I ran this train.................  https://youtu.be/y6_DN6MNxho

All hoppers are going back in the 2 containers tonight.

Sweet train! Where were the metallic squeeling sounds coming from SIRT?

I ran my new used MTH PRR L-1a back and forth on my test track. No layout yet... Great looking CNJ steamer. Excellent detail! The CNJ B&O C&O power was excellent too! I always had a soft spot for GP-30s. Nice to see one in there...

Tom

I ran my two favorites today.

I ran my long-dormant MTH Premier PRR T1 duplex steam locomotive.  I don't even model the era in which they ran, but I can't part with it because 1) it's a massive, really heavy hunka metal (and I've loved heavy things since I was a kid); and 2) there's simply nothing else like it.  At the same time I purchased it, I purchased a matching set of "Fleet of Modernism" cars, whose prototypes ran behind the T1.  That plus several of the fantastic Weaver PRR head-end cars makes a lovely train indeed.

I wasn't sure until today that the T1 would negotiate the curves on the inner loop of my new layout, but after a simply modification to a plate girder bridge, thankfully it does.

NSDTRAINS, looks like you're using Superior Walls too!  Great choice!  We have them in our addition that encloses my new train room, and I couldn't be happier.

I don't have an image at the moment, but I also ran my Premier PRR A-5 0-4-0, pulling my wreck train.  I need to post pics of that too.  I always realize I need pics when I'm posting.  This forum is all about images and videos, which is great.  I'll post images of this train soon.  The A-5 is a sweet little locomotive.  The bell is fantastic, with an uneven cadence that a hand-rung bell would have.

Great topic!

An R46 on the Q

Haven't run anything today but I generally swap out the trains on the layout once a week, usually Friday PM or Saturday.

Currently, on the track is:

-Lionel 4-4-2 Pennsylvania Flyer set

-Lionel Postwar (1950) 773 with postwar freight train

-MTH Chessie Show Train with the gold GP40

-MTH New York Flatbush Ave. Subway set.

Not sure what I'll put on there next, there are several things I haven't run in many, many months I may pull down such as the LionChief Plus Camelback, Williams/Bachmann 4-6-0, Williams RS3, MTH SD70ACe, MTH H10 switcher, etc, etc. I may pull out the Christmas cars this weekend and get them running.

Also another engine catching my attention at the LHS. Not sure if I'll get it, don't need another one!

SIRT posted:

I ran this train.................  https://youtu.be/y6_DN6MNxho

All hoppers are going back in the 2 containers tonight.

SIRT- love the wheel sounds from the hoppers. How many sound cars did you have in the consist?

Been running my K-line LIRR MP-15 and PRR 99 lately. After a swan dive my ATSF 0-6-0 was thankfully OK and cruising the rails once again.

Bob

a short freight coming thru....

I've been running diesels...the CNJ PWC Trainmaster and the BNSF Dash 9.

Per my 6 year old's request the Polar Express is making its run every night on our layout.

I ran this li'l bugger, just to make sure its track was clean enough throughout its loop, and to encourage it to stay in the mood to be ready to roll for Christmas visitors .

I tested this new to me BNSF genset.  Great little engine.  Will put in a lot of work in the future moving some cars around.

  Ran.it for over 12 hours in the last 24hrs

I hooked up my dcs so I trully ran a lot  for the first time. My queen and crescent, My chessie system, the Great Northern and my big Pennsylvania q2 duplex. Fun day. 

jlm1973 posted:

Per my 6 year old's request the Polar Express is making its run every night on our layout.

What a 6 year old wants a 6 year old gets

jlm1973 posted:

Per my 6 year old's request the Polar Express is making its run every night on our layout.

                   very nice city scene !!  can we see more pictures of that area....

Lionel post war 1615 steam switcher with bell, pulling operating barrel car; such a classic; I had to have it when I saw one of these on a video of Phil Klopp's layout many years ago.

