So sheltering in place on the Northport New York division. Have been in the layout rooms for an hour or two since the stay home advisory went into effect . Focusing on cleaning and sprucing up the layout, getting rid of dust bunnies and repairing buildings structures and whatever.
So today decided to take a few minutes to run a couple of trains. There is a section on the layout where there is a three track main with a depot serving both levels of the layout. So in spite of the stay at home orders , the railroad is still operating passenger and freight service. In the photos we see the afternoon local arriving on the track near the wall. This train is still steam powered with a lionel 6442-43 set powered be a Lionel 675. Before the run, the loco received a drop of oil on the motor armature bearing ends for smooth operation. . Smokes and has a nice strong air whistle. The set dates to 1949.
The middle track has a Freight heading through with a Lionel Lackawanna FM at the point , circa 1954. It has a consist of about a doaxen modern scale cars from Lionel, MTH and Atlas in tow.
In the station on the outer track we have a 2 car IND R-1 subway special from MTH. There was some talk of running a transit rail trip but its on hold for now.
So tomorrow, some more Cleanup and maintenance. In view of the Virus guidelenes, this is probably a good time to do this. Finding a few parts and screws along the right -of-way. I wonder where they came from?