Midwest Monday

Great pictures everyone...Tnkmarx I loved the Great Miami, having lived nearly 20 years in Dayton, Oh.  You know a Marx 1988 switcher might look good repainted for this railway.  MikeH - great cars, loved the St.Louis Refrigerator Car .  MikeG - nice scene, but does that hopper car glow in the dark after passing the nuclear power plant? BTW - you are right about my little Cotton Belt car, it has seen better days, but then again being 4 years older than me (it was born in 1940 and me in '44) ...haven't we both!! (LOL).  Detroit - neat steel train,love the gondola cars with the rolled steel covers.  Lee - neat train and an unusual engine RSD-12.

You know all you operators get one thing I really would like to know how you do it.  Sounds- no that's not it, its cool but I understand how that is done.  No,  its how you get the smooth, steady and slow speeds that really look so great.  I am afraid, my old ZW just won't do that.

Best wishes for a great week

Don

My latest midwestern acquisition, I like gondolas in muted colors (MTH Premier version)

Well here it is ...Monday again...luckily for me as a retired folk, I no longer have to be at work on Monday.  So...I am up and looking for some good "Midwest" pictures to post on this thread.  Today, I picked the Union Pacific which certainly runs through the midwest.  The engine is an Alco S-2 in UP livery and it was made by Kline in the 90's.  It does a good job on the inner parts of the Leonardtown and Savannah although it is just about the largest engine the tight clearances can stand.  Today, she is doing the "bread and butter" tasks on the L&S, moving freight from the Savannah State Docks to various customers up the line in order to clear the wharf and make way for other ships waiting offshore to unload.

Here she is pulling some boxcars out of the heavy loaded yard area near the downtown depot.  Busy Monday, even a couple of older Harriman passenger cars standing by to gather up the night shift going home .

Here she is pulling out of the downtown area and passing one of the L&S big customers, "General Door and Sash" which is one of the few downtown with its own siding to offload lumber and supplies for the business.   That "Goodyear" truck is obviously decades too old for this scene, but its an advertising gimmick used by a local tire store to put their name out in the public eye.

W

Well that's if for my Monday morning. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy week

Regards, Don

The Grand Trunk dropping off some some auto parts at Milwaukee Junction for the Penn Central to take north - on a Monday.

CN MOW at Eleroy, IL.

Rusty

The old ex-CNW depot in Carthage, SD is still in good shape & "in-service" for a different owner, as of May 2021.

To me, this small town MIDWEST depot is very nice - not just a box, but it has personality.  I took this photo in 2016, but saw a photo on the web from 2018 that still looks the same.

Chicago & Alton Railway Depot - Fulton Missouri

Sorry I’m so late. Don thanks for kicking us off. Those Depots look great.
Detroit. Nice video thanks for sharing. Here’s another video of the Weaver RSD12. Thanks to all for posting today

Here’s on for this Monday. Caught  this one in St. Louis one day.

Your just right on top of it Lee, Even on a holiday weekend!

Illinois Central, Monday morning rail...

Rusty

Good MMdM (Midwest Memorial Day Monday) to all, especially veterans, families that have lost and active duty, Thank You!!!

Sticking with the IC starter - Sitting on a siding somewhere in the Midwest on a Memorial Day Midwest Monday.

Well here we are on a Holiday Monday...Happy Memorial Day everyone.  Lee I don't know how you find them but that Conrail boxcar has sure seen better days, neat!  Detroit ... those box cars are soooooo long, that I couldn't run more than one on my layout!  My input for this Monday is the Santa Fe RR.  I know it ran in the mid-west or at least in Texas as the BNSF still runs in the vicinity of my home in Waco.  The old maps say it trans-versed Texas and Oklahoma and managed to get to Chicago so I guess it qualifies as "mid-west".

Here is the black, Marx 1998 ATSF Switcher from 1955-1962 pulling a short Santa Fe train.  This black switcher  with this  livery is much more scarce than the common maroon with yellow lettering version.   His consist today is the Marx orange 3280 Santa Fe medium box car and the Marx 4587 deluxe ATSF work caboose from 1962.

Here is a better look at the boxcar and the work caboose.

Well best wishes on Memorial Day everyone.

Respectfully

Don

Guys. Thanks for sharing this Monday I appreciate it hope you all had a great Holiday.
Mike. I can’t believe I did it being so busy today thanks.

Rusty nice pic.

Detroit. Your always faithful to this thread great pic.

Don. Yes I always get excited when o see one of these old fallen flags. I was thinking the same when I took it.

See you next MWM.

Well hello everyone, I guess I will start on this fine Monday.  Today the road is the C&0 or Chesapeake and Ohio.  This fine ALCO and caboose from Lionel dates from 1960.  This road wandered into the mid-west including Ohio and Illinois and had its headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. It existed from the late 1800's until 1988 when it merged with the B&0 to form the "Chessie System".

Happy Monday everyone...

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello everyone, I guess I will start on this fine Monday.  Today the road is the C&0 or Chesapeake and Ohio.  This fine ALCO and caboose from Lionel dates from 1960.  This road wandered into the mid-west including Ohio and Illinois and had its headquarters in Cleveland Ohio. It existed from the late 1800's until 1988 when it merged with the B&0 to form the "Chessie System".

Happy Monday everyone...

