Weekend Photo Fun 11/24/16 HONGZ Happy Thanksgiving!!

chessie1971 posted:

Nothing new this week except i may buy a couple n scale tank cars next week. I'm doing this early because i will be gone friday and saturday all day will be running trains for a show. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone and have a safe weekend.   

Hello chessie1971

That sounds like FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!

"So let us try as hard as we can to enter God's place of rest.  We must try hard so that none of us will be lost by following the example of those who refused to obey God"  Hebrews 4:11 ERV (Easy-to-read version)

Tiffany

It's OMG it's HONGZ WPF! Time for WOW or WTF(?) pictures!!

First up is a WOW picture. (Well, it says "wow" to me when I look at the item.)

What you're seeing are some pictures I've previously posted in other threads here at OGR, but it's been a long time. (AND, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for suitable HO pics on this old clunker computer of mine!) 

Besides, Christmas time is on the way!  And seeing as this set hearkens back to one of my BEST Christmas' ever... I thought it fitting!

What you're seeing: The picture is of a replica Lindberg train set of the very first HO scale train set I received as a lad waaaay back in the Christmas of 1962. (My first HO scale train set was back in '58, but it didn't hold up too well to my childhood years!)

"Back when" Lindberg was a very small train manufacturer. Their offerings were head and shoulders above their contemporaries with very realistic paint schemes (flat paint, even!) on their rolling stock. Lindberg didn't last long in the train business... maybe 10 years?

Okay... I'll shut up and post the pic!

And here's a picture of the current state of my Lindberg switcher collection. (Lindberg only made their little SW600... never made any other engines.)

And from the WTF(?) department... seeing as I'm on a Colorado Midland kick in my V scale modeling... thought I might post up a very dramatic Phil Ronfor painting of the ol' CM as it roars over "Hagerman Trestle".  The caption for this picture in its printed source reads:

"THUNDER AT HAGERMAN TRESTLE"

"The great wooden trestle on the east side of the Hagerman Pass "high line" quivers slightly as a doubleheaded westbound Colorado Midland passenger train thunders upgrade toward Hagerman Tunnel. Passengers on late-running Train 3, the 'Utah and California Express' shiver involuntarily as they look out at the wintry landscape; however, the Baker heaters keep the cars snug and warm as the enginemen battle to make up time."

Lot'sa drama in that painting!  Love it.

Okie doakie... that's it from me for this 'un!

Andre

Great items Andre! My First HO set was a Lionel Texas Special passenger set purchased for me by my dad in the late 1950's. unfortunately the passenger cars were too light and as a result never stayed on the track for long. 

Continuing with my Micro Train car addiction in N scale is the following rare special run copy of the Lionel Fort Knox gold bullion car. I already own the Lionel Postwar Celebration version of this car in O scale, but I love duplicates in N scale.