Pennsylvania R.R. Let's see them!

Williams GG-1 with Lionel 027 passenger cars. On a evening run God Speed!

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Here’s the wayward chassis once again paired with a Beep.

Here's some Pennsy everyday today.

1906 place marker in North River tunnel.

@Sitka posted:

Williams GG-1 with Lionel 027 passenger cars. On a evening run God Speed!

Broadway barrelin' on through the night to Harrisburg for her E6's and early morning arrival in the Windy City! Nothin' could be finer than dinner in the diner and a slice o' raisin pie before bedding down! Nice!

Here we have a PW Lionel GG-1 2332 with Williams modified Broadway Limited Madison cars.

An A5 shifter peaking out from behind some pigs....

I’m happy to see this thread as the Pennsylvania Railroad had so many beautiful locomotives and diesels, and passenger trains. They were Big! I do not have a lot of Pennsylvania equipment, but I love their logo’s. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

I’m happy to see this thread as the Pennsylvania Railroad had so many beautiful locomotives and diesels, and passenger trains. They were Big! I do not have a lot of Pennsylvania equipment, but I love their logo’s. Happy Railroading Everyone

Fine looking switcher and a fine looking turntable! Mark

Plasticville coaling tower repaint, added this tower back in the layout going to add some coal I have from a defunct rail line I picked up some years back.

@Sitka posted:

Plasticville coaling tower repaint, added this tower back in the layout going to add some coal I have from a defunct rail line I picked up some years back.

Great scene, as usual, Mark! With that TV tower, the boys on shift are gonna' get great reception for the Super Bowl this Sunday! Go, Iggles!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Great scene, as usual, Mark! With that TV tower, the boys on shift are gonna' get great reception for the Super Bowl this Sunday! Go, Iggles!

Err that’s a radar tower. It will be useful to track balloons. 😂

@pennsyfan posted:

Err that’s a radar tower. It will be useful to track balloons. 😂

How this Pennsy

@Sitka posted:

How this Pennsy

Way cool!

My satellite is a little smaller.

@pennsyfan posted:

My satellite is a little smaller.

That is sharp, I have two target cars with the balloons didn't want to take the balloon's out of the bags. LOL what car is that with the balloon? Mark

@Sitka posted:

That is sharp, I have two target cars with the balloons didn't want to take the balloon's out of the bags. LOL what car is that with the balloon? Mark

It’s a Kusan (KMT) train. The ball is a foam ball about the size of a ping pong ball.

3 MTH, PRR locomotives, a K-4s, B-6 switcher and GG-1, hooked to their trains and waiting for their turns to leave the Great Northeastern Railway's Mount Carroll yards for their day's work on a snow-covered morning.

An H10-44 waits for a green signal while a B6 pulls a local past on the main.

@pennsyfan posted:

My satellite is a little smaller.

VERY  NICE  Bob

How does this work and stay with the car ?

Great pictures everyone, this little 0-4-0 K-Line TMCC steamer is a new addition to my Pennsylvania line up. It need some tweaking but she runs just fine. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Dallas Joseph posted:

VERY  NICE  Bob

How does this work and stay with the car ?

There’s a fan in the car that pushes it up. I’m thinking that the size of the turbulence has a larger diameter than the ball so it creates a kind of cradle that the ball doesn’t break through. If there are any engineers out there that can provide a better answer; I’d like to hear it.

@pennsyfan posted:

There’s a fan in the car that pushes it up. I’m thinking that the size of the turbulence has a larger diameter than the ball so it creates a kind of cradle that the ball doesn’t break through. If there are any engineers out there that can provide a better answer; I’d like to hear it.

You nailed it Bob. The air column holds the ball inside. It is a neat car.

Here’s my remaining fleet of Pennsylvania freight cars (other than a caboose) after moving to California and adding so many Union Pacific freights that other RRs had to move on, LOL:

@pennsyfan posted:

There’s a fan in the car that pushes it up. I’m thinking that the size of the turbulence has a larger diameter than the ball so it creates a kind of cradle that the ball doesn’t break through. If there are any engineers out there that can provide a better answer; I’d like to hear it.

Don't necessarily need the engineers Bob.......this thing is fun to watch.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Don't necessarily need the engineers Bob.......this thing is fun to watch.

Dallas, indeed it is. I have to get busy and tune up the engine.

@RSJB18 posted:

You nailed it Bob. The air column holds the ball inside. It is a neat car.

