WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get,

Another year older and deeper in debt:"

That's one of my favorite locomotives, an MTH Proto 1 Railking Jersey Central FM Trainmaster, pulling one of my favorite unit trains, 10 Lionel Postwar coal dump cars and a Postwar Pensy illuinated caboose with round portals.

Today, I found it so relaxing to scrape the crud off the wheels and apply one drop of light oil to each side of each wheel on the axles. Doing so eliminates derailments when pulling 10 or more of those postwar cars through sharp 031 curves. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get,

Another year older and deeper in debt:"

That's one of my favorite locomotives, an MTH Proto 1 Railking Jersey Central FM Trainmaster, pulling one of my favorite unit trains, 10 Lionel Postwar coal dump cars and a Postwar Pensy illuinated caboose with round portals.

Today, I found it so relaxing to scrape the crud off the wheels and apply one drop of light oil to each side of each wheel on the axles. Doing so eliminates derailments when pulling 10 or more of those postwar cars through sharp 031 curves. Arnold

Great coal drag, Arnold! Speaking of that song, which I love, I coincidentally posted this a couple of days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/reel...igshid=1l65dqzyu7mzn

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Great coal drag, Arnold! Speaking of that song, which I love, I coincidentally posted this a couple of days ago:

https://www.instagram.com/reel...igshid=1l65dqzyu7mzn

That is one gorgeous locomotive and set of passenger cars you have, Coastside Kevin!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

That is one gorgeous locomotive and set of passenger cars you have, Coastside Kevin!

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

Excellent Kevin!!!  Tennessee Ernie!  I won’t even go back and look for the other.

@Mark Boyce posted:

Excellent Kevin!!!  Tennessee Ernie!  I won’t even go back and look for the other.

Thanks Mark! Hope you post some layout pics there on your IG page. It’s a good community of O gaugers on there.

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Oh dear, I sent the wrong link. Meant this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel...?igshid=u5ncrw3wtcrv

16 Tons!

I love it, Kevin! The magnet crane, which I also have, in operation while the song playing is very nice. I even like the look of your attic roof while Sixteen Tons is playing. Makes it seem like hard work inside a factory. Arnold

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Thanks Mark! Hope you post some layout pics there on your IG page. It’s a good community of O gaugers on there.

Thank you, I am finding that out recently, after tiring of Facebook.

New Haven Alco RS-3 #531 (model by Atlas O) is running on the O-36 inner loop of my 12'-by-8' layout. The video is taken from the rear of layout and gives a good view of the train as it crosses the bridge.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

New Haven Alco RS-3 #531 (model by Atlas O) is running on the O-36 inner loop of my 12'-by-8' layout. The video is taken from the rear of layout and gives a good view of the train as it crosses the bridge.

MELGAR

Great stuff! Love the hi-cubes.

Ran my two new engines today. Both LC+, both purchased for under $200 ea. Third video is my 282 crane lifting a plastic canister. I glued a washer on top so the magnet would pick it up, then painted to match. Enjoy!

Lionel Postwar Paradise all the way at the break of day: Brunswick green 5 stripe Pennsy GG1, coal dump cars, oil tanker cars and Pennsy caboose:

Postwar ABA F3s for me today.

@Fendermain posted:

Postwar ABA F3s for me today.

Gorgeous trains, layout, benchwork accessories and scenery. It also looks like you have a gorgeous train room, Fendermain. Arnold

Thank you, Arnold.  I'm loving your GG1 video from today.  I have a Kline GG1 which is very nice but I would like to procure a real deal PW like yours.  Is yours the 2 motor version?

My layout commenced about 30 years ago progressing from HO to S gauge American Flyer to the current three rail O.

It was initially 1/2 the current size and had cloth skirting.

When I enlarged it about 15 years ago I encased the entire underside with plywood and glued the beadboard to that.  There are two access doors for storage and layout maintenance.  The beadboard project was a lot of work and was much appreciated by the CEO!   You know what I mean. 

@Fendermain posted:

Thank you, Arnold.  I'm loving your GG1 video from today.  I have a Kline GG1 which is very nice but I would like to procure a real deal PW like yours.  Is yours the 2 motor version?

