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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
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Great pics guys thanks for sharing
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@lee drennen posted:
Great Start Lee, now I am going to have to go out and see what new I have to offer! LOL
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@DG posted:
Dudley where is Lenox tower at in East St. Louis
@mike g. posted:
That works Mike. You can also post different scenes also or if you have any collectibles that will work too
@DETROIT posted:
Looks good
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@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:
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!!!
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NKP RSD12
@lee drennen posted:
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.
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Here are some Midwest photos of my favorite Railroad.
RAY
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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