WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get,

Another year older and deeper in debt:"

That's one of my favorite locomotives, an MTH Proto 1 Railking Jersey Central FM Trainmaster, pulling one of my favorite unit trains, 10 Lionel Postwar coal dump cars and a Postwar Pensy illuinated caboose with round portals.

Today, I found it so relaxing to scrape the crud off the wheels and apply one drop of light oil to each side of each wheel on the axles. Doing so eliminates derailments when pulling 10 or more of those postwar cars through sharp 031 curves. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get,

Another year older and deeper in debt:"

That's one of my favorite locomotives, an MTH Proto 1 Railking Jersey Central FM Trainmaster, pulling one of my favorite unit trains, 10 Lionel Postwar coal dump cars and a Postwar Pensy illuinated caboose with round portals.

Today, I found it so relaxing to scrape the crud off the wheels and apply one drop of light oil to each side of each wheel on the axles. Doing so eliminates derailments when pulling 10 or more of those postwar cars through sharp 031 curves. Arnold

Great coal drag, Arnold! Speaking of that song, which I love, I coincidentally posted this a couple of days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/reel...igshid=1l65dqzyu7mzn

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Great coal drag, Arnold! Speaking of that song, which I love, I coincidentally posted this a couple of days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/reel...igshid=1l65dqzyu7mzn

That is one gorgeous locomotive and set of passenger cars you have, Coastside Kevin!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

That is one gorgeous locomotive and set of passenger cars you have, Coastside Kevin!

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

Excellent Kevin!!!  Tennessee Ernie!  I won’t even go back and look for the other.

@Mark Boyce posted:

Excellent Kevin!!!  Tennessee Ernie!  I won’t even go back and look for the other.

Thanks Mark! Hope you post some layout pics there on your IG page. It’s a good community of O gaugers on there.

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

I love it, Kevin! The magnet crane, which I also have, in operation while the song playing is very nice. I even like the look of your attic roof while Sixteen Tons is playing. Makes it seem like hard work inside a factory. Arnold

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Thanks Mark! Hope you post some layout pics there on your IG page. It’s a good community of O gaugers on there.

Thank you, I am finding that out recently, after tiring of Facebook.

New Haven Alco RS-3 #531 (model by Atlas O) is running on the O-36 inner loop of my 12'-by-8' layout. The video is taken from the rear of layout and gives a good view of the train as it crosses the bridge.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

New Haven Alco RS-3 #531 (model by Atlas O) is running on the O-36 inner loop of my 12'-by-8' layout. The video is taken from the rear of layout and gives a good view of the train as it crosses the bridge.

MELGAR

Great stuff! Love the hi-cubes.

Ran my two new engines today. Both LC+, both purchased for under $200 ea. Third video is my 282 crane lifting a plastic canister. I glued a washer on top so the magnet would pick it up, then painted to match. Enjoy!

Lionel Postwar Paradise all the way at the break of day: Brunswick green 5 stripe Pennsy GG1, coal dump cars, oil tanker cars and Pennsy caboose:

Postwar ABA F3s for me today.

@Fendermain posted:

Postwar ABA F3s for me today.

Gorgeous trains, layout, benchwork accessories and scenery. It also looks like you have a gorgeous train room, Fendermain. Arnold

Thank you, Arnold.  I'm loving your GG1 video from today.  I have a Kline GG1 which is very nice but I would like to procure a real deal PW like yours.  Is yours the 2 motor version?

My layout commenced about 30 years ago progressing from HO to S gauge American Flyer to the current three rail O.

It was initially 1/2 the current size and had cloth skirting.

When I enlarged it about 15 years ago I encased the entire underside with plywood and glued the beadboard to that.  There are two access doors for storage and layout maintenance.  The beadboard project was a lot of work and was much appreciated by the CEO!   You know what I mean. 

@Fendermain posted:

Thank you, Arnold.  I'm loving your GG1 video from today.  I have a Kline GG1 which is very nice but I would like to procure a real deal PW like yours.  Is yours the 2 motor version?

My layout commenced about 30 years ago progressing from HO to S gauge American Flyer to the current three rail O.

It was initially 1/2 the current size and had cloth skirting.

When I enlarged it about 15 years ago I encased the entire underside with plywood and glued the beadboard to that.  There are two access doors for storage and layout maintenance.  The beadboard project was a lot of work and was much appreciated by the CEO!   You know what I mean. 

Yes, the Postwar GG1 has 2 motors and is a great puller. I bought it maybe 10 years ago for about $750 in a very nice hobby shop in Northern NJ.

