WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

Ran my custom track cleaning car recently.

Very nice Bob. Were you satisfied with the result of cleanliness?

Today I decided to pull my coal cars with some older engines.  I'll be changing out the gondola loads soon for Christmas loads.  I made my own coal loads and had so much fun doing it I got carried away filling all my cars.

Thanks for watching.

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Very nice Bob. Were you satisfied with the result of cleanliness?

Yes- the car works very well.

Thanks

An MTH PS3 NY Central diesel hauls freight on the outer loop, and a Lionel Legacy NY Central 10 Wheeler hauls passengers on the inner loop, under my recently repaired Lionel Postwar #450 signal bridge.  Arnold

Ran a double stack train a few nights ago. Product was getting backed up so I had to get them rolling. Lol

Still trying to get the house ready for Christmas and company, but on a trip down to,the basement, had to take a couple of minutes to run my Christmas train. As always, sorry for the quality of the video

LC+ New Haven FAs hauling box cars through My Little Town, which is not so little anymore thanks to my recent layout expansion:

Everyone, beautiful trains, oldies and newbies and fun to review. Thanks for posting, Melgar, this is a great thread, page 31, Wow. Today, you’ll see things on the top… Happy Railroading Everyone

A little different train. This one is working my underground mine.

@farmerjohn....that's one of the most creative scenes I've seen in quite a while. Your landscaping borders on artistry.

Arnold

Ran some Geep units tonight out on the main line. Enjoy!

Tonight I ran two B6s switchers to spot cars at industries on two different sidings, and a Consolidation pulling nine oil tank cars.

Here's a train I've been running for several weeks.  I ran it this morning too.  4 locomotives pulling 22 freight cars.  Unfortunately only the first few cars made it onto the video.

This past weekend I ran a Weaver NYC Dreyfus, a Weaver Leigh Valley John Wilkes and a Lionel Illinois Central F3.

The Dreyfus was converted to PS3 by @GGG, the John Wilkes was converted to PS3 by @gunrunnerjohn and the IC F3 was converted to TMCC by Me after the Pulmor motors were replaced with DC can motors by @ftimko.

They all run smooth as silk!

I ran my older Lionel Legacy Mohawk #2791 with the correct marker lights. I need more smoke fluid. The New Lionel 6-car Pacemaker set follows the NYC Milk Cars, a Lionel Sound Box car and an Atlas O Pacemaker box car.

Had fun.  Sincerely, John Rowlen

Ran my Lionel Legacy Alaska GP35 #2501 and #2502 with Burlington Northern SD40-2 #8002 that was damaged and returned to me. I fixed the Kinematic coupler porch that was bent downward. Running my three 5-car Double Stack to sort and thin out my Atlas O 40' and 45' Containers to sell on Ebay. I bought way too many extra Containers.

Having fun as I select which trains to keep and which to sell on Ebay. Have a good night. Sincerely, John Rowlen

Ran my Lionel Alaska 21" eight-car passenger set with Vista Vision Dome. The Preiser 65602 Seated People inside were painted by me. They are a few of the 5,000 I have painted over the years. They were white blanks before I painted them. The car seats, tables and other features were painted to give visual depth to the inside of the cars. The interior was all beige plastic before I started detailing.

See some of my detailing work in OGR Thread "NEW Lionel Penn Central 21 inch Passenger Cars".  This thread shows some of the detailing of the seven Penn Central 21" passenger cars I did.  Have a good day.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

I ran my 3rd Rail PRR B1s

I ran all of my passenger trains! Well, it may have taken 2 and half days and made a huge mess but here they are.

Now to finally sleep...

I shoulda been working on the block wiring but, y’know, trains ….    

I ran two tonight. It was awesome.  

@John Rowlen posted:

Ran my Lionel Alaska 21" eight-car passenger set with Vista Vision Dome. The Preiser 65602 Seated People inside were painted by me. They are a few of the 5,000 I have painted over the years. They were white blanks before I painted them. The car seats, tables and other features were painted to give visual depth to the inside of the cars. The interior was all beige plastic before I started detailing.

See some of my detailing work in OGR Thread "NEW Lionel Penn Central 21 inch Passenger Cars".  This thread shows some of the detailing of the seven Penn Central 21" passenger cars I did.  Have a good day.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Your Alaska Rail looks amazing.  We had an Alaska F7A with various passenger cars parked in the center of town for years.  Good job on all the detail work!

