Photo Chain Game

Following Don, Steamer at station

I'll see your steamer at the station and raise you on more.

Following Randy Harrison

Steamers at a Suburban Station

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Suburban station:

Following PD

Suburban Station

Following pennsyfan, Beacon

Following Sitka’s water tank

Door Company

following pennsyfan...Door Company

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s Crossing

Flagged crossing modeled after Chesapeake & Delaware RR Crossings.

Following pennsyfan, Railroad worker with lantern

from Sitka...Lionel Lines caboose (Ok its sort of red not Tuscan) 

Best Wishes

Don

From D McE

School bus

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Follows Greg’s  post with a great scene.
Building under construction

from pennsyfan...station with flagpole.

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don, phone booth

Following Don and Sitka:  phone booth

Regards,

Bob

Following BobFett’s pickup truck

Following pennsyfan, pickup

Chain Game, following the pickup truck chain. Here’s a pickup truck parked behind the small station on our layout.

Following WP’s pickup

Farmer loading milkcans to the express caboose.

Following pennsyfan pickup.

Following pennsyfan...VW pickup and WwWebFlyer...pickup

Best Wishes for a great weekend to all.

Don

Following D McE  Suburban Station

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Following Don and Greg:  Suburban Station.

Regards,

Bob

Following bobfett, station platform.

Following Sitka’s station platform.
Station platform signs

Following pennsyfan, station platform signs,

Following Sitka, station platform and signs.

Gene

following Genemed...station platform and signs.

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Best Wishes

Don

Following the Station Platform thread

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Following Greg J. Turinetti...(OBTW Greg that loco/train you pictured is a beauty!!)...American Flyer steamer pulls its consist into the depot.

Best Wishes

Don

Followibng Don, Steamer

Self explanatory.

Streamline Steam

Following pennsyfan, Streamline Electric

Following Sitka

Boxy electric

following pennsyfan...boxy electric pulling its train.  This one a French Hornby type 0-PO from 1948

Best Wishes, hope your upcoming week goes well

Don

Following D McE and Box Cab electric and passenger cars

Two variations of American Flyer's Dixie Queen

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Following Greg’s Boxcab Electrics.
lionel 256 Electric,  cataloged 1924 - 30. Came with 710 NYC passenger cars. This 0 Ga engine is larger than some Standard Ga engines.

American Flyer Wide Gauge Boxcab (4654) in the "Frontier Town" set.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

@Greg J. Turinetti and @pennsyfan - beautiful trains guys, thanks for posting.

from Greg and Bob ... another electric engine (Ok maybe not so "boxy") pulls her consist out of the depot.  (Chicago Flyer 1211 uncatalogued from the 1920's).

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s electric Flyer.
Flyer 3103 with green passenger cars.

Nice steeple cabs Don and Bob,

Here are a few more,

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg, it looks like you have a different color for every day.
Here is an Ives Motor 3255R, waiting for an assignment.

@Greg J. Turinetti and @pennsyfan - Greg, Bob those are fabulous locomotives, Greg that is quite an assortment.  Continuing this "chain", here is my American Flyer 3110 with a consist of a GN baggage car and an "Orient Express" coach and observation.  (cars are un-numbered),

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don, Pre War Lionel 253 Electric.

Following Sitka’s PreWar electric.
254 with 610 610 612 passenger  cars

Following on the theme of

Pre War electric outline engines

Here is an Ives #3252 heading up "The Manager's Special"

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Ives:

Following pd’s Ives passenger set.

Ives transition set.

following pennsyfan... Ives #52 Parlor Cars and #50 Baggage...looking at the color and trim of these cars I date the #52 from 1915 - 1925 and the #50 from the same time span.

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s dates

Lionel Electric 253 was introduced in the 1924 catalog and ran consistently to the 1936 catalog. In 1930 it was part of set 296 with two  607 coaches and 608 observation. It was the longest running electric in Lionel’s catalogs.

Following pennsyfan, passenger cars

Following Sitka’s observation

The end

Following pennsyfan, observation car, another end.

Following Sitka et al, observation car leaving a passenger platform.

Regards,

Bob

Following BobFett’s observation car

New Hope Railroad observation car converted to open air car.

Some observations.

Following WwWebflyer observations

PRR Track signal

Marx Observation

Marx Observation and a Flyer Observation - there is also a Flyer flashing signal in there too.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

WOW everyone...what great looking passenger sets!!

For Greg...and pennsyfan, Sitka, bobfett, and WwWebFlyer...A Marx (Joy Line) Observation car and passenger set, an American Flyer Signal #2116, and an American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) observation car...

Best Wishes, stormy & rainy day (rain at last!) here in central Texas, hope your day is "sunny"

Don

Following Don’s observation cars and distant track signal.
K-Line PRR Business car being moved by PRR BB1s through crossover.

Following pennsyfan, P.R.R. Insignia on observation car.

following Sitka...a PRR "BEEP" , keystone on front.

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don McErlean, Full size Pennsy GP

following Sitka...NYC passenger consist, including dome car, at station.

Best Wishes

Don

Hi Don,

I’ll see your NYC consist and raise you a round end observation

from pennsyfan...I'll see your "round end observation" and add one...Lionel 2401 Hillside from 1948-1949

Best wishes

Don

Following DonMcErLean, observation car in green

from Sitka...another green observation car...American Flyer from about 1928.

Don

From Don McE

2 American Flyer streamline observations

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Ah Greg beat me to it! Changing the color for Halloween.

