WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

Saint Peter don’t ya call me cause I can’t go, I owe my soul to the “hobby store “.

Lionel CCII Niagara and milk cars

Today I ran my version of Rock Island’s Train #18, “The Plainsman,” at the Milwaukee Lionel Railroad Club.

An F-3  AB set head a Scranton bound passenger train. The lead A unit is a Lionel unit I painted 30 years ago and the B unit is MTH. The passenger cars are painted in NYOW Mountaineer colors. The baggage boxcar is also MTH and a special run by JR Hobby Shop in Syracuse

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Yankees v. Redsox, game begins in 15 minutes. Who will win the rubber game of the 3 game series?

Fans riding the subway hoping to make it in time for the 1st pitch.

Watch out for the rats carrying slices of pizza in the foreground. LOL, Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari

The subway passengers saw a real heartbreaker, Red Sox 3, Yankees 2. Someone has to buy Aaron Judge a new big toe to replace the old one very soon.

my recent purchase from E-Z catch

Ran my Mr. Muffin's custom run unit for the first time...it's a winner!

Dave

A Lionel MPC era FA2 Southern Pacific ABA unit from way back in 1975 still rides the rails as it hauls Lionel post-war 2400 series streamliners from 1956 on the Shenandoah Short Line.  I couldn’t buy this engine back in 1975 because I was just starting a family and the price was just too high for me.  Anyway, just to satisfy my old long standing desire I bought these for a song at one of the auction sites.  Inexpensively made but still running good.

Have you thought about making a full "Baby" daylight?  Take a bunch of "Beater" 2400 series cars strip and repaint to SP daylight colors.

I did similar for a D&H Laurentian  MPC Era shells on late postwar 2 magne traction axles QSI reverse at the time ROW Diesel Roar and 5 Chime horn both units powered second A slaved to the lead unit

@MELGAR, you have started a very interesting thread and we are now on page 44, and there’s lots of beautiful trains and videos to review. I plan to go back to see the pictures I’ve missed. Here’s some trains I’ve began to run again. Happy Railroading Everyone

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Well I'm not quite sure how to describe this action. How did a much newer engine get on my 50's layout. It actually belonged to a friend of mine who wanted to see it run. He enjoyed seeing pull all those reefers,

@Bill Park posted:

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Well I'm not quite sure how to describe this action. How did a much newer engine get on my 50's layout. It actually belonged to a friend of mine who wanted to see it run. He enjoyed seeing pull all those reefers,

A little "Hustle Muscle" is good for the sole....

Yesterday, I ran my JLC Rio Grande Challenger with a 34 car train at the Milwaukee Lionel Railroad Club!

Two of my smoothest conventional runners traversing the railroad empire:

The Chessie System diesel is a K Line, the NY Central F3s are Lionel diesels probably from the late 1990s. Arnold

Here is this week’s Whistle Stop Wednesday Videos….

Well, it's 96 degrees here in northern Utah at 1:30 pm and is supposed to reach 96. So, I'm back inside beating the heat in the cool basement and running my summer trains which include Union Pacific's Yellowstone Special pulled by a Lionel Legacy F7 A & B and a UP freight train pulled by a Lionel early Legacy GP7 & GP9B. My Legacy GP9A is in for repairs, but the dependable GP7 has been filling in nicely.

After weathering the turntable, I ran my Lionel Legacy RS-27.

Gene

Only my most entertaining:

Annheiser Busch beer car, Yogi Berra/Ballantine Beer custom weathered box car and two Bronx Zoo cars with giraffes ducking under the telltale, hauled by a Legacy 0-6-0 steam switcher with swinging bell. Arnold

Very cool Arnold. I guess they’re on the way back from the All-Star game.

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Very cool Arnold. I guess they’re on the way back from the All-Star game.

Judge and Stanton are almost as tall as the giraffes. LOL.

If you want to entertain little kids, get the Bronx Zoo giraffe car and triggering mechanism and install it on your layout. Chances are that it will be the little kids favorite thing.

Ran my Williams 746 that I added an MTH ps1 smoke unit to!

