WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

Got Milk!!!

I ran my tmcc berkshire today.Pulling around 25 boxcars mixed freight.

I dug an old MARX 490 & slope back tender out of the junque box, Lubed it up, put it on the big Fastrack oval under the tree, hung a handful of old and abused 8-wheel plastic delux cars on the drawbar, threw up the throttle on my son's CW-80, and watched an Old School train chase its tail for a good, long (and noisy) time.  Brought back memories. 

The heck of it is, if I want to run my TMCC and Legacy trains on the big layout with the Cab 1, I will need to clean all the track, fiddle with the remote, fight with the rollers, and otherwise waste train time.  That process brings back memories, too:  why I got out of HO.

I know I sound like a single chime whistle, here, but that cheap, battered, low-end MARX set runs, which, at the moment, none of my expensive, pampered, newer trains do.  There is a lesson in there somewhere. . . .

O-h say can you see, by the dawn's early light:

The night train: TMCC Delaware & Hudson diesel hauling boxcars all night long.

Palallin,

Sorry you have had bad luck with your TMCC locos. My experience with them has been, by and large, positive. I can always put them on the track and they are ready to go when I am.

George

RSJB18 posted:

Set out my PRR MP-15 to move some REA freight while NYC Plymouth is waiting to move a flat/ gondola combo to the work train.

Bob

PRR - one of my favorites. Starting to like REA as well. And, as an acknowledged NYC fan, like the second pic as well.

Been enjoying these Railking B&O "torpedo" Geeps

Been giving my MTH Proto 1s with new BCRs a workout. Love the livery of this BN Premier diesel:

Arnold

Railking Proto 1 Union Pacific diesel:

 Santa Fe Williams FA-2s...good runner, great slow speed if that's your thing...with railking passenger cars.  Also Kline Pennsylvania A-5 steamer...great runner as well.

Fendermain

This has been conventional week.  My 1956 LV #627 44 ton loco, my childhood train, has been running on the layout.  Also brought out my weaver brass 0-6-0.  The switcher looks a bit funny at anything above scale 20 mph but it is nice to get these off the shelf.  The 44T has that growl I forgot about, nothing like those open frame motors.

My first video and my first new train in 50 years.  Please excuse the poor lighting.  A Lionchief+, Southern 4501 arrived last night.  My first new engine in 50 years.  I shall name my railroad the Bald Rock Mountain Railroad, BMR RR.

Bill,

I think you will enjoy your LC+ 4501. I have three LC+ engines, two diesels and one steam. They all work flawlessly. I run them on the same track as my TMCC and Legacy engines. It does take a little bit of dexterity to manage all of them.

George

Same ones I run everyday, Lionchief NYC RS3 and Penn Flyer, plus Toymaker Trolley.

Really want an MTH Ge Evolution with charging lights, but budget is blown, or is it. I am not a fan of adding another control system, but no Lionchief engines with charging lights. Come on Lionel.

Oldmike

Just got my annual Marklin Christmas car (last car on train).  Lego car was/is a Marklin issue. Basically a flatcar with a building plate on top.  I added the Christmas trees, Santa and the BB-8 droid.

Steve

MTH Railking Proto 1 Pennsylvania

Turbine coal drag & GG1 passenger service:

I am running an old tinplate 252, to show for a Christmas tree lighting this Saturday.  But a coupler broke right at a seam.  To weld or replace rivet

Dapperdan

If it is the two headlamp version just run in reverse since you have a time constraint. If single headlamp I would replace the rivet given that option for repair.

Fendermain

MTH CP Holiday Train.  First time I have had a chance to run it.  I just finished the first level of basic bench work on my new layout.  I figured I would stop work on the layout for Christmas and just set up a simple oval to run some trains.

Hey Fendermain, always happening here at the forum, one of my favorite easy access after work activities,  So Nice to see flying Yankee and 2035 with 600 series cars! Looks like a prewar showroom layout!

Thanks for the trackside view. Run'em fast and furious! So many fantastic colors...

Arnold!  A parade of demonstrative iron always super to view!

thanks appreciation as always!

PS. T-5 days and counting, Houston standing  by.....

Leroof posted:

Hey Fendermain, always happening here at the forum, one of my favorite easy access after work activities,  So Nice to see flying Yankee and 2035 with 600 series cars! Looks like a prewar showroom layout!

Thanks for the trackside view. Run'em fast and furious! So many fantastic colors...

 

 

Leroof....Swlabr...One of my favs.

Fendermain

Lionel TMCC Delaware & Hudson smoking diesel hauling oil:

Running conventionally, slow and steady, on 18 volts. Train starts up faster until reach about 10 to 12 volts, then it goes slower and steady when voltage is substantially greater.

Utowntech posted:

MTH CP Holiday Train.  First time I have had a chance to run it.  I just finished the first level of basic bench work on my new layout.  I figured I would stop work on the layout for Christmas and just set up a simple oval to run some trains.

Really nice setup you have started here!   Where did you get the beautiful photo/print for the backdrop?

It's a busy morning at the interchange.

Fendermain

For the Holiday season a Dept 56 freight pulled by a MTH 44 tonner

    Bill T.

On Track one: a PRR mixed freight headed up by  a trio of geeps. 

On track two: Penn Central freight with GG1 power

On track three this C&O U23B leads the way.

Track four: a trio of WM geeps rolls past the yet to be completed grade crossing improvements.  Boy, those guys work slow ! 

-RM

Taking the cab ride on 4141. The cameras mounted to the cab was a nice touch.

RIP 41

c.sam posted:

Utowntech posted:

MTH CP Holiday Train.  First time I have had a chance to run it.  I just finished the first level of basic bench work on my new layout.  I figured I would stop work on the layout for Christmas and just set up a simple oval to run some trains.

Really nice setup you have started here!   Where did you get the beautiful photo/print for the backdrop?

• Thank you C.SAM! This is my first try at a large layout.  I finally have the space and have been thinking about it for the last 4 years.  To answer your question about the backdrop, I purchased it from railroadbackdrops.com.

Greetings Fendermain, Disraeli gears indeed! Here in a wonderland...lol.

My wife doesn't know it, but I've become addicted. I've become a "train smoker:"

MTh Railking Proto 2 Pennsy Turbine (with BCR) and LC+ FA powered unit smokin' diesel (I gave the matching non-powered unit a break). Both locomotives are good smokers.

All of them

https://youtu.be/199USv75vCM

I  still can't seem to place the video in, just the link

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

My wife doesn't know it, but I've become addicted. I've become a "train smoker:"

Is that anything like a "chain smoker"?  I don't allow smoking in my basement.

Except for locomotives, of course. 

Was running this oil tanker freight train through the night as the ball was dropping in Times Square:

Club cars....

My 3 year old grandson was over for New Years Eve (early), always wants to go run the trains. Gave em all a workout, including some operating accessories (ice, barrel loader, the Erie hobo car). Ran trolleys, the gang car (at light speed), some F3's with a bunch of freight cars, the Flying Yankee, and some locomotives (736, C&O geep, GG1). And then to the standard gauge stuff! So much fun when you have young ones interested. 

Jim

PW ATSF # 623 on MOW duty pulling my prototype track cleaning car around.

The xmas trains.  Up till middle of January for daughter’s birthday.  Happy New Year!  🎊🎉  Thinking maybe something totally new for 2019.  We’ll see.