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pennsyfanpennsyfanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Sitka posted:

By chance where did you guys pick up those Milk / chip trucks remember those as a kid dropping off milk. Very nice.

The Charles Chips truck was created by my friend and I. His childhood friend owns  the license for CC.  He gave us permission. We submitted some pictures to my friend at METCA who happens to be the car designer. Then I got a contract with WBB who was making other versions at the time. You can see it on the list of past division cars on METCA.org.

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SitkaSitkaOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER
@pennsyfan posted:

The Charles Chips truck was created by my friend and I. His childhood friend owns  the license for CC.  He gave us permission. We submitted some pictures to my friend at METCA who happens to be the car designer. Then I got a contract with WBB who was making other versions at the time. You can see it on the list of past division cars on METCA.org.

Thanks will check it out

bobfettbobfettOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

following pennsyfan and Sitka..."Muscle" cars - the Corvette Club!

Layout - Corvette club at the diner

@Don McErlean This is one of the few things I've regretted with choosing the late 40s-early 50s for the time period of my layout. I love Corvettes (wish I had one)! Of course, I wouldn't mind having a GTO either. Maybe when I hit the lottery............

Cool picture.

Regards,

Bob

Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

@bobfett...thanks for your comment on my "Vette" picture.  However, talking about the era you have set your layout in...don't despair, the Corvette was initiated in 1953, externally she looked like the center car in my picture.  She had screens over the headlights, only came with a stick (which was a disadvantage at the time) and had an inline 6 with 3 side draft carburetors as the engine.  In '55 Ford introduced the Thunderbird with an automatic and a V8 and as they say, the rest is history!!

Hornby Junction Signal installed 1

from pennsyfan and Don Winslow - a dual semaphore and a locomotive (OK its diesel not steam).  Semaphore is Hornby.

Best wishes

Don

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pennsyfanpennsyfanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

@bobfett...thanks for your comment on my "Vette" picture.  However, talking about the era you have set your layout in...don't despair, the Corvette was initiated in 1953, externally she looked like the center car in my picture.  She had screens over the headlights, only came with a stick (which was a disadvantage at the time) and had an inline 6 with 3 side draft carburetors as the engine.  In '55 Ford introduced the Thunderbird with an automatic and a V8 and as they say, the rest is history!!

Hornby Junction Signal installed 1

from pennsyfan and Don Winslow - a dual semaphore and a locomotive (OK its diesel not steam).  Semaphore is Hornby.

Best wishes

Don

Nice Don my semaphores are Hornby as well.

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@Randy Harrison posted:

@pennsyfan

Bob:

That is a great little box cab locomotive. Who made it and are they still available?

Randy, it’s an MTH Product from 2018.

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

following Sitka...gondola this one is Hornby.

Hornby Hatchette O PO locomotive and train

@pennsyfan...great semaphores...I noticed your "support poles" are lattice work, per my information that makes then pre-war.  Mine are a solid support making them post war, at least 1950 when the poles were re-designed to eliminate the lattice work and to make them a bit shorter.

Best Wishes All

Don

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bobfettbobfettOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

@bobfett...thanks for your comment on my "Vette" picture.  However, talking about the era you have set your layout in...don't despair, the Corvette was initiated in 1953, externally she looked like the center car in my picture.  She had screens over the headlights, only came with a stick (which was a disadvantage at the time) and had an inline 6 with 3 side draft carburetors as the engine.  In '55 Ford introduced the Thunderbird with an automatic and a V8 and as they say, the rest is history!!



Don,

Thanks for the reminder. I was only 3 in 1953 so the Corvette didn't really start leaving a mark on my psyche (or a desire to have one) until the '60s. One of our teachers in HS had a Corvette like the blue one in your photo (except it was white) and we all thought that was the coolest car to have. I'll have to look for a 1:43 model of a '53 or '54 Corvette for my layout. I'm sure it would draw a crowd wherever I "park" it.

I never could afford the Corvette or GTO I wanted but I do have a '75 Triumph Spitfire (one owner) so I am part of the "Sports Car" family, but not the "Muscle Car" family.

