Midwest Monday

@leapinlarry posted:

Everyone beautiful pictures, I missed Midwest Wednesday, so here’s some new arrivals. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry your never too late. That Frisco car is awesome. Thanks for sharing

Larry those cars are awesome. If I ran the Frisco car on my layout I would have to put an articulation joint in the middle 😀

Best wishes

Don

Thank you Don, I understand what your saying, these cars are the same length as Lionels scale auto carrier cars, 24 inch’s. I was blessed to have a fairly large basement to allow wide curves and long runs. My layout isn’t real large (17 by 36) but making it a walk around and nod under, we can run long trains. Happy Railroading Everyone

@MikeH posted:

New MTH Missouri Pacific GP35's (20-21554-1 and 20-21555-1).  Thanks to @MrMuffin'sTrains

@MikeH , those are nice looking engines. Don't see much MoPac stuff , they seem to be "under the radar".

MIDWEST FRIDAY - I got distracted this week and forgot to post in my favorite Forum.

Taking you back to the very early days of Penn Central.

Tom

As I pulled up to the crossing by the grain elevator I heard a horn...

Happy Memorial Day.

Tom

PS: As I was about ready to post this I heard a vocalist singing "God Bless America" at the local Memorial Day ceremony.

Pretty good representation for Midwest Monday with this pic !!!

MTH IC E6 City of Miami, 3rd Rail IC E6 Panama Ltd and E9, Atlas GM&O F3

Well today being a Holiday and family visiting my time today is somewhat limited.  So I will offer some "Rock Island" action for my contribution today.  (all trains both loco and rolling stock are Marx of various years).

Here is the RI S3 Alco switcher moving a few boxcars up for pick up by road power.

Here she is about to drop them off at the yard entrance and turn over responsibility to the road diesels.

Here she is moving out of the way and allowing the RI E7 road diesels to take that train on up the line towards their final destination.

Happy Memorial Day to All

Best Wishes

Don

The Silver Creek & Stephenson in Freeport, IL was running their Heisler yesterday and today:

Rusty

Wow, Don, the Rock Island Railroad color scheme is so neat, and that’s a nice pic Of your layout and collection, Cool, today I’m adding to my long car train, the SP 86’ box car. Happy Memorial Day to all, and also Happy Railroading Everyone.

Larry - thank you for your comments on my RI pictures and layout.  I have been following your posts as you hook up some long standing accessories on your layout.  Thanks for posting.  Best wishes

Don

What's happening to all the MwM folks?  Better late than never just received the White Whale.  I think Penn Central only had the one, orignally ordered / fabricated by the PRR.  Looks great!!!  Not sure why Atlas didn't do the correct road number which I think it was 799000.

@DETROIT posted:

What's happening to all the MwM folks?

Summertime.  That's my excuse.  I meant to post my new Atlas GP7 earlier.

Sorry Jim it’s summer I’m busy with the garden and other small farm work lots of mowing grass and little train time. The tank car looks great

Mike - outstanding!!!  What dealer did you buy it from???

Detroit - that is some tank car!! I can see why it earned the nickname "white whale"  Really cool.  Mike H - that is a beautiful GP-7 love the MOPAC livery.  Sorry I just got too busy today, like Lee, and the day got ahead of me.  I will try to post next week.

Best Wishes

Don

@MikeH, Mike, that’s a beautiful Missouri Pacific GP7; Wow. I would imagine it’s a great runner., @Don McErlean, I understand yard work, taking wives to the doctors, cleaning house, etc., so it’s normal. Happy Railroading Everyone

Late to the party this week.  Between work and family commitments, there aren't enough hours in the day.

A little AC&Y action this week:

Tom

@DETROIT posted:

Mike - outstanding!!!  What dealer did you buy it from???

Mr. Muffin.  I preordered last year when they were rumored to be arriving (again).  When I did, Steve told me his preorders were all spoken for so I shouldn’t get my hopes up.  But he put me on the list and I got lucky.  It’s funny, there was another thread about these Atlas GP7’s that said Atlas announced them in 2014.  It made me laugh to think about all that has transpired in my life since then.  Our family made two interstate moves from NH to OH to MO.  And in Christmas of 2017, I bought my first O gauge train!  Eight years is a long time.

Late to the “show”. Better late than never.  
Here’s a modest MP “local”.  

3Rd Rail MP Alco PA, Atlas T&P Mail Storage, Golden Gate Depot T&P heavyweight baggage, GGD MP heavyweight coach.
Cheers 🙂🙂🙂

@DETROIT posted:

What's happening to all the MwM folks?  Better late than never just received the White Whale.  I think Penn Central only had the one, orignally ordered / fabricated by the PRR.  Looks great!!!  Not sure why Atlas didn't do the correct road number which I think it was 799000.