My layout commenced about 30 years ago progressing from HO to S gauge American Flyer to the current three rail O.

It was initially 1/2 the current size and had cloth skirting.

When I enlarged it about 15 years ago I encased the entire underside with plywood and glued the beadboard to that.  There are two access doors for storage and layout maintenance.  The beadboard project was a lot of work and was much appreciated by the CEO!   You know what I mean. 

Yes, the Postwar GG1 has 2 motors and is a great puller. I bought it maybe 10 years ago for about $750 in a very nice hobby shop in Northern NJ.

I also accommodated my CEO. I did so by not having the trains totally dominate the basement when I built the layout 25 years ago. That way, my kids could socialize with their friends in the basement and do things besides trains.

Having the trains adorn the basement instead of dominating it, is not a bad way to go, especially if it keeps the CEO happy.

One more thing, Fendermain. I also have the K Line GG1 in Tuscan red. Will run it and take a video of it that I will post later.

I'm a sucker for a nice GG1.

Arnold - You're very creative too.  If I'm not mistaken - isn't that a Dryer vent projecting 'vertically' through the middle of it?  If so, perhaps we'll eventually see a reference to Arnie's Laundromat  incorporated into the layout somewhere (lol).   

Between the cold weather and the virus, I've been in the basement running trains every day. Amtrak 104 is an MTH Premier model with PS2.

MELGAR

Breathtakingly beautiful Amtrack locomotive and trains, Melgar.

Craig, love your trains, particularly the freight car sounds, and your scenery.

PH1975, Arnie's laundromat on the layout is a great idea. Wouldn't it be nice if Lionel made one. LOL.

Fendermain, here is a short video of the K Line Tuscan Red GG1:

Arnold

Arnold,

Great video and thank you.

John

What trains did I run today?  I don’t have time to run no stinking trains!  I really needed to get that oil outta the ground, put it in barrels and get it outta here! Lol!

Today I ran the “Everything Your Cardiologist Told You Not to Eat From Now On” express around the track.  I should really be finishing the layout instead of running trains!

Western Maryland steam climbing hill on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Still working on the new layout, but I always have to run the trains. This one comes out once a year.

Up in the attic today, just me and the trains...

@Matt Kramer posted:

Today I ran the “Everything Your Cardiologist Told You Not to Eat From Now On” express around the track.  I should really be finishing the layout instead of running trains!

That gave me a sugar high and I loved it🤪.

@WinstonB posted:

That gave me a sugar high and I loved it🤪.

That made me hungry... very cool.

Ran 3 out 4.  LionChief Southern Express sidelined today.

Ran my OO NYC Hudsons and my reissue 700e from the 1990's.   Love my NYC J1e Hudsons!   AD

The loop under the Christmas tree made it's appearance today and the first train to turn laps is thanks to Vinndiesel here on the forum and Ed Boyle.  The train is headed up by a first gen MTH Railking Mohawk in ATSF livery that came to me running in reverse only.  Vinny, aka Chef Vinny at NJHR, was able to set me up with Proto 1 to get it moving and gave it a great sounding C&O Greenbrier sound chip. The Mohawk is pulling a string of all the Lionel Fundimension factory weathered reefers, 6-5700 to 6-5707.  I had picked up two of the eight nearly 30 years ago at hobby shop with two shelves of O gauge trains.  The boxes had so much dust on them I had no idea they were weathered nor that they belonged to the only series of factory weathered rolling stock.  When I got them home I thought the grime of that hobby shop had made it's way into the boxes and marred the paint.  Several years later along comes Ed and writes a Collector's Gallery about this series.  For the first time the collector's hunt began for me.  The mission collect the remaining 6 as cheap as possible.  Before I knew what it was I had seen the green Budweiser reefer at any number of train shows in the price range of $70-$100.  Once I knew that it was part of the series I figured I would never complete the series because I just couldn't justify that amount.  The search continued on ebay and even some of our bigger dealers contributed until I got them all, even a second Budweiser reefer. 

