@MELGAR posted:Photos and videos show Boston & Maine F2 diesel #4257 (model by Atlas O) on my 12'-by-8' layout pulling a B&M wood coach (by Lionel) and two heavyweight coaches (by MTH). The last car is Boston & Maine #1.
MELGAR
You have such an interesting layout and you operate cool consists. Thank you for sharing.
Jay
Lionel Legacy Southern Pacific 2-6-0 M63 Mogul with mixed freight. Fun little engine!
I ran my Electroliner with a CN&W IR pulling Electroliner bodies to the shop.
Backstory is I bought the original set marked down because the shells were not in great shape cosmetically. This summer I found prototype shells on Stout. So the old shells are going in for repair. 👨🔧
Lionel 736 with 2046W tender (custom rear light LEDs) pulling American Flyer prewar 3/16" scale O gauge cars. Die cast hopper (retrucked postwar), box, gondola, tank, flatcar (postwar with prewar truck at one end, Flyer coupler at the other. Marx 3/16" tank and hopper cars, sheet metal Flyer caboose.
A Flyer knuckle coupler will couple with Lionel knuckle couplers if the height is correct.
Ran this 23 car fast freight with a FM Train Master on the point.
Well It was a fast freight until it slowed down ; )
Enjoyed running some trains while I did wash today.
@cbq9911a posted:Lionel 736 with 2046W tender (custom rear light LEDs) pulling American Flyer prewar 3/16" scale O gauge cars. Die cast hopper (retrucked postwar), box, gondola, tank, flatcar (postwar with prewar truck at one end, Flyer coupler at the other. Marx 3/16" tank and hopper cars, sheet metal Flyer caboose.
A Flyer knuckle coupler will couple with Lionel knuckle couplers if the height is correct.
Pictures??
I just happen to see a Marx 0 gauge car on the bay. It had that fork type easy release coupler. How difficult is it to install a knuckle coupler?
726RR Berkshire with Flyer 3/16" cars and an MTH Rail King Challenger with a 9 car TCA streamliner.
A LionChief Plus 2.0 Alco RS-3 PRR 4410 (2134400) pulling around 20 boxcars, and
A LionChief Plus 2.0 Berkshire Polar Express (1932090) pulling my "Harry Truman Campaign Train"- 5 MTH Heavyweight PRR passenger cars, a Baggage car, plus a flatbed carrying two autos.
@ScoutingDad posted:Well It was a fast freight until it slowed down ; )
ScoutingDad - actually the fast freight slowed for a yellow signal ... LOL!
New York Central Alco RS-3 #8223 was running on my 10'-by-5' layout.
MELGAR
An FM "C" Liner heads a passenger local with a head end postal car toward New Haven while a burly L-2a Mohawk heads a load of empties towrd Maybrook.
A New Haven (Lionel) L-1 Mohawk rounds the Scranton reverse loop in order to head back toward Cedar Hill (New Haven) with mixed freight.
An FM "C" Liner heads a string of mixed passenger equipment headed for Scranton Pa. Typical New Haven, you would see different passenger cars mixed together from whatever the railroad had to spare.
Bill,
The layout and New Haven equipment are looking really good.
MELGAR
My train for today was powered by a model of Long Island Rail Road H-10s 2-8-0 Consolidation #111 made by MTH in 2006 (20-3230-2, PS2, MSRP $699.95) with scale wheels and no traction tires. Traction is satisfactory but the flanges are small so I only run the engine straight through the Atlas O-72 switches on the outer loop of my layout.
The Long Island Rail Road was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1900 to 1966. Consequently, hundreds of locomotives designed and built by the PRR ran on Long Island, including nineteen H-10s 2-8-0 Consolidations – road numbers #101 to #119. They headed freight and passenger trains from the 1920s until the end of steam in the 1950s. H-10s engines developed more than 53,000 pounds of tractive effort. During potato harvest, they hauled hundred-car trains of potatoes from the east end of Long Island into New York City. #111 was built in 1916 and retired in October 1955.
The videos show #111 pulling two MTH LIRR wood passenger coaches on my 12'-by-8' layout – first running slowly and then running fast.
MELGAR
The Polar Express, behind a 736 Berkshire. These are the 10th Anniversary cars from 2014. I've given the cars names. Haddon Sundblom is the artist who created Coca Cola ads featuring Santa, which defined the modern image of Santa. Robert L. May wrote Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. George Bailey is the hero of It's a Wonderful Life, played by Jimmy Stewart.
Christmas trains running around the tree.
A 10th anniversary Polar Express and an American Flyer orange stripe streamliner.
Had to share this shot with the new backdrop. What a visual difference it adds to the layout.
Gene
Very nice Genemed, adds good depth perspective.
