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Prewar Flyer 3/16" scale O gauge die cast consist.  Locomotive is an Industrial Rail Atlantic.  Hopper is the 1946 die cast hopper, which is the same as the prewar die cast car except for trucks.  Stock car is a relettered S car with O trucks.  Flat car is an S car with O trucks and an adapter coupler.

The Atlantic has no problem with pulling 5 die cast cars (1 pound each) on my layout.

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@Bill Park posted:

A Weaver Nickel Plate Berkshire with a string of freight cars heads for Maybrook while another Weaver Engine, a New Haven I-4 Pacific heads through Roscoe, New York with a short local.

Bill,

Your railroad and trains are terrific. Please take some photographs, write an article about the layout and what you have done to build it, and email to Allan Miller, editor of OGR Magazine. I know you are continuing to work on the layout, but there is more than enough to include in an article right now.

MELGAR

I ran Long Island Raid Road Alco RS-3 #1553 with three MTH Premier heavyweight steel passenger cars including #2000 “Montauk,” a parlor car. The locomotive is an old K-Line model with a sound system that needs 10-volts track power to play. So, at just above 10 volts, the train is running pretty quickly – at 50 scale miles-per-hour – but I guess that’s prototypical. Everything – including trains – moves fast on Long Island.

MELGAR

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Late last night, I went downstairs to my train room and noticed that more trains than usual on my 12'-by-8' layout were Long Island Rail Road - my local railroad as a youngster. So, I took photos of the LIRR equipment, including LIRR G-5s 4-6-0 #21, LIRR Alco RS-3 #1553, LIRR GP-38 #277, and parlor cars Jamaica and Montauk #2000.

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PXL_20210220_035457566This morning after tidying the basement work area I ran three trains. First, a K-line scale K4s pulling a fast mail train, two PRR X29s, a PRR B60, a ggd PRR BM70, a ggd B70 baggage añd  Lionel PRR passenger coach. Second, a Lionel early scale tmcc model M1a pulling nine mixed freights and b6 cabin car. Third, eight mixed freight, N5C cabin car, my track cleaner car behind an MTH scale PRR decapod with ERR upgrade. All locos have 4 chuffs, fun to watch and hear on a cold sunny day. Cheers

Pictured is a PRR Atlantic with another string of mail, express and baggage cars that will run soon.

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Received my Harry Heike custom painted Atlas heavyweights in New Haven livery back in December (a Mr Muffin offering).  Running them for the first time behind a Lionel New Haven "R2a" over the "triple crossing" in Millville MA.  The prototype crossing was to be the Providence and Worcester on the bottom, New Haven Midland div in the middle and the Southern New England (or the old Grand Trunk as it was known locally) on top. All crossing the Blackstone River. It was never quite to be as the Southern New England was graded but track was never laid.  I have to yet to do any scenery here or add the SNE embankments/abutments...someday. The milk car is on the point since the Lionel coupler wont mate with the Atlas couplers. But it is prototypical since the NH delivered milk from Portland ME (via the B&M interchange in Worcester MA) to the Hood Dairy in Providence RI.

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We put away the Department 56 buildings yesterday, but the Christmas table is still up. Might as well make use of it. That's a prewar no. 1666 with a custom-lettered no. 2466T tender, followed by a no. 6464-475 Boston & Maine box car. The "animule" is an Alces alces, of course.

Caught up to that moose again

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