BMT 2500 Standards on subway trestle.

@Sitka posted:

Beacon seen on Pennsyfan layout.

Mark,

Great looking industrial area, and a tease of the residential area.

From @pennsyfan- Trolly passing in front of station.

Best Wishes

Don

Train station from a rail fan sitting on bridge

Station:

Station

Semaphore:

Tank car

Extension searchlight car

Following Sitka, stationary searchlight.

Extension Searchlight powered by generator car. Providing light for welder making emergency repairs to lift bridge. Engineer checking his blueprints.

Photo Chain Game

Train with searchlight car working on the 4’ x 4’ layout.

Switchers

Switcher

Switcher pulling boxcars.

Tree

Pine Trees

Pine Tree - with caboose and tunnel.

Best Wishes

Don

Caboose with express door.

From Pennsyfan -  VW bus pick up truck!  Crew "fixin the necessary" !

Best Wishes

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

Caboose with express door.

Bob who is the maker and number of that car Thanks Mark

@sitka

i copied this off of Graham’s Trains site

MTH Railking SF-45 B&O Combination Caboose & Tool Car

Following Don’s crane

Gondola

Gondola

Icehouse'

@Ron H posted:

Icehouse'

Maybe I missed something, but I don't see this connection to last picture.

@John H posted:

Maybe I missed something, but I don't see this connection to last picture.

Maybe the loading docks John...........but hey..... I go a little spastic just trying to get in on the thread ,so what do I know .

Lionel Ice Loader

John H,

I guess I didn't think about the meaning of "chain game". DUH !!!

I don't see anything really relevant between the all the posted pictures except, maybe, the tracks.

Perhaps you could explain it to me.

Regards,

Ron H

@Ron H posted:

John H,

I guess I didn't think about the meaning of "chain game". DUH !!!

I don't see anything really relevant between the all the posted pictures except, maybe, the tracks.

Perhaps you could explain it to me.

Regards,

Ron H

Take a look at the first post of the thread: https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/79987520875956327

From Sitka's picture...Lionel flag pole.   This one from 1957 and YES it does have a 48 star flag.

Best Wishes Gamers!

Don

From Dons picture; view from news chopper.

Stations, control towers, people,vehicles, buildings.

From Pennsyfan photo, Station, control tower, people, buildings, and no smog

From the background of Sitka's photo: rotating beacon.

Control tower; as seen in Bob Fett’s video.

Control Tower with workers

Control Tower (with at least 1 worker) and trees (like Sitka's) -  This one tinplate from American Flyer #593 1946-1954

Best Wishes, Don

3 story building as seen in Don’s photo.

Sorry Randy, did I sneak in ahead of you?

@pennsyfan posted:

Sorry Randy, did I sneak in ahead of you?

@pennsyfan

That is no problem. We must have both been inspired at the same time and it took me longer to locate my photo and type. So, first come, first served. The building in your photo is great. I love that kind of old, urban architecture.

Following pennsyfan, a 3 story building with a picnic in the backyard. The folks heading home from work are getting hungrier and hungrier.

People at a concert in the park.

People:

People at the town park having some dogs.

People and friends playing in the snow, getting a Coke, enjoying ice cream, fancy muffins and a Hot Cocoa.

Don

Zephyr running thru the snow playland.

Fireman is placing a wreath at the flag memorial in Equestra Family Park.
Lionel NYC freight is entering the mid level tunnel.

Tunnel

The tunnel at Heat Pump Pass:

@Sitka: I'll see your tunnel and raise a tunnel. (Not much of a raise--we both have two lines running through them.)

Bob

Passenger train passes slow freight.

High Balling Pennsy K-4 with passenger train, passing a freight train at the stop

Pennsylvania Railroad...

@bobfett posted:

@Sitka: I'll see your tunnel and raise a tunnel. (Not much of a raise--we both have two lines running through them.)

Bob

Caribou crossing tunnels .

Fence

Ice Cream Truck unloading a refr full of ice cream.

Best Wishes

Don

2400 series passenger car as seen in Don’s photo. This one is on the scrap yard track; waiting for the torch.

Dairy truck with delivery man unloading milk.

EDIT:

Ouch.  Previous photo got in before I posted,

Milk car being spotted at local distribution warehouse...

PRR & LIRR Milk Reefers is

PW Lionel Milk car heading to the farm

Caboose

caboose....

MPC era cabooses...

Chain Game

Western Pacific cabooses.
One I made from a kit, one I bought new.

The caboose kit in WPs post made me think about this boxcar kit that my Dad made about 70 years ago. Since his BD is this week I thought it would be a fitting memory.

The car is wooden, the graphics are on card paper.

.

Boston and Maine for Bobs Dad

@Sitka posted:

Boston and Maine for Bobs Dad

Thanks Mark!

Nice Bob! I remember those kits.

I wouldn't be in the hobby if it weren't for my Dad. The interest in trains goes back 4 generations...