In the Pennsy days was referred to as the "Rail Whale."

Ron

Thanks Ron

@DETROIT posted:

What's happening to all the MwM folks?  Better late than never just received the White Whale.  I think Penn Central only had the one, orignally ordered / fabricated by the PRR.  Looks great!!!  Not sure why Atlas didn't do the correct road number which I think it was 799000.

Also, the prototype had 6-wheel trucks.

Rusty

Yes, it's semi-prototypical but a lot closer than the MTH Ralking version.  I have six or seven scale quality craft kits of the big Publicker tank car I look forward to building and face the quandary of which commercial (available) trucks will be the closest fit.  Thanks Rusty!!! Jim

@Rusty Traque posted:

Also, the prototype had 6-wheel trucks.

Rusty

Yes, I bought the MTH RK version years ago.  But also snagged a RK flat car with three axle trucks.  Some day will get around to the change out.

Ron

Well here we are at "Midwest Monday" and it looks like I am the likely start off poster. Have something a little different today and you wouldn't know that it was appropriate for this post UNLESS you knew that "Dr. Pepper" the soft drink, was INVENTED in Waco, Texas.  The inventor was Charles Alderton who worked in a local drug store in the 1880's and who was also the resident "soda jerk" behind the soft drink and ice cream counter.  He experimented with various combinations of flavors and found the secret to Dr. Pepper, it became locally famous and then in 1904 he founded the Dr. Pepper bottling company to ship the drink in a broader market.  The original Dr. Pepper bottling plant is still in Waco and is the site of the Dr. Pepper museum (by the way if it interests you and you are in the area, this Museum has a great collection of "Americanna" especially from the 30's - 50's).  So since  Waco Tx is west of the Mississippi River and about 1/2 way between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (1125 miles to Savannah, Ga and 1423 miles to San Diego) It must be the Mid - West !  So from 1994 here is my salute to the Mid-West on this fine Monday, the Dr. Pepper Christmas Car.

Happy Monday everyone!  Best wishes for a great week

Don

I'll be a Pepper too, howdy and good MwM to you all!

Looks like I kick off Midwest Monday 🙂  How about some MoPac ??? I think that’ll work. Hmmmm🤔.  It’s MoPac Monday   too !!!!!

Cheers !!! 🙂

L to R / 3rd Rail GP9, Atlas GP7, Atlas F3

Continuing the MoPac theme:

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

Continuing the MoPac theme:

Rusty

Oooo. Who made the RS11s (?) ???  I’ve not seen those 😳🤔

@TrainBub posted:

Oooo. Who made the RS11s (?) ???  I’ve not seen those 😳🤔

The RS-11's are American Models S Scale.

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

The RS-11's are American Models S Scale.

Rusty

Oh Rats -  I’m in O scale ☹️.  Very Nice and Lucky for you to have them done in S. 👍

@Tom Densel posted:

Late to the party this week.  Between work and family commitments, there aren't enough hours in the day.

A little AC&Y action this week:

Tom

All very nice !!!!!! Are the 2 buildings in center Korber - if so which ones ?? I’ve a bit of open space and am looking for candidates with which to fill in.

MoPac Monday !

something from my Fairbanks Morse collection...

FM artwork for a potential order by  MoPac for Train Masters ...

they would look sharp !

@Tom Densel posted:

Late to the party this week.  Between work and family commitments, there aren't enough hours in the day.

A little AC&Y action this week:

Tom

Beautiful H16-44 ... and layout ...

Well MWM fans, how about a little Penn Central from the perspective of Mr. Marx ... a toy train set dedicated to the PC.  This one likely from the early 70's.  Marx Set # 4316 , 4 wheel cars with plastic knuckle couplers, transformer and track.  Your entire RR empire in one box.  Similar sets sold at Sear's at that time for about $10.   By the way, I have a companion set, that illustrated  if you didn't like Penn Central, you could have  set #4205 and Marx would change out the tender and caboose for NYC and you could have that RR instead all else remaining the same.  In fact if you look closely at the illustration on the box for this set, the picture shows a NYC tender and caboose !!

Best wishes everyone, hope you have a great week.

Don

Some Penn Central switching action:

Tom

@TrainBub posted:

All very nice !!!!!! Are the 2 buildings in center Korber - if so which ones ?? I’ve a bit of open space and am looking for candidates with which to fill in.

Thanks!

The building on the left is a Korber #950 Flag Factory.  The  center building is a Korber #967 Shoe Factory.  The one on the right is a Lionel engine house that I kitbashed into a factory building.  Can't go wrong with the Korber buildings.

Tom

@dPrasse posted:

Beautiful H16-44 ... and layout ...

Thank you!

Tom