Frank53......always great to see your layout pics. Awesome. Thanks for sharing, Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
What's on my layout right now?
Postwar 2026 pulling three 2400 series green post war passenger cars:
Postwar Lackawanna Trainmaster pulling eleven postwar flat cars including submarine car, transformer car, searchlight car, big inch car, and several emplty flats:
Postwar 1656 Bell Ringing Switcher
Postwar 681 and Postwar 224 in the engine house:
Postwar New York Central 2344 F3s pulling a mixture of New York Central operating boxcars and Pennsylvania post war metal Automobile Transport cars:
Postwar Santa Fe F3s pulling a set of postwar 2400 series silver passenger cars - Newark, Summit, Elizabeth and Clifton:
A #60 Postwar Trolley in an Elevated Line experiment I am considering adding:
All all of this other junk - tape, glue, newspaper, ballast, dumbell plates, ceiling tiles, brushes and all of the other odds and ends that quickly accummulate . . .
No Layout,
But I display some of my train items on my bookshelf. Lets begin from the bottom and work our way to the top.
Bottom: Lionel Erie 4-6-4 Hudson (Nothing else on shelf)
Next Row: An Atlantic Coast Line Athearn HO Scale Dining Car and an Athearn HO scale White Pass and Yukon Caboose (Bought in Skagway, Alaska). On this shelf are mostly paper back books, The Harry Potter Series (all hardback), as well as a leatherbound copy of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes", and two home-made Gold Spikes which I use for bookends.
Next Row: An HO Scale IHC White Pass and Yukon 2-8-2 Mikado (Also bought in Skagway). On this shelf are a few railroad books (Including Steam Passenger Directorys 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1986, and 1988, which I bought from my LHS before it went out of business), an old Copy of "Murder on the Orient Express", and "Classic Steam Trains Of The South", to name a few.
On Top: Two N-scale Southern Pacific Unpowered GP-38's of an unknown manufacturer, along with two tank cars, a stock car, and a gondola from the same manufacturer (There was also a Caboose, Boxcar and a European Style log car, but I cannont locate these).
A Model Power N scale Southern 4-6-2 with a Undecorated Combine and Coach as well as a Model Power N scale White Pass and Yukon 2-8-2 with 3 N scale Model Power Boxcars and a MP N scale caboose.
There three Lionel Hallmark Ornaments on top too, which are an SP 4449 GS4, N&W 746 J, and a Pennsy 2630 Green GG1 (along with a railroad lantern with a pin I got from being in a chorus competition at Disney, an Eifel Tower from Kings Island, a Statue of Liberty from New York, and a Liberty Bell from Philidelphia).
I have a good bit more, but its mostly packed away in the closet.
Cheese
Nick! :)
Oddly enough, one of the engines that was on my layout when I first responded to this thread is on my layout today. My 2020 turbine is pulling 5 6465 tankcars, a single dome PW tankcar, and a 6327 caboose around the outer loop.
My inner loop has a 2016 (that someone added a smoke unit to) is pulling 6 6014 type boxcars and a 6457 caboose.
Today, to admire the wiring I've been slowly doing, I ran the trains for quite a while in the dark, and watched all the signals work relatively flawlessly. I also added a new (to me) boiler front and headlight socket to my 2020, so I wanted to see that in the dark.
J White
Berk765 On my new layout table, I have one loop of O-27 track that is on top of three quarter inch insulation board with grassmat on top of that. I am still buying grassmat sheets to cover up the foam board and that will take awhile though.
On my new layout table, I have one loop of O-27 track that is on top of three quarter inch insulation board with grassmat on top of that. I am still buying grassmat sheets to cover up the foam board and that will take awhile though.
"I've been workin' on the railroad", Well, the layout has come along way since then. Now I have two loops of track, the inside loop is a figure 8 that has cork underneath it and wired up with 14 guage wire. I have just started installing cork underneath the outside loop. Oh and I have an AWESOME wooden trestle bridge that my mom's boyfriend built for me, it is about 4 feet long, and it is painted to look like old Iron. And my dad bought me a K-line water tower with a blinking red light on top. Well, that's the current scoop on the layout right now.