K Line Pennsylvania GG1 (Big Red) pulling 10 postwar boxcars and caboose on outer loop, while Lionel postwar 646 Hudson pulled 8 operating ore dump cars and caboose; The 646 has Magnetraction and plenty of power and is another Classic; K Line made some smooth and sweet running engines during the last 10 years of its existence and this is one of them.

For passenger service, Lionel postwar Brunswick Green 2340 GG1 with Magnetraction pulled 4 streamline aluminum passenger cars. For me, this engine and passenger cars are the best of the best.

I have a long and narrow layout that goes around 3 sides of 2 rooms in my basement. The rooms are the playroom and, to make the layout more interesting and for dramatic effect,  I tunneled through the wall  many years ago to have trains on two independent loops of track leave the room and go around 3 sides of the laundery room, and then come back through the tunnel to the playroom.. (Please don't have your trains run through the laundery room unless, like me, you have an understanding wife.)

The reason I'm describing my layout is because if you have long and narrow space and still want your trains to run continuously, like me, you will need to use 031 curves and trains that can navigate them. One of my favorite engines to run on a layout like mine, which I ran today, is the Lionel Postwar 6220 (or 623) ATSF NW2 Switcher with Magnetraction. It hugs the rails, and has plenty of heft which makes it a good puller.  I ran it today and it pulled several operating log dump cars, several gondolas and a work caboose with search light. 

Nothing today ....Yet

My PRR 0-4-0 has been running after some service over the weekend.

last night, I ran the little guy featured in this video  that is the inspiration for my layout. Ivor is a converted Lionel 'Percy.' 

The Polar Express is making regular trips around the Christmas tree.

B&O # 99T is also pulling a short PRR excursion train when the PE is taking coal and water.

BLUELINEC4 clearly blows the competition away! 

The track is completely covered with snow; so no train running today:

Regards

Fred

No images, but currently running a Lionel Classics dark gray 2-400E pulling three green MTH state cars: California, Maryland and New York,

Also a Lionel Classics Fireball Express set pulled by a red 2-390E.

Finally, an LGB #414 Suisse RhB "baby" Crocodile electric loco with digital sound pulling two 26" green/cream RhB coaches and a 24" Dark blue Gourmino dining car with interior detail including lighted lamps at each table!  

BIG TRAINS rule!   

I ran what I see about five miles from the house.....

Last night's run.

BNSF 1249          Edit:  I’m so proud of my little genset switcher, then I notice my fly is open. 

   I'm running the Rivarossi IC 382 with an Old Log Beer woodside (ye old huffnpuff), and some other goofy stuff to trail it... empty keg flat, bobber tanker simply marked XX, a W&A wood coach (R.I.&P actually), followed by a little bobber cabin.....Two chrome RI&P generals, one mixed, one pure passenger..... and that same trolley.

An hour meter on the trolley might be fun over time, lol. I don't any but the 382 or my childhood 2037 can compare in run time vs ownership time and come out ahead.

Today, I ran my MTH Premier New York Central USRA 0-6-0 steam locomotive #231 double-headed with MTH New York Central 0-4-0 steam locomotive #901 on an eight-car freight. These are PS-2 models which run well on the O-54 part of my old layout.  What trains did you run today?

MELGAR

My new NYC Plymouth. 

Adjusted pickup rollers like our other prewar engines and ran this 254E with 800 series cars for almost an hour (50 minutes) with dcs remote set at 13 volts ZW set at about 18 track voltage and touched rollers afterwards and just slighlty warm.

Been running a lot of our prewar past few weeks.

My postwar steamers (671, 2020, 682, 685) are taking turns running laps around the Christmas tree with a short postwar mixed freight (3665, 6464-225, 6464-725, 6464-900, early postwar Pennsy gondola, 6017 B&M Caboose). Always fun to play with some of the best toys ever made.

Ran my new Lionel New York Central S-motor #3207 for the first time. A finely detailed model, quite heavy, Everything worked properly - including the swinging bell. And the sounds are certainly unique.

