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| hi ken ,i was in canada, on tour with the kings troop rha during sixties,as well as a few other places ken
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quote:hi ken ,i was in canada, on tour with the kings troop rha during sixties,as well as a few other places ken
Hi frank. R.C.A.F. 1954 to 1963.two things I learnt was to operate radar and drink.
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Hi Ken. Hi Ken. I was a AE, aviation electrician. Had it easy. Shore duty Assigned to NAS Quonset Point Rhode Island. Either I was at my air station, or I was off of a school somewhere learning to repair another piece of equipment.
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Posted - May 16 2011 : 5:02:18 PM
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The Auto-Loader train.
CNJ RS1 and Pennsy RS3 pull this train. It has 20 cars + caboose.
New York Central then Union Pacific Auto-Loaders
Europiean style, than Rio Grand
Wabash then NYC-P&LE
two Lehigh Valley "Route of the Black Diamond"
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Posted - May 16 2011 : 5:12:49 PM
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More Auto-Loader Trains
two Pennsy trains
Next Trailer-Trains a Pair
B&O then NYC
Another NYC and another B&O
A pair of New York Centrals
Another pair of (Lionel) New York Central Auto-Loaders.
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Posted - May 16 2011 : 5:46:55 PM
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I really like the auto loaders Frank.
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Posted - May 16 2011 : 5:54:49 PM
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me too & I want to find that Rio Grande one 
Do I see 3 Tootsietoy cars & some old Matchbox cars?
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Posted - May 16 2011 : 7:48:23 PM
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yuppers I see it  How hard is it to find the Auto Loader cars? Aside the Tyco ones I has 3 of 4 in pieces 
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quote:
Hey Buss.
How are you. I wish it to be fine. I can see that your wants list has expanded to Autoloaders. I think recently I have read a post where you mentioned a train show coming up soon, and your hope of finding a Tyco UP passenger set. I do wish you luck. I cannot keep up with your ever expanding wish list. Documentation of this list for me is imposable. Somewhere in the immense scattering of information you have posted here on Tyco forum is a whole lot of , " I want one of those" . I would imagine that other Tyco forum readers would like to know if it is possible, if you have something you dont want. This would eliminate a few thing. I do enjoy you brief but pointed posts. You do say alot with a few, words.
Dont stop now !
Again good luck with your hunt at the upcoming train show.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 10:32:05 AM
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* Here is a video of a Life like P2000 F3A pulling a very old Penn Line passenger train around my layout. During each loop the train goes through 8 switches. You would think with the large flanges that the train would bounce around when going through the frogs. the old train stays stable and runs smooth.
* Everytime I watch this vedio I go to answere my phone.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:15:15 AM
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maybe I will find those Tyco UP passenger cars I is going to Cheyenne & its UP Territory
Nice video btw 
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:41:28 AM
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hey frank,nice video, i have this set,in the photo it does not show my observation car,i duplicated another by mistake,its in the link though ken
http://www.hoseeker.net/pennline/pennlinecatalog1962pg03.jpg
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all cars are named except baggage which is numbered,silver star,golden state,silver meteor and 3406
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:43:03 AM
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quote:maybe I will find those Tyco UP passenger cars I is going to Cheyenne & its UP Territory
Nice video btw
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Good luck Buss.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 11:54:08 AM
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quote:hey frank,nice video, i have this set,in the photo it does not show my observation car,i duplicated another by mistake,its in the link though ken
all cars are named except baggage which is numbered,silver star,golden state,silver meteor and 3406
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Mine are Pennsylvania railroad also . Coach, Silver Cloud, #8104. Coach, Silver Meteor, #8134. Observation, Silver Star, # 8124.
Varney then Life Like keep making the set. Varney added a full dome car #8120, and a full baggage # 8116. Same cars. Same paint. I could post a picture.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 12:38:52 PM
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| hi frank,i have seen them,so no need for photo for me,but i will get them at some point,assuming they turn up,ken
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 1:13:36 PM
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quote:hi frank,i have seen them,so no need for photo for me,but i will get them at some point,assuming they turn up,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - May 20 2011 : 12:38:52 PM
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They may have just turned up. I have spares of both.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 1:28:54 PM
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frank,that would be terrific,ken
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 1:30:53 PM
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quote:frank,that would be terrific,ken
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I am fooling around with the pair and adjusting them now.
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Posted - May 20 2011 : 1:48:56 PM
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| frank,many thanks,i know they will be tip top ken
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Posted - May 26 2011 : 6:00:46 PM
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Here are two Missing cars from the Pennsy set. These are either varney or life like.
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Posted - May 26 2011 : 6:09:35 PM
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| thanks frank a complete set should look good ken
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Posted - May 26 2011 : 6:51:16 PM
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Hey Ken:
My Mom was RCAF, `40-45 served in London. My Dad was Army same time, I did my service 77-80 8th Hussars Cdn Army and after I got out Horse Guards in Toronto.
So, nod to you, Frank, Over `ome Ken and any other vets on the forum!
