WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

That’s great, Bill!

@Odenville Bill posted:

I picked up on and around my layout this morning.  Of course that meant time to run trains.  I thought it high time to see how many cars my Southern 4501 could pull up the mountain.  I only had 14 modern and postwar cars available.  She did not slip going up hill and down.  Film at 9:00.

lol, I will check back for the film at 9 (am or pm)?  Nice pull (I am loving the BRIDGE!!) (i am in version 6.x for my scratch wooden bridge build... sigh)

Thanks for sharing!

Running some F3/F7s on this snowy day.

Bringing some Marx post-war into the mix.  The first video is of a Marx 333 Die cast 4-6-2 Pacific Steamer which in my opinion was Marx’s finest steam locomotive hauling a light Three car freight.  The next clip is of an AA set of 1095 EMD E-7 Diesels pulling a three car set of Santa Fe passenger cars.  Both sets are from the 1951-1953 time frame.  The 4-6-2 is the smoking version of the 333 and has a stand in sloped back tender in tow.  The original tender is in the back shop for repairs. Both sets still track and run well.  Good old Marx.😃

A brand new addition to the roster, ready for elite passenger service: MTH Proto 3 Imperial B&O (President Washington) 4-6-2 Pacific Steamer:

I will soon be posting videos of it running on DCS.

Arnold

PRR EXPRESS

MTH Solid rocket booster set

Lionel 4-6-4 Hudson JR leading three O-Line Reproduction Alaska Streamline cars.  I've had these for a while but first time as a train, and first time on my new layout.

The Hudson is conventional, from a QVC set and the Streamline cars were purchased a few years ago, the last time RMT found some in the warehouse.

Layout is new, compact loop with yard.  Upper level, DCS and Legacy expansions planned.

@Chris1985 posted:

Running some F3/F7s on this snowy day.

Hi Chris, What year did the Diesels start running the Blinking headlight? Great looking layout. Funny side story, I was driving a 1962 VW Beetle in a stowstorm. Visability was poor, At a crossbuck that had no lights I thought I saw a floodlight so I hit the brakes. That was the closest I have ever been to a train , in my car.... Flashing would have been nice. :-D

Thanks for the video post. Very Nice, jogged a frightening memory, but the layout is GREAT.

Love this old Commodore Vanderbilt whistle.

Running Lionel Pre and Post War Hudsons today. Love these engines! Action starts at 1:50 in the video.

@Miggy, thanks for the note and glad you did not get hit by the train! I would have to research on the Mars light but I am sure there are folks on here who know the history.

Melgar, I didn’t run trains today but I did read your nice writing in this last OGR Magazine, very nice. It proves size doesn’t matter in building a layout, yours is well landscaped and looks like a fun to run railroad. Great thread. Great photography. Please bring back your thread on the magazine article, thank you. Happy Railroading Everyone

I was on the Southern Pacific today with the New GS-4 Daylight 4449 and AC-9 ..the Monstah

Chris 1985 - Great trains and wonderful layout.  I could smell the ozone just from watching your video!   

@PH1975 Thank you! I could smell the trains throughout my entire house after I made this video. My wife thought the house was on fire. Glad you enjoyed! It was a fun video to make.

A pair of sleek Weaver EMD-8’s from 1992-1993 in the Pennsylvania Railroad’s classy Tuscan red livery and its accompanying consist of gleaming aluminum Weaver PRR passenger cars takes a curve on the Shenandoah Short Line.

The Morning Congressional as it leaves Washington DC passes by its signature billboard on its way north to Philadelphia.  Then it pounds the rails on northeast Philly’s racetrack as it heads to New York City.  The train is being pulled by a reproduction 2360 GG-1 made by Williams while hauling reproduction Congressional cars produced by Weaver. 

Outstanding trains and layout OKHIKER.

Here's my contribution: MTH Proto 3 NY  Central F3s hauling mixed freight. See if you can identify one relatively obvious thing, and one very difficult thing to see.

Here's a clue for the difficult thing: as the train rolls by, a creature is looking at you:

Will give you folks a chance to identify the above things, and will tell you what they are later. Arnold

The difficult thing is almost impossible to see in the above video. It is a little easier to see in this video. Remember, there's a creature looking at you as the train rolls by:

Arnold

Your gonna kill that horse jamming the door closed on it's neck!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

The difficult thing is almost impossible to see in the above video. It is a little easier to see in this video. Remember, there's a creature looking at you as the train rolls by:

Arnold

Oh dear deer!!

