WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

We did end up at the club yesterday to test the new F40PHs; MTH and K-Line. Elizabeth was able to run her Amtrak Genesis #84 and her plated Amfleets as Amtrak Empire Service #281. She likes to run with the lights dimmed at the CNY NRHS Clubhouse as it emphasizes the ditch lights flashing.

Thanks @JR Junction Train & Hobby, always great to stop by and look at the store!

Lionel's 1983 20th Century Ltd......the 1st (and not the last!) train I bought from Charlie Ro.....

Peter

@CentralFan1976 posted:

We did end up at the club yesterday to test the new F40PHs; MTH and K-Line. Elizabeth was able to run her Amtrak Genesis #84 and her plated Amfleets as Amtrak Empire Service #281. She likes to run with the lights dimmed at the CNY NRHS Clubhouse as it emphasizes the ditch lights flashing.

Thanks @JR Junction Train & Hobby, always great to stop by and look at the store!

Speaking of the Amtrak Empire Service, you can watch that, the Lake Shore Limited, the Maple Leaf, and CSX trains on the Fairport NY Virtual Railfan cam for free on YouTube.  You can scroll back 12 hours if you miss anything.  You can check out what time the Amtrak trains arrive and depart Rochester and Syracuse by using the train status tab on Amtrak's website with the following link.

https://www.amtrak.com/home.html

Here are the links to the Fairport NY railcams.

East Cam: https://youtu.be/bOCo4-eeEjs

West Cam: https://youtu.be/6Km4mSHsiWw

Here are the links to the North East PA railcams where you can watch Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited, CSX, and NS before and after the NY state line.

East Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nnm2...

West Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uryz2...

Here are the links to the Elkhart Indiana railcams where you can watch Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited and Capitol Limited in addition to NS, BNSF, and other trains.

PTZ Cam: https://youtu.be/H5vLt0xeKw0

East Cam Static: https://youtu.be/jZXs597uV7o

West Cam Static: https://youtu.be/KCsxbocuxZg

Last but not least are two links to Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited with 2 vintage Northern Pacific dome cars on the end from 12/26/20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqa13GDWeFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJbqZ8DxzOA

Enjoy! 

                                  New sounds, new scripts, new people... 2021!

                                 No engineers, have to add them yourself ...

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Ran a Pennsy coal drag headed by the E33 LionChief Plus rectifier.  This loco is a terrific puller.

I ran several this morning. Pics below - it's hard to get unobstructed pics on the layout.

The Virginian caboose shown in the 4th pic is another of my custom paint projects

Warrenville sure looks like a fun place!

Cogen1981: One final clarification - when you said "no technical hiccups" were you referring to yourself or your wife?   

@RSJB18 posted:

Warrenville sure looks like a fun place!

That it is RSJB18, that it is.

Thanks for the comment and thumbs up

@Don Winslow posted:

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Love the SP locos, Don. The new Black Widow looks terrific. Where are you located? I'm on the Central Coast near Monterey. Happy New Year! Kevin

Thanks Kevin!

We live in San Mateo - come by and say "Howdy!" if you're up our way!

BTW the LionChief 2.0 is awesome! Lionel freshened up the sounds with some new dialogue.

Here's some more shots of the new LionChief 2.0 Plus F3's mixing it up with some post war friends...

@Don Winslow posted:

Thanks Kevin!

We live in San Mateo - come by and say "Howdy!" if you're up our way!

BTW the LionChief 2.0 is awesome! Lionel freshened up the sounds with some new dialogue.

Excellent! We lived in Redwood Shores for a couple of years, then Half Moon Bay for 7 years before moving down here. Likewise if you’re ever in the Monterey area, drop me a line! Look forward to meeting you someday.

@Don Winslow posted:

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Wow, love that Western Pacific, beautiful colors !!!!

WM fan - Hmm, I would've sworn those Sharknose Diesels were wearing 'Southern' Pacific colours.    

Whistle works, on test stand..... going to run on the layout behind the little scout. Seems like the whistle tender works better on test than with the scout pulling it in the layout (sad face) will search for Next Step! Haha.... Persistence will prevail...... happy running trains.

Hey Don - Love those Black Widow F's Any chance of a quick video ? - I'm considering a set of Pennsy units

Thank you

Joe S

@bluelinec4 posted:

Thanks for the ride, Ben... I haven’t been on the subway in a few years. I miss the days when I was young and you could stand at the window in the first car!!! What line are you on???

Thanks for this post. I haven't ridden the N (or the defunct NX) down here since 1968-69.

@Apples55 posted:

Thanks for the ride, Ben... I haven’t been on the subway in a few years. I miss the days when I was young and you could stand at the window in the first car!!! What line are you on???

I Work vacation relief so I am on a different line every week  Mostly the N and Q  But I work anything out of Stillwell, Brighton Beach, 95, or Church ave.  Variety is the spice of life  LOL   The fan window was the spot to be  With the transverse cabs its gone.  One day a little kid and his mother were standing by the cab door looking out when I got on.  I opened the door and gave the kid a tour and let him blow the horn  It was like I gave him a bar of gold.  I left the door open and let them stand by watching  It was funny the little guy made all the announcements better than my conductor

@Ferroequinologist 1 posted:

Thanks for this post. I haven't ridden the N (or the defunct NX) down here since 1968-69.