I also accommodated my CEO. I did so by not having the trains totally dominate the basement when I built the layout 25 years ago. That way, my kids could socialize with their friends in the basement and do things besides trains.

Having the trains adorn the basement instead of dominating it, is not a bad way to go, especially if it keeps the CEO happy.

One more thing, Fendermain. I also have the K Line GG1 in Tuscan red. Will run it and take a video of it that I will post later.

I'm a sucker for a nice GG1.

Arnold - You're very creative too.  If I'm not mistaken - isn't that a Dryer vent projecting 'vertically' through the middle of it?  If so, perhaps we'll eventually see a reference to Arnie's Laundromat  incorporated into the layout somewhere (lol).   

Between the cold weather and the virus, I've been in the basement running trains every day. Amtrak 104 is an MTH Premier model with PS2.

MELGAR

Breathtakingly beautiful Amtrack locomotive and trains, Melgar.

Craig, love your trains, particularly the freight car sounds, and your scenery.

PH1975, Arnie's laundromat on the layout is a great idea. Wouldn't it be nice if Lionel made one. LOL.

Fendermain, here is a short video of the K Line Tuscan Red GG1:

Arnold

Arnold,

Great video and thank you.

John

What trains did I run today?  I don’t have time to run no stinking trains!  I really needed to get that oil outta the ground, put it in barrels and get it outta here! Lol!

Today I ran the “Everything Your Cardiologist Told You Not to Eat From Now On” express around the track.  I should really be finishing the layout instead of running trains!

Western Maryland steam climbing hill on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Still working on the new layout, but I always have to run the trains. This one comes out once a year.

Up in the attic today, just me and the trains...

@Matt Kramer posted:

Today I ran the “Everything Your Cardiologist Told You Not to Eat From Now On” express around the track.  I should really be finishing the layout instead of running trains!

That gave me a sugar high and I loved it🤪.

@WinstonB posted:

That gave me a sugar high and I loved it🤪.

That made me hungry... very cool.

Ran 3 out 4.  LionChief Southern Express sidelined today.

Ran my OO NYC Hudsons and my reissue 700e from the 1990's.   Love my NYC J1e Hudsons!   AD

The loop under the Christmas tree made it's appearance today and the first train to turn laps is thanks to Vinndiesel here on the forum and Ed Boyle.  The train is headed up by a first gen MTH Railking Mohawk in ATSF livery that came to me running in reverse only.  Vinny, aka Chef Vinny at NJHR, was able to set me up with Proto 1 to get it moving and gave it a great sounding C&O Greenbrier sound chip. The Mohawk is pulling a string of all the Lionel Fundimension factory weathered reefers, 6-5700 to 6-5707.  I had picked up two of the eight nearly 30 years ago at hobby shop with two shelves of O gauge trains.  The boxes had so much dust on them I had no idea they were weathered nor that they belonged to the only series of factory weathered rolling stock.  When I got them home I thought the grime of that hobby shop had made it's way into the boxes and marred the paint.  Several years later along comes Ed and writes a Collector's Gallery about this series.  For the first time the collector's hunt began for me.  The mission collect the remaining 6 as cheap as possible.  Before I knew what it was I had seen the green Budweiser reefer at any number of train shows in the price range of $70-$100.  Once I knew that it was part of the series I figured I would never complete the series because I just couldn't justify that amount.  The search continued on ebay and even some of our bigger dealers contributed until I got them all, even a second Budweiser reefer. 

Photo and videos show the MTH Railking New York Central 0-8-0 steam engine #415 that I ran today on my 10’-by-5’ layout. I find PS1 engines very reliable and have been running this one with a BCR for more than twenty years. A quality model in my opinion.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Photo and videos show the MTH Railking New York Central 0-8-0 steam engine #415 that I ran today on my 10’-by-5’ layout. I find PS1 engines very reliable and have been running this one with a BCR for more than twenty years. A quality model in my opinion.

MELGAR

Very nice engine, Melgar, and I also like the caboose. I tend to prefer a small caboose like the one in your videos. Arnold

The inside track is an MTH 260e with vintage Lionel prewar cars.

The outside track is a vintage Lionel 264e with vintage Lionel prewar cars.

This morning I ran my first and probably favorite LC+ engine, the venerable GP38-2. Someone on this thread mentioned the MPC weathered reefer cars, which I also love. Dropped a few into this consist for y’all. Happy Thursday!

Kevin, you do have a much better attic to move around in than I have.  Good thing I'm not building a layout in mine!    The GP38s are nice.  That's quite a nice bunch of those reefers you mentioned.