Tail End Tuesday

@Sitka posted:

Have a great Tuesday all , looks like Bill on the bike and Dallas having a cold beer on that crummy God speed all!

Thanks Mark.

@Don McErlean posted:

Bill great train. Love those “Beeps” amazing load even for 3 of them  

Best wishes all my Tuesday friends  Traveling today don’t know if I will be able to post  any pictures  Happy holidays to you all and all your families  

Best wishes

Don

Thanks, Don, Happy Holidays to you, too. The BEEPs were running on just under 7V in the video. They'll pull (push) a 25-car consist around my layout at 45 scale mph at just under 9V, which I don't exceed with "rectifying" locos. And all three have the supposedly "bad" boards. Like Charlie Brown's little Christmas tree, all they need is a little love...

Thanks Bill. Love those “Beeps”.  RMT had a great product wish they were still in production.

Happy Holidays

Don

Wow, it’s Tuesday, so here’s some end of the trains and things for your review, Happy New Year Everyone

Have a good TET all, little late.

Well here it is Wed morning and so I am about 24 hrs late to T.E.T. but I thought I might post anyway.  Here is the Lionel 1688 locomotive from 1936-1942. pulling the Lionel 2672 caboose from 1941-1942.

Best wishes and Happy New Year

Don

Some tail end action from Pennsy passenger trains sitting at the station have a good TET

The rear of a Seaboard Coastline express train hustling through the snowy, northern weather on its way to sunny Miami, Florida.

The Jersey Central's Blue Comet and the PRR's Nellie Bly meet at the Great Northeastern Railway's suburban station, Terryville to load more passengers vacationing in Atlantic City on the Southern New Jersey seashore.

Just another reason to show off my weaver new haven Bradley car.

Rear of the Christmas present.

Make it a good TET everyone.

HOE HOE HOE see ya all in 362 days!!!

Well, the family traveled back to Texas yesterday from our family Christmas gathering in Georgia.  If ever I yearned for a comfortable, plush Pullman berth it was yesterday.  Crammed into an Aluminum tube, due home at 0930 arrived at 1600, jammed into a seat more suitable for one of Santa's elves, enjoying a lunch of a prepackaged biscuit and a can of soda.  Oh my what we the traveling public have given up!!

Oh well, to celebrate that long ago Pullman experience, here is a tail end of some "Oldies" for you.  These are 1934, Marx short wheelbase Pullmans with the silver lithographed frame.  Named Bogota and Montclair and still equipped with Joy line couplers these cars represent the earliest of the Marx 6" 4 wheel line that would extend eventually (in many variations) until the end of Marx in 1980- quite a run for cars that when I was a lad you could buy at Woolworth's for 25 cents.  So here to celebrate 2023 is a "tail end" from 1934 or just about 90 years ago.

Here they are, in a train pulled by one of Marx's earliest Commodore Vanderbilt locomotives from the same era.

OBTW in case you might doubt the reliability built into toys by Mr. Marx, this little train after nearly 90 years with just a bit of oil on the drive gears of the loco and on the journals on the cars, runs like a top around my layout.

Happy New Year everyone!

Don

The boy's from the Paradise freight yard waving "HI" at ya' all on the tail end of a #1102 SW8. Happy TeT and 2023!

@trumpettrain posted:

HOE HOE HOE see ya all in 362 days!!!

The perfect TET for this time of year Patrick.

@Dennis Holler posted:

Tinplate AND chrome plate! Nice!

Collected these from trains run at our club, except for the 1:1 C&O caboose:

A couple TailEnd Tuesday cabooses making a run and a railroad man in blue keeping an eye on the R.R. Property have a good week all.

