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Railfanning at the eastern end of Mifflin interlocking. The tower is visible in the distance in the first photo. The highway bridge is a scale model of the PA Route 35 overpass built by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways in 1964. The MTH F-3's are pretty old but have been retrofitted  with TMCC by TAS, and my son Steven has added tons of details like roof antennas, a fixed pilot, Kadee couplers, and much more. Planning on finally getting these engines and many others weathered after the upcoming NMRA regional convention here in Pittsburgh next May:

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A 44 Tonner sits on a track waiting for clearance as a DR-12-8-1500/2 with a 78 car train pulls out of the arrival/departure track.  The little shifter fantasizes about pulling that many cars but its twin diesels can only generate 400 hp total, a bit less than the 3,000 hp of the Centipede.

When I grow up

The 44 Tonner is a WbB and the Centipede is Lionel.

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K-Line Santa Fe SD75M pulling ATSF flat car with Santa Fe trailer from Atlas O.

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Atlas O ATSF 89' flat car with Santa Fe 45' Pines Trailer

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ATSF 89' flat car with a pair of Santa Fe Piggy-Back Service trailers from ATLAS O

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Atlas O TRAILER TRAIN Front Runner with CN INTERMODAL trailer and Santa Fe caboose

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CN INTERMODAL SuperModal trailer on CANADIAN NATIONAL flat car from M.T.H.

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Andrew

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Rescued Trains posted:

Trumptrain, Could you please furnish info on the boxcar in your last image? I've searched the internet visually but could not find. A manufacturer or model number would be greatly appreciated. Just to be sure I'm asking about the cardinal boxcar. Thanks.

Steve

Steve - the car you inquire about is a MTH Railking.  It's one of their Season's Greetings boxcars.  I bought it new at York from the MTH booth for $20.00 a few years ago.   I'm not sure what year it was manufactured. Sorry I don't have more info.   As my train boxes are all stowed away,  I would have to do some real digging to find it.

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Rescued Trains posted:

Trumptrain, Could you please furnish info on the boxcar in your last image? I've searched the internet visually but could not find. A manufacturer or model number would be greatly appreciated. Just to be sure I'm asking about the cardinal boxcar. Thanks.

Steve

Steve - the car you inquire about is a MTH Railking.  It's one of their Season's Greetings boxcars.  I bought it new at York from the MTH booth for $20.00 a few years ago.   I'm not sure what year it was manufactured. Sorry I don't have more info.   As my train boxes are all stowed away,  I would have to do some real digging to find it.

THanks for the info, it was enough. I found one on the bay. Stock No. 30-74657.

Steve

Well, after some passenger car issues, I decided freight would be better to run behind the S2 electric. Passenger cars were too heavy to be pulled on the Christmas Tree layout, that and the O42 curves made it real hard even though the MTH cars say they can run on that.

I get to show off some stuff from my York purchases as well as one I got from Allentown. Glad I got to do some running after shoveling stone for almost 3 hours in on and off rain today.

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Putnam Division posted:

I had a fun day running trains.....some friends grandkids were in town.....so, I fired up the modular layout.....

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Have a great weekend everyone!

Peter

Peter,  I love this church scene. Although the church is different, it reminds me of the little wall at the church in Mayberry on the Andy Griffith show. Looks natural to me. Nice work.

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