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Shockingly, this old Lionel with Hobbytown drive performed magnificently this morning. Will post some
video later. A fine, steady, strong puller, she desperately deserves some decent catenary to complete
her look. "Air" catenary is so BORING. Those of you in the know, the real EL C had three axles,
not two. BUT this numbered and lettered for the last extant CR prototype. These tanks served
under Virgian, hauling coal, the New Haven and Penn Central pulling fast freights, and lastly
under Conrail blue. Magnificent, long lived, steeds.
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Posted - January 14 2018 : 10:13:58 PM
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| I LOVE those old rectifiers. Love to get my hands on some.
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Posted - January 15 2018 : 12:49:25 AM
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Video of Conrail 4601 doing the deal, earlier today.
https://youtu.be/GGPLbcXXoFI
And a most curious animated video:
https://youtu.be/hZICQ4dMvJE
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Posted - January 15 2018 : 09:08:07 AM
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Chops, I hope you find this interesting: There is another E33 at the Virginia Museum of Transpoortation, VGN #135. I believe thet the Illinois Railway Museum will be painting the 4601 (ex VGN #131) in New Haven livery. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg has the E33's cousin, the E44, former PRR #4465. All worked for Conrail and Penn Central at some point in their lives. None of these pictures belong to me:
 
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Posted - January 15 2018 : 12:21:59 PM
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| Great stuff, I was largely unaware of the E44.
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Posted - January 15 2018 : 12:50:43 PM
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NICE Conrail E33 Chops! Actually, I have seen the restored Pennsy E44 "The Brick" locomotive at the Strasburg Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania...several times! 
Here's my LOTW offering:
A Greenberg's Train Show find, from this weekend: a vintage Varney Burlington RR F3 A & B set! I lubed it with Liberty Oil, which definitely improved performance, but check out the video below which illustrates how the F3A slowly hogs power while gnashing-at the rails. These will be the very first Varney's I've ever had, and will definitely be added into the roster of locos to serve on my HO-Scale layout. 
Video: https://vimeo.com/251185325
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Posted - January 15 2018 : 4:21:04 PM
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One of my pair of Kleinbahn 0-C-0 electric motors.
frank
toptrain
" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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 Posted - January 16 2018 : 6:56:22 PM
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Tyco CN I got last week from a member & yeah I forgot who
thanks anyway
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Posted - January 16 2018 : 8:58:49 PM
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Model Power...
Mike
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Posted - January 16 2018 : 9:55:01 PM
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I think I read that 4601 was headed to the IRM
Illinois Railroad Museum 
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Posted - January 17 2018 : 01:34:34 AM
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In about this order: Wow, argh, argh, and argh! Fabulous Varney's.
Very special pieces. I read that Varney was a predecessor of
Life Like. Those three Canadian pieces are wicked cool,
my favorite being the GP 20 by Micro. Micro- I could just
****.
Oh, while I'm hinting at profanity, that little French job
is a gem. I am going to sell all my Tyco junk on the Trading
Post and switch to French stuff shown by Toptrain.
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Posted - January 17 2018 : 3:20:05 PM
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Really? Whaddya sellin'?? 
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Posted - January 18 2018 : 7:30:22 PM
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My LOTW is this rare variation of the Gilbert HO 446 whistling hudson. There are only 4 confirmed examples of this engine known with factory aluminum drivers and pulmor. All four engines share the same late 1957 build date. I now own two.
Pictured below, front is the first aluminum driver 446 I bought in 1998, middle is the second one I just bought and in the back is the standard 446 with white wall drivers.
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Posted - January 18 2018 : 7:48:31 PM
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My LOTW is this Bachmann 4-4-0 ( Jupiter) 
Yardmaster 54
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Posted - January 19 2018 : 01:48:10 AM
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quote:Really? Whaddya sellin'??
Originally posted by RP model railroads - January 17 2018 : 3:20:05 PM
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It was a hot flash, I'm over it now.
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Posted - January 19 2018 : 11:18:50 AM
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Oh, ok.
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