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Three trains were running yesterday on my 12’-by-8’ layout. On the O-72 outer loop is a Sunset/3rd Rail New Haven Railroad ALCO PA locomotive with MTH New Haven heavyweight passenger cars. On the O-54 middle loop is an New York Central freight train with MTH USRA 0-6-0 locomotive and Pacemaker caboose. On the O-36 inner loop is an Atlas O Conrail MP-15DC locomotive pulling New Haven Railroad boxcars and a Conrail caboose.

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Although it is summer, I usually spend some time in the basement every day running trains or doing something on the layouts. Today I ran my New Haven EP-5 electric motor #371 (MTH PS-1) with a passenger train that now includes a Railway Post Office car (by Weaver) and a recently acquired New York Central GP-9 #6001 (MTH PS-3) pulling a freight train.

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None.

I have not run trains for a week now.

They are painting the outside of the garage and have been using a sprayer for part of it.

I covered the layout with very light plastic tarps before they started so that there is not chance of any paint getting on the layout, the trains, or the control panel.

Tomorrow they finish and as soon as they are gone, the tarps come off.

Shortly thereafter, the trains start running again!

 

 

Here we go!

LC+ NH FAs pulling Postwar passenger cars with PopPop Pussycat (that's me because of my beard) on the remote, and LC+ Jersey Central Pacifuc steamer hauling freight with my 7 year old grandaughter, Karina, on the remote. My 2 year old grandaughter, Julie, is tending to the farm animals:

We are all doing different things we enjoy.

This was a peak experience for me this morning, and I wish you all peak experiences with your trains this upcoming holiday weekend. Arnold

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As part of my peak experience with the trains  today, my wife, Shawn, actually did something on the layout. Here she is, helping our grandaughter, Karina, with the little people and animals:

This is a momentous event. Although Shawn is very tolerant of my passion for our hobby and knows it has been good therapy for me in coping with my, at times, stressful profession, I can't remember the last time she did anything regarding the layout. I think only our granddaughters could motivate Shawn to show any interest in the layout.

Also in the video is my 32 year old daughter, Maria, sitting on the couch and my 2 year old granddaughter, Julie. 

We all had a wonderful time with the trains today. Arnold

 

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Hey Arnold!

What a great looking bunch of gals you got to help you run your trains!  I wish I had a bunch of good looking girls to help me run my trains.  But I only got one funny looking boy (he's funny looking, because he looks just like me! ).  And my wife (she's pretty, too) don't want nuthin' to do with my trains. 

How did all your gals get to be so good looking?  Did they go to college for that, or sumthin'?    

 

What a wonderful way to spend the day!!!   

We all know that boys, by and large, love our toys, but let's not assume the girls won't be interested.

Daughters and granddaughters can go for model railroading in large numbers, and so can the occasional wife and sister.

The girls may naturally focus more on the little people (like playing with dolls) and the arts and crafts involved in model railroading. That is true of my 7 year old granddaughter, and was true of my 32 year old daughter when she was a little girl.

They also enjoy Polar Express excursions on tourist trains, which we are considering doing as a family, and steam engine rides. 

The girls may be an untapped market in the world of model railroading.

Pastel colored toy trains for girls, however, is not the answer. LOL, Arnold

 

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Great looking scenery Patrick, I can't wait to get started on mine. Jahn's ! You just brought back a ton of memories from the 50s!

Thanks so much Bob!  I greatly enjoy the scenery aspect of model railroading.  Jahns as I understand it was a small chain of sweet shops in  Queens and Long Island?  I would have liked to have sampled their delights many times over, however, I missed out because I grew up in Maryland.  However, running trains always brings back wonderful memories from everything from Christmas season, to walking along the B&O mainline and branch line in the summer when I was a kid .... ahhh, the aroma of creosote in the summer! 

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Great looking scenery Patrick, I can't wait to get started on mine. Jahn's ! You just brought back a ton of memories from the 50s!

Thanks so much Bob!  I greatly enjoy the scenery aspect of model railroading.  Jahns as I understand it was a small chain of sweet shops in  Queens and Long Island?  I would have liked to have sampled their delights many times over, however, I missed out because I grew up in Maryland.  However, running trains always brings back wonderful memories from everything from Christmas season, to walking along the B&O mainline and branch line in the summer when I was a kid .... ahhh, the aroma of creosote in the summer! 

Patrick,

Yes Jahn's Ice Cream Pallor originated in Queens, NY and did expand into Brooklyn and LI; however they were never the same as the original.

One actually opened in my neighborhood in Brooklyn (Marine Park) when I was a teenager, my excitement was quickly dampend; but I did take my girl out to the original several times. 

Living in the city, I didn't get to see many trains; althogh I do recall riding in my Dad's car as a youngster down along the East River waterfront. There were tracks in the pavement, and my dad had to pull to the side as a steam engine bared down on us with a few boxcars in tow. There was another spot near my Grandmothers where the Long Island railroad freight line ran from the East River through Brooklyn and Queens in a cut. At McDonald Ave they would switch out cars onto the trolley tracks. I remember waiting for the trolley and watching a steam engine pushing freight cars down the street.  The last action that I saw there was when they offloaded subway cars from a barge and a diesel pulled them down the trolley tracks all the way to the Coney Island subway yards.

Those memories led me to install EZ Streets on my layout and create a connection to an O Gauge loop. I also installed two EZ switches with short sidings; one to deliver an auto carrier to the Ford dealer and the other to deliver a Robert's Meats reefer to a butcher shop. Its still all a work in progress.

 

 

 

 

The photos and video below show my K-Line model (K2544-0412) of Metro-North Railroad 412, an EMD F-unit diesel, with two Atlas O Comet II coaches of the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The K-Line model was shown in the 2000 catalog at a list price of $309.95. The Comet II coaches were offered in 2008 at a price of $109.95. Although I can’t find evidence that Metro-North Commuter Railroad (MNCR) ever had a locomotive with road number 412, it did have road number 413, an FP10, in this color scheme, which ran on the branch line between Bridgeport and Waterbury around 2005 pulling a short train of Comet II coaches. Thus, the consist shown in the video is reasonably close to one which actually ran on Metro-North not too long ago. The K-Line model is an excellent runner and is doing about 55 scale miles per hour in the video.

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Thanks Melgar and Fendermain.

The river/stream and urban scene in the distance, as the F3s and oil tankers pass by in my video, could be wherever one's imagination will take you. 

For me, it is a Hudson River city or town like Tarrytown, Ossining, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie or Troy, NY further north. My preference is Troy because that is where my wife lived as a child and teenager before I knew her.

Arnold

Well, I ran my postwar, 2020, 2055, 665, and 736, now  All cleaned lubed and running like the day they left the corporation! 

Pulled unit trains, tankers, gondolas, boxcars. 

Arnold, you just have a fantastic family! Thanks for the movie!

Fendermain, great video too. I watched TOAD today after train play in respect to Ginger Baker.

Melgar always a pleasure seeing your trains and layout.

leroof.

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Well, I ran my postwar, 2020, 2055, 665, and 736, now  All cleaned lubed and running like the day they left the corporation! 

Pulled unit trains, tankers, gondolas, boxcars. 

Arnold, you just have a fantastic family! Thanks for the movie!

Fendermain, great video too. I watched TOAD today after train play in respect to Ginger Baker.

Melgar always a pleasure seeing your trains and layout.

leroof.

Leroof

Great to hear from you sir!

You have a nice collection of steamers...keeping them tuned up is part of the fun.

Have you seen the film Beware of Mister Baker?...it's both enlightening and entertaining.

Fendermain

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