Weekend Photo Fun 4-5-24-??

Lionel’s Ten-Wheeler steam locomotives are favorites of mine, so I recently purchased a model (6-28098) of New York Central/Boston & Albany 4-6-0 #1916.

Why do I like them so much? First, they are a prototypical model of a New York Central F-2/F-12 locomotive with the classic look and perfect proportions of an early steam locomotive – “cowcatcher” pilot, high-mounted headlight, tapered boiler, unequally-spaced high 69-inch driving wheels, no trailing-truck, and long cab roof overhang. They are also the right size for my 12’-by-8’ and 10’-by-5’ layouts, and some Lionel Ten-Wheelers represent the railroads in which I’m most interested: New Haven, New York Central, Boston & Maine, and Boston & Albany. I’ve been waiting for Lionel to offer a new Legacy Boston & Albany version, but they haven’t, so when I saw this one, I bought it.

Boston & Albany #1916 was built by Alco at Schenectady in 1907 and superheated in 1919. When the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad in 1900, “New York Central Lines” promptly replaced “Boston & Albany” on steam locomotive tenders. This greatly offended the citizens of Massachusetts, so the NYC relented in 1907 and permitted “B.&A.” to be painted onto tenders in small letters – as seen on my model. Apparently, this was not sufficient to quiet the objections. Then, in 1912, “Boston & Albany” replaced “New York Central Lines” on tenders, and the Ten-Wheelers were renumbered with #1916 becoming #720. The new livery remained until dieselization in 1951, although #1916 was scrapped in 1932. I still would like to have a Ten-Wheeler model with “Boston & Albany” written across the tender in large bold letters but, for now, a small “B.&A.” on the tender will have to do.

Photos and videos show #1916 pulling unlettered MTH wood-sided coaches as used during the early years of the 20^th century when Ten-Wheelers were main line power.

MELGAR

Hornby clockwork passes through:

PD

I like my K4s

Lionel Legacy K4s plus mostly GGD, an Atlas reefer and the Lionel horse car

Well, Scott, you certainly are early this week!

This week I’m back to my usual photos showing trains in action on my layout. These were actually taken by my son. This is a pair of custom painted Lionel Conrail non-powered SD 60s he found for a bargain price at a train show. It’s a long story but we had two powered chassis laying around, so he installed the powered chassis in them. Now we have two new Conrail powered units, and they are very nice looking engines:

The last photo was taken by me. It’s a caboose, which is always at the end of the train and that is the end of my post for this week!

This week, the D&H SD-45 took over the juice train and an Alco C-420 is moving some local freight.

Last weekend, my granddaughter came for a vist. She liked using the Cab2.....

Have a great and safe week, everyone!

Peter

Always liked the D&H

Thanks Scott for getting us started for this weekend!   Here are my photos of the fun kind!

The "Wild Mary" as the Western Maryland Railway was nicknamed, is going strong as Consolidation 729 trundles by on the far track.  Inside the tower, the telegrapher is busy sending and receiving telegraph messages which keep the trains running safely and on time.

Pooby Johns and Rudy Garfield have rolled back the boxcar door only to find a full load.

A Pennsy A5 switcher is at the point of a short coal drag.  

A 2023 Christmas Layout memory

- walt

sticking with images on the right  half of the layout

for perspective purposes

A picture I took on the old layout in April 2020……

It’s one of my favorites……I wonder if this could be a scene in the yard in Albany, NY…….

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!

Peter

Train time has been hard to come by the last few weeks with traveling ( I leave again Sunday to CA for a week) and my kids on spring break, but I did manage to start working on the church scene & get part of the road down and painted.  I picked up a 8057 Burlington NW2 and gave the Empire State Express set some track time.

I model the PRR under wire in New Jersey 1956.  This was all the justification I needed to build a CNJ Commuter Train:

The FM H-24-66 Train Master is an MTH model.  It is a bit of a Frankenstein, as it was made by combining the shell, chassis and electronics from an MTH 3 rail CNJ Train Master,  with the trucks and lower pilots from an MTH Wabash 2 rail Train Master .

Express Boxcar is from Lionel, and took all of five minutes to convert to 2 rail.  Lionel makes it very easy to take the trucks apart to replace the wheel sets without pulling out the springs

The combine and two coaches are brass models from Precision Scale.   They are models of New York Central cars, but they have the correct (non-paired) window arrangement, roof, and vestibule arrangements as the CNJ coaches.  The combine had a lousy paint job.  It needed to be stripped with a sandblaster before painting. One of the coaches was painted, but could be painted over,  The third was unpainted brass.

Here is a close up of the coach.

The decals were custom made.  These cars have a lot of detail.  Here is the underside

Note the wheel generators, all those tanks, and under car piping. Here is the end of one of the cars. Note the end gate, the diaphragm and striker, the hoses and the uncoupling levers, and the "jail bars" over the wahsroom window

Since the cars were so detailed, I thought the rest of my build should do it justice. So I scratch built  interior walls:

It mkaes a difference, compared to looking at blank interior walls

The interior is fully populated with the seats painted two tone green:

It hard to tell, but the floor has a subtle pattern, made by first painting with Dark Green paint, then spraying a light coat of Roof Accessory brown through a thick plastic grid

And here is the Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train pulling into a station:

Some Frisco power this morning.  Have a great weekend.

Greyhound passengers grab a quick burger at the 20th Century dinner...open 24 hours a day.  Between the train station across the street and the bus terminal, the grill doesn't cool down all day and night..

