Midwest Monday

I’ll kick us off with this Weaver M&Stl Boxcar.

How about someone posting the Illinois Central in the song City of New Orleans, my favorite train song?

This is the only midwestern motive power or rolling stock I own, so I guess it goes here.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

How about someone posting the Illinois Central in the song City of New Orleans, my favorite train song?

Good idea but there might be some copyright restrictions to post it

@lee drennen posted:

Good idea but there might be some copyright restrictions to post it

Not if you post the YouTube.

Rusty

Hope this qualifies .....

@Richie C. posted:

Hope this qualifies .....

Are you Kidding of course.  Glad you posted it

Here are 3 roads

@Rusty Traque posted:

Not if you post the YouTube.

Rusty

I really enjoyed this. thanks

Greetings from the midwest (STL):

Love the YouTube with the video of real Illinois Central trains, but how about models of Illinois Central Trains?

Would love to see photos and videos of Illinois Central model trains, particularly those in O Gauge.

I don't have any such models, but I believe Lionel made Illinois Central F3s in the 1950s.

Arnold

I dont thing I have any midwest stuff.

@mike g. posted:

I dont thing I have any midwest stuff.

Do you have anything BNSF? The Burlington and Santa Fe main office was in the Midwest Mike. So they Qualify.

@lee drennen posted:

Do you have anything BNSF? The Burlington and Santa Fe main office was in the Midwest Mike. So they Qualify.

Oh boy, i have loads of BNSF/BN  but very little Santa Fe

I will post next Monday

@mike g. posted:

Oh boy, i have loads of BNSF/BN  but very little Santa Fe

I will post next Monday

Ok I knew you did😉. See you next Monday.

@Rusty Traque posted:

Not if you post the YouTube.

Rusty

Good idea! Thanks for posting

@MikeH posted:

Greetings from the midwest (STL):

Mike. Now that’s my kinda lineup. Thanks for sharing

A Midwestern greeting from the Hoosier Line.

First off, thanks to Lee for starting this thread, and many thanks to everyone that posted great photo's! MikeH, thanks for the Illinois Terminal entries, the "Football scheme" is a favorite! Lee, do photo's have to be model form or can they be real trains, also? Looking forward to next weeks posts!

Rusty

@Diverging Clear posted:

First off, thanks to Lee for starting this thread, and many thanks to everyone that posted great photo's! MikeH, thanks for the Illinois Terminal entries, the "Football scheme" is a favorite! Lee, do photo's have to be model form or can they be real trains, also? Looking forward to next weeks posts!

Rusty

Thanks Rusty. You can post anything that has to do with Real Trains Rail cars Time tables collectibles ect. Long as it’s Midwest or there predecessors. You can also post a little late I say no more than one day.  

Thanks to everyone for helping me kick this off see you next Monday.

Illinois Central MOW pick-up w/opening doors, folding liftgate and spare tire and GB&W waffle car....

Happy Monday. Here’s today’s line up

LAYOUT IN TRANSITION, MOVED RECENTLY -

I don't see any pictures of; Milwaukee Road, EJ&E, Rock Island, DM&IR, Green Bay & Western, Chicago & Great Western, and others I can't think of.  I am at work, so can't post pictures.

Fun thread

Here you go. This is a Lionel Standard O

Tom

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Would love to see photos and videos of Illinois Central model trains, particularly those in O Gauge.

These MTH E8's are orphans for now.  I have matching passenger cars on order but MTH has been sloooow (originally due last May).

Thinking this one will qualify...🚂😉😺

Tom D - Love both photos ACY and PC!  How did you end up with the PC GP9?  Transfer Caboose is awesome, did you make it or other?

My freight mix is seriously lacking cars from a midwest railroad.  This is the only one I have.

I am glad Lee started this topic - I now know what to look for.

Here is a post from a Michigan railroad.  I apologize for the lack of scenery.  I also apologize for the lack of a layout.  The parts for my train tables are starting to accumulate in my workshop.  I hope to make some progress in the coming months…

By the way, I appreciate the song/video, City of New Orleans posted previously.  Great song and thank you for including it on this Midwest Monday.  Please note that the version posted was sung by a New York native.  If you want to hear this great RR song performed by the artist (may he rest in peace) from Chicago who wrote it, go to:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ztWNJYFrU

MICHIGAN-Marc  (originally from Chicago)

@DETROIT posted:

Tom D - Love both photos ACY and PC!  How did you end up with the PC GP9?  Transfer Caboose is awesome, did you make it or other?

The PC Geep is an Atlas O model that I purchased undecorated.  I painted and decorated it myself.  I built the transfer caboose using a Lionel PS-1 boxcar frame and running gear.  I scratchbuilt the body and handrails.

Tom

@CAPPilot posted:

My freight mix is seriously lacking cars from a midwest railroad.  This is the only one I have.

I am glad Lee started this topic - I now know what to look for.

Thanks Ron.

Great Northern. Sunset Third rail. SD-9

@MikeH posted:

These MTH E8's are orphans for now.  I have matching passenger cars on order but MTH has been sloooow (originally due last May).

There's the City of New Orleans locomotives!

Does this count as a Midwest Rail road complete with Midwest Real Sound Horn Blast?

@Miggy posted:

Does this count as a Midwest Rail road complete with Midwest Real Sound Horn Blast?

Yes it does If it’s Midwest Train affiliated. Nice video Thanks for sharing

MTH Santa E8 ABA - The Kansas Cityan.

Thanks to all who Posted yesterday your pics were great and very interesting. See you next Monday.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

How about someone posting the Illinois Central in the song City of New Orleans, my favorite train song?

I like a good Arlo story

Good Morning you Midwest fans. Up today is a very old Atlas O DT&I  Boxcar. Enjoy your week.

I'll continue the DT&I theme.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

My hope is for an Atlas Model Trains greatly re-invigorated after their acquisitions from MTH, producing more O gauge, producing O gauge more quickly and selfishly, I hope they produce the Geeps in O gauge to match my caboose.  Happy D&TSL - The Expressway for Industry - Midwest Monday!!!

Rusty

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

NKP RSD12

@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!

Jon - Thank You!!!   Emery's work inspires me (very simplistic homage) as i believe he's probably inspired a lot of us.  I always wonder if I crossed paths with him.  I was just a kid railroading in the yards Detroit/Windsor (many of the same places) in the early 1970s when he shot so much of is work.

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

Rusty

We'll move a little north for this MWM for all Da Yoopers out there from Pittsburgh to Sault Sainte Marie.

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

SOMEWHERE NEAR BUFFALO ON A MONDAY v1

SOMEWHERE NEAR BUFFALO ON A MONDAY v2

@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

Michigan / Ohio / Ontario on a Monday - You Decide

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

Late afternoon Monday - leaving a Mill in Cleveland

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

I second Don's comments and would like to add I really enjoy Don's postings, these are trains one rarely sees and especially in the condition of his collection.

Additionally, I would love it if we can inspire a larger contribution to MWM.  Not that the current group isn't great but there is so much more out there.

Not sure how to do that (suggestions?)  I will continue to annoy the group with my postings faithfully each Monday.

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

Don. Thanks. I enjoy your stuff keep posting we all enjoy your offerings

Detroit. Glad you posted that EL maybe I’ll start putting a “Plug” in on different threads and you guys do the same. SWSAT and a picture a day would be a good start.

Since I now live on former CNW trackage I thought I better add a representative to my fleet.Rich in SD

Happy Monday. Hope all is well today this is a Vintage Atlas O Gondola I repainted and decaled in Nickel Plate Road.  Have a good week

Rusty