Don

Very nice picture and thank you for sharing a bit of the history.  I had no idea the C&O had their HQ in Cleveland.  Thanks Don

As long as it's C&O du jour:

Rusty

Don. Thanks for kicking us off. Here’s my C&O Lionel Alco with some Menards cars

CAN'T BREAK THE STREAK - Rougemere Yard on a Monday

Rusty, Lee, Detroit ... great pictures of C&O trains. Fun all around!!  
Don

Hello MWMon fans, here it is nearly 0900 on the east coast of the US and it looks like I am the first post this morning.  Advantage of being retired I guess, I have my Monday mornings free.  Today I will add to a long standing controversy...is Texas in the middle west?   It is geographically about 1500 miles from each coast so that would be the middle and it is west of the Mississippi River so that is the "west"...so I am going to assume that it qualifies.  My input today is the Lionel #210 Texas Special Alco AA units from 1958.  She never was Lionel's top of the line in mechanical detail being one motor, headlight, and horn but the livery was always popular.  However operators on my mostly level layout she pulls her passenger consist or 2400 series cars with no trouble at all.

Here she is, arriving "out of the mountains" on the Leonardtown & Savannah and pulling into the "Small Town" suburban station.  Our Monday morning commuters are on the platform awaiting their ride downtown already concerned that they might be late.  It's 1958 and most of the news is about "space" and "Sputnik" and so forth and not much coverage of nice trains like this which are pretty much taken for granted these days.

Here is the full AA units.  Lionel never made a "210" B unit, however 4 years later they put out the Texas Special #211, nearly identical and there is a 211 "B" unit.  The #211, unlike the single year #210, ran from 1962-1966.

Well hope everyone has a great week.  Best wishes

Don

Thanks Don for kicking us off. Those Alcos are nice

Sticking the last cars on Mondays DIXIE QUEEN to leave Flat Rock via Detroit for the journey SOUTH home to Windsor through the Detroit River Tunnel.

Tom

@Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom - Love It.  Looks like you did custom decals and weathering on B units?  Did you upgrade power unit with TMCC or DCS?

@Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom. Nice consistent of the white worms. Thanks for sharing.

Here’s what started my O scale Adventure this was my first rolling stock  it’s a Menards car.

@DETROIT posted:

Tom - Love It.  Looks like you did custom decals and weathering on B units?  Did you upgrade power unit with TMCC or DCS?

Thanks!  I didn't like the way the Williams B units looked from the factory - no numbers for starters.  I ended up stripping them down and repainting them.  New decals and some weathering and there you go.  I did convert the power unit to TMCC using ERR boards. 

Tom

@lee drennen posted:

Tom. Nice consistent of the white worms. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Lee.

Tom

@Tom Densel posted:

Thanks, Lee.

Tom

@Tom Densel posted:

Thanks, Lee.

Tom

Your welcome Tom thanks for Contributing to the thread

Lee - thanks for the comment, I guess I am lucky in that my Monday mornings are sort of free, so I can post early.  Tom Densel great consist of "twisted worms" and I loved the scene's from your layout, perhaps you might post some more pictures of that it really looks cool.  Lee...the Menard's boxcar is neat, I have purchased a number of those myself and find them great layout runners.  Great livery and good prices to boot!

Well thanks to all for the photos and see you next Monday!

Don

Happy Midwest Monday everyone. Today here’s a video of my only White Worm power unit I have. Enjoy your week.

I will stay ON TRACK with the Penn Central Midwest Monday video theme today.

The cardboard factories in the background produce hazy emissions on the South Side of Chicago as this mixed freight makes it's way toward the Windy City on a HOT Monday in June sometime in the early 1970s

Lee gets extra points for the Strohs reefer in his consist.

I will also stay on track with Penn Central

Detroit. Nice run plenty of power to get that manifest to shy town. I like that double door B&O boxcar very nice

DJ. Nice line up of the White Worm.

Hi folks, I am a little late today.  What's worse, I don't have any "twisted worms" so I will have to move in another direction.  Lee posted a great B&O boxcar so I am going move along that route with a product of the B&O / C&O merger making the "Chessie System".  Here is the Lionel 8008 4-4-2 steamer from 1980.  The 1980's were cool in Ohio because the Chessie System ran the "Chessie Steam Special" out of Cincinnati and I was able to take my two boys, then 9 & 11, on a real steam train, back when they still did trackside "run by's".  It was an all day affair - out and back - What a show.  We returned with our faces (and clothes) covered with soot except for where we had our protective eye goggles...the "racoon" look for sure, we had great fun, not too sure Mom was as impressed!  (LOL)

Happy Monday everyone

Don

Did someone say "Penn Central?"

Tom

Well here we are at MWMon again, seems like starting a new week comes quicker all the time.  Its just before 0900 on the east coast (Georgia) and again I can do an early posting.  This week, again one of my favorite fallen flags, the Rock Island RR.  Today, the Rock is shown as interpreted by Marx in the 1950's with his version of a work caboose.  This one is considered by Marx as one of his "deluxe" plastic freights likely due to its size and complexity.  It came both with and without a searchlight - this one obviously does not have the light but does have the mounting holes for it.

Anyway the Rock Island covered many states in the mid-west including Tx, Ok, La, Il, and others until after 3 bankruptcy's it was finally liquidated and sold in 1980.

Best wishes for a great week

Don

Don thanks for kicking us off this morning. Here’s one I caught in East St. Louis one day. Enjoy your week