Bernoulli principle. The moving air column generated by the fan is at a lower pressure than the still air around it. As the ball moves out of the column, the higher air pressure outside of it pushes it back in. It's why airplanes fly. At constant airspeed, air moves faster across the curved top surface of the wing than the flat bottom surface, resulting in lower pressure above the the wing than below it, generating lift. Regardless, I've got to have one of these now. Do they make it in 3-rail?

@Bill Swatos posted:

Bernoulli principle. The moving air column generated by the fan is at a lower pressure than the still air around it. As the ball moves out of the column, the higher air pressure outside of it pushes it back in. It's why airplanes fly. At constant airspeed, air moves faster across the curved top surface of the wing than the flat bottom surface, resulting in lower pressure above the the wing than below it, generating lift. Regardless, I've got to have one of these now. Do they make it in 3-rail?

🥺 I should have remembered that from my aviation familiarization course in the NAVY.

When talking about lift, don't forget Newton's third law of motion. 

But enough talk about aviaiton.  We are here to see Pennsy train photos.  Here is an Atlas RS-1 getting ready to do some track maintenance.

Couple PW Lionel early-Cupola Type 2457 from 45-47 had a nice toolbox, generator and steps, the other 2472 from 46-47 shows the cutbacks on the product also noted is the brake wheels and smokestack on the 2457. To bad Lionel made changes on so many of their products.  They also made a nice looking brown 2457 with white lettering and a 4457 red/white 46,47 in the Electronic Set, These all came from left over prewar era. God Speed All!

2457 with brake wheel and steps, stack and light, and the 2472 without steps brake wheels and stack

@Sitka - Great cabooses...I also have several of the early post war sheet metal.  Way too soon ( like 1947 ) Lionel moved to introduce the "plastic" SP type caboose and the sheet metal ones were too soon gone.  One curiosity though, although the 2472 clearly had cutbacks on "add on" features it did have 2 automatic couplers whereas the more featured 2457 only had a coupler on one end.  Interesting choices by Lionel.

Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Sitka - Great cabooses...I also have several of the early post war sheet metal.  Way too soon ( like 1947 ) Lionel moved to introduce the "plastic" SP type caboose and the sheet metal ones were too soon gone.  One curiosity though, although the 2472 clearly had cutbacks on "add on" features it did have 2 automatic couplers whereas the more featured 2457 only had a coupler on one end.  Interesting choices by Lionel.

Best wishes

Don

Thanks Don just picked up a 225E with diecast tender after looking at it, looks like Lionel changed some tooling and made a K4 out of it will post the two for how they look, the 225e has a great looking boiler front. HAGD hope all is well with the wife God Speed! Mark

Mark thank you for your comment and wishes for my wife...we keep praying and hoping that this disease will give us more time.  We have been together since 1960.

Don

Ok, let’s have some Pennsylvania Today. Happy Sunday Eve everyone… Here is the GG1 that will be pulling my Congressional 7 car passenger train, soon. Happy Railroading Everyone

Pennsylvania RR on my layout today.

@Sitka posted:

Couple PW Lionel early-Cupola Type 2457 from 45-47 had a nice toolbox, generator and steps, the other 2472 from 46-47 shows the cutbacks on the product also noted is the brake wheels and smokestack on the 2457. To bad Lionel made changes on so many of their products.  They also made a nice looking brown 2457 with white lettering and a 4457 red/white 46,47 in the Electronic Set, These all came from left over prewar era. God Speed All!   2457 with brake wheel and steps, stack and light, and the 2472 without steps brake wheels and stack

Nicely done interesting info on the changes made to the caboose Mark.          Was there a price drop in the newer version or just cost cutting ?    Seems like the newer version could have had less obvious cuts 

A 44 tonner backing down to couple on to a loaded box car.

Bob

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nicely done interesting info on the changes made to the caboose Mark.          Was there a price drop in the newer version or just cost cutting ?    Seems like the newer version could have had less obvious cuts 

Most likely cost cutting, bought a 225E prewar and broke it down for degreasing what a difference in some of the parts the trailing truck has little nuts to hold the bearing cap in place, The boiler front opens like the berk pretty sharp. Got some weight to it also. God Speed Dallas!

@RSJB18 posted:

A 44 tonner backing down to couple on to a loaded box car.

Bob

Great up close shot of the switcher getting the job done Bob.

@Sitka posted:

Most likely cost cutting, bought a 225E prewar and broke it down for degreasing what a difference in some of the parts the trailing truck has little nuts to hold the bearing cap in place, The boiler front opens like the berk pretty sharp. Got some weight to it also. God Speed Dallas!

Seems like you ended up with a good one Mark. And God Speed to you sir.