Alien Robot attacks trains, destroys Santa Village.

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TedW posted:

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.

 

 

Gorgeous, Ted.

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Viola!

Very impressive train. How long did it take to get it all assembled and running?

Bob

I was having a problem with two what I thought where real stable cars, early Atlas green Tropicana reefers. They where getting pushed off curve on level track. Between two unweighted Weaver cars. Relocated them, now all is right. No problems with string lining.   

It is the next to last day for our Christmas layout.  Normally we would start taking it and the decorations down tomorrow.  But that is my wife's birthday.  No way we are going to celebrate it that way!  So they come down on January 3rd.  

I made this layout about 15 years ago and it is wired for both TMCC and conventional trains.  But I almost always just bring up postwar sets from the basement to give them some run time, changing each about every three days.  What is running here is a 1946 smoke bulb Berkshire with the semi-scale operating boxcar, the black tank car and high end caboose.  It was a strange set, top of the line locomotive and cars, but only a three car set - as if it was a low end set.  The passenger is a Lionel Texas Special AB with Kusan Texas Special cars.  Never understood why Lionel missed the bet of doing the Texas Special paint scheme for either aluminum or 027 cars.  Rather it came as a freight set.  Oh, well, it looks great this way.

Peter, I'd love to see some close-up shots of those TS Kusan cars.  I'm sure I've never seen a set, but I remember the Kusan aluminum cars--in some respects they were superior to LIONEL's.

Perhaps before you put them away.  Thanks.

Carl, here you are.  Yes, I too, do really like the Kusan aluminum passenger cars and have a lot of them!

Peter

Everything today is either Chessie, Penn Central or PC / Amtrak.  

Peter, thank you very much for those excellent photos.

Yes, Peter, the Texas Special cars are beautiful and possibly rare. That was one beautiful train and in the late nineteen fifties, I rode on the Texas Special From Dennison Texas to St Louis Missouri. 

Early this morning, ran new PE cars and CP Holiday train.  

The second level of our basementlayout is still very much under construction. While doing some testing this morning I (accidentally) ran an Lionchief Metro North M7 set off the table onto the floor. Not a ding or scratch and the train still runs fine. Who says our toys aren't built right?

Ran the Pennsylvania Lines H-10. It's a fun little Locomotive.

Three of the grandkids visited on New Year's Day. I have the most fun when they are here to run trains with me. The two boys are getting big enough to operate things correctly and by themselves. I was too busy putting different engines on the track to take pictures. We ran a New Haven FL-9 and Alco PA (by Sunset/3rd Rail), LIRR G5s, New York Central 0-6-0 and Amtrak Genesis (by MTH), Amtrak F-7, B&M F-3 and Conrail MP15DC (by Atlas-O), and New Haven Ten-Wheeler (by Lionel).

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

Three of the grandkids visited on New Year's Day. I have the most fun when they are here to run trains with me. The two boys are getting big enough to operate things correctly and by themselves. I was too busy putting different engines on the track to take pictures. We ran a New Haven FL-9 and Alco PA (by Sunset/3rd Rail), LIRR G5s, New York Central 0-6-0 and Amtrak Genesis (by MTH), Amtrak F-7, B&M F-3 and Conrail MP15DC (by Atlas-O), and New Haven Ten-Wheeler (by Lionel).

MELGAR

While pictures would have been nice, I’m glad to see you had your priorities correct!!! I foresee a few new New Haven fans in the offing.

Happy New Year MELGAR.

Harry Burris is old school. He had the Engineering Crew out on New Year’s Day, surveying some planned drainage improvements. The Second District local waited on the freight house lead for No.59 to pass, 2-8-2 3222 simmering and occasionally pumping a little air. A raspy exhaust announced the approach of 59, and Engineer Wallace White gave the big PA1 another throttle notch to keep the speed up through the curve, and she obliged with a belch of Alco exhaust.  The oscillating headlight wig-wagged against the embankment as the humble little passenger train curved past Harry’s survey party. After No.59 passed, the cantilever signal changed from red to flashing yellow. That was good enough for Engineer Buck Burleson, and he whistled off, dropped the reverse lever into the corner, and departed. He gave a short whistle salute to his brother-in-law (a rod man on the survey party) and had her hooked up and rolling as he left the curve. As Buck whistled for the Highway 70 crossing, Harry Burris wondered silently how much longer the sound of steam whistles, which - decades earlier -had lured him to a career in railroading, would be heard in the Texas Panhandle.  Harry listened intently as the exhaust of Mikado 3222 faded into the distance.  It would be a sad day, he mused, when the roundhouse put out the last fire and cranked up the latest quartet of brand-new EMD GP7’s.

OldMike posted:

Alien Robot attacks trains, destroys Santa Village.