Give me steam locomotives or give me DEATH!
Berkshire Junction, bringing fourth the cry of the Iron Horse since 1900.
This looks like an old thread that has re-surfaced. It is interesting, so what the heck!
Running on the ping pong plain division of the Katy Central, we have Lionel's recent release of the Texas Special passenger train, on the middle loop is a 4-4-2 NYC steamer pulling a mix of CP and MKT rolling stock.
Waiting on the passing siding of the inner loop is a mid 70's NW GP-9 pulling some postwar tankers, gons, and boxcars, with a couple of recent MTH reefers mixed in. The MKT #600 NW-2 is moving a few cattle cars around.
Typical scenery for the Great Plains - not a tree or a building in sight!
I like this thread. I have Percy pulling five open wagons with mixed frieght (champagne corks and misc.); James pulling the (Sante Fe) express, and Thomas with Annie, Clarabel and an 'extra' two-axle truck with a FRED, a beat-up Army switcher pulling KCC ore cars under the tipple and in the yard, a misc. of Sodor cars, the Rail Zepp and the #520.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
My good old K-Line C&O Alleghaney 2-6-6-6 with TMCC and Railsounds pulling a variety of 17 coal and freight die-cast . Have about 7 buildings and many small addons laying there to finish and place after positioning that second large 072 oval and yard area . Just changed my mind again on the track design . Am anticipating a new big boy or cab forward ... both lionmaster . I love that huge steam ... LOL . Do want a small yard engine too though ... have to figure that one out . Everytime I think I'm done I buy another track piece/crossing or switch and " here we go again " have to redesign all over . Now eyeing a couple 40 x 60 extra loops on ebay ... almost giving them away ... then there I go again !!!! All powered by an MTH Z4000 transformer and tmcc action recorder board . About 3/4 finished building a lighted caboose yard building ... want a smoker in her .
On my layout now is my MTH repro Standard gauge 384 freight set, with an extra 500-series Shell tanker. Very Christmasy.
- Clint
It is Conrail day, an SD-40 with newer cars and the 18216-Conrail SD-60 with a mixed freight. Looks like I'll need to service the SD-60 though as after running for a while one motor died. Might bring down the Conrail dash-8 unit piggyback train as well. Also a 224E and cars and 2004 starter set Santa Fe 4-4-2 for my son.... That little engine pulled 25 plus newer cars suprisingly... The SD's will pull more than the 031 dog bone curve will allow!
GG1 is connected to (2) 2400 passenger cars, the 2025 K-4 is on a siding, along with the 1340 H16-44.
(2) Lionel 3462 Milk cars are on one siding, and (3) 5700 50' boxcars are on another, with a Monon box car floating on a passing siding.
Kurt
We put our artificial tree on our round coffee table ( just over 36" ) So I place an circle of O27 track around the tree ( just fits) and this year I'm going to put my Coke set ( or should I say her coke set as I bought it to resell but she said she wanted it) on the track and hook up the zw to it . guess thats enough power lol. I might even do a circle of standard gauge around the outer base of the coffee table as I discovered the other week it fits just right there also and put my Standard gauge out also.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Lets see ...outside line is a 1110 with postwar tank cars
....inside line with switch yard is NYC 2344 ABA pulling postwar boxcars
...On the work bench is a 682 i'm trying to get ready for xmas
I'm just getting everything setup. I only have one power lead attached to the mainline and I have a Lionel GP30 (Legacy) with 10 miscellaneous freight cars behind it. My Lionel SD80 sits on a unpowered siding to the unbuilt coal mine with 4 coalveyors also waiting for me to order another 4 coalveyors.
My Lionel U30C sits in the unpowered yard awaiting assignment. My Atlas GP9 sits in the yard waiting for me to get the power hooked up so it can make a train for the U30C to pull.
Hopefully by Christmas everything will be wired up and I will be in TMCC mode. Having spent the last 48 years working with 2 rail. I am learning a whole bunch about the wiring and sophisticated (at least to me) controls.