@John Sethian posted:

I model the PRR under wire in New Jersey 1956.  This was all the justification I needed to build a CNJ Commuter Train:

The FM H-24-66 Train Master is an MTH model.  It is a bit of a Frankenstein, as it was made by combining the shell, chassis and electronics from an MTH 3 rail CNJ Train Master,  with the trucks and lower pilots from an MTH Wabash 2 rail Train Master .

Express Boxcar is from Lionel, and took all of five minutes to convert to 2 rail.  Lionel makes it very easy to take the trucks apart to replace the wheel sets without pulling out the springs

The combine and two coaches are brass models from Precision Scale.   They are models of New York Central cars, but they have the correct (non-paired) window arrangement, roof, and vestibule arrangements as the CNJ coaches.  The combine had a lousy paint job.  It needed to be stripped with a sandblaster before painting. One of the coaches was painted, but could be painted over,  The third was unpainted brass.

Here is a close up of the coach.

The decals were custom made.  These cars have a lot of detail.  Here is the underside

Note the wheel generators, all those tanks, and under car piping. Here is the end of one of the cars. Note the end gate, the diaphragm and striker, the hoses and the uncoupling levers, and the "jail bars" over the wahsroom window

Since the cars were so detailed, I thought the rest of my build should do it justice. So I scratch built  interior walls:

It mkaes a difference, compared to looking at blank interior walls

The interior is fully populated with the seats painted two tone green:

It hard to tell, but the floor has a subtle pattern, made by first painting with Dark Green paint, then spraying a light coat of Roof Accessory brown through a thick plastic grid

And here is the Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train pulling into a station:

This is awesome!!! As a Jersey guy and someone who has read a lot about the CNJ, I love this!

@John Sethian posted:

I model the PRR under wire in New Jersey 1956.  This was all the justification I needed to build a CNJ Commuter Train:

The FM H-24-66 Train Master is an MTH model.  It is a bit of a Frankenstein, as it was made by combining the shell, chassis and electronics from an MTH 3 rail CNJ Train Master,  with the trucks and lower pilots from an MTH Wabash 2 rail Train Master .

Express Boxcar is from Lionel, and took all of five minutes to convert to 2 rail.  Lionel makes it very easy to take the trucks apart to replace the wheel sets without pulling out the springs

The combine and two coaches are brass models from Precision Scale.   They are models of New York Central cars, but they have the correct (non-paired) window arrangement, roof, and vestibule arrangements as the CNJ coaches.  The combine had a lousy paint job.  It needed to be stripped with a sandblaster before painting. One of the coaches was painted, but could be painted over,  The third was unpainted brass.

Here is a close up of the coach.

The decals were custom made.  These cars have a lot of detail.  Here is the underside

Note the wheel generators, all those tanks, and under car piping. Here is the end of one of the cars. Note the end gate, the diaphragm and striker, the hoses and the uncoupling levers, and the "jail bars" over the wahsroom window

Since the cars were so detailed, I thought the rest of my build should do it justice. So I scratch built  interior walls

It mkaes a difference, compared to looking at blank interior wall

The interior is fully populated with the seats painted two tone green:

It hard to tell, but the floor has a subtle pattern, made by first painting with Dark Green paint, then spraying a light coat of Roof Accessory brown through a thick plastic grid

And here is the Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train pulling into a station:

Absolutely absolutely superb work John. The photos, the modeling, and your layout are fantastic!

The mountain steamer approaches the South Main Street crossing...

RIP Hobo Shoestring

Custom run from Berwyn's Toys & Trains MTH Premier 40' NC&StL boxcar.

Neal Jeter

@John Sethian posted:

I model the PRR under wire in New Jersey 1956.  This was all the justification I needed to build a CNJ Commuter Train:

The FM H-24-66 Train Master is an MTH model.  It is a bit of a Frankenstein, as it was made by combining the shell, chassis and electronics from an MTH 3 rail CNJ Train Master,  with the trucks and lower pilots from an MTH Wabash 2 rail Train Master .

Express Boxcar is from Lionel, and took all of five minutes to convert to 2 rail.  Lionel makes it very easy to take the trucks apart to replace the wheel sets without pulling out the springs

The combine and two coaches are brass models from Precision Scale.   They are models of New York Central cars, but they have the correct (non-paired) window arrangement, roof, and vestibule arrangements as the CNJ coaches.  The combine had a lousy paint job.  It needed to be stripped with a sandblaster before painting. One of the coaches was painted, but could be painted over,  The third was unpainted brass.

Here is a close up of the coach.

The decals were custom made.  These cars have a lot of detail.  Here is the underside

Note the wheel generators, all those tanks, and under car piping. Here is the end of one of the cars. Note the end gate, the diaphragm and striker, the hoses and the uncoupling levers, and the "jail bars" over the wahsroom window

Since the cars were so detailed, I thought the rest of my build should do it justice. So I scratch built  interior walls:

It mkaes a difference, compared to looking at blank interior walls

The interior is fully populated with the seats painted two tone green:

It hard to tell, but the floor has a subtle pattern, made by first painting with Dark Green paint, then spraying a light coat of Roof Accessory brown through a thick plastic grid

And here is the Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train pulling into a station:

Amazing work! Your layout and commuter train look incredibly realistic. 👍🏻👍🏻

A view of South Main Street Saturday night...

Trains a coming.