Wow  The NX   Not too many people rode that     I grew up right by the Sea Beach line so I knew it well

@bluelinec4 posted:

I Work vacation relief so I am on a different line every week  Mostly the N and Q  But I work anything out of Stillwell, Brighton Beach, 95, or Church ave.  Variety is the spice of life  LOL   The fan window was the spot to be  With the transverse cabs its gone.  One day a little kid and his mother were standing by the cab door looking out when I got on.  I opened the door and gave the kid a tour and let him blow the horn  It was like I gave him a bar of gold.  I left the door open and let them stand by watching  It was funny the little guy made all the announcements better than my conductor

Thanks, Ben. Have to agree that variety is the spice of the NYC Subways. Growing up in one of the legendary “two fare zones” in Brooklyn, we’d hop the Kings Highway bus to the Brighton Line, or the Nostrand bus to the Junction for the Lexington. Always preferred the visual variety of a trip to Manhattan on the Brighton - from elevated to the cut to underground. Most of my experience with the Sea Beach Line was from DeKalb Ave. into Manhattan. I also spent a few years riding the F train to work in Manhattan. You get some great views when it gets to Smith-9th.

Christmas Carpet Central will probably come down tomorrow - getting some last minute run time in.

Finally had a chance to run some MTH Premier equipment that I never had a wide enough loop for.

A NS SD70 pulled a consist of MTH Premier auto racks, articulated spine cars and a few boxcars and hoppers. It was so fun finally running a LONG (for us) train.

And I also got my GN premier F3 ABA set going with the Lionel aluminum Empire Builder set.

So much sound!

BTW: the dual motor NS unit has zero issues pulling that long train over the 5 percent grade, and it didn't get as crazy on the downhill side as some of our other consists (but still needed to be attended to!)

Ran my MTH CNW E4 after upgrading passenger cars to LED and adding some revenue passengers to help pay for the upgrades.   Also the E4 has been upgraded but posted that previously

Well for the last several months I have not been able to run any of my Locomotives.  Starting back in late October, I had an issue with my Legacy Remotes.  I contacted Lionel and shortly there after I sent them back for Lionel to look at.  And as long as I was sending them back I also included my base, which I had never had the charging circuitry looked at.  Got it all back in short order but noticed new issues with the remotes.  Called/Emailed Lionel and no joy.  I saw on Amazon what I construe to be a new Command Base Set from Lionel for what I thought was a very reasonable price.  And low and Behold my CFO ordered the set today and I am expecting delivery Thursday.  So I should be back running my fleet as of Thursday.

A Lionel Fundimensions era Penn Central GG1circa 1978 pulling a string of NYC Pace maker box cars from 1992.  Pulling this consist fast and strong.  Who said Fundimension stuff wasn’t any good.

Running a line up from Williams .

Box cars for my Early Bird  express.

Among other train things I bought this season is a clean used MTH handcar.  Before I knew it, I ran the handcar for two hours.  This thing is a hoot.

Bill

Finished the last function testing on my new 3 rail valley level and then set a MTH H-1 on it pulling a freight drag.  While that was running I  then fired up the MTH Triplex on the top level and let them both continue to run around the walls for background effect.

Imagine, vertical stereo, instead of left and right speakers I now have  top and bottom speakers with a decent amount of separation.

With my new balanced (?) sound system playing I broke out the the 2 rail equipment on the middle levels,   RDCs,  gas electrics and commuter trains to bring the passengers home from a day's work.  (pre-covid by over  half a century)

Then it hit me, I has created my own 1950's department store demo layout with an array of product.

It's neat running more trains than  you can easily manage, and a tad scarie.

I will be glad when this incarceration is over so we can round robin safely again.

Running the No. 11560 "Texas Special" set from 1966....

-Mark

I posted this earlier today in another thread- American Flyer #21004 Pennsy B6 0-6-0 switcher pulling cars from 1954 Mountaineer freight train.

Wow, neat videos fellows and beautiful layouts. Thanks for posting the cool videos, I’m going to learn how the do that soon. Happy Railroading Everyone

I say again, Leapinlarry, most cool layout, great photography.

Is there a track plan somewhere on the forum? I'd love to see an overview

Some NYC Sharks and a S-2 pulling NYC coaches

Yessir- re- Bob.......

cleaned her up, adjusted pilot wheels, oiled pickups, did something right with the E-switch, lampcord on the control power to the track, cleaned and did something right on the whistle tender, got the red firebox light to show, Board Members walked me through the “Rabbit Holes..” Fortesque mailed me a dandy transformer with “Vitamins” , changed the track to be simple and effective test track...... and Voila!!
thanks to allya’lls kindness on this board

I’m running nothing but Lionel MPC this week.   Here we have an MPC era small Hudson, NYC 8600, from 1976 hauling a fast freight on my layout’s straightaway.  Don’t you just love that Mighty Sound of steam   Forty four years old and still running and chuffing strong.