Model Railroad Heaven

Yes. And as a lifelong PRR fan I cringe when I admit this but, it’s the whistle of my MTH NYC Dreyfus Hudson.

Curt

Curt, I'm crazy about the PRR too. This MTH Railking PS2 Pennsy Turbine is one of my favorites:

I can see why Arnold. That's a neat locomotive and I love the steam whistle smoke effect. The postwar accessories look great with the modern loco. Nice job!

TJ

Great videos, great layout! JohnA

Wonderful videos Arnold!!  Btw - upon re-entering the hobby 18 years ago, my very first MTH engine was the steam turbine .... that engine kept me mesmerized for many hours!  

  I love the whistle sound of your new NYC steamer!  Your layout looks very fun to me.  The Plasticville structures are very well placed on your layout and to me personally they beckon a nostalgic reaction from when I was a kid playing with my Lionel layout each Christmas.... I so loved my Plasticville houses, switch tower, station and freight station. Whenever I played with my trains then, I too was in model railroad Heaven!  There was always something so magical when running train back then.  I sometimes experience this as an adult, however, not always.  After watching your video ( several times I might add )   I understand why you find yourself in model railroad Heaven.  Thanks for allowing me to experience a bit of your Heaven!

Leave to Arnold to come up with another thought provoking topic. Yes anything that has PRR on it or all big Steam when I am running them makes feel that way .

Though my current layout is undergoing serious alterations, I still feel as if I am in "Heaven" when I go back to photos of earlier iterations  of the same layout. Here is a link to a You Tube that my son, Chris, took of a ride in a passenger coach around our layout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWcvnSzFec

Another video is during the night, taken from the section of our layout called Ghost Train Park and is entitled "Action on the Main Line". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgaFmSSSbc

These videos and many photos that I have taken in the past inspire me to continue on the slow process of massive layout revisions and transport me to model railroading Heaven.

Love those clips, Arnold!

Hard to beat that Lionel F12 NYC 4-6-0; I have one of the earlier, high-headlight (both are accurate) TMCC versions. It runs great, but is "4-chuff-challenged". Very accurate models. I like your layout; reminds me of the way I thought mine looked in the 50's (it didn't).

The chocolate smoke and the "chuffing turbine" ....dunno about all that, now....

@D500 posted:

Hard to beat that Lionel F12 NYC 4-6-0; I have one of the earlier, high-headlight (both are accurate) TMCC versions. It runs great, but is "4-chuff-challenged". Very accurate models. I like your layout; reminds me of the way I thought mine looked in the 50's (it didn't).

The chocolate smoke and the "chuffing turbine" ....dunno about all that, now....

D500, if you were visiting my layout, I would use coffee scented smoke fluid instead of hot chocolate scented. LOL

This is a great day for me because I have my good friend, Malcolm, visiting my layout. We just ran my favorite engine around my Popsicle stick Yankee Stadium:

Arnold

Arnold your videos are making me want to buy one of the new 10 wheelers (even with the gray smokeboxes), but I have already committed to buying one of the new 2-8-8-2's! Maybe later this year

Arnold, it looks like that consist could be an excursion to the Sunday afternoon game at Yankee Stadium. Excellent clips, thank you.

Despite the fancy Legacy controlled locomotives I have, my grandpa's S2 turbine from 1947 just gets me every time. It smells weird, it's so stinkin' loud, it pulls everything, it weighs so much...it's just cool. I can't really get it into words but there's just something about it. It's like model railroad heaven when it rumbles about.

Gorgeous engine and layout!

Peter

Arnold, this new 10 wheeler is awesome, it looks at home on your beautiful layout, and I can see why it’s your bit of Heaven on earth while watching your trains run through awesome scenery. The steam whistle effect is amazing. Great thread, great topic. Happy Railroading Everyone

Something about the engineering and looks of trains that allows so much weight and length to run along 2 (in our case 3) rails. A combination of locomotive excitement and predictable contentment. In short - train heaven = just watching them run.

I knew I smelt Hot Chocolate when I was on 202 heading towards the Taconic ..... 

Gregg, howdy neighbor!

Larry, I also greatly admire your magnificent layout. Model railroading heaven for me includes MTH Proto 3, top of the line Lionel Postwar including the 773 Hudson and others, a few of my favorite LC+, as well as my one and only Legacy (the 10 wheeler with whistle steam).

The 10 wheeler was about $700, which is a lot of money for me to pay for an 0 Gauge locomotive. However, I'm glad I bought it because smoke is my favorite feature, I love whistle steam, and I have not yet seen an engine with it that costs any less. As a result, I feel like I got a good deal when I bought it.

Michael, isn't it great that we can see videos on this Forum of gorgeous trains running on gorgeous layouts throughout the USA and even in other countries?

Arnold

very nice love it

kevin

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Curt, I'm crazy about the PRR too. This MTH Railking PS2 Pennsy Turbine is one of my favorites:

How the heck does a turbine chuff?  You must have changed the sound file.

Alan

@ajzend posted:

How the heck does a turbine chuff?  You must have changed the sound file.

Alan

Alan, I may have had the MTH Proto 2 Turbine serviced by a very good train repairman who may have replaced the circuit board for the sounds. That may explain why it chuffs. However, I'm still fine with it because it runs and smokes very well and it sounds like a steam engine to me.

@D500 posted:

I like your layout; reminds me of the way I thought mine looked in the 50's (it didn't).

Yep! Isn't it great to see all these wonderful layouts? I think everyone has a mental image of their layouts from long ago, and even now, that may be different than the actual item. As long as you're enjoying it and having fun that is all that matters!

Nobody has mentioned the original yet! From Lee Wood's post in 2013:

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Alan, I may have had the MTH Proto 2 Turbine serviced by a very good train repairman who may have replaced the circuit board for the sounds. That may explain why it chuffs. However, I'm still fine with it because it runs and smokes very well and it sounds like a steam engine to me.

Arnold, I too prefer the chuffing. My Railking Imperial hisses all around my Circle Line (just figuratively speaking. I’m still a child of NYC).  Even though I’ve gotten used to it it still doesn’t seem right. It is however a beautiful model and I look (listen) the other way.
Alan