Day 2 trains on mainline. SP SD45T-2 powered and dummy (MTH) with mixed freight
MTH GP20 powered and dummy with work train including scale ATSF crane and boom car.
MTH Southern Pacific Black Widow F units A-B-A and solid Lionel PS4 Piggyback TOFC train.
Ray
SPMan
TR 1 Lionel Niagara pulling 7 MTH Michigan Central NYC LINE passenger cars. looks cool.
TR2 Another Lionel Niagara pulling 25 coal and beer reefer cars.
TR3 K-Line Reading tank engine pulling freight.
Tr 4 Lionel El Capitain set with B unit and 4 passenger cars.
laz57
From time to time I can work from home, and thanks to AT&T's aircard my laptop works in my
my "train barn", so I can work and run the trains.
That said, there is something to be said for running plain, old-school, non-sound,
conventional mode engines.
So today on my mainline I have my always reliable K-Line Chessie System (C & O) MP-15 2210
pulling a short freight of K-Lines semi-scale, and classic cars, including the "Keokunk
Canning Company, Pickle and Tomatoe Juice Vat Car".
The upper level has a MTH CNJ 0-4-0 switcher (non proto sound), and a string of CNJ freight cars including an air whistle caboose.
As it's Friday, the LIRR Cannonball is waiting in Union Station for a Lionel/MPC GP-20for it's
4:06 departure to Montauk.
Enjoy The Weekend.
Ken
I'm running a Marx Illinois Central Gulf diesel switcher with assorted Marx freight cars.
Carl T.
My recently-acquired Ives set:
- Clint
mdainsd wrote:Those are beautiful pictures. the guides would do well to include photos like yours.
Thanks. The pics actually didn't turn out as well as I had hoped... but I guess they serve their purpose.
An AF 290 pulling 8 640 hoppers with homemade simulated loads, 283 pulling a 651 REA, 718 Operating mail car, 4 650 passenger cars and a 654 Pullman, all RED, 310 parked on a siding.
Jim
Trying to update my avatar since 2020
MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
Lionel NYC GP-9 That I just got in Pulling my Pa Railking Passenger cars looks great. I think the best part I like about tmcc is that I can bring the train to a stop at the station and don't need to cycle it to nuetral to keep lights on in the engine and the passenger cars and also don't need to cycle it back to forward to get going again.
I have the SD-90 N/S on stand by incase the NYC gets tired and then the C&O Chessie GP-30 is also waiting its turn
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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My layout has two loops; the inner one is all 27" curves, and the outer is mostly 42" except for a few 34" (Marx) curves.
On the outer loop is my newly aquired MPC era SP Trainmaster pulling 1 6462 gondola, 6 6464 boxcars, and a 6517 bay window caboose. The gondola and a few of the boxcars are carrying an assortment of miniature farm animals thanks to my 3 year old daughter.
The inner loop is occupied by Thomas and Annie and Clarabel. The coaches are also carrying an assortment of farm animals.
Sorry I don't have pictures; we were too busy playing to think about cameras
J White
Primer is what is on my layout at the moment I was hoping to be up and running by the end of this month however money flow is tight and I can only work on it as I get a few dollars saved up, will finnish applying the primer tomorrow and then go get some green paint Then will have to save up for the track that I will need
I have an Alaska RS-3 with a four car mixed freight.
Tr1= Lionel SD70ACE Katy and Mopac pulling long consist of mixed freight
Tr2= Lionel SP U33 & SP SD70mac long consist mixed freight
Tr3= Kline F7 A&A pulling about 20 boxcars
Tr4= Tonight I pulled out one of the 736's for passinger duty 4 railking SF and the three polar express cars
NO ACCIDENTS LIFE IS GREAT , Ron
Let's see ...train wise I have 2 short frieghts on the interchange tracks, one is headed by an MTH 2-8-0 and is a five car mik train the other is heade by a K-Line GP7 and is a five car mixed freight. In staging I have my seven car mixed freight headed by an MTH Baby Turbine. I have a four car streamlined set at the passenger station headed by a K-Line Alco A/A set. In the upper passing siding is a Lionel Heaveyweight set ( 4 cars) headed by a Berk also from Lionel. And ready to go in the coal mine is a seven car coal drag headed by a Lionel K4 # 2035. I also have a MTH Doodlebug waiting at the passenger station. There is an A-B-A set of Alcos ( K-Line) and a 2-8-0 (MTH) holding at the engine house. There is also an MTH trolley running on the street car line. And just remembered the Lionel 0-8-0 that is working the yard.
Car wise I have about 37 freight cars at the industries and about 15 in the yard with about 17 on the shelves about the interchange tracks.Also about 8 egines from MTH K-Line and Lionel are up there too. I think thats about it.
Inner loop: Lionel 681 Turbine with some MPC Pennsy passenger cars in tow.
Outer Loop: Lionel 384E with a short consist of 500 series freight cars.
Power: A ZW saved from the trash that a friend of mine and I heavily rebuilt a few years ago. Right arm = O ga. Left arm = Std Ga.
CJ Meyers
Postwar Lionel 2348 Minneapolis & St. Louis GP9 with a mix of postwar freight.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
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.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
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?
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
My new Lionel Lines 0-8-0 pulling Industrial Rail boxcars.
THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH.
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!"
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
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.
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
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.
Give me steam locomotives or give me DEATH!
Berkshire Junction, bringing fourth the cry of the Iron Horse since 1900.
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
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