This thread inspired me to run a train.  I went with gondolas and hoppers. (My best YouTube of all time with over 1,500 views in the first 24 hours... Thank You!!).

I ran the 736 Berkshire with a string of freight cars - in the dark! That's the first time running trains in the dark since I was a kid. It's nice to see the locomotive headlight, caboose light, and all the signal and semaphore lights in the darkness. I have dimmer control on the overhead lights so in the future I can try a "sunset" run. It's all good when nothing derails as well.

Two trains today, MRL 4404 with a string of K line railmates (alongside custom Transformers and Norfolk and Western roadrailers) and the Big Boy with an excursion train that's very nearly ouroborosing itself on my small layout. This one definitely works better on the club setup I suppose.

I call this one my Super Greenball Express:

My 1954 Christmas gift at the age of 3 was the original Greenball Express freight set, consisting of the Lionel 2065 Hudson and short tender, operating milk car and platform, operating green log dump car and bin, yellow stock car, red gondola and illuminated caboose. Also included in that set was a small transformer, and some 027 track including a remote control track for unloading and uncoupling.

I have all of the original trains in that set in good operating order.

It is a gross understatement to say that this Greenball Express set has great sentimental value for me that invokes nostalgic feelings to the maximum extent for me.

This weekend I was thrilled to learn that I have a digitized home movie showing my original Greenball express running around an oval of track with 3 year old me sitting in middle of that oval with my father looking on.

Notice that the train in the above video substitutes a 773 Hudson (1964 version) and NY Central tender for the 2065 and tender, and adds an operating coal/ore dump car, and Sunoco oil tanker car. Hence, it's my Super Greenball Express, and it runs beautifully on my O gauge layout through my 031 curves and 022 switches.

Arnold

I’ll post a video soon but just want to say, this thread is really fun to watch as more modelers and train guys post small videos of their fun to run railroads. Technology is really a vibrant part of our hobby now and running trains in a form of command mode has really enhanced our love of building our layouts. Having seen Farmerjohns layout in person, I can say that over the past 10 years, it’s really a true Buffett of passenger trains, freight trains running for hours appearing and disappearing more than one can imagine. The high line is high, over 6 feet from the floor, and it extends into different areas of the layout that it’s Impossible to figure out the route, Wow, all of his lines of track take different paths and it’s simply amazing to watch the beautiful trains pass each other, up and over each other, Awesome. Here’s a few still pictures of Farmerjohns vivid imagination. Happy Railroading Everyone

Ran a few trains the other night.

Wow, Rsjb18 Bob, really cool videos of beautiful trains, the Menards F7 is gorgeous, the Long Island switcher makes great moves, cool dual level layout, really looks like a fun to run model railroad, Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, Rsjb18 Bob, really cool videos of beautiful trains, the Menards F7 is gorgeous, the Long Island switcher makes great moves, cool dual level layout, really looks like a fun to run model railroad, Happy Railroading Everyone

Thanks Larry.

Nice selection of videos. I didn't know that the 4141 played Hail to the Chief. The box car and tool car sounds are neat too.

Bob

You know Bob given your vast skill levels, and multitude of talents, you need a larger layout.

Lionel Visionline Niagara

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

You know Bob given your vast skill levels, and multitude of talents, you need a larger layout.

Allow me to introduce you to my wife......😂😂😂😂😂

Lionel VL 3001.

I think I'm beginning to suffer from layout envy! 🤣 😂

Bob, If you have the materials on standby, and you send your wife on vacation for two weeks , upon her return she’ll be pleasantly surprised. You could always say, “It followed me home so I have to keep it”.

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Bob, If you have the materials on standby, and you send your wife on vacation for two weeks , upon her return she’ll be pleasantly surprised. You could always say, “It followed me home so I have to keep it”.

And I'll be sleeping under it from that point on too........

The reality Jay, like so many of us, is waiting until the kids (24, 17) are out so I can reclaim the space next to the layout where my son has his X-Box gaming lair. The corner of the basement is about 12x8 that I could do a decent around the wall pike with a lift bridge. Some claims of eminent domain further into the basement will be negotiated on a as-need basis.

Bob

I understand completely Bob. But, at least you’re formulating plans.