And now for a Blast from the Past

first up,,a RARE shot of all three of them  CP Rail - Santa Fe - Penn Central
Yes,,the Santa Fe CAME with those two pick up trucks, Believe it or Not.

This video looks at a Russian HO scale layout.
It's attention to detail is amazing, well done.
26 minutes long, worth a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7I_z6k-MOY

Big Boy Schedule,,,Per  Union Pacific

so I guess if you just happen to be in  Las Vegas, Salt Lake City or Ogden over the next few days,,

http://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/details.shtml

Good news for anyone that has a Bachmann 2-8-4 Berkshire Pere Marquette or the MTH version but still needs a caboose for it!

Altas has just announced a new run of their Trainman Coupla Caboose which will include two roadnumbers for Pere Marquette.  Roadnumbers will be A904 and A913.

These should be out around August 2011 if all goes well.

For Nickel Plate Road fans,who have the 2-8-4 Berkshires ,Atlas should be releasing two NE-6 cabooses in roadnumbers 759 and 769  sometime this month [FEB]!

This should appeal to all modelers out there!  Too cool to not share,,and there is a model train mentioned, see if you can spot it!  Hosted by Mike Rowe,,,,watch it, good lessons to be learned here

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=DmrCuaZRO7A

a quote, does this sound familiar?
" it is 99% finished, the remaining 1% will probably take another 30 years"

This weeks theme: Boxcars




Your turn! Post them here.

 

There be a Mohawk in Elkhart Indiana that just Might be brought back into service,,News story here

http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-plan-could-put-70yearold-elkha-122710,0,196702.story

Ever have mysterious derailments going thru switches?
Just so you know that you are not the only ones,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Nq632eV6I

To start off, this one from KCS,,a general map of modern lines

http://www.kcsouthern.com/en-us/KCS/Documents/system_map[1].pdf

I just tested the above link, it looks like you will have to manually enter the   [1].pdf   part

South Bend

Sunday, October 17, 2010. 10:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern Time. South Bend Elks Lodge 235, 3535 E. Mckinley Ave (US20), South Bend, IN 46615. All scales, Z through LGB.
link
http://www.sjvrr.com/swap.php


That is right next Next to Politos!  mmmmm,,,best pizza in NW Indiana.

Michigan City

Sunday, November 28, 2010. 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Chicago Time. NECA/IBEW Community Service Center, 301 E. 8th St,, Michigan City, IN. All scales of model trains. Sponsored by the Duneland Model Railroad Club.
link
http://www.monon.org/stores/2010MichCity.pdf

There is going to be Two MRR shows on the West side of Michigan this month.

1st is in Holland, MI

Holland Show
Sunday • 10 • 10 • 2010
At the Holland Civic Center
150 W. 8th Street • Holland, MI
10 AM to 3 PM
$5 Entrance Fee • Kids Under 12 Free

10-10-10  ----> Now THERE is a date you just do not see very often.

link
http://www.grmrhs.org/

2nd is in Kalamazoo, MI

Kalamazoo Show

Gigantic Train Show and Sale!
Our 31th. Annual Show!
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Come see us at the Hazel Grey Building on the
Kalamazoo County Fair Grounds, Open 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Adults $5.00, Kids under 10 Free with paid adult admission.
We have Operating layouts, A Hands-On Children's Layout, RR hobby clinics and tons of train and RR memoribilia in every scale.
There will be Door Prizes, a Food concession, Free parking, and MORE!!!!

Directions to the Train Show and Sale:
From I-94 at Kalamazoo, take the Sprinkle Road exit. Go North 1 mile to the traffic signal at BL-94 (Kings Hwy). Turn Left (West) and go one block to the traffic signal at Olmstead Rd. Turn Right (North) and follow the yellow "Train Show" signs to the Fair Grounds.

Sponsored by the Kalamazoo Model Railroad Historical Society



Went to both last year,,worthwhile daytrips.
Goin again this year,,this time armed with some greenbacks.

