Tom Densel posted:

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

Tom

Another great one Tom sorry I missed it this is one of my favorites yet

@DETROIT posted:

Midwest Tuesday ?  Amtrak 1971 action

Jim great video and pics

@Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom I like that Piggyback car the best another convincing video great job.

@DETROIT posted:

Short clip of my new MTH Grand Trunk RS1 on the Charleston Area Model Railroad Club - CAMRC - https://www.camrc.club/   Come and visit if you are ever in Charleston!

Jim. Great video of the GT. Thanks for sharing.

@Tom Densel posted:

A Penn Central wreck train passes through town after finishing a derailment clean up:

Tom

Nice run Tom thanks for sharing

@Dave Ripp. posted:

Midwest junk!

Dave nice scrap cars thanks for sharing

@lee drennen :  Lee great to hear from you again.  I hope all has been well and you are just busy with that "hobby" farm of yours.  I lived many years in Ohio so I know how hard farmers work, so that must be a tough "hobby".    Thanks for your comments, they always make me feel great and I really like that you appreciate my (and others) postings.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@lee drennen :  Lee great to hear from you again.  I hope all has been well and you are just busy with that "hobby" farm of yours.  I lived many years in Ohio so I know how hard farmers work, so that must be a tough "hobby".    Thanks for your comments, they always make me feel great and I really like that you appreciate my (and others) postings.

Best Wishes

Don

Your welcome Don. We are Blessed to have someone like you that has so much information of the Model Railroad past. I’ve been busy at work and I’m just exhausted when I get home after my chores on my Little Hobby Farm. I don’t think I’m going to put out a big garden this year it’s just too much for me. I hope to get more post done soon. Thanks

I think the Milwaukee Road qualifies as Midwest. After track and transformer maintenance on the Twin Pines RR, ran a "new for me" K-Line F3 A-B-A set with MTH Hiawatha passenger cars. For an engine which is circa 2000, it has decent details, has a working Mars light and the pilot, although not fixed, has very little gap. Future project is to remove the lead coupler and make a set of doors to cover the opening.

I run this TMCC engine through the MTH app on an Samsung Android pad. Since it does not seem to have cruise, you can see the speed difference. The first part of the video has the consist going up grade. The second half is running flat. Odd thing about the app - I have to move the throttle up to 2/3 speed just to get this engine moving. I am really spoiled with the MTH engines with their efficient motors and crawling speed. Barely need to move the throttle.  The pad just does not capture video very well. 

A Penn Central Geep switches an industry in the Rust Belt:

Tom

@ScoutingDad posted:

I think the Milwaukee Road qualifies as Midwest. After track and transformer maintenance on the Twin Pines RR, ran a "new for me" K-Line F3 A-B-A set with MTH Hiawatha passenger cars. For an engine which is circa 2000, it has decent details, has a working Mars light and the pilot, although not fixed, has very little gap. Future project is to remove the lead coupler and make a set of doors to cover the opening.

I run this TMCC engine through the MTH app on an Samsung Android pad. Since it does not seem to have cruise, you can see the speed difference. The first part of the video has the consist going up grade. The second half is running flat. Odd thing about the app - I have to move the throttle up to 2/3 speed just to get this engine moving. I am really spoiled with the MTH engines with their efficient motors and crawling speed. Barely need to move the throttle.  The pad just does not capture video very well.

WOW Jeff, nice looking set up! But I do have to say your train sure is hauling butt! LOL I don't think I have ever ran any of my trains that fast!

@mike g.  There is no scale speed to see with this TMCC version. I just had to wing it and guess at a reasonable speed.  But if not going uphill, the engines do tend to take off. Maybe I need a runway like you

Happy MWM everyone some great looking pics you guys have posted so far thanks for sharing. Here’s my offering this Monday some DT&I at the crossing on St. Joe Dr. on the Dough Hill Layout.

Happy MWM today we have a Weaver C&O RSD12 with some Weaver Midwest roads. Enjoy your day

Detroit - All I can say is that it's sure going to take a lot of pancakes to use up all that syrup .  Lee neat video - don't think you have showed your RSD 12 very much, neat engine and seems a smooth runner.

Well my contribution today concerns the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway.  This was a granger that ran in the states of Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota. It lived on providing economical shipping rates to farmers for agricultural products.   Its maximum track mileage was around 1700 miles and it lasted from 1870 until 1960 when it was finally eclipsed by competition.  Sad to say, despite its name, it never reached St. Louis and its main terminal stop was in Peoria, Ill in fact the RR has the slogan..."The Peoria Gateway".  That slogan is part of the livery of both cars and those words are contained in the circle you see on the sides.

First just the bay window caboose.  This is a Lionel (MPC) #9271 from 1978

Now the caboose with my M&StL boxcar also a Lionel (MPC) # 9775 from 1976

Lee in your video I noted a M&StL boxcar but it appears to have a different livery.  Both the car and the caboose came to me via e-bay relatively recently, the caboose in Feb and the boxcar last summer so they are new to me. Both, despite their age, arrived in LN condition and still in their original box...so I guess I might be the first guy running them...cool!!

Best wishes to everyone, have a great week.

Don

Thanks Don and that's not my whole maple molassas consist, I have about another 10 tank cars I couldn't locate: B&M, MEC, CV, CN.  I'll get you next Spring. Jim

A little AC&Y action at Kill Bridge:

Tom

@DETROIT posted:

Lee - great video.  I took a minute to scroll back through our forum and I think we have the best I have seen.  The guys who post in this forum represent just about ever aspect of O gauge/scale trains (also some S scale).  Pre-war, post war, O27, semi-scale, scale, (real trains) simple layouts, complex it's really outstanding week after week. Often educational Don.  It's fun and great to be part of it!!!

Jim thanks I’m glad you enjoy this thread I really enjoy it also sorry for being absent for a bit but life gets in the way sometimes. I enjoy the regulars here You Don and the Master of the White Worm Tom D. Thanks all for this going.