Midwest Monday

Best I have for today, been a little busy with the CEO. Hope you enjoy!

Great pics guys thanks for sharing

Good Happy Monday. Ok what’s there’s to be Happy about Monday? Midwest Monday. Here’s a old Atlas O Illinois Central being unloaded at the CES Warehouse. Have a great day

Rusty

Happy Monday hope everyone had  a great weekend. Today we have a old Mopac Eagle Merchandise  Weaver Boxcar.

@lee drennen posted:

Happy Monday hope everyone had  a great weekend. Today we have a old Mopac Eagle Merchandise  Weaver Boxcar.

Great Start Lee, now I am going to have to go out and see what new I have to offer! LOL

In the MoPac vein:

Rusty

What you might have seen at Lenox Tower in East St. Louis in 1995

Well I was looking around and found this in the corner!

@DG posted:

What you might have seen at Lenox Tower in East St. Louis in 1995

Dudley where is Lenox tower at in East St. Louis

@mike g. posted:

Well I was looking around and found this in the corner!

That works Mike. You can also post different scenes  also or if you have any collectibles that will work too

@DETROIT posted:

Just received a couple of items that work with Midwest Monday.  A undecorated FA2 from the last MTH house cleaning auction that will be repainted Penn Central #1313.  MTH Soo Line 50' SD and Lionel Illinois Central 60' SD.

Looks good

CNW. Midwest running out west.

@AGHRMatt posted:

CNW. Midwest running out west.

Hello Matt, Your photos look a tad under-exposed, sir.. and I do love a CNW

@Diverging Clear posted:

Well, I missed Midwest Monday, again this week. Nice posts once again on this Monday. I'll try next week to post a few photo's.

Rusty

You can still post Rusty

@AGHRMatt posted:

CNW. Midwest running out west.

Matt reload your pics if you can

Lenox Tower is physically located in Mitchell, Illinois but it closed in 2018. Apparently there is still a lot of traffic there where NS, CSX, BNSF, and UP converge on the northeast side of St. Louis.

Long time ago, it was Southern Pacific, Wabash, Burlington Northern, and other predecessors of the current roads. Used to Amtrak went thru with a train from Chicago to St. Louis.

@lee drennen posted:

Matt reload your pics if you can

Reloaded them. Got called away when posting and I don't think they uploaded right.

Rusty

Happy Monday. Here’s a Weaver RSD12 Nickel Plate pulling some Lionel PS-4 Piggybacks. Enjoy your week

@lee drennen posted:

Happy Monday. Here’s a Weaver RSD12 Nickel Plate pulling some Lionel PS-4 Piggybacks. Enjoy your week

Looks great Lee, but I did notice you might want to get the street sweeper out when the cars move! LOL

@mike g. posted:

Looks great Lee, but I did notice you might want to get the street sweeper out when the cars move! LOL

Thanks Mike MOW just mowed the grass lol

@lee drennen posted:

Thanks Mike MOW just mowed the grass lol

LOL and the grass next to the track looks GREAT!

@DETROIT posted:

In the spirit of Emery Gulash - I attempt to capture a long over-powered Penn Central autoparts freight somewhere in the Midwest on a Monday!

Detroit, great looking Russell Industrial Center scene!  Emery Gulash would be proud!

Here’s a Weaver RDS12 C&O with mixed manifest.

Rusty

Here are some Midwest photos of my favorite Railroad.

RAY

Well "Midwest" fans great pictures and this is my first post to this thread...your beautiful scale locomotives and cars are wonderful but they are not from my humble beginnings.  So here are a few of the "poor brothers and sisters" to brighten up your Monday.

First the Marx FM Monon from Indiana:

Then the Marx 588 from the "Rock Island Line"

Next the Rock Island E-7

Who could forget the Marx 588 for the Missouri Pacific RR or "MOPAC"

Finally in a nod to all of you scale fans, here is a 1:1 scale picture of the BNSF traveling past a grain loading facility in the "booming metropolis" of Crawford Tx (population 760 in 2019) .  Its a Sunday morning, this a a mostly double stack train with 3 engines (2 on front and one in rear).  Crawford is about 5 miles from my home. This crossing is more or less in the center of town - which would be a great modeling project for someone...Town Center is four corners, Grain Loading facility with tanks and a single siding, one coffee shop, and 2 gas stations one next to a "Dollar Store" all on one side of tracks.  Other side has small residences and a very small park.