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

Ran my new Lionel New York Central S-motor #3207 for the first time. A finely detailed model, quite heavy, Everything worked properly - including the swinging bell. And the sounds are certainly unique.

MELGAR

That train looks like it is powerful enough to pull your house out of it's foundation. LOL.

My MTH 44 tonner 

MELGAR posted:

Ran my new Lionel New York Central S-motor #3207 for the first time. A finely detailed model, quite heavy, Everything worked properly - including the swinging bell. And the sounds are certainly unique.

MELGAR

I have the older TMCC version and love it. Like the newer version, it is quite heavy. No swinging bell, but a great sounding horn.

clem k posted:

My MTH 44 tonner 

How about a picture Clem!

MELGAR

SIRT posted:

I ran this train.................  https://youtu.be/y6_DN6MNxho

All hoppers are going back in the 2 containers tonight.

That vid was already "favorited" months ago. Your weathering is off the charts!

                                My American Flyers left over from Christmas. 

JHF,

   Just moving into our place a couple months ago I have not been able to spend much time running, most of the time is spent building and making changes we wanted to the house.  

I did get time to spend about an hour or so in the Train Room.  Marty E just upgraded my DCS TIU's and HHRC's to the 6.1 level so I ran some Trains today.  What a difference the 6.1 makes.  Everything now runs perfectly!   

PCRR/Dave

sncf231e posted:

The track is completely covered with snow; so no train running today:

Regards

Fred

That didn't stop this determined UK modeler with a outdoor extension: 

...and her trains are OO/HO scale to boot

---PCJ

My hat is off to you. That's a great video.

MTH Railking Proto 1 Pennsy K4 and Postwar extruded aluminum passenger cars (my Broadway Limited) running to the tune of Oreo Creme Sandwhich Blues:

Had to do some work on this old locomotive, before I could take it for a test run.

Lionel Lines

Still needs more work. I may have to take this one to Brasseur Electric Trains; in Saginaw, Michigan.

Gary

Resurrected an old favorite this afternoon.  I cranked up my old Lionel 221 "Empire State Express" engine and accompanying Whistle Tender circa 1946/47 and had her hauling a few all metal 6442/6443 Pullman/Observation cars from 1947  around the layout.  She runs just as good as she did back in  the late 1940s.

MELGAR posted:

clem k posted:

My MTH 44 tonner 

How about a picture Clem!

MELGAR

My Postwar 2026 Locomotive that I bought from an estate sale. It would hardly run.  I disassembled it cleaned out all of the dried up grease, dirt, hair, and lint. Removed the brushes from the motor sprayed contact cleaner over all of the contacts, gears and axles. Cleaned the gunk off the brushes so they now make proper contact instead of being stuck in the holder. Brushed away all the grime that was left. Polished the armature, lubed the shafts, gears and axles reassembled the motor , Washed the die cast body inside and out then dried it and reassembled it. It runs like a champ! It pulls all my post war rolling stock with ease. I actual feel like I accomplished something!

Noah posted:

My Postwar 2026 Locomotive that I bought from an estate sale. It would hardly run.  I disassembled it cleaned out all of the dried up grease, dirt, hair, and lint. Removed the brushes from the motor sprayed contact cleaner over all of the contacts, gears and axles. Cleaned the gunk off the brushes so they now make proper contact instead of being stuck in the holder. Brushed away all the grime that was left. Polished the armature, lubed the shafts, gears and axles reassembled the motor , Washed the die cast body inside and out then dried it and reassembled it. It runs like a champ! It pulls all my post war rolling stock with ease. I actual feel like I accomplished something!

Total victory is yours, Noah! Congratulations!

briansilvermustang posted:

MELGAR posted:

clem k posted:

My MTH 44 tonner 

How about a picture Clem!

MELGAR

"A little ball of muscle!"

