Good evening all,
Possibly the last post for the month here. High school boys played well in a 5-3 loss Tuesday night. Work has been busy the last 2 days. AC and furnace for new addition will be installed Thursday and Friday. Minor details to be wrapped up as well. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
The 4-4-0s didn't come in sets either. The 0-4-0 and the 0-6-0 were the set engines. They were also sold seperate. Kalamazoo made some nice locos that you could broadcast sound to the tenders. Whatever sound you wanted, even music. A nice Christmas gimmick.
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SJ a quick look at last pic of the power pack and all looked like a remote to me sorry didn't look close enough my bust lol and my set isn't the one I thought mine has that engine but a gongola and a caboose not 2 passenger cars
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Nope RT the 4-4-2s were electric. First one was a NYC, I still have it,
Nice Kev but believe the first one is one of the battery power ones the 3rd one is like what I have I think they are cute thou. I need to look at mine again I had at one time extra straight track but may have sold it.
Doug, I have seen them, cute.
Check these numbers on E-bay.
8-81001
8-81006
8-87200
8-85106
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Chessie-4-4-2-Steam-Locomotive-and-Tender-8-85106-Complete-Set-G-Scale-/191702462582?hash=item2ca25b7076
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-8-87200-Operating-hand-car-G-scale-/400870092024?hash=item5d55b82cf8
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-THUNDER-MOUNTAIN-EXPRESS-TRAIN-SET-G-SCALE-W-OB-EXC-COND-/281808452349?hash=item419d17bafd
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-8-81006-Union-Pacific-Passenger-Train-set-/400859061823?hash=item5d550fde3f
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Doug I have a set of it all packed up and I see it on ebay O guage from time to time and regularly on ebay G scale if you hunt for it it's okay not great in appearence but cute for around the Christmas tree I guess I have a circle which came with it.
Morning well afternoon all just reaxing looks like the sun trying to come out but there calling for storms this afternoon/evening/night so we will see need to goto the store in a bit thou.
Hope all have a good day talk to you all later
Doug the Lionel Large Scale were compatible with LGB. They came with knuckle couplers but included LGB type as well. I bought and used LGB track because it was solid rail. Kalamazoo and Aristocraft were also were making G scale at that time.
cnw1995 - When you are single-handing it, a roller furling jib is a luxury.
Aloha. At least it's sunny today but cool. Class went well. I heard about that wreck, Kev. 2 semis. Ugh. Looks like the East Coast is getting drenched with a tropical storm / minor hurricane added to the mix this weekend. Double-ugh.
SJ, that's neat. I've only seen the large-scale that was battery powered. Fife, I wonder about how those roller-thingies work - I've not found a video that shows it - but it sure looks neat (convenient). I have a hard enough time using the one on the jib when I'm alone in the boat.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Hello there,
A whole day between Fife's posts!!!!!
Where is everybody????
Don't know about everybodty else but it's reallyyyyyyyyy dry here.
To late for the crops but still needed.
Look'n forward t YORK!!!!!
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Looks like you guys on the east coast are in for a pounding.
Stay high and dry if you can.
Fall is here, sunny and jacket weather.
Mornin' boys. Soggy & 70 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Parts of the east coast really getting deluged with rain, and Joaqin on the way. Partner texted me last night that batteries were stolen from my marina, so I'll take a ride down there afterwhile. Probably tie on some extra dock lines as well.
cnw1995 - Looks like a nice trailer-sailer, but I'm kinda yuuuush on the roller main sail mast. I have a roller furling jib/head sail, but wouldn't want something like that on the main stick. All the big yatchets have the newer in-mast sail options, but where's the romance in that...?
Good morning,
No rain here Doug, yet. Big Wreck on I80 just east of Morris no traffic moving east at all. Had to take back roads to get to Joliet to pick up the little sick guy. Just laying low with him and watching Bubble Guppies
Have a good day
Doug they are DC from the rails. MPC Lionel made a nice line of G size trains for a short period of time including track and turnouts.
Aloha from a grey-er Chicago. Rain missed us so far, Kev. Sending it on to SJ. SJ, is the Lionel large scale battery-operated or just use G track? Fife, that's great news about the LW and smoke unit. I poked around with a neighbor's new Catalina 14.2 Expo last night. It is just like the 14.2 I sail but much simpler - the boom is stepped right into the deck and the main sail furls around the mast. Not sure how that works. Class for me tonight so it will be a long day. New CTT not yet at my local newsagent.
Took wife to eye doctor today for a check up. She is doing well with her eyes and she is finally starting to feel better. Most of the final trim on the floor is done and both the doors are in place. Final coat of sealer was put on steps. Maybe will be done with trim work tomorrow and get the furnace/ AC in place this week. Got the latest CTT today. Goood issue. I hope everyone has a good day.
Sounds like a good score RT!!!!
