Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!
A Penn Central transfer run is being pulled by SW8 8623 (Lionel):
This SW8 is a Nichols Smith exclusive. They hit it out of the park! Everything one expects from a Legacy equipped locomotive. Nice job, guys!
Tom
Rusty
HAPPY END OF 2021 MIDWEST MONDAY!!!
All that’s Old is New and New is Old and nothing is quite the same!
Brand new Lionel Penn Central SW8 and MTH Erie Lackawanna Flat w Pup Trailers.
The Lionel SW is almost exactly like the Atlas Penn Central SWs (I have them). Internals very different and very slight differences to the exterior details but it appears to me from the same factory. MTH flat w Pups exactly like all the Lionel Flats with Pups, flat may be slightly different but again I would guess from the same factory. Love them both! I’m guessing from this point forward things from all manufacturers are going to look pretty similar and probably be from one or two factories.
Happy New Year All!!!
Well here we are on the first Monday in 2022. So in keeping with MWM, I thought I would post a 42 year old Lionel steamer, the # 8008 Chessie System, 4-4-2 from 1980. The "Chessie System" was born in February 1973 and included the C&O, B&O,and the Western Md RR. It made its Headquarters in Cleveland Ohio.
This little fellow, like many of the 4-4-2 engines made by Lionel in the late 70's and early 80's was not fancy or super detailed. However, his die cast boiler gave him good traction, he was reliable, he had smoke, 3 position reverse, and a headlight. He makes a good runner with plenty of pulling power for a layout as small as mine. His tender reminds me of the "Chessie Steam Specials" that the system ran in the late 70's out of Cincinnati and where I took my 2 sons, age 6 & 8 at the time. Complete with open window coaches, lots of smoke and cinders (we wore protective eye wear) and actual trackside run by's. Great memories.
Best Wishes everyone
Don
A Penn Central freight has a slow order as it crosses Kill Bridge:
Tom
A Penn Central manifest freight led by U23B 2723 (Atlas O) passes through Killbridge:
Tom
@Tom Densel posted:A Penn Central manifest freight led by U23B 2723 (Atlas O) passes through Killbridge:
Tom
Tom - Love it! I shutter to think but between the two of us, we have probably own 50% of everything Penn Central ever produced in O Scale.
@Tom Densel posted:A Penn Central manifest freight led by U23B 2723 (Atlas O) passes through Killbridge:
Tom
Tom. I think that’s your best video yet I loved it also liked the Erie Lackawanna Piggyback. Thanks for sharing
@DETROIT posted:MwM - Minimal commentary this week
Jim great line up and videos thanks for posting
Here’s mine for this Monday sorry been gone so long thanks for keeping this going. See you next MWM.
Great videos guys! Maybe I will have something for you all next Monday! Just been a little busy around here! I can tell you this, I am really beginning to hate snow! LOL
@lee drennen posted:Tom. I think that’s your best video yet I loved it also liked the Erie Lackawanna Piggyback. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, Lee! I just finished the bridge last week so you'll probably be seeing a lot more of it in the near future.
Tom
A NYC freight under steam passes through Killbridge:
Tom
Well its a cold and rainy day here in central Texas so I guess I will stay inside and play trains!! Today, I have an item from Lionel that takes us to the railroad known as the "Frisco". I really didn't know much about this RR and given its name, did not think it was "Midwest", however that was very wrong.
This is the description of the RR I found in Wikipedia: "The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to April 17, 1980. It was purchased and absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railway in 1980. Despite its name, it never came close to San Francisco." It did however spread across the heart of the mid-west.
The RR's most famous slogan or tag line was..."Ship it on the Frisco" and for many years they had a great reputation from shippers and other customers. It had some of the best routes through the mid-west and southeast and today the BNSF sill utilizes many sections of those routes.
Here is the Lionel #6014, 0-27 type, Frisco boxcar, produced with an orange body in1957 and then re-issued in orange in 1969. Note that just above the number 6014 is the notation..."SL-SF" obviously referring to the proper name of the RR, "The St. Louis - San Francisco" Railway.
Well best wishes and hope you have a great week
Don
@DETROIT: Glad you joined, was feeling a little lonely today. Great video. I really like these new smoking switchers and diesels, guess I will have to put one on next years Christmas list 
. Liked the coil cars as well.
Best wishes
Don
Some first generation diesel power leads a train through Killbridge:
Tom
@Don McErlean Don, great photo and wonderful backstory! The only thing missing is the couplers! LOL
@DETROIT Cool little B&O video!
