Tom,
Thanks for starting SWSAT today and remembering Memorial Day. My dad (kneeling at center) served with the U.S. Army in France and Germany during 1944 and '45. I was lucky. He came home without injury or harm and lived to age 98.
My dad served as a mechanic and repaired vehicles. I keep this Army Jeep on my layout as a remembrance. He bought me Lionel trains when I was four years of age and got to see the layout I completed in 2004.
Long Island Railroad 1553 is a K-Line model of an Alco RS-3 road switcher that I purchased about 15 years ago. K-Line also made LIRR passenger cars in the same color scheme. This locomotive has a version of Lionel TMCC which must be run at a minimum of 10 Volts for the sounds to operate properly. It is therefore running at about 43 scale miles-per-hour in the video. It runs more slowly at lower voltage but the sounds are intermittent. I still think it runs well.
MELGAR