On Saturday, the guest operator at the Empire and Eastern Division of the TTOS picnic here was Don Klose and he ran two locomotives on the layout with Legacy. Today I decided to try it and it worked out. Two New Haven Mohawks haul short trains so the operator cut down on the derailment possibilities.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/B3e8GT8dvt1sbr48A

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Ran my Williams 746 that I added an MTH ps1 smoke unit to!

Nice!

Photos show my new Lionel model of New Haven Railroad Fairbanks-Morse C-Liner #792 (2233291, MSRP $599.99). The video shows today’s test run with three New Haven boxcars and a caboose on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Melgar, the new acquisitions look very sleek. That’s a lot of quality in your layout.

Jay

PRR G5 5741 with a local freight; PRR GG1 with the Broadway limited, JC Camelback with a passenger local.

https://youtu.be/AESa163tfEE

Just two. 44  cars on the upper line and 43 on the lower.

@John H.....

Holy Cowski! Those freight are crazy l-o-n-g! How large is your layout to handle such length trains? They look fantastic.

@Junior posted:

@John H.....

Holy Cowski! Those freight are crazy l-o-n-g! How large is your layout to handle such length trains? They look fantastic.

Thanks very much. The table is 20' by 16' in a U shape, with each part of the U 7' wide. O72 on the outer track; O60 for the inner.

@MELGAR Mel- that new C-liner looks sharp. The LIRR ran a bunch of them, I just don't have the space for them on my current layout. One day.....

@pennsyfan Bob- Nice load that G5 is hauling! They were work horses.

@John H John- Beautiful layout and train room. Those are some long consists! Nice

Bob

@John H posted:

Just two. 44  cars on the upper line and 43 on the lower.

Very nice John. Question,; when the lower level train disappears, where does it emerge?

@RSJB18 posted:

@MELGAR Mel- that new C-liner looks sharp. The LIRR ran a bunch of them, I just don't have the space for them on my current layout. One day.....

@pennsyfan Bob- Nice load that G5 is hauling! They were work horses.

@John H John- Beautiful layout and train room. Those are some long consists! Nice

Bob

Thanks Bob; there are so many other engines looking for run time; but I never seem to take the G5 off the track. 🥹

@pennsyfan posted:

Very nice John. Question,; when the lower level train disappears, where does it emerge?

The outer line rises up over the left side of the U. You get to see my unfinished sections. I have four storage tracks and a main line under the narrow section, and three storage tracks plus the main under the wide section where the farm is.
Thanks to everyone for all the likes.

@John H posted:

Just two. 44  cars on the upper line and 43 on the lower.

Very impressive, John, with lots of freight cars. But, no passenger trains? 🤔

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Very impressive, John, with lots of freight cars. But, no passenger trains? 🤔

Thank you, Vern. I have a RK Hudson and 6 NYC cars parked under the upper level. I was worried about coupler failure so I stayed with one train on each line. Only one opened, so I might get brave enough to try it next time. With the train taking up half of the linear distance on each line, I would have little collision avoidance time.

@John H posted:

Thank you, Vern. I have a RK Hudson and 6 NYC cars parked under the upper level. I was worried about coupler failure so I stayed with one train on each line. Only one opened, so I might get brave enough to try it next time. With the train taking up half of the linear distance on each line, I would have little collision avoidance time.

John,

You need some of those elastic bands that the girls and ladies use for their pony tails. They are better than rubber bands.

@pennsyfan posted:

John,

You need some of those elastic bands that the girls and ladies use for their pony tails. They are better than rubber bands.

Or, he could open the coupler, put 2 or 3 drops of Zap a Gap glue inside then quickly close the coupler before the glue dries. Then you have a permanently closed coupler that will not open no matter how many cars it’s pulling behind it. 😉

@John H posted:

Thanks very much. The table is 20' by 16' in a U shape, with each part of the U 7' wide. O72 on the outer track; O60 for the inner.

Nice! Mine is 12x18 feet running 072 and 054 curve inter-mixed.  I "can" ru. long trains but it looks foolish. Soon as the caboose passes a station, you see then engine.....WHA? 😁

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A New Haven pair of DL109's heads a coal drag bound for Cedar Hill NH