WHAT TRAINS DID YOU RUN TODAY?

SP freight run.

Paul, instead of another sound boxcar or reefer, Lionel should come up with rolling stock that emit smell.  Imagine how good that boxcar of biscotti would smell on an early morning leaving the factory.  The youth hockey players at the skating rink next door would be drooling as the train went by.

Today we ran the 911 First Responders…. Happy Railroading Everyone… Have a great weekend, and Happy Father’s Day to….

2:00 am, can't sleep, so I went downstairs and fired up the S.S. Brill gas electric, some RDCs and a K-4 headed consist to cycle through a morning and evening shuttle service through nine towns.  All local service.  Takes awhile.  Sure beats reading or counting sheep!  G'night.

Running my new Berkshire.

Let me take you back to 1956 in horse country where a Maryland Midland diesel hauls a B&O freight train through a town called Plasticville.

[This introduction reminds me of the way Rod Serling introduced his Twilight Zone episodes. He would add a spooky remark like: "Although the train is moving, the people and creatures are frozen in time, as still as mannequins in a store window." LOL]

The smoking locomotive is an MTH Premier Proto 3 Maryland Midland diesel. Arnold

I ran my MTH Premier N&W A Class loco!

Rod, I mean Arnold; what is the structure between the gas station and the tower?

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Rod, I mean Arnold; what is the structure between the gas station and the tower?

Jay, to the left of the tower and in front of the gas station in my above video is the back of the Plasticville supermarket.

To the right of the tower and the gas station is the Plasticville corner men's clothing store.

Here is a photo of the Corner Men's Clothing Store:

Here is a photo of the front of the supermarket:

Since I don't have much room for structures on my long narrow layout, I chose these structures because they are relatively small, and I could have eough structures to make a little village. Arnold

Thanks Arnold, I never knew that Plasticville made a haberdashery.

Correction: the above photo that I described as the Plasticville Supermarket is actually the Plasticville Hardware Store. In the 1950s there was a good chance that such a hardware store would have sold Lionel trains.

The N&W "J" starts the morning off getting the coal rolling,   then the Chessie Steam Special leaves the station .  The WM BL-2  is pulling out with the parade train getting ready for the Christmas in July festival.

Good thing the Boomerville sign is flexible. Those Christmas trees really wanted to take it down. ; )  Thanks for sharing. 

Happy Independence Day!! 🇺🇸

@Rixster posted:

Happy Independence Day!! 🇺🇸

Amazing!

Ran my new Baldwin demonstrators on my high line in a night scene. With six motors they plenty of power for the grades on this line. Happy  4th everyone.

NYC ESE….

Pennsy all the way, headed by this MTH Proto 2 PRR VO1000 diesel running on DCS, hauling coal, merchandise in boxcars and oil through Amish country, specifically Bird-in-Hand, PA.

@JamesRx posted:

NYC ESE….

I love the camera angle of this video, and the little people standing on the station platform and seated in the coaches. It beckons us to call out: All Aboard!

Ran a FlyerChief on my expanded S gauge layout today.

Today we ran the 911 CSX First Responders lash up again… Happy Railroading Everyone….

Arnold did the crew stop t the Bird in Hand Bakery for some Shoe Fly pie?

The 5:45 AM out of Grand Central….

Leapinlarry,  Wow,  that's one beautiful layout,  did I count 5 different levels ?  Did you make your own rock formations ?

Doug

@coach joe posted:

Arnold did the crew stop t the Bird in Hand Bakery for some Shoe Fly pie?

Not sure, but if I was in the crew, I would have headed straight for the saloon in Intercourse, PA.

I just Googled it:. Don't know if there is a saloon, but there are some interesting activities relating to the Amish.

Here are my Lionel C&O Hudson and Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt pulling passenger cars.

I was going thru my plug door boxcars which are an extension of my childhood trains. I have been trying to recreate the

set I had between about 1953 and about 1965. It started with 1953 set when I was about 4. 1130 loco, 6066T tender,

6034 boxcar, 6032 gon, 6465 tankcar and 6037 caboose. It went into grandmas attic after that. I would get to play with it

when I went to visit for a few days. Somewhere along the line a 6062 NYC gon was added. About  '55 or '56 my dad and

grandfather set up a sheet of homosote on a couple of sawhorses in her basement, a bit wavy with no framing but amazing

for me. My grandfather showed me how to solder and how to use his table saw and said there you go and went back up to watch

the Cubs. Imagine a 7 year old today standing on a wooden box operating a table saw with no guards and an open belt. I

learned to make my own uncouplers (glue a nail in an old spool, wrap wire around the spool and apply power), made crude

manual switches on a piece of wood from an old box, etc. Anyway, here are a couple of short vids of my recreation of my first

set, and its progression thru the next few years. The little 1130 could manage the cars on the sheet of homosote back in the

day kinda, but I don't want to burn this one up. Sorry about the crude video

I just love the look of the smoke pouring out of this MTH PS2 Pennsy Turbine running on DCS:

@farmerjohn posted:

Ran my new Baldwin demonstrators on my high line in a night scene. With six motors they plenty of power for the grades on this line. Happy  4th everyone.

Those Baldwin demonstrators look awesome!! Great looking layout, too!

July is military trains month at my house.  So I dug out some of my PW military items.  The inner train is pulled by 2 US Marines Alcos (both powered) and ends with the US Marines caboose.  I put an MRC sound system in the lead unit so now it has prime mover sounds, horn and bell.  Really livens up the action with these old Alcos.  The outer train is pulled by the US Navy Alco AB and ends with the security car.  Lots of fun shooting missiles and rockets at exploding bunkers and exploding boxcars.

Rolland

GP40s pulling my new freight cars.

Boomer 0622, thank you for the compliment, we used hydrocal in scenic express molds and painted each one individually, and yes, 5 levels, all inter-connected together, so a train on the bottom level can wind it’s way around via two helixes through each level all the way to the top and via a “Y” on the top level turn the train around to decent to the bottom level. I’m getting ready to set up Routing with my Cab 2 remote to make it easy. Thank you for asking. Winston B, cool video, I love the UP lash up freight train, wow…James RX, Beautiful NYC diesels video, nice layout and great scenery,  Happy Railroading Everyone

You have a gorgeous layout and trains, Larry.

Was at my buddy Jerry's house running trains today,

Hi Ulus,  great videos of some of yours and Jerry's trains.  Jerry the layout is as impressive as ever. Love all the aged custom military equipment. The Santa Fe colors really pop with the stainless look.

Keep up the good work!

Duncan

I decided to get out my old HO trains and clean them up a bit. Three of the locos ran after a few minutes of wiping down the track and the loco wheels. One still needs some work. Wow! I felt like a younger kid again. It brought back so many great memories.

I got that last HO loco running yesterday evening. It's almost 25 years old. I now have four HO locos to run, along with a small fleet of freight cars. These are my locos (some of the locos have parts missing and are not in the best condition, but they run):

-Life-Like HO UP GP38-2 Hi-Nose #2007 (Just got it running yesterday)

-Life-Like ATSF Warbonnet GP38-2 #3500

-Bachmann HO ATSF GP40 #6067

-Bachmann HO UP Greyhound 0-6-0 Steam Loco #4441

Here are a few pics of the locos (not my photos of course):

Ran my Bluebonnets on high line.