Something You Can't Get Enough Of

ARNOLD: SORRY, but just could not resist!  😁  Also: chocolate!  😁

Love the humor! 

And I totally agree with Curt and Tinplate Art.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I just can't get enough of these trains running in this section of my layout:

I almost feel apologetic about posting this because I have posted very similar videos of this on other threads. 

Love these particular locomotives running past the 2 baseball stadiums and kitbashed backdrop recently mounted in pieces.

If you have trains and sections of your layout you just can't get enough of, you can share them here and tell us why you are so enamoured with them. Arnold

Arnold, it's great to see the baseball stadiums. So much in fact I'll tell you something that will hopefully make you smile. Last weekend I went to my LTS and one of my fellow customers was asking the owner's daughter(he was at Allentown) about baseball figures and building a stadium for his layout. Since I like most travel with my phone I whipped on to the forums here to show yours and Bryan in Ohio's baseball stadiums. He was quite happy to see what I showed and he and Krissy went to figuring out stuff for his. Hope that makes you smile.

Thank you, Dave. Your post did make me smile.

We can put on our layouts what we love. For those, like us, that love baseball and trains, having a ballpark on a train layout is very manageable. All that's needed is some scenery materials, baseball figures and, in my case, Pospicle sticks and acrylic paint for the bleachers. My fencing is made of chicken wire and cardboard. The other thing that's needed is enough space for the ball park on the layout.

Believe it or not, to make space for my Yankee Stadium, I removed my workbench, which included a circular saw and a vice. Most people think I was crazy for doing that. I can't disagree with them. LOL, Arnold

I like the popsicle sticks is great, and when mentioned it on your post about "scroungers baseball field", I thought that was genius. What made me smile was last Saturday when Krissy was telling the person inquiring about the baseball field was that she also mentioned popsicle sticks. That was when I popped on my phone looking for your post and Bryan's to show him.

It's just something else coming up with something on your layout. Whenever I get around to moving and getting my own built, I will have some sort of baseball field as well. It would be based on a party that our family had when I was still a kid. My cousin John was at the plate, clocked the ball out off our grandfather's property in the road hitting a van going north. The ball broke the windshield slightly and the guy returned much to my uncle's delight. Needless to say he was happy, and he told us to play ball elsewhere.

Our granddaughter playing with her trains:

tncentrr posted:

Moonson,

Love your layout and your photos. Very realistic. It looks like you're a Pennsy fan?

Thanks very much for saying so, Tncentrr. I appreciate your approval.

Yes, PRR is my top favorite, since my childhood and adolescence were lived in the Pittsburgh area.

The family worked in the steelmills, and trains were omnipresent, in every valley and along most every main roadway, crossing through towns, like McKeesport, as they made their ways into the mills, and we could always hear them, from our hilltop-perched suburbs, sounding their horns/whistles close-by.

I was, of course, aware of other RR names which were in and about the overall area, but somehow got to like the PRR best.

Thank you, again, for this reach-back, sir.

FrankM

That wonderful scent of ozone from a dormant postwar locomotive or motorized accessory. Sweet!

Wow Lenny that takes me back.  I was introduced to Lionel trains by my dad who always had a cigar lit when he was relaxing.  To this day the scent of Lionel smoke pills or a cigar takes me right back to when I was 8 years old playing with Lionel trains with my dad in the shed behind our house.

Rolland

Lenny the Lion posted:

That wonderful scent of ozone from a dormant postwar locomotive or motorized accessory. Sweet!

Yep, me too. There is nothing like the sweet, pungent fragrance of ozone to send one back in time.  That's why I still love running pre-war and post-war lionel. 

Running what ever I want:

Well since my layout is still in the construction phase, I can't GET ENOUGH of the great videos and pics you guys provide.  Thanks.

"Something You Can't Get Enough Of" Cold Meds...Sorry your sick. Pleasant dreams from my wife's people to yours. Don