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The Merchant's Limited......the LCCA set.....I wish it had been done with can motors and traction tires.  It cannot pull the extra B unit and baggage/combo cars on non-Lionel track.

 

 

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In the PostWar era, Lionel made 4 New Haven engines:

EP-5

F3

Alco FA in AA and then single A configurations.

I am fortunate to own one set of each. Over the next few weeks I will showcase one of them.

 

 

 

Peter

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Mark, Great modeling!  It's wonderful that you saved this for so many years!

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Thank you very much, Neal!  

 

Unfortunately I am trying to reacquire some of my skills after second carpal tunnel surgery in both hands and nagging arthritis.  In the meantime, I am having fun with a fastrack layout on a outdoor carpeted 4x8 table.  

A few iPhone layout photos from now....

 

My friend George and I visited Toy Trains and Collectibles, owned by fellow National Capital Tracker members Dan and Hope Danielson in Manassas, VA today. Dan has been open for a while but we hadn't gotten to his store until today. What a great store! Make a point to stop in if you are ever in the area. 

 

I purchased several MTH #35 street lights that you can see in the photos below. 

 

A few random layout photos from now. Other than one of MTH's "old west" style buildings (on my York list), I think I'm out of room to put more stuff and have nearly run out of juice to run it all. I've  got an MTH Z-1000 running accessories and Z1ks running the table top loops - all have the brick's accessory ports filled. Any and every port for accessory power is full, including a full terminal block for the accessory Z1k. My wiring probably isn't really photo worthy either...

 

 

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One of my favorite things is watching a layout develop and evolve. Compare the photos taken today, 10/3/15 above to this photo taken in February of this year. 

 

 

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More progress on my RailRunner... I finished the locomotive!  (Insert happy dance here) Next step is to start decaling the pax cars...

 

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I also went and ran our newly acquired Lionel PS2-ified Yellow Belly at AGHR this weekend.  It looks and runs great.  Thus near-scale version still looks pretty good with our set of Railking cars.

 

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We also had a pantograph go missing in one of our club tunnels during Saturday's Running of a The Trains.  This McGyver-ism (a flashlight taped to the club camera caboose) was our attempt to search the less accessible tunnels remotely.  Watching the feed was a lot like those shows on the Discovery channel, where they are searching an undersea wreck with an ROV and watching dark grainy footage from the surface ...but we saw a blip, and ultimately followed that lead to find our missing part.  Also... I now have a neat idea for a tunnel inspection vehicle.

 

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-Dustin

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