Photo and videos show the MTH Railking New York Central 0-8-0 steam engine #415 that I ran today on my 10’-by-5’ layout. I find PS1 engines very reliable and have been running this one with a BCR for more than twenty years. A quality model in my opinion.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Photo and videos show the MTH Railking New York Central 0-8-0 steam engine #415 that I ran today on my 10’-by-5’ layout. I find PS1 engines very reliable and have been running this one with a BCR for more than twenty years. A quality model in my opinion.

MELGAR

Very nice engine, Melgar, and I also like the caboose. I tend to prefer a small caboose like the one in your videos. Arnold

The inside track is an MTH 260e with vintage Lionel prewar cars.

The outside track is a vintage Lionel 264e with vintage Lionel prewar cars.

This morning I ran my first and probably favorite LC+ engine, the venerable GP38-2. Someone on this thread mentioned the MPC weathered reefer cars, which I also love. Dropped a few into this consist for y’all. Happy Thursday!

Kevin, you do have a much better attic to move around in than I have.  Good thing I'm not building a layout in mine!    The GP38s are nice.  That's quite a nice bunch of those reefers you mentioned.

Video shows my MTH Premier Pennsylvania Railroad G-5s Ten-Wheeler #5740 running on my 12’-by-8’ layout pulling Long Island Rail Road passenger cars “Islip” and “Montauk.” The LIRR was purchased by the PRR in 1900 and PRR steam locomotives ran on the LIRR. This model has PS1 and a BCR and is more than twenty years old.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Video shows my MTH Premier Pennsylvania Railroad G-5s Ten-Wheeler #5740 running on my 12’-by-8’ layout pulling Long Island Rail Road passenger cars “Islip” and “Montauk.” The LIRR was purchased by the PRR in 1900 and PRR steam locomotives ran on the LIRR. This model has PS1 and a BCR and is more than twenty years old.

MELGAR

Very nice engine. I too have a few PS-1 engines of the same vintage with BCR's installed and they haven't missed a beat other than routine maintenance. Your layout is very nice as well!

Charles,

My PS1 engines have been very reliable and have required only normal maintenance. This one has a lot of run time. I appreciate the comment about my layout. The photo is taken on my 10'-by-5' layout and the video is on my 12'-by-8' layout.

MELGAR

Well, I am confessing, that I find the temptation to run trains BEFORE completely completing (or starting) a permanent layout....... and, even without its pantographs..... she still makes me smile...... Sooooooo smooth! I do need to giver a cleaning on the reverse contraption, just a tad........

my steam locomotives 🚂 won’t run, not even a test, yet...... but the Whistle Tender did blow out a bit o DUST!! ❤️

thanks to Mitch..... great little transformer!!! 🤗

Today the crew was busy doing the final checklist..... apparently I missed a couple little bits and bytes...... GI-Raffe supervisor tending to this and that....... I am still learning...... Merry Christmas Train Wishes to all-y’all

He's making a list and checking it twice...Oh!  That's supposed to be Santa not the Gi-raffes!!  Looking good for an engine as old as us, Frank!!!

Todays consist is a Williams Chicago and North Western NW2 with matching Williams N5C caboose

pulling a trio of MTH C&NW slag cars. Past the town square where a group of kids are having a snow ball fight.

My childhood 681 pulling the express today. She got a full service recently and is running better than ever. Happy holidays, all!

Ran the California Zephyr on special Christmas duty tonight.

I thought I'd take a quick video before I rotated this train off the layout.

Lionel Post-War 2363 Illinois Central F3's from 1955-56 pulling a train over 18 feet long. Trailing is the custom painted matching caboose I made.

https://youtu.be/DTC2NtGsTlk

MTH Premier Long Island Rail Road G-5s #21 Ten-Wheeler steam locomotive with PS2 pulling K-Line LIRR "Dashing Dan" passenger cars on my 12'-by-8' layout completed in 2004. Scale speed 46 miles-per-hour.

MELGAR

Merry Christmas Everyone! In the man cave this evening running a Lionel F7 ABA Chicago and Northwestern pulling coal drag and coil cars. I like the horn and Mars Light.

Lionelski, 18 feet of holiday cheer keeping us all in good spirits.