I ran my MTH Premier PRR G5s steam locomotive #5740 with an N8 caboose. This is a PS1 model with a BCR that I run occasionally. It is well broken-in and runs almost as well as a speed controlled locomotive at low speeds. The sounds are very entertaining at higher speeds.

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

I ran my MTH Premier PRR G5s steam locomotive #5740 with an N8 caboose. This is a PS1 model with a BCR that I run occasionally. It is well broken-in and runs almost as well as a speed controlled locomotive at low speeds. The sounds are very entertaining at higher speeds.

MELGAR

Melgar, not only is your locomotive beautiful, so also are the pastel colored buildings in the background.

All of them

Newly acquired Lionel D&H U-Boat

For me, today was K4 heaven. Please let me introduce to you my two favorites:

See both the NJ Central Pacific passenger train and the Pennsy K4  freight train rolling down the line:

 I was running my 3rd Rail CPR K1a today...here #3100 is taking on coal before heading out on the "Dominion"

Al

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Working on a couple of projects and the ROW is currently closed.

MTH Railking Pennsy GG1 passenger train, K4 freight train and What About My Blue Shoes:

Completed track work last night. Ran my ATSF Geep and East Coast Lines 4-4-2. Not show was NYC Plymouth work train that cleared the ROW before the main lines re-opened.

Some short videos

Canadian Pacific 

KCS hopper train

Texas Special

Jushavnfun posted:

Some short videos

Canadian Pacific 

KCS hopper train

Texas Special

Very impressive.

RailKing pre Protosound nonsense 0-6-0, neat engine, with its small drivers the side rods really get a workout. Till it started to bobble and it had lost a traction tire which means it will sit on a shelf till who knows when.

JHF,

   Just got my 990 Legacy back from Lionel who repaired and upgraded it to the latest level.  Reprogrammed my engines into the Legacy Base with the Cab2 and ran the Scale TMCC JLC GG1, pulling a Tin Plate consist on our overhead Fastback Layout. The big girl  ran smooth as glass.

PCRR/Dave

BN SD40's rounding the bend about to help push on a coal drag.

Wow,some great looking trains in this thread, thanks for posting...

Wow nice setup Larry looks great!

These photos show the New Haven Railroad consist that I ran today. The EMD FL-9 #2043 is one of my favorite locomotives. Green Railway Post Office #3286 is a Weaver model and the McGinnis scheme 60-foot cars were made by Atlas O Trainman.

MELGAR

I ran these two modifieds today.

Ran my PRR J1 excursion train today with a BLI P70, 5 Walthers Amfleets, and an old Bachmann observation car. Supplying HEP was my NS 8102 trailing behind the “J”. Also had my Athearn UP 1943 doing yard work and building an outbound manifest NS 13R.

I ran B&M GP7 #1563 and caboose C124 for 45 minutes to recharge the battery. The engine is an MTH model with PS1 and is one of the first I purchased.

MELGAR

The Santa Fe.....all the way....... today

Today I ran two NS Manifesta. Tankers and Boxcars lead by ES44AC NS 8035 and SD60M 6776, and Intermodal and boxcars led by SD70ACE Penn Central 1073, and ES44AC PRR 8102.

Running passenger trains today:

I ran a Lionel #622Switcher with 3 loaded coal hoppers out of the coal mine....

A trolley through a late 1800's town

A rotary coal dumper to unload coal for the power plant of the coal processing facility

An Extra Budd RDC's to the top of the mountain

A trolley through downtown suburbia

And caught the incline railway to catch my ride home.

God Bless America BABY!  

I ran a 3-rail 0 gauge Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens (CIWL) train by Elettren from Italy with an ACO French NORD 4-6-0 locomotive.

Regards

Fred

I’m running an MU of two ES44’s; NKP #8100 “Heritage” behind KCS #4685 “Southern Belle” with common freight.  This is a fun hobby, doncha think?  

Melgar,

Ran some serious Tin Plate with a Scale GG1 at the head of the consist.