@CurtisH posted:

Your gonna kill that horse jamming the door closed on it's neck!

Brilliant, Curtis.

By the way, you were right about DCS. It's awesome, and I love it. Thanks, again, for your advice regarding it.

@trumpettrain posted:

It was the black horse in the yellow stock car that I had in mind, but your answer, Patrick, is also correct.

Tonight I finished cleaning track with my centerline car behind the Consolidation and returned to the engine facility. Then I ran the Atlantic daily 4 car (B60, BM70 and 2 coaches) train to the end of the line and spotted it near the engine facility for the next day EB regular. Operating session no. 1 is finally complete. Cheers.

Williams scale B&O Hudson and MTH RS1.  Not in picture MTH SW1 on Mountain Division.

Where’s the beef?

Broke the Williams Texas Special F3 and MTH Rail King Texas Special passenger cars out of their boxes and ran them around the 4x8.  I moved about a year ago & have been taking a leisurely pace working on the layout...I’m  just now starting to unpack engines and rolling stock.

Lionel Legacy Big Boy First Run edition with Vision Line Auxillary Water Tender and 3 x 21" passenger cars

First day I have run trains in a few weeks.

Switched out the loaded box cars from the brewery and dropped of some hoppers full of hops. Spotted some empty auto racks and ran a CSX train with a string of loaded box cars and a BNSF crude oil train.

Today I ran my brand new 3985 GG1 Lionchief 2.0 that I picked up from Sommerfelds. Sorry no pic, but what an awesome engine. Always wanted a GG1 and finally got one. Runs like a champ!

Good evening everyone! Today, a good friend of mine received his order of two Lionel VL GS-2 locomotives, and he was kind enough to let me take them for a spin on my layout. As a result, I ran a doubleheader with K-Line SP Daylight passenger cars. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek clip, and stay tuned for more action with these wonderful models, plus more, in the next day or two!

Tonight I worked the yard orders for operating session no. two. Consolidation 1111 backed out of the engine facility after taking coal and water to couple to  nine tankers and an empty 2 bay coal hopper ahead of the cabin car, headed WB. After a few end around manuvers, switcher 5222 added a reefer and a cabin car to make up a nine car EB mixed freight for an M1a. The Road orders for these trains will be worked soon.

@Trainmaster04 posted:

Good evening everyone! Today, a good friend of mine received his order of two Lionel VL GS-2 locomotives, and he was kind enough to let me take them for a spin on my layout. As a result, I ran a doubleheader with K-Line SP Daylight passenger cars. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek clip, and stay tuned for more action with these wonderful models, plus more, in the next day or two!

Wow, beautiful, love the video, thanks for sharing.

well, happy Sunday Morning to all. It's So Hard to follow "Lionel VL GS-2 locomotives" video.  Especially when its me, Miggy the Carpet Layout kid. AND we burned the candle late last night. So, this morning, Under the watchful eye of the Junior supervisory crew (From Mitch and the Gi-Raffe herd) I am happy to announce a successful rescue and running of an abandoned Switcher. Lights, Slow pull, Quiet, E-unit works and AND even the bell.. (I Do enjoy a great find and a little bit of the Scrounge) Thanks Gents for your support. Now, awaiting Warmer weather to send out to the Paint Shop and dress her up (DM&IR Livery?) mayyyyybe

Today feels like a good day for some ozone and tin.  😎

Fendermain, Great fun! Sweet videos and I am in love with the Crossing Guard shack. My fav as a kid, and I have two on the inside loop. FunTastick, thanks for the share

@Fendermain posted:

Today feels like a good day for some ozone and tin.  😎

Fendermain, IMO you have a Show Room Postwar Layout.

Everything is gorgeous on it, but my eye particularly found your tree with red foliage in your 1st above video to be stunningly gorgeous. Arnold

One more thing, Fendermain, your tubular track and 022 switches look like they are spotless. I assume it is all Lionel tubular track, and the 022 switches must be Lionel. The trains on your videos always run perfectly on,  and through, them.

Were your track and switches made in the 1950s or in later years?

I bet it's a mix, like mine.

Arnold

Two Lionel Alco C-420’s from the late 1990’s, one in New Haven livery the other in Lehigh Valley colors duel it out with long freight consists on a long straightaway.