Her is my latest purchase. A must for any early Disney fan.
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Re: Postwar 736...
"This old steam engine still has a lot of magic to share!"
Amen, brother. To me, the 736 was without a doubt the most handsome Postwar steam engine Lionel produced. Love the lines of it. Looks like a brute.
Shucks... all of the Postwar stuff still has a TON of "magic" to share!!! (Like your terminology there!)
Steaming through picturesque rural SouthSide Virginia:
A great engine and a magnificent set....I figured that if I were to own one engine/set of a non-Northeastern road, it had to be a good one!
Peter
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Fred Brenek posted:SIRT posted:K-LINE smoking caboose.
Be careful running the smoke on that one. My roof started melting around the stack shortly after I bought it when first released.
Fred
Thanks Fred. I will make a note for the next buyer. Item will be sold in 2017. I know K-Line had several fire issues including passenger car lights. My friends set burn up and melted years ago. 
I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
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scott.smith posted:I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
That's it?
wild mary posted:scott.smith posted:I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
That's it?
For an old dried-out Lionel non-fan driven smoke unit that didn't work at all-it's a vast improvement.
Scott Smith
Photos from the St Paul Union Depot. Our modular club, the Granite City O gaugers are exhibiting here for the first time ever, Along with the ever so popular 261 who is busy taking children to and from the North Pole. This great holiday event has been very well attended, especially last night when we received a visit from the CP holiday train. Merry Christmas everyone!
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East coast corridor meets west coast corridor.
Bruce
Mark Boyce posted:I started on the 2016 Christmas layout makeover. Preliminary village view. I'll be adding more in the coming weeks.
Nice. The back drops tie it all in nicely. Hey they look familiar!!!!
kj356 posted:Nice photos to start always enjoy everyone's interesting contributions of layouts real trains and projects, always the highlight of the week.
After doing 3 fall shows after the last show I packed up from the show in November on the Sunday night and instead of unloading the van and trailer next day started to set up for the Polar Express event at our railway museum. The event is running over 4 weekends with long 12 hour days on the Saturdays, 8 hour days on Sunday. Getting lots of modeling projects done while attending to the layout. After a 1 hour train ride with characters from the Polar Express and a nice scenic ride the families come into the "North Pole" in the roundhouse with my large Christmas village upstairs lots of controls on the fence for kids to run the trains and operate accessories, a visit with Santa, Toy train making, letters to Santa, a ride on a mini rail train through a tunnel, snacks a movie theater with the Polar Express, food. This year we opened a 2nd building the car shop as an Ice Palace where kids can get into the cab of a steam engine a ring the bell and blow the whistle, mini golf Polar Express theme a bouncy castle and large wooden play train. We now have 6 of our own coaches, + a 1st class business car, and being sold out for all trains well ahead of time we were able to borrow a Rocky Mountaineer coach as well to open a few seats. A pair of F7 vintage locos at the front pull the train.
I have 8 Lion Chief trains for the kids to run, and 6 other trains looping around including Chuggington engines, an Williams Alaska engine, The Coors Light Silver Bullet, the Polar express with snow added to the roof, the hobo with a flickering fire, and bright red tail light. Overhead are planes, Santa and reindeer and Snoopy are flying. Hellgate, and wooden double track bridges and 2 more sets of bridges at the rear of the upper loop. I simplified the layout a bit by using my foam boards at the front with the green carpet and track attached from the other shows, and left more room this year to walk around. It left me with a few buildings to take home for my own Christmas Display in the front room. On the rear wall is a mountain / sky backdrop with star's and silver glitter to make it shine, and little lights that fade in and out as twinkling star's. Click on photos for a larger view.
Great work. Really like your garden layout.
Moonson posted:A couple favorite shots (if you'll forgive any possible repeat) of a favorite site in Moon Township, USA...
FrankM.
What's there to forgive. Your layout like a good book never gets old.
Bandomnjr posted:Photos from the St Paul Union Depot. Our modular club, the Granite City O gaugers are exhibiting here for the first time ever, Along with the ever so popular 261 who is busy taking children to and from the North Pole. This great holiday event has been very well attended, especially last night when we received a visit from the CP holiday train. Merry Christmas everyone!
Nice shot, but what's with the unblemished photo? Especially with innocent eyes looking on. 
Another weekend is upon us and all of this eye candy is great for sore eyes and sore wallets. My finger hurts but that's ok. At least this isn't going to cost an arm or a leg!! Scott starts us off with a disaster in the making but takes us to church for reassurance.AG - River Leaf Models gives us closing and reopening. Alex M builds a factory and SIRT gives us juice and BAR GP7 #63 bring us to the Yard masters office. c.sam gives us Christmas past while walt rapp is building Christmas present( Hopefully on time and under budget). John Sethian gives us a Cadillac while tr18 brings us Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Baily Circus. kj356, Gilly@N&W, Putnam Division, Bandomnjr take us to shows. trumptrain, PennsyPride94, Christopher2035, Moonson , brwebster and Mark Boyce show off the O and 1/1 scale layouts. I know I missed a few but everyone's contributions are great and tomorrow's another day to look forward to..