Well hello T.E.T. fans - Sitka that layout is really looking good, great pictures.  Today I have something somewhat unusual, it's a Marx caboose ---- or maybe it isn't???  First its for the Arkansas RR, which does not appear in any Marx reference book I have.  Next although the mold is identical in most aspects to a typical lightweight Marx 4 wheel plastic caboose, it does not say "Marx" anywhere on the mold.  Now Mr. Marx was not shy, i have not encountered a Marx product of any sort that does not say Marx on the item somewhere.  Even more interesting, this mold has the circular raised areas ahead of the side windows fore and aft but they are blank, not imprinted with the Marx logo.  So here is the "Marx" (maybe) Arkansas RR caboose.

Note in both views you can see the circular area where a Marx logo would normally appear but its just plain. As best I can tell when comparing it to my other Marx lightweight plastic 4 wheel cabooses, the mold is identical.

Well Happy Tail End Tuesday everyone!

Best wishes for a great week.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello T.E.T. fans - Sitka that layout is really looking good, great pictures.  Today I have something somewhat unusual, it's a Marx caboose ---- or maybe it isn't???  First its for the Arkansas RR, which does not appear in any Marx reference book I have.  Next although the mold is identical in most aspects to a typical lightweight Marx 4 wheel plastic caboose, it does not say "Marx" anywhere on the mold.  Now Mr. Marx was not shy, i have not encountered a Marx product of any sort that does not say Marx on the item somewhere.  Even more interesting, this mold has the circular raised areas ahead of the side windows fore and aft but they are blank, not imprinted with the Marx logo.  So here is the "Marx" (maybe) Arkansas RR caboose.

Note in both views you can see the circular area where a Marx logo would normally appear but its just plain. As best I can tell when comparing it to my other Marx lightweight plastic 4 wheel cabooses, the mold is identical.

Well Happy Tail End Tuesday everyone!

Best wishes for a great week.

Don

It’s Plastimarx from Mexico.

Steve

Good evening friends on the OGR Forum, Tail End Tuesday’s roll around faster and faster, and there’s some beautiful ends of trains today. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy tail end  Tuesday! A before and after of my 2046w!

@Steve "Papa" Eastman_-  Thanks Steve, that's what I love about the forum the knowledge of the members.  You know its still interesting that it does not say, "made in Mexico" anywhere on the car.  It would seem this does not comply with US import laws but maybe these trains were just intended for the local Mexican market and not imported.  Anyway, thank you for the input the knowledge makes it more fun.

@Donnie Kennedy - Great work Donnie, the lights look super.

@leapinlarry - Neat caboose's...and a neat orange switcher, is that "ISS" livery?  Really good looking Larry.

Don

WE MUST BE HAVING FUN........because TIME IS FLYING BY to another TET  .       

A UP tail for this evening .     

Have a peaceful night all.

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

WE MUST BE HAVING FUN........because TIME IS FLYING BY to another TET  .       

A UP tail for this evening .     

Have a peaceful night all.

Nice night shot good looking diesel!

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello T.E.T. fans - Sitka that layout is really looking good, great pictures.  Today I have something somewhat unusual, it's a Marx caboose ---- or maybe it isn't???  First its for the Arkansas RR, which does not appear in any Marx reference book I have.  Next although the mold is identical in most aspects to a typical lightweight Marx 4 wheel plastic caboose, it does not say "Marx" anywhere on the mold.  Now Mr. Marx was not shy, i have not encountered a Marx product of any sort that does not say Marx on the item somewhere.  Even more interesting, this mold has the circular raised areas ahead of the side windows fore and aft but they are blank, not imprinted with the Marx logo.  So here is the "Marx" (maybe) Arkansas RR caboose.

Note in both views you can see the circular area where a Marx logo would normally appear but its just plain. As best I can tell when comparing it to my other Marx lightweight plastic 4 wheel cabooses, the mold is identical.

Well Happy Tail End Tuesday everyone!

Best wishes for a great week.

Don

Thanks Don was fun remodeling and adding the foam sheets, HAGD Mark

@Sitka posted:

Nice night shot good looking diesel!

Well thank you very much Mark.