We had the two grandkids and a niece visit so I ran the Peanuts Christmas Set (conventional) with the three passenger car add-on set.

The children loved it, and I had fun too!

Just playing with O and One Gauge a little.

My sister brings her grandkids every year around this time for a train day.  They didn’t want to come inside this year so I set some trains up on the back deck.  Mid 80s Lionel GP9, mid 40s tinplate caboose, Menards track and M&M cars.  I loaded the hoppers with M&Ms.  I stopped the train every once in a while, so the kids could help unload them.

@jnadpa posted:

Merry Christmas Everyone! In the man cave this evening running a Lionel F7 ABA Chicago and Northwestern pulling coal drag and coil cars. I like the horn and Mars Light.

That is just beautiful. Are the hoppers die cast?

@coach joe posted:

Lionelski, 18 feet of holiday cheer keeping us all in good spirits.

I'm glad they are Joe.

Hmmm, I wonder how a couple flat cars with plastic shot glass loads would look with that consist?

A Northern Pacific U33C and matching caboose, hauls a string of H.J. Heinz reefer cars filled with pickled products over the river, disturbing the local wildlife with the clickity clack of the rolling wheels.

Playing with my new camera rig today. Ran some Post War F3s, the 773 Hudson, a new Legacy Ohio Central and my Legacy BNSF lash-up

A Williams Soo Line GP9 with a cut of K-line diecast log cars and a matching Lionel Soo Line Extended Vision caboose.

My 2020 around the room Layout.

No pics, but I ran my repainted lionel 1615 0-4-0, my new lionchief Plus Chicago Burlington and Quincy

4-6-4 hudson and CB&Q GP7.

Ran a 90’s era consist around the layout this week.

This is my first attempt at a grand Christmas set up.  <ore to come next year.

Harley,

That is such a gracious and comfortable looking video one might think it actually took place in some room at Santa's North Pole Headquarters.

Ok, we have to sort the horn.... lol. My little engineer is so much fun and learning so much... thanks for ALL the layout and engine help, lads....

tomorrow..... we again tackle the “E-unit” (again) until I finally get it all sorted (please note that with your guidance, I have NOT hooked up all the littles and bits on the wheels until she RUNS... (thanks to Brad for that) hope my brain does not make my eyeballs fall out on the workbench....... “Nothing is as easy as when someone Else does it” (author escapes me at this moment)

Decided to run the first engine I purchased back in the 50’s. Still works great.

Well, Santa made his final trip through the Snow Village this afternoon, while on his way back to the North Pole. Time for him to start getting ready for next Christmas Eve!

Had a little Gene Autry going for background music too...🚂😉😺

My neighbor Sam turned 80 this year. In one of our many conversations in the back yard this summer, we started talking about trains. Sam mentioned that he still had his Lionel 675 that he received as a child. He brought out a box that had a bunch of parts and a rusty old engine. I took it to my local shop and had it restored. They did a fantastic job. I now own this engine and it is the only Post War engine in my collection that I know the history. It is so cool to hear someone’s story and to be able to pass it along to my own children. Enjoy this video that I made for Sam. While the rest of my engines sat quiet on the layout, Sam’s engine raced around my short Post War loop. This is what I ran today.

@Foxer55 posted:

This is my first attempt at a grand Christmas set up.  <ore to come next year.

A Man after my own Heart! Well played sir, well played

I did get a little bored yesterday; haven’t been able to get to the club. So I ran it conventionally.

my daughter was excited!  She loves trains, too. She has a Genesis and 6 Amfleets of her own.
Happy Holidays!

-Mario

@UKE KAT posted:

Well, Santa made his final trip through the Snow Village this afternoon, while on his way back to the North Pole. Time for him to start getting ready for next Christmas Eve!

Had a little Gene Autry going for background music too...🚂😉😺

Beautiful...

Soooooo my little 8042...... has weird e unit. Got it to just go forward for now..... and then, after two hours of re-do.... I tested it before putting on the wheel it’s and bits...... BUT I found that the front roller does not always work when I apply power with a test lead.... AND, it looks like I have to take a Drive wheel off to repair the roller pickup...... Unless.... there is magical access under the secret plastic panel?

soooooo, I did NOT run this train 🚂..

tips or tricks?

