Looking forward to seeing everyone's photos this week always great.
So I am clearing out lots of old model railway magazines from an estate. These 1938/9 The Model Railroader are the oldest others from 40's and 50's and later years. Interesting Lionel ad in 1938. Interesting reading of the history of model railroading through the years. Will take stacks of magazines to sell or give away at a (socially distanced outdoor) model train club meet this weekend.
I look after the grand kids most of each week. With my train loving grandson we play / run trains most days; I have trained him well! We set up a large loop of K-Line 0-120 loop down the halls through the living room and kitchen etc. laid old sheets down over the carpet to catch any debris. He does not like running trains but loves to push trains and likes really really really really long trains. So we use gutted dummy engines he can push with no motors. With a DVD of circus trains playing in the living room while we played he had me keep adding circus theme cars till the engine was almost touching the caboose as can be seen in the one photo. Mostly Lionel flat cars with lots of K-Line circus wagons etc. I use the quick set up K-Line track and lots of circus theme trains in the average year at my large displays at model train shows, so good to get them out for a few laps this rare year.
After he headed home for the day I had hooked up to the outside rails the MTH TIU and ran my MTH 2 rail 4449 SP Daylight train with DCS . I had obtained a nicely built wooden kit SP Daylight train set, 2 rail, apparently built by B-C Models in the 1960's. I was able to change to a longer Kadee coupler one on one end of each car to get it go around this the 0-120 track. There is still a 2 car and 3 car articulated cars that I have to work on to get them added to the train moved out the connecting piece to the shared trucks to get it to fit around the curves. This is the first run of this set, it looks great with the MTH engine. Looking forward to trying it on the garden railway club next year.
