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I just found some old photos of my 4x8 layout from 1983-84, when I lived in an apartment in the East Falls section of Philadelphia..

This was the period where PostWar Lionel and MPC Lionel were mixed together before RailSounds and TMCC.....circa 1970 until about 1988-90.

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The New York Central F3 passenger set (1983) was my 1st really major purchase since my childhood.

Peter

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Hang on guys...the Lionel / MPC era may be over but not the layouts!  Here is my "Leonardtown and Savannah", named for two places we lived.  It is all Lionel tubular track, O and O-27 track and switches, ZW power with toggle switch controlled blocks.  The buildings are a combination of Menards, Lionel pre-war, and AF from the 50's.  The Flag pole is Lionel from 1957 (it's a 48 star flag) and the cars etc are from everywhere.

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Here is the AF tower from the post war period.  Theoretically it's "S" scale but it works real well with the somewhat less than scale sized Lionel/MPC trains.  The Crossing sign is Marx as is the yard tower.  Tree's and such are post Christmas sales from our local art supply store.

layout scene 2 McDonalds.

Here is the Menards, "Main Street" buildings and a ceramic McDonalds from one of the various Christmas building sets you see in the stores .  The kids are looking at the racoons in the garbage...they are enjoying lunch too!

layout scene 4 footbridge

My "Small Town" suburban station, a Lionel pre-war station (forget the #) and my footbridge over the town stream.  Commuters await the morning run to work.

Layout Small Town Center

Here is most of "Small Town" it fits inside my 0-27 loop and works ok although the clearances for much more than switcher engines is too tight.  The Williams 44 ton GE engines (I have 2) work great here but so do my MPC small steamers.

Well that's it, thought I would let you know that for some of us the Lionel / MPC period still goes on !!

Best Wishes

Don

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Here is my contribution circa 1977ish. I would routinely run items like my 1957 Rio Grande consist, 736 Berkshire with mixed postwar freight, MPC Spirit of 76, Pennsy Little Joe with baby Madison cars. They blended very well together. My one regret from that period is that I didn’t take more photos of this layout as it had evolved from the initial 5x9 table to this final version.

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Here is my contribution circa 1977ish. I would routinely run items like my 1957 Rio Grande consist, 736 Berkshire with mixed postwar freight, MPC Spirit of 76, Pennsy Little Joe with baby Madison cars. They blended very well together. My one regret from that period is that I didn’t take more photos of this layout as it had evolved from the initial 5x9 table to this final version.

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I especially love seeing the Super O track!

Peter

Great layouts and trains everyone.  ChooChoo glad you are still up and running...so am I and I like the MPC / modern trains, they work on small radii curves and just keep going.  Some of the newer ones, like the Williams 44 tonner's also have great sounds.  I still run a few old "sound of steam" tenders with the circular plastic container with pebbles inside ... What a hoot!

Here is a bit of my MPC "motive power" mostly from the early MPC days in the 70's and 80's.  First the #8300 unnamed Santa FE 2-4-0  from 1973-74.

Lionel 8300 loco & tender

The Denver & Rio Grande 2-4-0 from 1976-78  I think this was the "Black River Freight" set.

Lionel BR Freight set -train

The "Southern Streak"  2-4-0 from 1983-84

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Great fun folks, Probably never have a lot of collector value, but I always found them fun to run and fun to collect

Don

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