No image here either... and the composer and  menu doesn't like this page much either. 

Trackside today at Jasper's Rock.  Amtrak F40P's   Western Maryland F7's + chop nose GP7
Conrail SD40-2 pair   Pennsylvania Geeps Three Unit Lashup

Hanging out in the Train Room......

Gary

Gary, sure looks like a great way to spend the day!

mike g. posted:

Gary, sure looks like a great way to spend the day!

Thanks Mike:

For safety, I did the glue process before they came over. They were aloud to play with the seated figures and then help with putting in the screws that hold the body to the frame, When this was completed they ran the passenger train. LionChief Plus.

Gary.

trainroomgary posted:

mike g. posted:

Gary, sure looks like a great way to spend the day!

Thanks Mike:

For safety, I did the glue process before they came over. They were aloud to play with the seated figures and then help with putting in the screws that hold the body to the frame, When this was completed they ran the passenger train. LionChief Plus.

Gary.

Man Gary, you just have to love that! I am still trying to get my grandkids into trains, when they came over for Christmas I gave them a train set and there mom told me when they got home they put it up and played for hours! I think its time for a better set! LOL

wmcwood - that is a heck of a bridge and suspended layout!  Did you build the bridge or source it?

David

Slow and steady MTH Proto 2 (with new BCR) Pennsy Turbine freight train passing scenic blue water (made with acrylic paints and Mod Podge):

Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Slow and steady MTH Proto 2 (with new BCR) Pennsy Turbine freight train passing scenic blue water (made with acrylic paints and Mod Podge):

Arnold

Your improvements look great.

Fendermain

My small layout looks best when running small trains. This one is scale-sized but as small as they get.

MELGAR

MELGAR, The "Bobber" caboose suits the engine perfectly. They really look right together.

FrankM

Moonson posted:

MELGAR, The "Bobber" caboose suits the engine perfectly. They really look right together.

FrankM

FrankM,

I agree. I think they are a perfect combination and enjoy watching them run.

MELGAR

My 10'-by-5' model railroad is complete on 99% of the table area, so I decided that it's time for a video... The engine is a Lionel Legacy ten-wheeler 4-6-0 model of New Haven #815. With four New Haven box cars and a caboose, this is one of the longer trains that I run on this small layout. The engine has very realistic sounds to which the video does not do justice.

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

My 10'-by-5' model railroad is complete on 99% of the table area, so I decided that it's time for a video... The engine is a Lionel Legacy ten-wheeler 4-6-0 model of New Haven #815. With four New Haven box cars and a caboose, this is one of the longer trains that I run on this small layout. The engine has very realistic sounds to which the video does not do justice.

MELGAR

Wow, MELGAR... you certainly packed a lot of interest into 10’x5’!!! While your “tall” Supply Co. building is amazing, the passenger station at the start of the video is absolutely magnificent. Is that a kit or another of your own designs???

Thanks for sharing. 

Running a bunch of KMT beer reefers this week on the Seattle & Yakima RR.

Apples55 posted:

MELGAR posted:

My 10'-by-5' model railroad is complete on 99% of the table area, so I decided that it's time for a video... The engine is a Lionel Legacy ten-wheeler 4-6-0 model of New Haven #815. With four New Haven box cars and a caboose, this is one of the longer trains that I run on this small layout. The engine has very realistic sounds to which the video does not do justice.

MELGAR

Wow, MELGAR... you certainly packed a lot of interest into 10’x5’!!! While your “tall” Supply Co. building is amazing, the passenger station at the start of the video is absolutely magnificent. Is that a kit or another of your own designs???

Thanks Paul.

It is a model of the station in Phillips, Maine on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad which was 2-foot narrow gauge. I built it from a kit by Banta Modelworks when I began work on the 10'-by-5' layout in 2014. I'm also adding a 46-second video which better shows the layout and the New Haven 4-6-0 ten-wheeler engine and freight train. The average speed of the train as shown here is 21 miles-per-hour.

MELGAR

New Haven Railroad #793 Fairbanks-Morse CPA-24-5 model by MTH with Atlas O 60-foot passenger cars on my 10'-by-5' layout.

MELGAR

Today...century club turbine. 

Yesterday...scale mth NYC Niagara and six 70 foot green pullmans... 

Before that...my lionel j3a pulled the same cars around...I have the tender from a mohawk behind it that's got really good sound, fatboy speaker and stuff...

Ran a 226E/2226W with about 8 MTH 2814 reefer cars and a few 2816 hopper cars

Le Train Bleu (the Blue train) from Paris to the Mediterranean:

Regards

Fred

Lionel 18045 Commodore Vanderbilt with a 20th Century Limited:

Regards

Fred