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@mike g. posted:

All I have for now! LOLIMG_20210919_123949

Mike, Menards $20.00 freight cars, can't go too wrong with that! I too have a similar WarBonnet boxcar from Menards, different road number though. Also in the photo below with the WarBonnet is a Chief boxcar with graffiti. I have a bushel of Lionel metal sprung freight trucks, so I replaced the Menards trucks with the Lionel on these two units.

Happy Santa Fe Sunday!

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FOR SANTA FE SUNDAY:  The Lionel 2065 Santa Fe style Hudson pulling Santa Fe streamlined passenger cars.  I received the Hudson with a freight set for Christmas when I was 4 years old.  I purchased the passenger cars with allowance and grass cutting money when I was in 6th grade.   IMG_4445IMG_4483

Lionel Santa Fe FA 2 I received for Christmas when I was in 5th grade.  The set of diesels came as an AA set with one powered unit and the other a dummy.  This engine was never a great puller, however at the time all that mattered to me was that it looked cool with the warbonnet scheme ... and that it could handle those 3 passenger cars in fast fashion!  LOL! IMG_4347

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1775FA02-1A45-417D-A192-353F3917B850It is 7:00 pm in Floydada, TX and SL-SF locomotive #5010 has arrived ON TIME with QLA. The train will continue west to Plainview and Amarillo, TX on Uncle John Santa Fe with an ultimate destination of Los Angeles.  #5010 will depart Floydada with eastbound CTB (California Tulsa Birmingham) at 8:00pm to return to Quanah, TX and hand off to parent company Frisco at 10:45pm.  #5034 will depart with eastbound 3310 at 11:30pm.

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co system timetable No. 1 effective Sunday, October 17, 1971 at 12:01am CST

photo credit: Robert R Leese

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Hello Santa Fe fans, hope your Halloween Sunday is going well and your candy box is all prepared for the little guys in costume tonight!  Rusty that is some long and beautiful train...I enjoyed seeing all the passenger and mail/baggage cars.  Rusty, never get tired or seeing the real thing...thanks!  Well my offering on this SFSun is very humble.  This little guy only made one very modest but highly collectable appearance.  He was part of the 1963 "Libbys" set which is a rarity in itself.  I have parts of it, but am still looking for the Libby's vat car.

Here he is, a simple one color heat stamp on grey plastic, built 1963, the Lionel ATSF #6076 Hopper Car.  A very inexpensive car, one bay, never offered with a load, no color,  fully plastic including the trucks and couplers.  Things were definitely winding down for Lionel by 1963.

Lionel ATSF Hopper side view

Here is the logo end, proving his heritage as ATSF !!

Lionel ATSF Hopper logo view

Here is the end view.

Lionel ATSF Hopper end quarter view

Best Halloween Wishes to All.

Regards

Don

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@Rob Leese posted:

AT&SF #7 behind my favorite 4-8-4.

...and a question @Number 90Did #7-8 ever have a streamlined rider coach?



Nice train, Rob.

Trains 7 and 8 the Fast Mail and Express, never had a lightweight chair car or combine assigned, although I feel certain that one was used on a few occasions when the regular rider car was unavailable.  

The 7 and 8 of the 1960's used a heavyweight combine with air conditioning and plush reclining seats, or an air conditioned chair car with the same type of seats.  The combine was the "regular" rider car, but the train frequently ran in sections and so heavyweight chair cars caused no increase in the heart rate of any observers.

In an unusual act of bad timing, Santa Fe bought a number of new Budd RPO cars and rebuilt the rider combines used on the mail train, just a few years before the Post Office cancelled the contract that provided the reason for running this train.

Maybe we ought to become organized in petitioning Sunset/3rd Rail for Santa Fe heavyweight chair cars and the rider combine.

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@AGHRMatt posted:

Here are a couple from the Archives (I'm finalizing a couple of designs and hope to start the home layout build after Christmas):

Nice videos Matt. 👍

I liked how the rock strata was shaped in the beginning of the first video.    It seems to follow the curvature of the hillside.     I noticed that when traveling through parts of Pa. where the highways were cut through the mountains.

Nice videos Matt. 👍

I liked how the rock strata was shaped in the beginning of the first video.    It seems to follow the curvature of the hillside.     I noticed that when traveling through parts of Pa. where the highways were cut through the mountains.

Thanks. It gets tricky sometimes when you plan out the track, then try to build up the back scenery as if it was there before the track was cut in. I'm going to try something similar when I do my build at home.

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