What are you running tonight?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering what you will be running tongiht. I will be pulling up all my track tonight to lay a cork roadbed and run wiring. I woudl be running my 4-6-4 Hudson pulling my new set of Pere Marquette Madison Passanger cars on the outside loop and my 0-6-0 dockside pulling some flats on the inside. Hopefully this weekend I can get all the wiring done and the track re-layed over the cork so I can start adding secenery to my portable layout.

[cnw1995]

Sounds great, Jim. It would be great to see! I laid down three 4x8 sheets of that Lifelike sandpaper-like grass. I'm running my dad's old pre-war 248 and its pullman and obs car. It roars like a sonofagun up my minor grades. Smell that ozone!! Dont' think I'll start rewiring tonight - got home later than I expected from church.

[Back2Trains]

The Pere Marquette cars sound great. I'm from southeast Michigan and can just barely remember seeing that name still in use after the C& O bought it. I'm running my Lionel 736...the Mighty Berk pulling a consist of 10 Postwar operating cars plus caboose. It's a heavy train that makes the 736 work hard and the old pellet smoker really puts out. On track 2 are the Budd 400 and 8765 running an excursion for the railfans.

Jim

My inner child is trying to get out!

[Anonymous]

Hey Back2Trains. From the Detroit area here. I was suprise to find Pere Marquette set on ebay. I have a Pere Marquette Burk on its way also to pull these passanger cars. I am trying to collect anything wiht Michigan roadnames.

[Dave Farquhar]

I went through a stash of stuff I bought this past weekend. So I had a Marx 591 with some 6-inch cars on a loop of O27 track powered by an ancient Marx transformer going on the floor of my living room.

[Anonymous]

I am running my new Lionel GN Berkshire (the small 200 Dollar one with Railsounds in the tender, which is diecast, not plastic!). This is one great looking steamer, and the sound is good too. Works great on my 042 loop on the 4 by 8 layout. Can't believe they sell something this nice at this price level. I'm happy. I think I will be running this every night for the next couple of weeks.... it feels like Christmas again!

[macdannyk1]

Just finished re-assembling my garage layout. Tested it out with an MTH Santa Fe SD90MAC (with an Equalizer command upgrade board) pulling a long string of MTH Santa Fe freight cars and a K-Line scale Santa Fe smoking caboose. On the inner loop I was running my K-Line Pennsy A-5 (command) with a 6464 Pennsy boxcar (new version), Penn Salt tank car (K-Line), Pennsy gondola (Lionel) and Pennsy N5c caboose (MTH). All went well until I threw a switch and didn't notice, and the A-5 plowed into the side of the SantaFe freight. No harm done.

[cbq9911a]

The 2037LTS I got in 1963, and a new 8215 NKP Berkshire, and a K-Line GG1.

[Anonymous]

Reading G1 pulling 12 MTH passenger cars. Love those passenger trains. Bill