PCRR/Dave

And in honor of my Great Grandfather, who actually drove them, a Shay Engine, pulling a Military Transport Consist.

Actually the granddaughter is here today.  The layout went when we downsized four years ago, so I pulled out the box of Fastrack and set-up a floor layout and ran a Lionel T-1 Reading and an old post war GP7 2328

I ran my new(never ran before) MTH Premier 20-20050-1 PS 2.0 CP Rail E-8 ABA set with new(never ran before) Weaver Canadian Pacific 20" Passenger cars.

Ran ACL #1689 4-6-2 pulling an 11-car train yesterday:

This is a Williams/Samhongsa 3-rail brass USRA Pacific that has been repainted/lettered and converted to BPRC (the on/off switch and charging jack are under the removable black foam coal load), running on Atlas, Micro-Engineering, and Signature Switch 2-rail track/switches.

I'm still testing the layout, making sure the track plan is what I want before I attempt to put down any scenery, I'm in no hurry.

An 11-car train takes up a lot of space, even on a 12x30 layout.  A whole lot of clickety-clack going on as the train makes its way around the mainline, I like it!!!

The AT&SF Black Bonnet consist.

   Bill T.

I ran ICG 2268 with a mixed freight train and L&N 834 also with a mixed freight train. 

Ran some subways

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

For passenger service, Lionel postwar Brunswick Green 2340 GG1 with Magnetraction pulled 4 streamlined aluminum passenger cars. For me, this engine and passenger cars are the best of the best.

A PW GG1, pulling a string of aluminum passenger cars...that was the image from the Postwar Lionel catalogs that enchanted me the most!

A little 1930s prewar fun.        Fendermain

I just can’t seem to get this 22LABC Super Chief off the loop.  My Allegheny is due back from “L” soon, maybe that will shake it loose.

LionChief + Camelback Erie hauling Eastcoast boxcars:

Excellent sounds and smoke, which I expected from LC+. What I did not expect was the stunning detail on this relatively modestly priced engine.

I think Camelbacks have been the subject of prior Forum threads. This is my first Camelback, and now I understand why they are popular.  Arnold

Boston & Albany passenger train:

Finally got the signal bridge with its weight bearing activation device to work.

LC+ New Haven smokin' FAs pulling Postwar passenger cars around Yankee Stadium:

I ran a Lionel 0-8-0 New York Central switcher pulling 6 = MTH Madison NYC 13" passenger cars (baggage, combine, diner, coaches, and observation).  ALL picked up at a model train show yesterday.

I can't even begin to tell you how little I paid for these items (including a bunch of other stuff, too).  It's really criminal!!!  

The right place at the right time.  Probably never happen to me again.  Oh well, early Christmas present. 

Fendermain posted:

Postwar steam with prewar cars...Hey, I like smoke with my tin.      Fendermain

You have combined the charm of both, which makes many of us smile.

I only have a couple of Prewar cars, which I will share in a few minutes.

Fendermain posted:

A little 1930s prewar fun.        Fendermain

Great layout, I luv it.

Postwar switcher and Prewar cars:

I believe the 3 red bridges are also Prewar.

Richard Cuozzo posted:

Fendermain posted:

A little 1930s prewar fun.        Fendermain

Great layout, I luv it.

Thanks Richard...it's a lot of fun.       Fendermain

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Postwar switcher and Prewar cars:

I believe the 3 red bridges are also Prewar.

Good job.  Tin just seems more fun and festive around the holidays. It could be the brilliant colors and clanking sounds.  Thanks for posting Arnold.   Fendermain

Last night I ran 3 trains simultaneously on the layout, a local passenger trains pulled by  a camelback locomotive, a train comprised of gondolas with junk loads with an SW9 on the point, and a train of of pulpwood cars pulled by a 44 tonner.  Also running on the industrial spur was an 0-8-0 on a switching assignment.  All the while a trolley kept time going back and forth on the elevated trestle.  

