Weekend Photo Fun 10-4-24-??

Two New York Central trains are running on my 12’-by-8’ layout for this weekend. GP9 #6001 (MTH 20-20549-1 with PS3) is at the head of a short passenger train and 2-8-0 Consolidation #960 (Lionel 2231120) is leading a freight train.

The New York Central Railroad rostered 176 GP9 locomotives – class DRS-9. They ran with long-hood forward and had a 16-cylinder 567C turbocharged diesel engine with 1750 horsepower. #6001 was built for freight service in October 1956 and lasted into the Penn Central and Conrail eras. The full-sized locomotive could turn on a minimum curve radius of 273 feet, which corresponds to a radius of about 68 inches or O-136 track in O gauge. MTH specifies minimum O-31 curves for the model.

New York Central class G-6i #960 was built for subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad as #7812 by Alco (Brooks Works) in June 1909. Tractive effort was about 45,500 pounds. It was scrapped as New York Central #1195 in 1954. Lionel’s model represents a Southern Pacific prototype (Harriman Consolidation) – not New York Central. On the SP, this type of engine had a Vanderbilt tender and was fueled by oil.

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The last two weeks, I was on the Harlem Division of the New York Central……..this week, I moved across the Hudson to the Central’s West Shore line. The New York, Ontario & Western has trackage rights on the line from Cornwall into Weehawken and one of their sleek passenger trains, powered by an F3 ABA (MTH PS2) is headed south. At the same time, two New York Central Geeps (Lionel Legacy) take a freight north up the Hudson…..

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Just one quick video this week…..

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Thanks Scott for getting us going for this fine weekend!   Have a terrific and safe weekend everyone!

Hiking to the top of hill reveals railroad action.  

Finally caved in and sprung for a "new" locomotive in the NYC Dreyfuss from a forum member. Very pleasant transaction. 1st 'new buy' in a long time. Will likely have to post a few items in the FS thread to cover this purchase but I am most pleased. Been dealing with the aftermath of this storm that has left SO much devastation in its wake that it may be awhile before I can give her a run on friend's layouts. Tried to recreate Lionel's 'Smithsonian' art deco poster from some years ago here

RPO car is a MTH 72' Premiere that matches pretty closely in certain light

Great photos to start as they are each week. Thanks all for posting, I look forward to seeing everyone's pics each week interesting seeing all the variety.

With the weather cooling off, not so hot full sun days,  I have been bringing some trains to run on our club garden railway track. Been to hot a summer to wear out my good stuff. Here are some pics from a couple of different days. All BN Green on the outside 2 rail track and my GN all blue on the next O Gauge loop. Most of the freight cars, caboose and F9 are my custom paints for a full blue set.

Another day I brought along mostly steam to run. Loops 1,2,4 I was running 2 rail O scale and loop 3, 5, 6 O Gauge. Some of the items are my custom paints.