Having fun and that is what it is all about. Right?????
Cool thread guys I have a 2026x2 2035 224 681 of course 1688 1130 628 RK 2-8-8-2 Williams train master and two docksiders a gang car beep and a bump n go trolley and mixed freightand a pre war 259e and a 2046 hudson.
Mike
Great to hear from others who enjoy running mixed era combinations!
I just ran the 8368 B&O F3 with a mixed freight on the main line for a spin, the 2338 GP7 w/ Standard "O" house cars on the upper level, & the 671 with culvert & lumber cars on the industrial line. I'll probably switch things around on Thanksgiving.
Rob
Only 4 pieces.
A Lionel Docksider custom painted Boston and Maine by RGS Trains pulling a Swiss (CFF/SBB) O-gauge tinplate coach (that has Lionel Trucks and couplers).
An RMT Beep lettered for PP&L (Emery Distributors custom run) pulling the 2008 Macy's box car.
Will be adding the 2007 Macy's car later.
Lad
Hey , another one!
I've got a Prewar 1666 doubleheaded with an 0-4-0 from 1980-something, and tied to a string of modern 0-27 streamlined passenger cars. (With a little dremeling and some inspiration I managed to put a postwar coupler on the original 1666 tender truck.)
Even though they're almost 50 years apart in age, the two locos share the family trait of going 60 mph at 6 volts, so they make a great team! And, between the two, the train has smoke AND a whistle! Despite the prewar trucks on the one tender, we got the consist run really well on the family's Gargraves layout.
I'm going to go for weirdest consist; this has been sitting on a siding for six months, and gets run occasionally - with difficulty:
10 prewar tinplate freights, some 4 wheel, some 8, pulled by a 2338 GG1, redecorated by a previous owner as Penn Central. A freight with altered couplers makes it work. I just somehow think the late 30's style of the GG1 kind of goes with the pre war 30s era tinplate. I have to run it very slowly, and only in forward, or it derails on my 031 layout.
runtime
On my fastrack loop I have my lionmaster hudson pulling postwar 2400 series cars. on the 027 lop I have my 2023s pulling a lionel modern and postwar plus, and K line freight train.
"No childhood should be without a train!"
My new Lionel Lines 0-8-0 pulling Industrial Rail boxcars.
THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH.
Im running my prized Post war Lionel 2333 A-A and many 6464 boxcars on the high ball line. On the inner loop which has connection to the rail yards is my 681 S-2 turbine pulling either a group of Lionel coal hoppers and a tank car and 3469 log car, or alternatively some old 3000 series box cars. Sometimes my GP-7 is called up for frieght duty in the yards.
Roger
cnw1995 I like this thread. It is fun to see what others run and how it changes.............
I like this thread. It is fun to see what others run and how it changes.............
It will change even more if any of my not-so-subtle Christmas hints have been heeded. Has anyone tried loading up the wife's "items from your favorite ebay seller" with your train desires?
Jack
I like this thread. It is fun to see what others run and how it changes. I have a four empty coal trucks from K. Polak Coal Co. waiting on the interchange track - that connects to the Other Railway off the main line. The main line has my prewar red 248 pulling a green 805 box car (for mail / baggage) and its passenger and obs car. Percy is in the coach yard getting his front coupler repaired. The through yard track also has another train consisting of the 'other' Thomas trucks. Everything else I own is parked further back in this yard on the layout.Track 2 has Thomas, Annie and Clarabel, and my home-made track cleaning flat. It's interchange track has a long MPC-era train weighted down by two gons full of real gravel.Track 3 has James pulling the Express which is three K-line SF 027 cars that match his paint almost exactly. James is very happy about that.
The inner loop has a CSL trolley.Fortner yard has a Penn Centrall log dump car and GTW caboose. A K-Line KCC Plymouth is waiting to switch them outside Baker Field.
Postwar Lionel 2348 Minneapolis & St. Louis GP9 with a mix of postwar freight.
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