Plastimarx was mentioned in a posting above. Here's some info about them.

Plastimarx: Marx's Mexican subsidiary - The Silicon Underground (dfarq.homeip.net)https://dfarq.homeip.net/plast...-mexican-subsidiary/

@Arthur P. Bloom posted:

Plastimarx was mentioned in a posting above. Here's some info about them.

Plastimarx: Marx's Mexican subsidiary - The Silicon Underground (dfarq.homeip.net)https://dfarq.homeip.net/plast...-mexican-subsidiary/

Dave has a lot of interesting stuff on his site.

Steve

@leapinlarry posted:

Good evening friends on the OGR Forum, Tail End Tuesday’s roll around faster and faster, and there’s some beautiful ends of trains today. Happy Railroading Everyone

    @leapinlarry,  I like that Fairless Works switcher, who's is that ?

Rich in SD

@trestleking, the switcher is a USS Safety First Lionel model. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Steve "Papa" Eastman, @Arthur P. Bloom - thank you both very much for bringing Dave Farquher's web site on Plastimarx toys to my attention.  You were both right, the information on that site about the end days of Marx and his ability to set up subsidiary companies in foreign lands is fascinating.  Just as an aside, I had the Rock Island battery set described by Dave at the end of the article.  The family was away from home that Christmas and I bought it  just to have a train around the Christmas tree.  I kept it for awhile but eventually sold it at my wife's antique booth for perhaps $5.  My recollection however is that although a cheap set, it functioned as advertised.

Great discussion everyone, I always learn new things when we have contributions from members.

Don

@Sitka posted:

A couple TailEnd Tuesday cabooses making a run and a railroad man in blue keeping an eye on the R.R. Property have a good week all.

Oh, really? Let me get my bike...

Kicking off this week's TeT with a Toy Trucker Bucyrus steam shovel (ca. 1910) tail end:

And here's the rest of it:

An interesting model embodying a significant technological development that made the Panama Canal possible. Of course, the real things got REALLY beat up but kept on working at risk of life and limb to their crews. Here's a video of them in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3w1h_Pd_8

I can't really pull this model on the layout due to the chain-drive detail, but it is 1:48 scale. TeT!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Kicking off this week's TeT with a Toy Trucker Bucyrus steam shovel (ca. 1910) tail end:  And here's the rest of it:

An interesting model embodying a significant technological development that made the Panama Canal possible. Of course, the real things got REALLY beat up but kept on working at risk of life and limb to their crews. Here's a video of them in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3w1h_Pd_8

I can't really pull this model on the layout due to the chain-drive detail, but it is 1:48 scale. TeT!

Great kick off for this TET  Bill. 

A great looking model too.  You have to have this on a rail somewhere doing an excavation .

I don't know if it will depreciate the value but this would make one heck of a great weathering project .

Thanks for sharing.

@Bill Swatos- That is an amazing model.  The video was neat as well showing the incredible job done by those machines in the creation of the Panama Canal.

Well here it is Tail End Tuesday and I thought I might take advantage of my own post in Boxcar Sunday, when I talked about the strategy of Lionel during the Depression and their use of lithography and the cars originally marketed as Ives after Lionel bought that company.  I mentioned in that discussion of the boxcars that for the largest of these cars, the 9 1/2" Ives cars, Lionel made not only a boxcar but a gondola and a caboose.  So in honor of T.E.T. here is the Lionel (Ives) 9 1/2" series caboose.

The Lionel Lithographed Caboose, offered 1935-1940 in this version (Orange / Ni journals) also available in a light red version with a maroon roof - same time period. This car with a slight change to the trucks was also available 1941-42 but these did not return after the war.

Happy Tuesday everyone

Don

A good TET morning all.

MTHPREMIERGENSETSHOWINGOFFTHEREAR.   If you can read that , hopefully everyone can SEE ( finally ) ALL of the newly installed LED brightness .

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!  It's all about the B&O!