WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

Here's my brand new $4,500 Lionel Visionline Dreyfus Hudson:

Just kidding, that's really just an old $300 MTH Railking Dreyfus Hudson, but it's figuratively my Lionel Visionline Dreyfus Hudson.

LOL, Arnold

Fiddling around with a way to set the phone on the layout for shooting videos.....A small spring clamp works just fine.

Bob

Bob, we need a pic of your phone setup.  I have wondered how people hold their phone and blow whistles or ring bells at the same time.  Thanks.

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

Bob, we need a pic of your phone setup.  I have wondered how people hold their phone and blow whistles or ring bells at the same time.  Thanks.

John

John- I used a small spring clamp on one end of the phone and let it sit on the adjoining track. The handles act as feet.

I also have a tripod that I can set on the floor in front of the layout. Same attachment method to hold the phone to the mounting pad.

Bob

Test ran the Rio Grande Ski Train 21" passenger cars.

Having trouble finding Rio Grande Ski Train F40PH engines that are not missing parts, or damaged or jumping off the track in a lash-up.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Here is my old post-war Lionel C&O 624 Switcher circa 1952 hauling  a rather long consist of 19 mixed freight cars to include 6 Lionel die cast freight cars from the early 1990s and 13 additional mixed freight cars from the same era.  Pretty impressive for a 71  year old dame.  Who says magne-traction didn’t make much of a difference.😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛.

I had a chance to run some new C&O freight cars behind the H7 #1578 while I did loads of laundry.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Today we ran the Sante Fe war bonnet with passenger cars and the Sante Fe yellow bonnet with freight cars and a UP passenger train to… Happy Railroading Everyone

Here's the Santa Fe Super Chief pulled by its standard  F7 ABBA set and a Union Pacific freight train pulled by an EMD GP7, circa early 1960s.

Couple rail fans watching some trains on a evening run.

@Sitka posted:

Couple rail fans watching some trains on a evening run.

Nice video. I like the roof top vantage point. Not a view often seen. All that was missing was a blast of exhaust when the engine went by.

-Joe

@Farmall-Joe posted:

Nice video. I like the roof top vantage point. Not a view often seen. All that was missing was a blast of exhaust when the engine went by.

-Joe

I got some good ps1 Steamers next time around, that was a Williams GP-38 conventional. ty Mark

I have not run this engine in a year.  This is my prewar #252 (1928) with it's original consist.

Bill

Ran four freight trains today. Apologies for the video being in portrait mode. Made it real quick and didn’t think to turn my camera.

A New Haven express doing everyday work

https://photos.app.goo.gl/61bHypWrjfgHiqrJ6

I watched Melgar give a very nice presentation to our TTOS club tonight on one of his layouts and it put me in the mood to post some operations from my layout. So here is a DL-109 A&B units hauling a revenue freight from Maybrook to New Haven. The New Haven did not purchase any B units but the model was so handsome I had to have it for he pairing.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7X4wPbEMuwAAQnar5

As a finale tonight, a pair of EMD F-3's passes a New Haven Mountain type heading into Cedar Hill Yard, with a returning empty string of coal hoppers. The F-3's are new MTH special run in NYO&W livery for JR Hobby in Syracuse NY

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LSbSaRQPt2SWR1Tr6

A New Haven Mountain type pulls out of Cedar Hill yard headed for Maybrook

https://photos.google.com/shar...YlBtamRkV0dKSjhxdVR3

@Bill Park posted:

I watched Melgar give a very nice presentation to our TTOS club tonight on one of his layouts and it put me in the mood to post some operations from my layout. So here is a DL-109 A&B units hauling a revenue freight from Maybrook to New Haven. The New Haven did not purchase any B units but the model was so handsome I had to have it for he pairing.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7X4wPbEMuwAAQnar5

Outstanding layout and trains, Bill.

@Bill Park posted:

As a finale tonight, a pair of EMD F-3's passes a New Haven Mountain type heading into Cedar Hill Yard, with a returning empty string of coal hoppers. The F-3's are new MTH special run in NYO&W livery for JR Hobby in Syracuse NY

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LSbSaRQPt2SWR1Tr6

Empire!

@Bill Park posted:

A New Haven Mountain type pulls out of Cedar Hill yard headed for Maybrook

https://photos.google.com/shar...YlBtamRkV0dKSjhxdVR3

Gorgeous

@Farmall-Joe posted:

Nice video. I like the roof top vantage point. Not a view often seen. All that was missing was a blast of exhaust when the engine went by.

-Joe

Some rails fans sitting on top of a bridge taking in some close shots and a blast of exhaust.

@Sitka posted:

Some rails fans sitting on top of a bridge taking in some close shots and a blast of exhaust.

Cough cough cough NICE!

@Bill Park posted:

As a finale tonight, a pair of EMD F-3's passes a New Haven Mountain type heading into Cedar Hill Yard, with a returning empty string of coal hoppers. The F-3's are new MTH special run in NYO&W livery for JR Hobby in Syracuse NY

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LSbSaRQPt2SWR1Tr6

Bill: Your new MTH F3s are gorgeous.  Presumably they have fan driven smoke units but to me the smoke (from both the A and B unit) just appears to be swirling above each roof instead of shooting straight up.  Perhaps my old eyes are playing tricks but wonder if you've noticed that?