Lionel 2350 with Modern Era New Haven passenger cars (from a good friend) and a 2055 pulling mostly post war freight cars.

2350 is powered from catenary.

https://youtu.be/jZ0xoeCr5-s

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

God Bless America BABY!  

   Most of the real estate plots are larger than my smallest layouts. Other plots bigger than my largest layout.

Where is this? Why is this? Who's is this? 

Washington Grain Train freight and a billboard freight.

   Bill T.

Best of Postwar: New Haven passenger train and Lackawanna freight train on the main lines early this morning:

Oil tanker cars, hoppers filled with coal, Tunnel through my mountains with me in control:

Lights flashing red, crossing gates go down, a smokin' locomotive makes that choo choo sound.

Arnold

This MTH Proto 2 Pennsy Turbine with a brand new BCR hauling endless boxcars:

AWESOME guys! Too weary from an over the top work week to run trains.

thanks to you all I could share in the excitement.

Hey Arnold, there seems to be no end to the enjoyment when you film the action! Thanks for ALL the videos. i needed that. 

Hey Fendermain,very nice colors in smoky action.

and to everyone else, great photos and films.

Leroof posted:

AWESOME guys! Too weary from an over the top work week to run trains.

thanks to you all I could share in the excitement.

Hey Arnold, there seems to be no end to the enjoyment when you film the action! Thanks for ALL the videos. i needed that. 

Hey Fendermain,very nice colors in smoky action.

and to everyone else, great photos and films.

 

Leroof...good to hear from you.  Work..that's a four letter word.  You will soon find time for PW activity.

Fendermain

Set out my PRR MP-15 to move some REA freight while NYC Plymouth is waiting to move a flat/ gondola combo to the work train.

Bob

Got Milk!!!

I ran my tmcc berkshire today.Pulling around 25 boxcars mixed freight.

I dug an old MARX 490 & slope back tender out of the junque box, Lubed it up, put it on the big Fastrack oval under the tree, hung a handful of old and abused 8-wheel plastic delux cars on the drawbar, threw up the throttle on my son's CW-80, and watched an Old School train chase its tail for a good, long (and noisy) time.  Brought back memories. 

The heck of it is, if I want to run my TMCC and Legacy trains on the big layout with the Cab 1, I will need to clean all the track, fiddle with the remote, fight with the rollers, and otherwise waste train time.  That process brings back memories, too:  why I got out of HO.

I know I sound like a single chime whistle, here, but that cheap, battered, low-end MARX set runs, which, at the moment, none of my expensive, pampered, newer trains do.  There is a lesson in there somewhere. . . .

O-h say can you see, by the dawn's early light:

The night train: TMCC Delaware & Hudson diesel hauling boxcars all night long.

Palallin,

Sorry you have had bad luck with your TMCC locos. My experience with them has been, by and large, positive. I can always put them on the track and they are ready to go when I am.

George

RSJB18 posted:

Set out my PRR MP-15 to move some REA freight while NYC Plymouth is waiting to move a flat/ gondola combo to the work train.

Bob

PRR - one of my favorites. Starting to like REA as well. And, as an acknowledged NYC fan, like the second pic as well.

Been enjoying these Railking B&O "torpedo" Geeps

Been giving my MTH Proto 1s with new BCRs a workout. Love the livery of this BN Premier diesel:

Arnold

Railking Proto 1 Union Pacific diesel:

 Santa Fe Williams FA-2s...good runner, great slow speed if that's your thing...with railking passenger cars.  Also Kline Pennsylvania A-5 steamer...great runner as well.

Fendermain

This has been conventional week.  My 1956 LV #627 44 ton loco, my childhood train, has been running on the layout.  Also brought out my weaver brass 0-6-0.  The switcher looks a bit funny at anything above scale 20 mph but it is nice to get these off the shelf.  The 44T has that growl I forgot about, nothing like those open frame motors.