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Sunday Photo Fun 07/26/2020

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Sunday Photo Fun 07/26/2020
Posted by Northwoods Flyer on Sunday, July 26, 2020 9:21 AM

fife requested that someone start SPH this week since it sounds like he has grandpa duty.  So as a member of the Fraternal Order of Grandpas I thought I would help him out.

Good luck fife,

Its summertime in the hot and humid Northland

Some archival photos

Remember county fairs

Concerts in the Park

and Farmer's Markets

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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, July 26, 2020 11:36 AM

Museum still closed and will be for the foreseeable future.

From the Archives, June 2005.

D&H C-420 passing the Lionel factory.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, July 26, 2020 11:42 AM

Beautiful work gentlemen, thanks for the look!

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Posted by Northwoods Flyer on Sunday, July 26, 2020 1:21 PM

dougdagrump

 

From the Archives, June 2005.

D&H C-420 passing the Lionel factory.

 

Doug,

Very nice. What can you tell me about the Lionel factory.  Is it from a kit, or made from wall moduals, or all hand built?

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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, July 26, 2020 1:55 PM

I'm not really sure about the origin, but it looks a lot like the kit referenced below with possibly some additional minor modifications/additions/subtractions. The layout was about 99.9% complete when I joined the club, I got to piggyback on everyone else's labor. Embarrassed

https://www.grzyboskitrains.com/1928-the-lionel-factory-o-scale-building-kit

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Posted by pennytrains on Sunday, July 26, 2020 6:45 PM

Looks like the Korber kit:

Big Smile  Same me, different spelling!  Big Smile

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Posted by fifedog on Sunday, July 26, 2020 7:08 PM

The grandsons invaded Fifedom this week, so we threw down a loop of tubular track in the family room (ok, a 12 ft loop of track with O-72 and O-54 corners), and had some good old fashioned carpet running.  An original MTH J 611 is doing the honors, pulling a string of 7 N&W and SantFe varnish.  We kept it simple with a C80 transformer, so the curly top could get in on the fun.

 

 

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Posted by Banks on Monday, July 27, 2020 10:26 AM

NICE!!!!!  Thanks for sharing

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Posted by dougdagrump on Monday, July 27, 2020 2:30 PM

fifedog

 

Oh boy ! Why do I feel somebody is going to have their hands full ?  Wink  Laugh

Fife, Just remember "parental revenge" load up the grands on sugar then send them home. Clown

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