Tail End Tuesday

Have a good Tail End Tuesday! God Speed All!

For Tail-End-Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the short train behind New York Central SW8 diesel switcher #9620 is tail-ended by NYC wood cabooses #19654 and #380 – both by MTH.

MELGAR

This is an RMT, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines cabin car that my son Chris just got finished weathering.

In 1930, with the onset of world wide depression, Hornby (Mecanno) like other toy manufacturers had to face a customer base with far lower budgets for discretionary spending, for things like toys.  Their solution, just like Lionel and American Flyer, was to bring out a lower priced line to make it easier to buy trains.  In their case the line was called M0 which was 0 gauge but a smaller scale than their regular line (primary curve radius was 1 ')  although as the years passed it did become a full line with appropriately sized stations, cross overs, switches , and signals.  Pictured below is the 1930 M0 offering.  The locomotive never had either leading or trailing trucks or drive rods, it was clockwork as were most Hornby trains, and it came in both red and green.  The lithographed Pullman cars were named "Zena" and "Joan" for unknown reasons but with exception to a late change in the color of the roof, remained the same and in the line until war production caused a stop.

In honor of "Tail End Tuesday" here are the tail ends of Zena and Joan , note the clear marking for Hornby, Mecanno Ltd, LIverpool.  You may wonder why, given that Hornby trains were for the most part clockwork, they had to bring out a lower priced line.  If you were to review the status of the 1920's you would find that Hornby, despite being mostly clockwork, were most certainly NOT inexpensive.  They were very high quality and finished beautifully.   The clockwork motors had track control, brakes, speed governors, and were very long running.  Thus like the other manufacturers when the Depression dawned, they had to make adjustments.

Happy T.E.T.

Don

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!  B&O cabboose by MTH.

Sam Houston Zephyr, SILVER HOURS sitting by Texas Zephyr, SILVER TRAY.

Railking, from RTR set 30-4046-1. Don’t believe, (but I certainly could be wrong), that MTH has offered this same caboose as open stock.

My Tail Ends for this Tuesday.
513 Observation of the 700 limited set

Track congestion in both directions

Hi guys, sorry nothing from me today, just doing a quick check in. Love all the wonderful pictures and videos!

The nightly Amtrak run leaving the station on the Pennsylvania and Ontario RR.

Chris

LVHR

@pennsyfan posted:

My Tail Ends for this Tuesday.
513 Observation of the 700 limited set

Track congestion in both directions

I  thought I got into Don McErlean's site when I  saw those two photos Bob.

Nice TET photos of your taii ends.

I may have missed a day this week...lol...here's the "Chief" at the North Main Street station...

@Dallas Joseph posted:

I  thought I got into Don McErlean's site when I  saw those two photos Bob.

Nice TET photos of your taii ends.

Thanks Dallas, that’s a real compliment being compared to Dons collection.