Hard to get a decent shot, but here she is blowing smoke rings
Double headed hippos
need power too
So, I built this transformer shelf for the little guys...
The man cave takes shape...
For all creatures
great and small
My first ( and last ) attempt at hand laid track
on the HO lines
Coming together beautifully, it just gets better and better!
Thank you so much !
I work on it every weekend.
I just realized that I forgot all about the On30 trains. Whoops !
Where am I gonna put them !
One of the bathrooms, maybe?
An operating session would help to pass otherwise lost time.
O.k. That 's hilarious !
The mental images it conjures up...
The obvious thought would be a track around the ceiling,
but there may be another place to squeeze in another track. It may be a project I'll put on hold for the time being, until I get caught up with everything else.
Trade off with the HO?
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Yes, at first thought this should be possible, but there are other considerations:
On30 runs on HO track, but requires O gauge clearances. The bores through my viaduct just clear HO passenger cars, but will not clear any On30 equipment, except the Porters. HO Snap track switches were modified for On30 by removing the switch machines.
Although they run on the same gauge, I treat them both differently. I still have a lot of HO, and like to run it. I view the On30 as something to run alongside the Lionel, as a narrow gauge counterpart, very much like the Rio Grande's narrow and standard gauge lines.
So, to my thinking at least, I'll need to find a separate place for the On30. Just different enough...
It's the Size of the equipment that becomes the issue....
Paul
I just had an idea:
I may be able to fit the On30 inside the Lionel loop. I would have to relocate the semaphore, and the Lionel transformers, but I think it's do able. I've got some really nice snap track switches, including a double slip switch. Could have some interesting operation with the Shay, and the Climax...
Santa Fe
All the Way !
(2055 rollin')
Someone say "Santa Fe All The Way"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qLxbNFyo8
Yes, Santa Fe All the way !
They ran a first class operation until the end ! And, will be great to see 2926 out on the road !
Thanks, Flintlock !
In my railfan days, used to go up to Tehachapi. The operating philosophies of Santa Fe versus Southern Pacific was like night and day.
For example, Santa Fe would run short, fast, and frequent trains. With clean, well maintained locomotives. S.P. Seemed to wait until the yard was full, and couldn't hold any more cars, then send out a train. Their engines always needed a coat of paint ( among other things).
Don't get me wrong, I miss S.P., but they were opposites.
Who knows why railroads choose the operating procedures they use? It makes sense to someone, I suppose.
Santa Fe was a class act in more ways than one. Check this link and look at the sheer volume of locomotives and rolling stock they donated (I assume) for preservation.
www.rgusrail.com/roster.html
It makes the massacre of steam by the eastern 'roads downright shameful. I know they couldn't save everything, it wouldn't make sense, but they could have done a lot better than they did.
Bust in' out the narrow gauge
Size comparison:
HO and On30
Yes, it's feasible. But the narrow gauge may have yield right of way to the Lionel at this narrow place
Flintlock76 Who knows why railroads choose the operating procedures they use? It makes sense to someone, I suppose. Santa Fe was a class act in more ways than one. Check this link and look at the sheer volume of locomotives and rolling stock they donated (I assume) for preservation. www.rgusrail.com/roster.html It makes the massacre of steam by the eastern 'roads downright shameful. I know they couldn't save everything, it wouldn't make sense, but they could have done a lot better than they did.
" It's a Kroc, I tell ya !".
Swiss Krokodil, and DBB boxcab
I'd like to see ATSF hudson 3450 fired up and running excursions at Rail Giants in Pomona.
But it should be relettered for Lionel Lines.
I agree, and it should be numbered 2055 or 2065 !
Been a productive day. Got all the tracks wired up, except the outside HO loop, no ran out of wire.
All tracks up and running
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