PH1975  Your eyes are fine. I had been running them for a while and I think they might have been low on smoke fluid. I will run them again soon and see. They did come with fan driven smoke. I am away on vacation now but when I am back, I will run another video with them smoking correctly, I hope. Bill

Wow, what beautiful trains appear on this beautiful thread, and here’s an attempt to see my trains in motion, hopefully…. Happy Railroading Everyone

A quick shot of a circa 1987 Lionel  785 New York Central grey Hudson hauling a short string of reefers down a straightaway on the Shenandoah Short Line.   Ain’t that classic Sound of Steam music to your ears.😜😜😜😜

4014 is rolling out with a load of vehicles that are more than meets the eye.

Ohhhhh @Patrick B....I was hoping to hear that fabulous whistle and see the steam coming out the whistle! Great video but SOOOO disappointed (okay...maybe not that disappointed)!

Lionel’s set #6-1665 New York Central Empire State Express from the year 1976 still riding the rails on The Shenandoah Short Line in 2023.  The much maligned Lionel Fundimensions/MPC era of the 1970s has often been accused of producing less than reliable motive power.  This set and it’s engine still run smoothly  and even its melodious Sound of Steam still functions with all of its original components.  I purchased this set in January of 1977 and over the years it has seen a lot of run time.   Not too shabby.😃😃😃

Speaking of The Old Reliable of Lionel and the NYC, here's a shot of a NYC F3 "growler" AA set from '54 or '55 pulling the 20th Century Limited into the late evening sunset along the Water Level Route to the Windy City:

The coaches are RK 027 streamliners, so they're a little small for the scale F3 set but it all still looks pretty good and I can't imagine that this F3 set didn't pull her fair share of 027 rolling stock around a Christmas tree or two over the years. The goofy-sounding battery-powered horn works, too. Oh, and she's cruisin' along at only 8.5V. Thanks to Sitka for tips and tricks to get her running like this.

@OKHIKER posted:

Lionel’s set #6-1665 New York Central Empire State Express from the year 1976 still riding the rails on The Shenandoah Short Line in 2023.  The much maligned Lionel Fundimensions/MPC era of the 1970s has often been accused of producing less than reliable motive power.  This set and it’s engine still run smoothly  and even its melodious Sound of Steam still functions with all of its original components.  I purchased this set in January of 1977 and over the years it has seen a lot of run time.   Not too shabby.😃😃😃

Great video! Not a darned thing wrong with MPC! I've got the Blue Comet and Joshua Lionel Cowen Commemorative Hudsons and the FARR#5 PRR Turbine. I had to do a little work on them, especially cleaning up and replacing the foam pads with felt in the tenders, but now they run great and sound as they're supposed to!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Speaking of The Old Reliable of Lionel and the NYC, here's a shot of a NYC F3 "growler" AA set from '54 or '55 pulling the 20th Century Limited into the late evening sunset along the Water Level Route to the Windy City:

The coaches are RK 027 streamliners, so they're a little small for the scale F3 set but it all still looks pretty good and I can't imagine that this F3 set didn't pull her fair share of 027 rolling stock around a Christmas tree or two over the years. The goofy-sounding battery-powered horn works, too. Oh, and she's cruisin' along at only 8.5V. Thanks to Sitka for tips and tricks to get her running like this.

Nice looking F3 Bill, runs great for 8v was all you at your maintenance facility shop Nice set all you need now is to load it up with passengers

Ran this one awhile back one of my favorites of the Weavers RS-3.

Take a look...

Dave

A very spiffy and well preserved set of Unique Art F7s which I purchased off of E-Bay a couple of days ago .  I’ve been looking for a set of these beauties in almost like new condition for quite some time and finally struck it rich and for a very reasonable price .  Here they are running light.  They run as good as they look.  

Unpacked and ran my WbB Sharks recently. They've been sitting in their boxes since I bought them in 2019.

Bob

Today I ran two postwar locomotives built in 1947 ... a 1666 and 2025.  Both are steam locomotives by Lionel.   These engines haven't been run for a year, perhaps longer, so I wanted make sure to give them some run time so their motors didn't seize up.  I'm happy to report that both ran fine!  Since I had a liquid smoke unit installed in the 2025, it really pours out the smoke!   I also ran a Williams 4-8-4 which is in B&O livery ... somewhat modeled after the B&O Cincinnattian, however, the prototype Cincinnatian was a Pacific type locomotive.  

On Wednesday night I ran my Williams brass scale Camelback.  This was the first run since it had new board and smoke Suethe unit installed.  WOW!  The new Suethe smoke unit really has great smoke output!   As many of you already know, Williams smoke units are notorious for anemic smoke output.  I am thrilled with the new smoke unit.    

Here is a video of my recently acquired Lionel 5700 series of weathered reefers pulled by a MTH 0-8-0 switcher relettered for Boston & Albany with matching relettered Lionel caboose.

Jack Smith

Finally got to the O Scale layout today and ran this Lionel FA Santa Fe I Custom painted last year.