Well that's it for me this Monday, have a great week everyone!

Don

Sorry for being so late today hey it’s Monday right. Although B&O is east it had roots here in St. Louis, Mo. Happy Monday

@Don McErlean posted:

Well "Midwest" fans great pictures and this is my first post to this thread...your beautiful scale locomotives and cars are wonderful but they are not from my humble beginnings.  So here are a few of the "poor brothers and sisters" to brighten up your Monday.

First the Marx FM Monon from Indiana:

Then the Marx 588 from the "Rock Island Line"

Next the Rock Island E-7

Who could forget the Marx 588 for the Missouri Pacific RR or "MOPAC"

Finally in a nod to all of you scale fans, here is a 1:1 scale picture of the BNSF traveling past a grain loading facility in the "booming metropolis" of Crawford Tx (population 760 in 2019) .  Its a Sunday morning, this a a mostly double stack train with 3 engines (2 on front and one in rear).  Crawford is about 5 miles from my home. This crossing is more or less in the center of town - which would be a great modeling project for someone...Town Center is four corners, Grain Loading facility with tanks and a single siding, one coffee shop, and 2 gas stations one next to a "Dollar Store" all on one side of tracks.  Other side has small residences and a very small park.

Well that's it for me this Monday, have a great week everyone!

Don

Welcome Aboard Don. It doesn’t matter what you have as long as it is Midwest or affiliated hope you will join us next week and thanks for posting.

here is a few from the western midwest

@wb47 posted:

here is a few from the western midwest

I like the CGW. Nice thanks for sharing

Remember the Rock ...

I allocated my once-extensive collection of O-gauge trains of the Rock Island by many manufacturers to Stout Auctions after a TIA, a stroke, and a cardiac incident seemed like "handwriting on the wall" then. Fortunately, I survived and sometimes regret the sell-off of 8 pages of RI-oriented inventory, action accessories, and control gear.

However, I kept a few of my RI favorites as mementoes, and they are now on display shelves in my train room. See the attached pic and a brief video of the RI TA diesel by Sunset 3rd Rail.

Mike Mottler    LCCA 12394
Another great train song:  "Rock Island Line" by Johnny Cash

@Mike H Mottler posted:

Remember the Rock ...

I allocated my once-extensive collection of O-gauge trains of the Rock Island by many manufacturers to Stout Auctions after a TIA, a stroke, and a cardiac incident seemed like "handwriting on the wall" then. Fortunately, I survived and sometimes regret the sell-off of 8 pages of RI-oriented inventory, action accessories, and control gear.

However, I kept a few of my RI favorites as mementoes, and they are now on display shelves in my train room. See the attached pic and a brief video of the RI TA diesel by Sunset 3rd Rail.

Mike Mottler    LCCA 12394
Another great train song:  "Rock Island Line" by Johnny Cash

The RI trains are wonderful but I really, really like your NASA train.   NH Joe

Burlington Railroad in the 1980s plus what still has Burlington on it in 2020

Good morning everyone...here is my input for Midwest Monday.  Two railroads, one the Baltimore and Ohio, with one terminus in St. Louis seems to qualify and the Nickle Plate Road with trackage in Indiana and Illinois.

First the B&O F-3 locomotive by Marx from 1953-54

Here is the full view of the AA units.

Here a NKP 2-4-2 by Lionel, pulls out of the hole with the morning commuter consist on my Leonardtown and Savannah, time period would be mid 1940's to early 1950's

Happy Monday everyone.

Don

Here’s one for today Sorry I’m late. Thanks for keeping this going guys. This is a old All Nations Reefer I restored some time ago

DJ. Thanks for sharing you Burlington manifest and power.

Detroit. Thanks for always post every Monday and remind me it’s Midwest Monday. I like that EL unit. I’ve been so busy lately

Don. Thanks for sharing those tins your stuff is always interesting and thanks for posting also every Monday  

Thanks for another great Midwest Monday  have a great week  

Lee thanks for your compliment. I am having fun and like to post things others might not have and enjoy seeing

Don

Detroit:  Thank you for your comment, I agree with you this string is fun and we should try to increase participation.  By the Way, I lived (as a boy) in northern NJ and the Erie / Erie Lackawana ran near our home.  Nice picture by the way, great use of light.

Don