The Only question in my mind is Scott takes us to Church then torches Childress Cash Food Market. Maybe they owner of the layout was behind on his or hers monthly dues?????? 
So here's mine contribution. A little 3rd Rail CB&Q action.
suzukovich posted:Mark Boyce posted:I started on the 2016 Christmas layout makeover. Preliminary village view. I'll be adding more in the coming weeks.
Nice. The back drops tie it all in nicely. Hey they look familiar!!!!
Thank you for the suggestion a few months ago! My wife and I think they look great! I'll post some photos of the finished layout next week. Oh, 12:04 am! It is already this week. Well I'm too tired to post them now; have to get up for Church. I'll post them later this week.
Mark Boyce posted:suzukovich posted:Mark Boyce posted:I started on the 2016 Christmas layout makeover. Preliminary village view. I'll be adding more in the coming weeks.
Nice. The back drops tie it all in nicely. Hey they look familiar!!!!
Thank you for the suggestion a few months ago! My wife and I think they look great! I'll post some photos of the finished layout next week. Oh, 12:04 am! It is already this week. Well I'm too tired to post them now; have to get up for Church. I'll post them later this week.
The fact that I am still up...But then again the house is quiet and I am enjoying it. Time to go to bed.
scott.smith posted:wild mary posted:scott.smith posted:I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
That's it?
For an old dried-out Lionel non-fan driven smoke unit that didn't work at all-it's a vast improvement.
Scott Smith
Scott FYI that building has a fan driven smoke unit in it. Check the power wires from that building it should be tied to the side of the relay coming from the HO power pack through the relay to the terminal block. The HO power pack only powers the smoke unit.
I built that fire scene....
NelsonW posted:scott.smith posted:wild mary posted:scott.smith posted:I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
That's it?
For an old dried-out Lionel non-fan driven smoke unit that didn't work at all-it's a vast improvement.
Scott Smith
Scott FYI that building has a fan driven smoke unit in it. Check the power wires from that building it should be tied to the side of the relay coming from the HO power pack through the relay to the terminal block. The HO power pack only powers the smoke unit.
I built that fire scene....
I stand corrected.So how did it smoke when it was new? How long ago was that?
Scott Smith
scott.smith posted:NelsonW posted:scott.smith posted:wild mary posted:scott.smith posted:I was told that the smoke unit didn't work on the fire accessory. I put in some of JT's Megasteam Eliminator in it and look at it now.Scott Smith
That's it?
For an old dried-out Lionel non-fan driven smoke unit that didn't work at all-it's a vast improvement.
Scott Smith
Scott FYI that building has a fan driven smoke unit in it. Check the power wires from that building it should be tied to the side of the relay coming from the HO power pack through the relay to the terminal block. The HO power pack only powers the smoke unit.
I built that fire scene....
I stand corrected.So how did it smoke when it was new? How long ago was that?
Scott Smith
It always worked better on the second cycle after the resistor heated up some.
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These pics are from the Holiday Special today in NYC. Posting from the Queens Plaza Platform on the M line waiting for the return. 
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rustyrail o scale posted:
Cool, Like how the welder was in sync with beginning beat of the Safety Dance
suzukovich posted:Another weekend is upon us and all of this eye candy is great for so
So here's mine contribution. A little 3rd Rail CB&Q action.
The cardinals (red birds) in the trees a great touch!
This weekend I've been working getting my modules ready for the Holiday National Capital Tracker shows, 12/17-23 at College Park Airport Museum and 12/26-31 at Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum. With the theme being Winter Holidays, the good employees at American Power and Light helped by decorating the power plant.
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suzukovich posted:rustyrail o scale posted:Cool, Like how the welder was in sync with beginning beat of the Safety Dance
Yes I didn't notice that till after I posted the video.
First up we have the Amtrak Downeaster decorated for the Holidays.
The G scale layout from the Maine Garden Railway Society at my local mall.
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Before and after. I want to see if I can borrow some of my wife's clear nail polish and put some shine on some of the coal pieces. 
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suzukovich posted:Moonson posted:A couple favorite shots (if you'll forgive any possible repeat) of a favorite site in Moon Township, USA...
FrankM.
What's there to forgive. Your layout like a good book never gets old.
That's a very nice thing to say, sir, Thank you very much.
FrankM.
SUZUKOVICH,
I ran the FM with the top off briefly to check out a grinding noise coming from the chassis (which turned out to be just a loose screw), and it drew a serious crowd, so I decided to run it with the top off for a while to show off its guts. It also helps to cool the motors so I can run it longer without worrying about any sort of warping of the plastic shell. Have a great week!
Zach
Finally did a test run on one of my Sunset/3rd Rail SD9's. They run nicely and have very good sound. Seriously thinking about getting a pair of SD40-2's.
Dave O'Connor is continuing work on the narrow gauge area, adding to the waterfall area behind/under the curved trestles.
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Larry, nice work on the tender, I like the details on the rear deck.
