Photo Chain Game

Following Sitka’s light

Head light with a coal drag behind it  

Following pennsyfan, engine light

Following headlight

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Still lighting the way.

Headlights piercing the night, lol:

Flyer 3315 dragging a local freight out of the tunnel at Heat-Pump Pass.

PD

following pd....Headlight pierces the night!  (French Hornby O- E tender locomotive post war 1947-48 )

Best Wishes

Don

Following the bright lights

The link below is to a YouTube video of another steam locomotive headlight piercing the night, the headlamp of my Lionel, postwar, 736 Berkshire easily leading a 20-car freight train powered by it original 1953-54 "Pullmore" (forgive my possible spelling error) motor with magnatraction adhering its drive wheels to the rails.

Action On The Main Line - YouTube

@Randy Harrison- neat video Randy, thanks for posting.

Don

Following the passenger train in Randy’s video.
Instead of a headlight; how about tail lights. Here is a NYC train preparing to leave the station powered by a MARX 333 steam engine.

Following Bob's passenger train tail lights.

Regards,

Bob

Following Bob's Observation car tail lights.

Following dog in Sitka’s photo.
Brown’s Harley Davidson

Following pennsyfan,  bikers

Busy City Street.

Mercedes Benz

Following water tower

Mastercraft Door Factory

following pennsyfan...Door Company

Best Wishes

Don

Stock car:

Following Don and Bob:  Morrison's Door Factory.

A funny story at my expense:  I needed to fill a space between two buildings on my layout and the Woodland Scenics Morrison's Door Factory fit the space. After it was installed, a model train friend who is a retired contractor visited my layout and said he thought Morrison's Doors was neat. I'm a retired classical musician and said, "Oh, is Morrison's a famous door manufacturer?" He looked at me and said, "Duh......Jim Morrison......Doors."

I need to think outside the box more.

Regards,

Bob

Following bobfett, U36B (sharp building by the way)

Following Sitka’s telltale

Following pennsyfan, crossing gate

following Sitka...crossing gate

Best Regards

Don

Crane:

Following pd’s water tower.

K-Line
Raritan River Copper Works Porter

@Sitka posted:

Following bobfett, U36B (sharp building by the way)

Thank you, Sitka.

Bob

following pd...Lionel 2-4-2 Scout type loco # 1110 and 100T tender 1949,1951-52

Don

Another Scout, the plastic-shelled 246 with Magnetraction:

PD

following pd..."back at you!" Another Scout the #1061, this one plastic  and made as both an 0-4-0 or a 2-4-2,1964 & 1969.

Best Wishes

Don

Lionel set 1465, headed by a Lionel 2034, another incarnation of Lionel's "Scout" series of locomotives:

From one year only, 1952, the 2034 seems better than the traditional Scout as it features an open-frame motor and a three position e-unit. I added a bell (there's is a hole in the boiler casting for it already) and green "diamonds" in the running light fixtures.

PD

@pd- I agree, the #2034 is a bit of an anomaly, since it is die cast and has the better motor it is "above" the low end Scout locomotives.  A derivative of the 2034 the #1130 had a plastic boiler casting but the casting was identical to the 2034.  It turns out that in 1954, Lionel was short of plastic bodies but had some 2034 die cast bodies left over so stamped them 1130 hence you have both plastic and die cast 1130's... Confused??  Welcome to the club !  Finally however in 1954 the tender came with an automatic coupler hence it could be coupled to regular line rolling stock.

I have a 2034 and despite its sometimes poor reputation, I like it  and it runs fine.  These small locomotives work exceptionally well on my little layout.

Regards

Don

Following pd, 2-4-2 Pennsy steamer

Following Sitka’s PRR Steamer

PRR T-1

Following pennsyfan, Pennsy passenger cars.