Hi there, Long day. Wife and grand-daughter and I spent the day together while our daughter tried to find out what is going on with the grand-son. He has been a sick puppy for the last four days and after the second trip to the doctor and a trip to the hospital for X-rays the word is just a bad case of the croup and some time off. So I guess tomorrow will be picking him up to let everyone else do their things and we will run more trains, do Gator rides in the woods and just lay low.
Have a good one.
Afternoon all hope all doing well this afternoon.
Had a bit of the devil get into me and I swear he made me do it but after some minor repairs ( I hope ) I will have a nice little set. Picked up a prewar 262 with a 262T missing 3 sets of wheels & axles from the tender, probably less than $10 repair may even have some in my parts boxes will see thou. The engine needs a handrail on one side backside of cab, and brackets again easy to get and do as does the rear of the tender thats that for them as long as it works as it is untested but think it should be fine probably a good cleaning in ordered. Also comes with a 902 Gondola appears complete, little nicked up but what you expect. it also comes with two 607's and a 608 passenger car now for these I need one latch coupler and two more sets of wheels and axles but for the price including shipping I'm ahead of the game. From what I have seen them going for lately I couldn't pick the engine alone up for what I got this deal for.
Hope all doinng well now that Buckeye gave us all a scare. Not much else going on here today talk to you all later
Evenin' boys. Partly sunny & 78, and a bit humid, in the Mid-Atlantic region. Spent day with newly retired neighbor, who happened to work for a local defense contractor. He has a sharp mechanical mind, and together we fixed my broken LW transformer, as well as the smoke unit to my 2026. There was hardly anything left of the original elements inside the housing. Happy, happy, happy.
Scored all the parts I needed at the Arbutus show. And also picked up a 2055 (with whistle tender), that needed some elbow grease, for $60. After watching my Ravens lose (what a football game though), spent 2 hours bringing the luster back. Runs pretty good.
Banks - Hope to have something signed and sealed by YORK.
Buckeye - Hope you're feeling better after that ordeal.
Buckeye, hope the kidney stone procedure was successful. I have passed many kidney stones over the years and was hospitalized for a few of them but I have never had laser surgery. I've heard of ultra sound to make little stones out of big ones but have not heard of your procedure. Do they physically remove the stone or just break it up?
Ray
SPMan
Morning. Been real busy. Cloudy. Had 2.25 inches of rain Friday and thru this weekend.
Off to get arm cut on. Hope just a few stitches will do.
Buckeye. Told you that Ohio water was bad for you. Roseyville water will fix you up. Get well.
All have a great week ahead.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
I still have a lot of HO and some nice Large scale but no place to run them. So they wait in pretty boxes for my kids to fight over. We do have a Lionel Large scale Christmas train that comes out once a year.
S.J.
Aloha. Boy, we've had a run of nice temps and sunshine. Not today though - grey-ish and may be the last of the warm-ish days left in the year. John, your story about Kali's back-seat driving reminded me of my daugther at that age saying 'Fries! Fries!' from the back-seat every time we passed a McDonalds. Talk about successful marketing! 8ntruck, I've been fortunate to see a working Eagle from that era at a local meet too. Amazing what it could do with such a small engine. Glad you're OK, Buckeye! RIP to the Reliant, Rich... Bob and Kev, I was into N scale for a long time. You certainly could fit a nice layout in much smaller space. And these days, there is so much more available in that scale. And for a good price. As others have said, it just got too fiddly for my ten-thumbs.
The combines are eating the corn in this neck of the woods too. Looks like most of it is in now.
I was able to get out to an antique tractor show yesterday. Was a small one, but laid back and interesting. One unique tractor was a 1923 Eagle. Was a two cylinder 40 hp tractor. They gave a plowing demonstration with it.
Tonight, I built a fine in the fire pot on my deck and watched the lunar eclipse. Shot some pictures of it too.
All for now.
Good evening,
Great day with the grand-kids, Lots of Gator rides and Train time. Also got those huge oak stumps split and stacked. Wood shed is stuffed full. Wife is going to play hooky tomorrow and stay home with the grand-daughter and me. Hope your day was as good. Buckeye, get on the mend, I never had kidney stones but my brother did. No fun at all. His were before the laser surgery so he had to just pass them.. Ouch!!
Banks, The corn is flying out of the fields here now. Just not a lot of it in those fields that were under water so long.The little guy is a good train engineer for 27 months old and not bad with a log splitter either.
Buckeye hope your feeling better soon. That's no way to spend the weekend.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Noticed I had not posted the last 2 days. Work was busy but good Friday. Both the high school teams lost Saturday and so did grandson's team. I was not able to go to any as wife wanted me to go to a program on post card collecting. Long story short, I was able to sell an album that had been in the family for a while. Nothing in it had any meaning to me and it would have been one more thing for the kids to pitch or try to sell. Mowed for the first time in 3 weeks and most of the time I was mowing air. Did some necessary weed eating. Wife is starting to feel better finally. I hope everyone has a good day.
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