WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

One more thing, Fendermain, your tubular track and 022 switches look like they are spotless. I assume it is all Lionel tubular track, and the 022 switches must be Lionel. The trains on your videos always run perfectly on,  and through, them.

Were your track and switches made in the 1950s or in later years?

I bet it's a mix, like mine.

Arnold

Hi Arnold,

Thank you.  The 022 switches are vintage 1950s that I have refurbished.  The track is more recent, meaning the year 2000 +/-.  Yes, a mixture like yours.

Still breaking in those new brushes, "Counting Cars".. only eight, yet they are postwar coil couplers and heavy, but another test passed... she pulls slow and starts well. I am Estatic! Its no Big Boy, WOW those pilots enter the room 5 minutes before the boiler... Dreams are made of those Big Boys and Yellowstones... (someday)

But Today, Scrounged a switcher. You Go GIRL

Miggy: Nice videos of your trains and I welcome the nostalgia feeling.

Federman: I love the tinplate look, feel and colorful operating accessories on your layout. Thanks for the videos of your entire layout so we can enjoy all the details.

@WM fan posted:

Wow, beautiful, love the video, thanks for sharing.

Your welcome and I am glad you enjoyed it!

I was tasked with baby watching (distracting/entertaining) duty today and thought my 4 month old daughter might like watching trains. So I fired them up and ran 3 at once. She was pretty focused on them from her floor chair. She certainly let me know the trains had to keep moving, she was displeased when I stopped them. Video below, wait for the end.

Coal train Sunday. My first time trying to add a video. If it's not right just ignore it. I'll say sorry in advance.

What an AMAZING trestle! How long it take you to build that!? Absolutely awesome.....

Junior, 3 years.

Yes...you've certainly earned and own the moniker "Trestleman1"!

@Trestleman1 posted:

Coal train Sunday. My first time trying to add a video. If it's not right just ignore it. I'll say sorry in advance.

Great run by.... Great.....SPECTACULAR trestle!

Turn your phone 90 deg please.....this is a horizontal hobby. Vertical videos are frowned upon. Your trestle should be viewed in all its glory!

RSJB18, Horizontal it is from now on. Thanks for the input and compliment. Don

@Trestleman1 posted:

RSJB18, Horizontal it is from now on. Thanks for the input and compliment. Don

My pleasure. 3 years of your life deserves all the props it can get. 👍

jstewart: Nice train display. Beautiful baby!

Ran some modern BNSF engines, Maryland Midland and a Post War Virginian. Was a fun session!

Ran my DM&IR M3 Yellowstone today. The DM&IR used to lease out power in the winter months so on my layout the ATSF leased a Yellowstone to help with a power shortage. At least that's what I tell myself 😉.

Running White Pass and Yukon Route #100 with my newly printed Anvil Ore Container on flatcar, my MTH White Pass reefer, and my White Pass Rotary Caboose bringing up the rear.

Good morning everyone! Well, its been a couple of days and as promised here is a new running session video with the new VL GS-2s and much more! hope you enjoy and happy railroading!

Trainmaster04 -Are those K-Line Daylight passenger cars 21"?  And did you add to, or did they come with passenger figures?

@PH1975 posted:

Trainmaster04 -Are those K-Line Daylight passenger cars 21"?  And did you add to, or did they come with passenger figures?

I believe they are 21" long and for the passengers, I did not add them to the cars. I do not know if they originally came with the cars since a friend of mine got them from Trainz a few years back.

I ran my UP Lionel FEF3 with MTH passenger  car in a night scene. Never posted a video  before so I am learning.

@farmerjohn posted:

I ran my UP Lionel FEF3 with MTH passenger  car in a night scene. Never posted a video  before so I am learning.

Great Video john! thanks for sharing and I hope that you will post more angles of your layout. Very Interesting. Well Done

Got my K-Line Erie F3 back from Gunrunner this weekend.  Hasn't'  run in years.  Thanks John!

@Trestleman1 posted:

Coal train Sunday. My first time trying to add a video. If it's not right just ignore it. I'll say sorry in advance.

Wow! What a trestle!!!

Farmerjohn, While I was watching the video, Owen Fox listened over the phone... It’s a cool flick on a gorgeous home layout. Thank you for this nice scene. Happy Railroading from from your friends in Tennessee and Nashville...

@farmerjohn posted:

I ran my UP Lionel FEF3 with MTH passenger  car in a night scene. Never posted a video  before so I am learning.

Great video, love the night scene..

farmerjohn - Further to Miggy's comment, yeah some other shots of your wonderful layout would be great.  For example, I'd love to see more of your engine house (which appears to include an interior turntable) located in the top right hand corner of your 'night scene' video.   

Ran my Lionel Alco FA with a manifest of Menards cars

Like a sly black  panther emerging from its lair to go on the prowl a sleek bullet nosed Post-war Lionel 746 J class 4-8-4 Northern in its inimitable Norfolk & Western livery glides out of a darkened tunnel  in the Blue Ridge mountains of the Virginia’s.   It’s hauling a consist of mixed freight cars and is headed north to Hagerstown, Maryland.  

Two of my favorites, my MTH CSX 911 with First Responders train and my MTH 4141 with a military train

This evening I ran my Lionel/ MPC Penn Central GP7 with all Lionel Standard O cars.

A Williams Circus train Pulled by a CJB custom Allegheny Valley Railroad GP9.

Completed 1st of 2 road orders in operating session no. 2. After the 9 car tanker arrives in destination town, it backs through a busy area to spot tankers at storage facility.

Edit: Tonight a crew got a yard order for an EB M1a with an 8 car mixed freight and cabin car leaving the West yard for a town 100 miles down the line. After the consist was dropped at the yard, a fresh crew took coal and water, and backed the M1a to couple to another mixed freight for a WB return trip. That completes my operating Session no. 2. 

Thanks for the comments everyone.  Ran a UP mixed freight. On the high line which is above my little town I'm working on.*

@Trestleman1 posted:

Coal train Sunday. My first time trying to add a video. If it's not right just ignore it. I'll say sorry in advance.

Trestleman, nice vid. Sound with headphones on was great! Your trestle is amazing.

Farmerjohn: Your layout is super nice. The lights in the town buildings are a fantastic scene. I see the edge of a bridge in your video. I would like to see that sometime. Great train as well.

A PRR E6 Atlantic with the Broadway Limited passes a NYC beer train headed up by two Alco RS1’s.  It’s rumored the dispatcher gives the beer train clearance over all but the most important passenger trains!

John

@harleyhouse posted:

A Williams Circus train Pulled by a CJB custom Allegheny Valley Railroad GP9.

Hey harleyhouse: Does the dog - whose reflection can be seen in the window pane near the end of your video - enjoy running the trains as much as you do?

After work I ran my Weaver RSD12 C&O with a mixed Manifest of Weaver Boxcars and Lionel Piggybacks.

A complete and all original Lionel 726 Berkshire from 1946 with a working smoke bulb, Baldwin Disc Drivers and big 2426 tender strikes a pose on a curve and then it struts its stuff along the Shenandoah Short Line.  Not bad for a 74 year old.😃

@OKHIKER posted:

A complete and all original Lionel 726 Berkshire from 1946 with a working smoke bulb, Baldwin Disc Drivers and big 2426 tender strikes a pose on a curve and then it struts its stuff along the Shenandoah Short Line.  Not bad for a 74 year old.😃

Very nice run glad you shared it