Bob

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

@bobfett- I Liked your Corvette story.  Mine was similar, My Sunday School teacher (a single man - unusual in the 50's) bought a 1958 Corvette and told us boys (the class was all boys) that he would take one of us home each week in the Corvette IF we came to Sunday school...well attendance was perfect from that day on .  I wanted one from that day forward, but until 2014 like you could not afford one.  Finally I was able to find a used one (1998) that was both in reasonable condition and affordable...I still have it!.  P.S. I also owned a 1959 Triumph TR-3a.

OK back to the game!!

...from pennsyfan...tinplate tanker (Lionel #815) delivering oil...

Lionel 815 delivering oil

Best Wishes

Don

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bobfettbobfettOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

@bobfett- I Liked your Corvette story.  Mine was similar, My Sunday School teacher (a single man - unusual in the 50's) bought a 1958 Corvette and told us boys (the class was all boys) that he would take one of us home each week in the Corvette IF we came to Sunday school...well attendance was perfect from that day on .  I wanted one from that day forward, but until 2014 like you could not afford one.  Finally I was able to find a used one (1998) that was both in reasonable condition and affordable...I still have it!.  P.S. I also owned a 1959 Triumph TR-3a.






@Don McErlean  Great story about Sunday School, Don. I feel slighted: all I ever got for going to Sunday School (and singing in the choir) was a ride to and from church in our neighbor's Hudson. My HS band director had a Sunbeam Alpine; I only ever had a ride in it once but I think that's what started my love affair with British sports cars.

I don't know where you're located but the weather is great this week in NE PA. My wife and I are planning a ride or two in the Spitfire before the bad weather hits and it goes into hibernation for the winter. Enjoy your Corvette (and your trains).

Regards,

Bob

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@pennsyfan...Hey Bob! if I am not mistaken, that is a gunmetal #258 pulling that consist.  Great loco and that is the unusual color.  My picture above is a Hornby MO - they introduced the "O" line in 1930 with the onset of the depression.  It was the same gauge as their usual line but smaller in scale and hence in price.  Note it has no cylinders nor side rods another economy move.  Now back to the game

from pennsyfan...passenger platform and station.

Marx 400 train rear view

Best wishes

Don

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@pennsyfan and @PRRronbh -  No fellas, Girard is in Pennsylvania.  The Girard Model Works was the name of the firm producing "Joy Line" trains of which Louis Marx was their sales agent.  Marx purchased the plant and all the assets of the firm when the owners of the Model Works declared bankruptcy in 1935.  He named the plant " The Girard Manufacturing Company" to avoid confusion with his existing plants in Erie, Pa.  Marx, throughout the entire existence of the Marx Toy Company ran everything from his office in New York.  It is said he rarely visited the plants but would call folks to New York to discuss important items or make decisions.  Hence it is Girard, Pa that the station is named after.  However that does not take away from that great station that you posted...thanks Bob. 

So not a passenger station but a freight station.  This is Marx and just about the largest structure on my layout.  Its all lithographed tin and dates from  the 1950's

Trucks - At Freight station

All the best!

Don

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@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan and @PRRronbh -  No fellas, Girard is in Pennsylvania.  The Girard Model Works was the name of the firm producing "Joy Line" trains of which Louis Marx was their sales agent.  Marx purchased the plant and all the assets of the firm when the owners of the Model Works declared bankruptcy in 1935.  He named the plant " The Girard Manufacturing Company" to avoid confusion with his existing plants in Erie, Pa.  Marx, throughout the entire existence of the Marx Toy Company ran everything from his office in New York.  It is said he rarely visited the plants but would call folks to New York to discuss important items or make decisions.  Hence it is Girard, Pa that the station is named after.  However that does not take away from that great station that you posted...thanks Bob.

So not a passenger station but a freight station.  This is Marx and just about the largest structure on my layout.  Its all lithographed tin and dates from  the 1950's

Trucks - At Freight station

All the best!

Don

Thanks for the write up Don; I had no idea where the name came from. As to your freight station; thanks for the memories I had one; but think it disappeared before my Dad started  the train layout.

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