"No childhood should be without a train!"
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
CSX SD80 with pig train
Chessie GP38 with mixed freight
B&O FT ABA with matching passenger cars
Amtrak Genisis with Amfleet cars
C&O Mikado with refer and passenger cars
NYC Hudsen with Pacemaker freight cars
Amtrak FP40 is sitting on siding
GG1 sitting on siding
LV Beep just sitting
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
On the Layout's sidings or between them: almost all my postwar, most of my prewar, plus 3 MPC Geeps. I can't yet concieve of having stuff I can't put on the layout. Which has produced much layout expansion anguish. The layout is stuffed with only one loop open for running at any one time.
Running: SF2343 pulling (non prototypical) 25 car mixed postwar freight.
You don't really want the whole inventory.
runtime
On the backline is a 742 Reversing Handcar. Inner loop a 283 pulling 11 gondolas with loads and a caboose. Outer loop, a 290 pulling a REA 651, a 718 mail car, 5 650 passenger cars and a 630 caboose. A 312 is waiting on a siding
Jim
On the 072 main line, MTH SP&S Z-6 freight, MTH SP&S Alcos passenger
On the 054 main line, MTH AT&SF F-7 passenger, MTH WP ACe SD-70 freight
On the 042 main line, Atlas Spokane International RS-3 freight, Lionel / LCCA New Haven Alco passenger
On the logging spur, MTH Weyerhaeuser Shay logging consist
Typically run 6 consists through DCS
Bill
Bill T.
I've got an odd train on my outer loop right now. It's a 2020 Turbine and tender pulling a 6418 machinery car and a 6457 caboose.
Inner loop has Percy pulling a pair of troublesome trucks.
J White
Outer loop:
Lionel Union Pacific GP-7 pulling an assortment of scale cars from Lionel, K-line, and Weaver. Off the top of my head, I think that I have an N&W PS-2 covered hopper(Lionel), N&W 40-foot flat car(Lionel), L&N PS-5 gondola(Lionel), a K-line Diecast "Kentucky" gondola, and two Weaver PS-2 hoppers.
On the inner loop, I have my K-line Trainmaster pulling several postwar cars.
I also have parked on sidings several woodsided reefers(from Atlas and K-line), as well as a 675 and 2056.
In the dining Room suspended from the ceiling:
On Level 1: PRR 4916, JLC GG1; and 8 PRR Congressional Cars
UP M-10000 and 3 cars; CC II
On Level 2: NYC 4009, 4004, 4005, 4008, E-7 ABBA;, 8 NYC Milk Cars, U of Mich Box Car, Mogen David Wine Vat Car, NYC Caboose
Elvis Presley 2004, 2-8-4; Lionel Lines 2437, 2432, 2434 (New Haven LCCA Cars), 8 Elvis Presley Cars
On Level 3: NYC 5429, 4-6-4 Streamlined Hudson; 6 car Empire State Express Set; CC II
Polar Express 1225, 2-8-4; Lionel Power Car, Macy's Box Car, 7 Polar Express Cars
On Level 1: Marx Girard Station, Lionel Floodlight Tower, Lionel Rotary Beacon, Lionel Color Position Signal
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
I have two Lionel train stations with platforms, one from a kit and another that is a plasticville union station both have lights. I have another lighted brick building thats a Hardware store. And two yard towers that's lighted. Three lighted crossing gates from the 1950's. I have a K-line rotary aircraft beacon, an operating nodding donkey style oil pump, a lighted two story house and a firestation, and a smaller house. I have a tunnel that's made out of foam boards that I'll probably rebuild, and everything sits on a grassmat. I have a double track mainline with 0-27 track. Right now I'm running a 2055 that's pulling a pennsylvania passenger train, and a 1666 that's pulling a long freight train on the outside loop. I have a plasticville bridge trestle and a plasticville coaling tower, and a plasticville signal bridge.
Give me steam locomotives or give me DEATH!
Berkshire Junction, bringing fourth the cry of the Iron Horse since 1900.
Funny, but I was thinking about this the other night as I ran trains for a few minutes, how if I took a photo for CTT how there is not one single train on the whole layout that isn't kitbashed, rebuilt, scratchbuilt or repainted.
Locowise, my self-made Conrail 027-ized U36B is on the mainline. I have an overhead track that I used for locos not running, which has a modern scheme CP Rail Alco FA, a Conrail Industrial Switcher, a Norfolk Southern Industrial Switcher and a Lehigh Valley Alco FA done in the 2-tone "yellow-jacket" scheme, and a K-Line shorty 027 bay window caboose repainted in the late red Conrail scheme with a new scratch built frame and added caboose ends. And there's a repainted K-Line CSX S-2 done in the current Dark Future scheme sitting on a siding.
Freight car wise - all custom painted, is a yellow MOW Conrail caboose, a scratch built Conrail MOW car, a couple of short 027 K-Line gondolas - one in a yellow Conrail MOW scheme and the other in CP Rail, a CSX waffle box car, a Norfolk Southern waffle box car (both Lionel's, but repaints), a custom made, self designed Sponge Bob operating box car, a Norfolk Southern operating dump car in the orange MOW scheme, a Conrail ore dump car, a scratchbuilt self designed Erie Lackawanna operating car, a BNSF operating waste car, a CP Rail flat with scratch built transformers, a CP Rail box car done in the yellow reefer scheme, a custom made 027-ised TTUX car with trailer, and a CSX depressed center flat car.
But I do remember thinking that other night and laughing how so many of my trains are designed and made by me, or repainted by me. And how EVERY SINGLE paint scheme is also prototypical (I did the research) even though they are on less than prototypically scaled trains.
And I got to thinking if I had waited for K-Line or Lionel to make the smaller traditionally or 027 sized cars I have in the modern roads I want, I'D STILL BE WAITING... 18 years later. Amazing!! How so many of my trains have been so igrnored by the major train makers - at least as far as road names in traditionally sized trains go.
brianel, Agent 027
"Praise the Lord. I may not have everything I desire, but the Lord has come through for what I need."
This week is the usual freight, some MOW freight, and the usual passenger consist.
The freight is a Lionel Lines 2025 with a mix of PW, MPC, and modern box, and refer cars. GT flats are parked on a siding carrying triple crown semi-trailers waiting for the freight to make the rounds.
Crane parts are strewn about waiting for the MOW crew to complete the super structure. The crane cab, and boom have arrived, and are parked on a siding awaiting installation.
A UP 2033 A-A with 2400 passenger cars is at the station taking on passengers.
Kurt
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
on the mainline the UP greyhound challenger with passenger consist.
branchline freight is headed by the UP heritage sd70ACe
and left in the yard doing shifting duty the UP dockside switcher
A Day Without Trains is a Day Wasted
So, whats on your layout ready to be given the highball when you can ??
I'll start.......................
On my upper level is a MTH 2-8-0 UP Steamer with it's short freight in tow, and on my main line
is a MPC 8600 (the MPC remake of the PW 646), pulling 3 PW Irvington cars.
On track 1 of my Union Station a K-Line string of LIRR streamliners awaits it's time to make the express Friday trip to Montauk, with a MPC LIRR GP-20 in the lead and a K-Line LIRR alco at the end.
Happy Weekend !
Ken
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