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This week, I have an oldie but goodie...

I've had this MTH PRR C-Liner sitting on a shelf for years. I decided to dust it off, and get it back in service. So here are some shots as it heads west from Enola to Altoona...

First, here it is at View Interlocking near Duncannon:

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Next, we find it a few miles to the west at the bottom of a hillside and hugging the south bank of the Juniata River as a PRR passenger train flies by on track 3...

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Here, it is about to drop signal 150.7 just east of Port Royal...

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An hour or so later, we find it just west of the Anderson Road grade crossing with Blue Mountain in the background...

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Finally, later that day, in a photographer's view from the near the front coupler, it's about to pull into the diesel servicing facility at East Altoona for some badly needed lubrication after sitting on the shelf for years!

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Get the grease and oil ready!

That's it for this week...enjoy!

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My holiday season is about to kick into high gear.  A Greenberg show this weekend, and then after tear-down on Sunday, straight to Kennywood Park to begin a hectic 10-day set-up for Kennywood Holiday Lights where we will be running for 24 nights (weather permitting) from Nov. 19 through Jan. 2.  At our club meeting Wednesday night, we finalized our layout plan for Kennywood:

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Wonderful photo and videos everyone!!  Here are my photos of the fun kind for this fine first weekend of November!  

Skiers get ready for fun at the top of Mt. Randolph as boaters and a tuber have fun down in the lake.  A Pennsy A5 and its' short consist get ready to take the bridge. IMG_6450

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Pennsy MU cars at the commuter station. IMG_5412

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I thought I would take some more photos on the layout since its time is limited.  He are some more MTH engines I purchased this past year for the upcoming 2-rail layout.    I don't like to buy 3-rail engines but in this case these SD80 were not made in the 2-rail version but they are very nice and big!  They will work on 2-rail though so I plan on converting them using a 3D printed fixed pilot I purchased.  I will also add scale wheels, scale couplers, move in the trucks, fill gaps and lightly weather as usual.   These should look really good on a 2-rail layout.



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This week, I have an oldie but goodie...

I've had this MTH PRR C-Liner sitting on a shelf for years. I decided to dust it off, and get it back in service. So here are some shots as it heads west from Enola to Altoona...

First, here it is at View Interlocking near Duncannon:

IMG_7320

Next, we find it a few miles to the west at the bottom of a hillside and hugging the south bank of the Juniata River as a PRR passenger train flies by on track 3...

IMG_7321

Here, it is about to drop signal 150.7 just east of Port Royal...

IMG_7322

An hour or so later, we find it just west of the Anderson Road grade crossing with Blue Mountain in the background...

IMG_7314

Finally, later that day, in a photographer's view from the near the front coupler, it's about to pull into the diesel servicing facility at East Altoona for some badly needed lubrication after sitting on the shelf for years!

IMG_7299

Get the grease and oil ready!

That's it for this week...enjoy!

Superb

Did someone say NYC Classics? Well, after about or over 6 years of insane searching and lots of bad luck(I guess), I finally have caught my big fish as it were. Finally, 28084, Lionel's New York Central J3a Dreyfuss Hudson is mine. While at York, I was aware that it was on the TCA Buy/Sell site. York proved to either be hiding or just my luck to miss this engine if it was there.

So, I popped a line to the seller Rich and asked him if he still had it, I think it was late Thursday evening of York. Friday morning I saw he answered and everything proceeded from there. Maybe I paid a bit more than what should be going price, but this was still completely sealed and never opened.

So, now I will have to drop a line over to Bruk when I get time this weekend I suppose to see how long the line is to wait, which I can. I just wish I had more time last night and motivation since I was tuckered out from work to open everything up all the way. I just peeked in a bit to get even more excited before leaving the Jets/Colts game for bed.

Many happy dreams danced in my head last night, though I don't remember any of them. I guess they skipped the train or my dreams lost their train of thought.

Now, just need passenger cars to go with it. I think my local guy Tony may have some, just have to ask when I pop in again.

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Sleeping giant waiting to be awoken.

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Turns out my Atlanta Braves World Series Championship was of ZERO interest to my Peninsula Virginia club members yesterday morning, but we had plenty of trains to run.  Little did I know one of them is a big Dodgers fan of all things!

Murph purchased the four car Lionel Norther Pacific North Coast Limited full length dome cars new in the box at York and purchased another four car set (combo, diner, duplex, and observation cars) custom painted by a fellow club member which were a dead-on color match to the LIONELs.



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Dave ran his LIONEL 785 Hudson with the spoke drivers and upgraded electronics by Ed, a longtime LIONEL tech and club member:

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Les ran his NYC S-2 alone after being freshly shopped and I snapped a photo of its interesting roof:

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My Gulf, Mobile & Ohio "The Alton Route" F-3 AB (former SF 2343) got some track time pulling the 5-car "The Abraham Lincoln" streamliners:

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Honesty compels me to confess that while setting up my trains, I broke a telephone poll that carries a full compliment of wires adjacent to the staging yard.  Fortunately, the club maintains an excellent hot glue gun, and, when I made the repair, I was relieved to notice that my accident was not the first visited on this specific pole.  Further inspection found almost all of the poles had been repaired at one time or another.

Be sure to check-out the OGR Calendar for a neat event at the Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach VA--"Planes, Trains, and Santa" taking place Thanksgiving Week-end, Nov. 26-28.  Lots of operating layouts of all scales, and where else can we see Santa fly-in at 10 a.m. each day in a vintage airplane, weather permitting.  This will be the first time since March 2020 that our traveling layout will get out of the trailer.  See you there.

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