Midwest Monday

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