@Tom Densel Tom wonderful video of your Pen Central power!
Thanks to you all for sharing today!
@mike g.: 
Your right, I didn't notice that detail in the picture. What happens is that where possible, I turn the trucks on my shelf display cars inward to give me a little more space on the shelf. I forgot to turn them around for the picture ! By the way, they are standard Lionel knuckle couplers in plastic.
Don
@Don McErlean posted:@mike g.:
Don
Don, now that you said that I went back and looked and can see them plain as day! What a great idea, I just might have to try that to get a little more room!
Happy MWM gang here’s what I have today. How about a Nickel for your thoughts this Monday.
Here's my only running Midwest locomotive, a Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range M3 Yellowstone.
Great looking trains guys! Happy Monday!
Here is some Union Pacific on this marvelous Midwest Monday!!!!
@lee drennen : Beautiful Nickel Plate switcher...Lionel??? Hey its an Alco though right, it should be making copious amounts of black smoke !
@Mike H : Beautiful GM&O heavyweights , lovely color scheme.
@Lou1985: Wow...what a smoker!! Great engine and she really puts out the smoke!
Well today MWM fans, I decided to pick on a little (class II) railroad that runs in northwestern Pa and northeastern Oh. The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad - at least as interpreted by Mr. Marx.
Here is the "brown" B&LE # 90171 boxcar from about 1948.
Here is a "candy apple" red version from about 1953 (plastic knuckle couplers set date)
Here is a plastic 4 wheel caboose from about 1975. Note in pure Marx cost saving practice, this appears to be an 8 wheel car but the black trucks are just a facade, it is in fact a 4 wheel car.
Well here's hoping you have a good week. Best Wishes
Don
My Midwest motive power all in one place. 😉
@Don McErlean posted:@lee drennen : Beautiful Nickel Plate switcher...Lionel??? Hey its an Alco though right, it should be making copious amounts of black smoke !
@Mike H : Beautiful GM&O heavyweights , lovely color scheme.
@Lou1985: Wow...what a smoker!! Great engine and she really puts out the smoke!
Well today MWM fans, I decided to pick on a little (class II) railroad that runs in northwestern Pa and northeastern Oh. The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad - at least as interpreted by Mr. Marx.
Here is the "brown" B&LE # 90171 boxcar from about 1948.
Here is a "candy apple" red version from about 1953 (plastic knuckle couplers set date)
Here is a plastic 4 wheel caboose from about 1975. Note in pure Marx cost saving practice, this appears to be an 8 wheel car but the black trucks are just a facade, it is in fact a 4 wheel car.
Well here's hoping you have a good week. Best Wishes
Don
Thanks Don for the complement it’s a Weaver RSD12 and sorry that’s a Dow tank car I think it was made by Kunan??
A Penn Central RS-27 and a GP35 struggle to move a coal train out of Cleveland:
Tom
@Wally W posted:Here is some Union Pacific on this marvelous Midwest Monday!!!!
Well done on this video! I remember singing that song when I was a kid. Those were great commercials.
Has George sung the Union Pacific song on a Friday Livestream?
Thank you all for some outstanding Pics and Videos I think this has been one of the best MWM yet and you guys made it possible. Thank You
Well here it is, Monday already and most of us are just starting the week. At least the weather we had at the end of last week (snow/ice) is gone here in central Texas and replaced by cold but sunny days. Today I have some rather unusual cars for you. These are (or could be) quite old, dating from as early as 1914 but extending on out to the 1920's. They look to be very close to American Flyer 1107 type cars but are un-numbered. That is because they are "Overland Flyer" cars, a product of the "new" Hafner Manufacturing Company formed in 1913 when William Hafner split from William Coleman Sr. of American Flyer. The 1914 line of Hafner Overland Flyer cars is very nearly identical to the 1914 line of American Flyer 1107 cars and the reason for that remains a bit of a mystery to this day.
So here from the era before or during WW 1 are the Hafner Overland Flyer Pullmans for the Santa Fe and North Western RR.
Well happy midwest Monday everyone.
Don
Happy MWM here’s what I have today thought I would give “ Buzz” the spotlight today. I custom decaled this old Lionel NW2 years ago in Indiana Harbor Belt one of my best Switchers
@ChiBoyinLA posted:
My Midwest motive power all in one place. 😉
Beautifull !
@Lou1985 posted:Here's my only running Midwest locomotive, a Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range M3 Yellowstone.
A work of art !
The Milwaukee Road on MWM!
A Penn Central freight passes through Killbridge:
Tom
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