Now everyone is thinking what does this have to do with trains!
Well as I have posted here before back in the day my hometown was served by five Class 1 railroads (Pennsy, NYC, B&O, Erie and the P&LE "Little Giant") and about a dozen subs. Four times on week days, three times on Saturday and twice on Sunday the P&LE pulled a short passenger consist from Pittsburgh west to my hometown. This train called the "STEEL KING" was pulled to the Erie station right down town Youngstown. There the PL&E power dropped off and the Erie back to it with their car(s) for the to continue the trip to Cleveland.
Well one early morning my fellow Scouts and I boarded the Erie passenger car for our trip to Cleveland. Our trip there was to see the Cleveland Indians play ball at the then Lakefront Stadium. Afert which the Erie gave us a tour of somme of their facilities. I recall walking over and around a "field " of tracks. Then entering a maintenance building where standing on a platform we were looking at a "hood unit diesel with its doors removed for service. Most everything else is in a grey shade from sixty plus years ago.
Also while up in Winston-Salem yesterday stopped at my semi-local picked up a circle of MTH RealTrax O42 for a Christmas project.
Here stowed away in a contain until summer outside work has subsided. Then when I get the chance to burnish off the burs off the phosphorus-bronze electrical contacts.
Ron