@Miggy posted:

Soooooo my little 8042...... has weird e unit. Got it to just go forward for now..... and then, after two hours of re-do.... I tested it before putting on the wheel it’s and bits...... BUT I found that the front roller does not always work when I apply power with a test lead.... AND, it looks like I have to take a Drive wheel off to repair the roller pickup...... Unless.... there is magical access under the secret plastic panel?

soooooo, I did NOT run this train 🚂..

tips or tricks?

I would try spraying contact cleaner between the roller and the contact and hope you can clean any corrosion.  If not you need to take out the motor, remove the wheels, and split it in half and work on it.  If you have an electronic e-unit it will make it a little easier to get it back together then the older scout motors with the internal e-unit.

Gene Anstine

PRR G-5s #5740 by MTH Premier with PS1 is one of my favorite locomotives. New Haven Fairbanks-Morse CPA-24-5 “C Liner” #793 is a recent MTH model with PS3. On my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

PRR G-5s #5740 by MTH Premier with PS1 is one of my favorite locomotives. New Haven Fairbanks-Morse CPA-24-5 “C Liner” #793 is a recent MTH model with PS3. On my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Gorgeous, Melgar. What struck me about these photos is how crystal clear they are. Arnold

Last night me and the lady did a late nite run. She operated the camera and wine glass, I nervously operated the DCS controller through a very congested 072 main line. Great run, no technical hiccups or operator error. Lots of funThis is one of Lionel’s new ES44ACs, handling some Atlas O diecast Maxi IV intermodal well cars, Lionel auto racks, and MTH Bradly military transportNorfolk Southern OCS train, the passenger cars have been converted to Kaydee 745 scale couplers, with shapeways mounting pads to optimize coupler distance. The interior detail of these is going to be a project this year. Overall the quality control on these was not bad.

Cogen1981 - Hmmm, your wife operating "the camera and wine glass", that could've been a recipe for disaster.  Like the time my wife and I went on a bicycle tour of wineries in an area known for its numerous wineries - a bad combination (lol).   😜🍷

Seriously though, very nice photos and are the OCS passenger cars MTH or another manufacturer?

By the way, Happy New Year and be sure to propose a toast tonight with your wife!  Then play with your trains some more.   😉

@Cogen1981 posted:

Last night me and the lady did a late nite run. She operated the camera and wine glass, I nervously operated the DCS controller through a very congested 072 main line. Great run, no technical hiccups or operator error. Lots of funThis is one of Lionel’s new ES44ACs, handling some Atlas O diecast Maxi IV intermodal well cars, Lionel auto racks, and MTH Bradly military transportNorfolk Southern OCS train, the passenger cars have been converted to Kaydee 745 scale couplers, with shapeways mounting pads to optimize coupler distance. The interior detail of these is going to be a project this year. Overall the quality control on these was not bad.

Beautiful, love it, thanks for sharing..

@PH1975 posted:

Cogen1981 - Hmmm, your wife operating "the camera and wine glass", that could've been a recipe for disaster.  Like the time my wife and I went on a bicycle tour of wineries in an area known for its numerous wineries - a bad combination (lol).   😜🍷

Seriously though, very nice photos and are the OCS passenger cars MTH or another manufacturer?

By the way, Happy New Year and be sure to propose a toast tonight with your wife!  Then play with your trains some more.   😉

Hahah,

there were some tense moments and close calls, but we made it through the night without a major incident or injury.

The passenger cars are Lionel 2027180 and the add on Lionel super dome car. I like the way the flush fitting windows look on these cars.

Thank you for the compliments and have a happy and safe new year

We did end up at the club yesterday to test the new F40PHs; MTH and K-Line. Elizabeth was able to run her Amtrak Genesis #84 and her plated Amfleets as Amtrak Empire Service #281. She likes to run with the lights dimmed at the CNY NRHS Clubhouse as it emphasizes the ditch lights flashing.

Thanks @JR Junction Train & Hobby, always great to stop by and look at the store!

Lionel's 1983 20th Century Ltd......the 1st (and not the last!) train I bought from Charlie Ro.....