Following sitka tractor

following WwWebFlyer...shacks and small buildings on layout inside tracks

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don:  shacks

Regards,

Bob

Following bobfett, shack

More on the subject of shacks. Here’s an old wooden boxcar now being used as a storage shack next to the wye near the small town station.

Following wp, freight shack

Following Sitka’s man on platform.

Following Bob:  man moving luggage at the station.

Regards,

Bob

Man moving barrel in factory

Following Roger’s factory. My factory was renovated into a warehouse. Forklift driver loading a truck.

Following pennsy fan, forklift operator

from Sitka...forklift operator getting ready to off load new drill press for General Sash and Door.

Best Wishes everyone.

Don

Following forklift ....

Following Richie C, Fuel truck

Following fuel truck

Following tank trucks

@Sitka posted:

Following Richie C, Fuel truck

Mark,

That an amazing layout. How many trains can run?

@pennsyfan posted:

Mark,

That an amazing layout. How many trains can run?

Thanks Bob, nothing fancy I can run six trains and I have a block near the passenger station if I want to run shut power off then bring out another train, then in the small yard I have a few blocks to bring a engine in and take out another out. My other layout was 21 x 16 ran around eight trains, no picture all on the other computer that well *hit the bed. I like to run mostly pw Lionel, don't run to standard like some operators mostly for having a beer and days gone by watching my dad's HO Lionel. And grandkids watching and looking for different scenes. Was on OGR back in the 80s then got away from the magazine, with all the great looking layouts would have done it different. Thanks again Mark

Following pennsyfan, tank car

Following Sitka’s steam engine

Steam powered tank train.

Inspired by Pennsyfan’s steam powered train, here’s a double headed Shay logging train.

Following WPs Shay

Here is my Shay with custom log cars. It runs long. I tried to shorten it without success. I recently picked up a logging company bobber caboose, so I’ll be redoing the video.
https://youtu.be/7smj7EujOCg?feature=shared

Following pennsyfan, logs

More logs

@WwWebFlyer posted:

More logs

I had that log loader that was part of the Lionel "Electronic" set Santa brought the Christmas 1948.  Kind of wish still had it.

Ron

following PRRonbh and others...more "logs" ...oops, mine have already been turned into boards

Best Wishes, Don

@PRRronbh posted:

I had that log loader that was part of the Lionel "Electronic" set Santa brought the Christmas 1948.  Kind of wish still had it.

Ron

That log loader, a log car, and a caboose that I bought for $4 are all that I had left from my trains from the 50's when I returned in 2000. I also had the KW transformer, the operating cattle car, and the barrel loader which I replaced using ebay.

Following Don McErlean, hopper

Did someone say hoppers?

OK Somebody said "Hoppers" So here are mine, various manufacturers...

Lionel #9034 Kiddie City "Happy Hopper"  from 1977

Lionel #9016 Chessie from 1975-1979; 1987-1988; 1989u

Lionel #6076 from 1963u

Marx General Coal #554 from 1937-1938 in blue & red

Marx #86000 DL& W from 1953

Marx #1678 olive General Coal from 1936  Note short wheelbase, silver lithographed frame.

Best Wishes

Don

Hoppers

Lionel 1923 #803

Lionel pre 1940 #816

Unique Art Lines 1951

Following pennsyfan, Hopper w/coal

Hoppers with and without coal loads.

From Randy Harrison...First a "near" hopper, what American Flyer called a "sand" car in 1936-37 and then from his photo in background, a mid sized passenger station with auto traffic.

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays everyone!

Don

Following Don:  a load of white rocks in an MTH hopper and autos at the station.

Regards,

Bob

following @bobfett- News Stand.

Best Wishes

Don

Following Don McErlean, caboose

Following Sitka’s caboose, here’s my Pickering Lumber Corp. bobber caboose.

Following WP John’s Pickering Lumber co caboose.
Here is my Virginia &  Truckee caboose. I settled for this one because it was half the price of a West Virginia Pulp &Paper caboose  Since I only run the log train once or twice a year; I think it’s cost effective

Following pennsyfan:

Here is my Virginian caboose.