I ran a 2333 that was given to me. I was shaking it down before I took it to the club Christmas layout.
Shakedown run for Christmas 2023....
@RSJB18 posted:Shakedown run for Christmas 2023....
Now, it you had been running under command control, the engine would have started up in the right direction 
Nice consist, Bob - especially the bobber caboose. And, at least, the crew talk doesn’t sound like Alvin and The Chipmunks!!!
@Apples55 posted:Now, it you had been running under command control, the engine would have started up in the right direction
Nice consist, Bob - especially the bobber caboose. And, at least, the crew talk doesn’t sound like Alvin and The Chipmunks!!!
It's a LionChief. I had the remote in my hand and hit the throttle into reverse....
Fat fingers.....😂😂😂😂
Yea, Santa is a nice touch.
Running Billboard reefers and a lot of em!
I have a set of KLine C&O Passenger cars that have I am converting to LED’s. Trying 2 methods. The first cars will us using the kit from @gunrunnerjohn. The set comes with everything needed to convert to LED. The entire process from start to finish took me about 60 minutes.
I finished up one car about 30 minutes again and plan to test it tomorrow.
The second method will be slightly different and can be completed until the connectors come in. I am going to attempt to use the light bulb board in the passenger cars utilizing a pre populated 18 inch LED board. Should be interesting once I assemble all the parts.
I had to order the wire harness which I found on amazon for pretty cheap: https://www.amazon.com/daier-M...Female/dp/B01DUC1O68
@Dennis Holler Dennis there have been a few comments on S curves in a layout and potential problems. I think yours takes the cake running trouble free. Thanks for posting.
@RSJB18 posted:Shakedown run for Christmas 2023....
The Christmas cheer that was mentioned: that wouldn’t by chance be scotch would it? Very nice consist Bob.
Jay
@ScoutingDad posted:@Dennis Holler Dennis there have been a few comments on S curves in a layout and potential problems. I think yours takes the cake running trouble free. Thanks for posting.
Thanks, I got to say, I have been a little surprised i haven't had more challenges. There were a couple of trouble maker cars that had to be removed or moved further back. I run the heavier Atlas and MTH reefers up front and all the wood kit built ones make up the back half of the train. I was able to get close to 20 wood and prewar cars before they started pulling off the track on curves due to relatively light weights. So if I weighted them I think they might fare better. I did clean and polish most all the wheels and axles on the pre/postwar and kit built cars so they shoul dbe as good as they can get. That MTH K4 is actually missing one of it's tires lol so she does get a little slippery. I must say, the worst offenders have been a few of the newer cars both Atlas and MTH where couplers would not stay closed under load. Solution was the switch to Kadee #745's and they have been bullet proof... Surprisingly so have the prewar box couplers lol.
https://ogrforum.com/...1#179087886848856851
salute to you…… Running and autographed boxcar!
so fun. My grandsons favorite 
@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:The Christmas cheer that was mentioned: that wouldn’t by chance be scotch would it? Very nice consist Bob.
Jay
better video going around the S curves lol
American Flyer "Illini" passenger set, made between 1922 and 1924. Pulled by a Lionel 259E.
@RSJB18 posted:
Really, Bob??? I thought you were an electrician??? You should know better than to put water that close to electricity - get those ice cubes out of there before they dilute the alcohol (which, I’m sure, you were going to use to clean your track)
P.S. really sweet engine!!!
The weather was gloomy today in Connecticut so I spent more time than usual in the basement with my trains. Metro-North #412 is a K-Line model of an EMD FP10 that I hadn't run in a long while. The real locomotive ran on the Hudson Line in New York State and Connecticut between 1991 and 1995. I wanted to run it with Metro-North State of Connecticut passenger cars by Atlas O but the couplers wouldn't cooperate so videos show it with New York Central heavyweight cars on my 12'-by-8' layout.
Edit 12/18/23: Metro-North supposedly listed these engine as FP10s. Other sources say they are F10s since they did not have the 4-foot extension behind the rear trucks to house a train heating boiler. If so, they are F10s and the model is correct.
MELGAR
Great looking consist Melgar and the narrative is interesting too. Thanks
Amtrak F7 #102 is an Atlas O model delivered in 2015 (30134002) with TMCC. Photos and video show it running on my 12’-by-8’ layout pulling Metro-North Commuter Railroad Comet II coaches #6255 Noah Webster and #6268 Fairfield County of the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The 21-inch models were made by Atlas O in 2008 and are item 6241. I rode on these cars when they ran in Connecticut.
This train was a test run. When I ran these cars behind another brand of engine, its rear coupler opened and the train broke in two. The Atlas O locomotive with the Atlas O cars operated properly on Atlas O track and O-72 curves.
MELGAR
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