This past weekend, our layout set up was the bigger ever, 20x55’.
So, I brought my K-Line -5 with TMCC/RS (from the early aughts), and let her rip!
As a youngster, I can still remember these sleek beauties flying by while at my grandparent’s home in Larchmont (west of I-95, just north of Larchmont Station).
Peter
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Same here, used to sit in a Honeysuckle tree just west of the Old Greenwich station and watch those beauties go by. My 2350 has been resting for half a century. I suspect with a little lube it will fire up. I'll have to find a D cell for the horn, that may need a little coaxing.
Being a lover of all locomotives under wire, I picked up a K-Line EP-5 earlier this year to pull my GGD and Weaver New Haven cars. Just need to convert it to two rail and I'm good to go. I am too young to remember these in operation even if they did finish their days pulling freight trains on the Jamesburg branch for PC and briefly for Conrail not too far from where I grew up. Great locomotives and great to see yours doing what it was designed for!
Here is New Haven "Jet" #371 - model by MTH with PS1!
MELGAR
As a kid my friends and I used to play by the tracks in Stratford, CT. There was a lot over looking the New Haven track that we referred to as dead man's curve.
When the EP5 came by, we only heard it when it was near us. The JET flew by and we never heard it coming.
I also have a Lionel 2350. It was featured in 3 cataloged sets in 1956-57. I am fortunate to own one of the sets from 1956……..follow the top shelf to the left……
Peter
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