H

Following PRRMike, Virginian Bay window

Following Sitka caboose

New Marx Milwaukee Road caboose

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Following cabooses for de\efferent occasions!

Ron

from PRRonbh...another caboose, this one a very ancient warrior.

Lionel 152 loco and 801 caboose both from approximately 1923 or 100 Years Ago!  (and Yes...it does run although I do not run it often for fear of burning out some part I will never be able to replace).

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

from PRRonbh...another caboose, this one a very ancient warrior.

Lionel 152 loco and 801 caboose both from approximately 1923 or 100 Years Ago!  (and Yes...it does run although I do not run it often for fear of burning out some part I will never be able to replace).

Best Wishes

Don

Don,

I lightened your photo to get a better look;I hope  you don’t mind. I’ll remove it if you wish  

Boxcar

Here is the actual real one here at the NCTM...picture taken by me.

Ron

EDIT: Oh have the original MTH Premier model of this car too.

Boxcar:

PD

Following pd, steamer

@pennsyfan- Thanks !  Looks good

Don

following Sitka and Pd....steamer.  This one a Hornby (UK) type 51 loco (Jun '54 - May'61)  and Type 31 coaches (Sep '56 - Dec '68).  

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays

Don

Following steamer

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Steam locomotive

Following steam train.

Ron

following @PRRronbh - Another Steamer  (Dressler clockwork loco (Germany U.S. zone) and Mettoy Ltd freight wagons (UK early pw).

Greg - beautiful pre-war flyer with articulated coaches.  Randy- powerful PRR Pacific .  Ron - great looking Blue Comet

Best wishes everyone

Don

Following Don McErLean, station platform

following Sitka...station platform

Best wishes for the Holidays, fellow "chain gamer's"

Don

Following Don, station platform

Another station platform.
A quiet afternoon at the small town’s station with no trains in sight  

AMT Budd car at station platform.

from pennsyfan...Lionel Budd cars at the platform...

Best Wishes

Don

Trains at a Lionel station.

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Another station - surprisingly similar to wp's scene

Following WwWebFlyer...here are some small stations...

First the Christmas Train Station from the "around the tree" layout (one oval!)

Next the covered bridge entrance to the outer platform of the suburban station in "Small Town" on the regular layout.

Best Wishes everyone...I will be traveling tomorrow so not likely to post.  Wishing everyone a happy holiday!

Don

Following Don, Santa Claus

A puzzle I did a few years ago.

Elf bringing in a load of toys

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Following along with the theme of the season:  here's a photo of the merry old elf ringing the bell for the Salvation Army at the local Christmas Tree lot. Actually, the photo was taken about a week ago. We all know where Santa is tonight. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.

Bob

Woody wagon

Another convertible car. As in Pennsyfan’s photo.
Merry Christmas!!!

Following WP 55 Buick Century ragtop

Three convertibles

following WwWebFlyer...Another convertible...

Best wishes, hope your Christmas was everything you wished...Happy New Year!

Don

Following Don, Hard top with rag top

Box cars on a passing freight train.

Following Randy Harrison’s Theatre

The Dick Clark show featuring my grandson.

following pennsyfan...Chevy Nomad Station Wagon...

Best Wishes

Don

Waiting at a grade crossing, though not as well protected as Don M's crossing.

Following Randy’s fine soft drink truck

Here is an adult beverage truck

Following pennsyfan, beer barrels

Beer Reefers

Grade-crossing warning(s):

Following pd, head light

Following Sitka’s nice Boxcab headlight.
Lionel 256

Headlight

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Crossing

Following mike.caruso, diesel

Trains on shelves:

Trains on shelves.

908 304 5051

Following NJCJOE, Trains on shelves

Trains on shelves.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Trains on shelves.

Trains on shelves

Trains On Shelves:

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Folks!!!