@Don Winslow posted:

Nice Bob! I remember those kits.

I wouldn't be in the hobby if it weren't for my Dad. The interest in trains goes back 4 generations...

Thanks Don!
You stirred another memory, in the 80s my son had given me an LGB starter set with the #2 loco. After a few years of running it in the garden, I picked up a US style engine. I was going to phase out the #2. One day Dad stopped over when the trains were running, and he told me that he remembered his Grandfather running an engine like that in Germany. Nuf said The #2 is still running; and now it’s at my son’s on Christmas.  So there’s 5 generations, albeit not all modeling.

I failed to mention that my Dad built my first layout. He also built one for himself when he was 85.

Well I admit it fellows, Im confused a little.  Don't know if I am responding to PRR + other cabooses or SOM Products box cars.  SOoooo here are pictures of both!

Best Wishes Don

OOPS ... I forgot in my above response, I could be responding to B&M rolling stock, so I am adding my Marx deluxe B&M boxcar to my list.  Best Wishes Don

@Don McErlean posted:

OOPS ... I forgot in my above response, I could be responding to B&M rolling stock, so I am adding my Marx deluxe B&M boxcar to my list.  Best Wishes Don

Don,

I followed WPs caboose post with a B&M caboose; but my narrative focused on the SOM boxcar that my Dad built. Mark and Don both responded with SOM. So you were good with the SOM car. This post boxcar follows box car.

Box car State of Maine by Marx

@Greg J. Turinetti - Hey Greg, good to hear from you.  What a great CV set you posted.  I had forgotten about the little 6" SOM car but it looks good on your post!

Another SOM car. Notice the different wording.

Get the whole story here. You will have to scroll down aways .

https://www.metca.org/PastCars.html

Back to Bobs SOM This was my dad's HO Lionel SOM with a PW 6464 SOM

Horses as seen in Mark’s photo.

close up of billboard

Well I don't have any horses, but I do have some livestock cars including a very large cow!

The cars are Hornby,  from the 1950's although the one labeled "LMS" is from 1948 or earlier (pre-nationalization). The cow is mostly from my strange imagination!

Best wishes

Don

Lionel 806 stock car:

Lionel 821 Cattle 1925-26

Don

Some different "stock" but they still have four legs; a Frank's Roundhouse Circus Stock Car with a QSI Calliope sound board.

Bob

Standard gauge 515 stock car converted to a lighted poultry dispatch car .

Happy chickens...

813 stock car 1926 - 1942

Another Lionel 806 stock car, this a bit earlier and rarer:

Another stock car PW Lionel 3656

Hafner Streamliner Cattle Car available from 1938 on at least until 1950's.  

MOOOOOO....the cattle car display has been awesome!

Don

The Katy stock cars

...And Marx Santa Fe.

Don

I think this thread would be more interesting (and challenging) if the item connecting to the previous picture was different than what the previous poster chained to. Twelve consecutive posts of the same item ...............

Pine trees spotted on Don's photo.

Stream

Ground water draining into river just below red pickup.

Stream and Pine Trees :

Don

Station / luggage

Baggage carts

Following Sitka:  baggage on a hand truck.

Man with crate...

Forklift with crate, men with box.

Men with tools, working… on electrical cables.

Work-crew:

workers

Trolley

Trolley under the El

Trolley on Mail Line:

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Trolley on Mail Line:

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

Nice Don; who made that?

@pennsyfan

I am afraid it’s a Chinese reproduction of s Psya street car. A$10 internet find just by chance. Don

Trolleys under and over the El.

Flag Pole, and station seen on Bob's layout

From Sitka:  Steam engine with Lionel main station in background.

My layout does not support the Lionel Rico station, the footprint is too big.  So I use the Lionel 115 pre-war station.  Hope this does not "bend" the rules of the game too much.

Best Wishes to all, hope you are having a good weekend.  Stormy and thundering here in central Texas

Don

Steam engine, station and platform

Hey @pennsyfan- what is that inner track?  Kusan?
Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Hey @pennsyfan- what is that inner track?  Kusan?
Don

Correct Don.

Passenger cars and Beacon as seen on Bob's layout.

Ives observation car

Following pennsyfan's Ives observation car: 2 Ives observation cars. They, with the matching engines, were my dad's cars. Yes, the photos were taken with them sitting on Gargraves O gauge track. I have all sorts of trouble trying to run them on that.

Bob

Observation car - and a presidential candidate we all agree on...

Pennsy observation car.

Observation car diner on Tom Snyders layout

Bicycle

Boy on Bike

From Sitka and JohnH :  Curved track, people, cars, trees and stores !

From bluelinec4 and others- Observation car...Kline Santa Fe.

Hope your weekend is going well

Best Wishes

Don

Balcony

Fireplug

Parking meter.

Fence with gate

Graveyard and mailbox

Mailbox:

Snow covered houses and people in snow.

Best Wishes

Don

Running in snow