Streamliner:

Following  pd, Streamliner

Cattle loader:

Following pd's Tin Steamer

263 with large freight cars

following pennsyfan's "tin steamer" - a Hornby M0 from 1930 along with some Mettoy freight wagons from the 1950's

Best Wishes "chain fan's!!"

Don

Following Don’s McD’s

Belle’s Burgers

from pennsyfan .... a Trolley on the line!  P.S. Bob- I loved "Belle's Burgers"

Best Wishes

Don

Station:

Following pd’s station

I don’t know if the platform was made by my Dad; or he bought it somewhere. It any case it’s at least 70 years old.
@Don McErlean Nice trolley , who made it?

Covered hopper.

@pennsyfan- Trolley is a Chinese inexpensive toy, pop'd up on the internet one day for $10 including shipping.  Looked about the right size for a static item on the layout so I bought one.  Have not seen the advertisement again. It is non powered and does fit very closely to 0 gauge but that may just be an accident.

from mike.caruso - Tank car parked

Best Wishes

Don

Tank car:

Following tank cats

Tank train

Tank Car.

Following Randy, tank car

Following Randy and Sitka’s tank car and Randy’s snow.
Tank car on HO layout

Full 4 minute video of G, 0, 0N30, Streets, and HO.
https://youtu.be/3ICx3FFyq2Q?si=zNxtHujBQchlAFpuk

following all above...tank car...American Flyer 1934-35

Don

And another tanker, but this one is too hot to handle. Hmmmm.....now we need a chicken wing reefer.

Regards,

Bob

MTH Craftsman tank car. Going to Sears and checking out the tool department those were the days!

Tank cars

Following WwWebFlyer, bridge

Big bridge:

Following pd’s bridge

Following the bridge theme

This was a Christmas display at the Historical Society several years ago. It highlighted a number of toy building sets used as accessories.

Northwoods Flyer

Following station on Greg’s photo.
Marx Commodore Vanderbilt with 6” lighted passenger cars.

following pennsyfan... American Flyer Station with crane and passenger train pulling out of the station.  (Lionel 224 and brown tinplate passenger cars outfit 2100W from 1946).

Transition AF Station with Crane from Pre War to later crane design.

Earlier Pre War version of the same station with an earlier crane.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

AF station with crane

I see many differences here besides the crane Greg. Your base is red with brick and stone on the building. Also the lamp over the platform.

My base is grey, there aren’t any bricks or stone. There isn’t a lamp over the platform.
Do you know what era mine is?

@pennsyfan posted:

AF station with crane

I see many differences here besides the crane Greg. Your base is red with brick and stone on the building. Also the lamp over the platform.

My base is grey, there aren’t any bricks or stone. There isn’t a lamp over the platform.
Do you know what era mine is?

Bob,

Your station and crane are from the Gilbert era given that there is a Gilbert tag on it. Gilbert took over American Flyer (Coleman era "Chicago Flyer") in 1939. I don't remember when the changes in color took place but the trackside buildings were all brown and yellow before the war.  My station is lithographed and was already being phased out before 1939.

PreWar AF Talking Station known as the "Akoostikin Station", Talking Tool Shed, and the Signal Tower

I will have to do some more reasearch to be more specific.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

@pennsyfan and @Greg J. Turinetti - My Flyer station with crane is the same as Bob's (except I don't have the window inserts, they are missing).  My data says the station, which as you said Greg, is a post war Gilbert Flyer offering, came two ways .  One with the 589 type station with white painted embossed sides and brown trim and doors and a green sheet metal base .  The second configuration is as pictured in both Bob's and my post.  A grey sheet metal base with a 589 type station with white sides and red trim.  This station was available from 1946-1951 and 1953-1954.  (Source of information..."Greenbergs Price Guide to American Flyer S gauge, First Edition, 1980)

P.S. There must be something I am missing, as I cannot believe I could have any information on American Flyer that Greg does not have...   Best wishes everyone...Hey while I have some interested parties, does anyone know if the window inserts might be available for sale ????

Don

Following Greg J. Turinetti, rail station

Following stations

American Flyer talking station by Lionel

From pennsyfan....Lionel small #137 station from 1937

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s.building with an awning.
Made in USA store.

Following penseyfan:  a 1955 Buick Century at the drive-in. Don't sit to closely, kids.

Regards

Bob

Following Bobfett, ragtop

Following Sitka’s trolley.
Trolley sharing the road.

October 9, 2023 - A real trolley sharing the road.

Gary from Michigan 🚂

Fire hydrant as seen on trainroomgary photo

Following Sitka' s crossing gate

Following WwWebFlyer' crossing gate....

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don’s autos

Palace Theatre featuring my Grandson

Following pennsyfan's car

ETS VW inspection car:

Following @pd...Yard crane

Best Wishes

Don

A yard with a long boxcar train passing on the main line.

Following Randy Harrison  Water Tank

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Following water tanks.
BB1 repositioning business car.

following pennsyfan...signals overhanging multiple tracks (these semaphores are Hornby post war likely 1950's)

Best Wishes

Don

Similar Hornby semaphores (incorrectly repaired here):

Seen on pd photo, steam engine

Following steam with steam

Following pennsyfan, with more steam

Steamers

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

More steam locomotives, a few Diesels and a load of boxcars.

Steam power:

following pd...steam power, Lionel 736 Berkshire.

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don, another steamer moving freight

More steam, the crew of the B&A Berkshire #1407 has just challenged the crew of the PRR T-1 6110 to a race out of town.