Today i swapped out number of couplers for Kadee #5s and many plastic wheels for metal ones.
Before i knew i had a small pile of old plastic wheels and couplers.
I was not about to just toss them away,they just might come in handy someday,but what to do with them?
As Red Green likes to say "Imagination costs nothing"
That is when i turned around and spotted my empty 40foot gondolas.
So I grabbed one,experimented and voila! the wheels fit perfectly inside the gondola.
I had enough wheels to fill two 40ft gons,,just stagger them a bit and it is a perfect fit.
Now the gons have loads.
Did the same with the old plastic couplers, just threw them into a 50ft gondola.
These loads can be fresh from the machine shop that made them, or overhauled them, or
on the way to be overhauled, or to the scrap yard or something like that.


Go ahead and post your own old parts recycle ideas!

This is a just for fun thread.

Who is saving up for a Steam loco?  'Fess up.
Everyone line  up and form a circle, then pair up in groups of three.

There are two that i am saving up for. Either a  BLI Heavy Mikado NYC
http://www.broadway-limited.com/images/view.aspx?productId=959

or the BLI Light Mikado UP
http://www.broadway-limited.com/images/view.aspx?productId=966

OR,,,If they EVER get them in and release them,,these were announced  in 2008,,and we are still waiting here in 2010 and counting,,,
a Roundhouse Pacific,NYC .  This would be sweet for my Spectrum NYC heavyweights.
http://www.roundhousetrains.com/Products/TechnicalSpecs.aspx?ProdID=RND85129
or the ATSF version Pacific

Ok i lied. that's four.  
Leaning towards the Mikado. or the Pacific,,,or one of each?

Here is something you do not see everyday, a CSX train hauling what appears to be railroad rails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evusDw5IWLg


Post your own finds here!

Almost missed it!
141 years ago today, the 10th of May 1869, in the state of Utah, more below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory_Summit

Famous Layouts or the layouts of Famous People is the theme of this new thread.

To Start things off, The layout of Gomez Addams.
I like to think there is a little bit of Gomez in all of us.

First this one shows a recreation of the 1960s' TV show layout

http://www.toytrains.info/info.asp?t=Trackage&colnum=10&submit=go

This layout plan is the one used in the movie

http://addamsfamily.com/addams/addamstrain1.jpg

The TV layout in Action!  From 5-Minutes 40 seconds to about  6-Minutes 24seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJRHeF0Jas

Myuh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQymg0UHvk

"anything train related on this board"

56k modem users,,,sorry! don't how well this will work for you.
Cable and DSL users should be OK!

Train Songs!
Songs About trains, or at least mention Trains in them.

I think this is the original version of  "Rock Island Line" by Lead Belly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiJ4QQG9WQ

The Johnny Cash version of "Rock Island Line"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC66PCsUhcg

Boxcar Willie  "Wabash Cannon Ball"  [yes that is UP 844 in the video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pleovx3k894

Boxcar Willie  "The Wreck of the Old 97"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyk3AEXvmLg

Tell us about your avatar picture if you use one!
The pictures are usually small and sometimes difficult to figure out What the
photo is of.
So I will start this with my own.
Mine is a shot of a  triple header. With a 4-8-4 in the lead.
The Locos are in order:
A.T.S.F #3751,  FP45 #97, FP45 #65?  It looks like 65 to me when I zoom in.
And what looks like some sort of passenger combine behind the F-45s'.

The photo was shot in the Cajon Pass of Southern California.
Here is a larger view.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=132186&nseq=139

Your turn!

I stumbled across this site,,real models!
Oh well,,,,if I ever win a big power ball lottery

But it is worth a look

http://www.masonstrains.com/MTatlantic.htm

Down but not out, PM 1225 needs boiler work done, should take about a year to fix 'er up.
Great Lakes Central Railroad steps up with a Diesel for the North Pole Express excursion trips.

Full story here

http://www.mstrp.com/index.php