Peter

@CentralFan1976 posted:

We did end up at the club yesterday to test the new F40PHs; MTH and K-Line. Elizabeth was able to run her Amtrak Genesis #84 and her plated Amfleets as Amtrak Empire Service #281. She likes to run with the lights dimmed at the CNY NRHS Clubhouse as it emphasizes the ditch lights flashing.

Thanks @JR Junction Train & Hobby, always great to stop by and look at the store!

Speaking of the Amtrak Empire Service, you can watch that, the Lake Shore Limited, the Maple Leaf, and CSX trains on the Fairport NY Virtual Railfan cam for free on YouTube.  You can scroll back 12 hours if you miss anything.  You can check out what time the Amtrak trains arrive and depart Rochester and Syracuse by using the train status tab on Amtrak's website with the following link.

https://www.amtrak.com/home.html

Here are the links to the Fairport NY railcams.

East Cam: https://youtu.be/bOCo4-eeEjs

West Cam: https://youtu.be/6Km4mSHsiWw

Here are the links to the North East PA railcams where you can watch Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited, CSX, and NS before and after the NY state line.

East Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nnm2...

West Cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uryz2...

Here are the links to the Elkhart Indiana railcams where you can watch Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited and Capitol Limited in addition to NS, BNSF, and other trains.

PTZ Cam: https://youtu.be/H5vLt0xeKw0

East Cam Static: https://youtu.be/jZXs597uV7o

West Cam Static: https://youtu.be/KCsxbocuxZg

Last but not least are two links to Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited with 2 vintage Northern Pacific dome cars on the end from 12/26/20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqa13GDWeFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJbqZ8DxzOA

Enjoy! 

                                  New sounds, new scripts, new people... 2021!

                                 No engineers, have to add them yourself ...

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Ran a Pennsy coal drag headed by the E33 LionChief Plus rectifier.  This loco is a terrific puller.

I ran several this morning. Pics below - it's hard to get unobstructed pics on the layout.

The Virginian caboose shown in the 4th pic is another of my custom paint projects

Warrenville sure looks like a fun place!

Cogen1981: One final clarification - when you said "no technical hiccups" were you referring to yourself or your wife?   

@RSJB18 posted:

Warrenville sure looks like a fun place!

That it is RSJB18, that it is.

Thanks for the comment and thumbs up

@Don Winslow posted:

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Love the SP locos, Don. The new Black Widow looks terrific. Where are you located? I'm on the Central Coast near Monterey. Happy New Year! Kevin

Thanks Kevin!

We live in San Mateo - come by and say "Howdy!" if you're up our way!

BTW the LionChief 2.0 is awesome! Lionel freshened up the sounds with some new dialogue.

Here's some more shots of the new LionChief 2.0 Plus F3's mixing it up with some post war friends...

@Don Winslow posted:

Thanks Kevin!

We live in San Mateo - come by and say "Howdy!" if you're up our way!

BTW the LionChief 2.0 is awesome! Lionel freshened up the sounds with some new dialogue.

Excellent! We lived in Redwood Shores for a couple of years, then Half Moon Bay for 7 years before moving down here. Likewise if you’re ever in the Monterey area, drop me a line! Look forward to meeting you someday.

@Don Winslow posted:

Peter - I love your Charles Ro "20th Century Limited"!

Since I live in California, here are some western trains. The new LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widows in the photo arrived just this week from Charles Ro...

Wow, love that Western Pacific, beautiful colors !!!!

WM fan - Hmm, I would've sworn those Sharknose Diesels were wearing 'Southern' Pacific colours.    

Whistle works, on test stand..... going to run on the layout behind the little scout. Seems like the whistle tender works better on test than with the scout pulling it in the layout (sad face) will search for Next Step! Haha.... Persistence will prevail...... happy running trains.

Hey Don - Love those Black Widow F's Any chance of a quick video ? - I'm considering a set of Pennsy units

Thank you

Joe S

@bluelinec4 posted:

Thanks for the ride, Ben... I haven’t been on the subway in a few years. I miss the days when I was young and you could stand at the window in the first car!!! What line are you on???