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Posted - May 26 2011 : 9:57:16 PM
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| nope I didn't find anything this time,frank but did run across a PRR double door boxcar & a NYC boxcar too
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Posted - May 27 2011 : 12:12:01 PM
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quote:Hey Ken:
My Mom was RCAF, `40-45 served in London. My Dad was Army same time, I did my service 77-80 8th Hussars Cdn Army and after I got out Horse Guards in Toronto.
So, nod to you, Frank, Over `ome Ken and any other vets on the forum!
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It sounds like in the service that you were bussy. Where ever I was I was kept bussy. Here, this weekend is Memoral day weekend for us here in the USA. " Less we Forget " Honor them, They didn't come home.
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Posted - June 05 2011 : 12:41:19 PM
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At the yards on the east end of Frankford some flats with loads are seen. A boat and two airplanes.
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Posted - June 14 2011 : 12:25:24 PM
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Today a rebuilt CNJ snow blower-plow is out of the shop and getting a test run. Spring is ending. Summer is almost here and maintance must be done. Better now when the track isn't covered with 3 feet of snow.
Snoopy P.
** Train is seen here as it would be used in bad weather.
** Here a closer up look at MofW 172.
** You can see the CNJ GP7 #1520, the pussher assigned to the test today
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Posted - June 14 2011 : 4:36:39 PM
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| real cool Rotary Does the blade spin? I'd think that there'd be a way to make it spin hehe
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Posted - July 28 2011 : 10:27:04 AM
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A area shot around the 3 stall house at Frankford Roundhouse
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Posted - July 28 2011 : 11:00:27 AM
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Love it! CNJ "Toothpaste" Alco's!!!
I so miss NJ!
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PS: and yeah the Limey Pacifics are nice to. Actually the Churchill is almopst as ugly, in a good way as the PM it was named for. You couldn't really name a sleek Loco after "Winnie"!
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Posted - August 04 2011 : 10:46:36 AM
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A closerup view of the same area with the two English PGW locos out working. You get a better view of the N&W J1 northern and The NYC Drifuss Hudson.
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Posted - August 16 2011 : 2:07:53 PM
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More test runs by the PGW. The Winston Churchill is put to work pulling the Broadway limited.
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Posted - August 16 2011 : 6:56:54 PM
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| frank that looks terrific,wish i was in the car behind the loco ken
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Posted - August 16 2011 : 8:10:31 PM
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Kenny, it would be a Heck of a trip.
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 6:09:27 PM
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Today I am up on top of the Coaling tower with Snoopy. I am covering a Pennsy passenger train detouring thro the yard . He is going to do a series of shots of a CNJ freight train Leaving the Frankford yards.
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 8:05:40 PM
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I need to run my consist of AHM Propeller cars alongside your boats.
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Posted - September 16 2011 : 8:39:45 PM
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quote:I need to run my consist of AHM Propeller cars alongside your boats.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â September 16 2011Â :Â 8:05:40 PM
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Jerry you are wellcome to anytime your in the neighborhood.
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Posted - October 25 2011 : 2:45:26 PM
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** The storage tracks behind the PGW Frankford Office and museum.
Frank
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| Frank, that's a neat collection of steam engines. I like that brick station in the back too. -Thomas
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Posted - October 25 2011 : 7:26:21 PM
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 Why does the Santa Fe loco have no headlight?
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| Disneyland Station really?? I found a smaller ceramic one
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Posted - October 25 2011 : 7:42:03 PM
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Like MB said, Wheres the Headlight on the SF Diesel?
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Posted - October 29 2011 : 3:41:28 PM
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Today on the Frankford yard storage tracks.
Furthest to nearest. PRR J1a, Nord 4-6-2, PRR I1sa, LV K1s, PRR H9sa.
* The Santa-Fe locomotive's main headlight is covered while on storage track.
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* I escaped from my Reading C1 project and faced the MDC problem with 80 foot plus passenger cars with a flexible Talgo coupler arm. I am working with the long Pullman Palace cars. The spring thing builders are to use on these cars are unreliable. Most of the time they do nothing and the arms just float around. I spoke with other modelers and they all said the same think. " Body mount the couplers. This to me seems wrong due to the length of the cars and that they have to go around curves and thro switch tracks. There response was try it.
** Ok I did a quickie to two spare place car floors. I had no spare set of MDC trucks but two pair of 3 axel Athearn passenger trucks . The ones for the standard cars with round and cresatory roofs. Well the Talgo truck arms had to go. I buzzed the 4 off with a rotary circular saw. These trucks had no wheel sets so to the spares and on they went. I used some 36" P2000 replacement axels. The trucks rolled well. Next the Athearn don't mount the same as the MDC ones. Drilling out the mounting hole to a clearance size for the Athearn truck fixed this. A thin washer helped to give some clearance for the truck to move side to side once mounted. I drilled and mounted the Kadee coupler pockets with horn hook X2F couplers. Weighted the car floors and put a engine in front. Then came the test. On the circular main lines , no problem. I switch them thro a open yard section giving them the best test my layout could do. This loop had the cars being pulled thro 7 switches. 2 straight thro and 5 switched. The other guys it seems were right .As long as you run thro #6 switches and the tightest curve of 18" it works. You can't use #4 switches.
*** Now folks. I went back to the layout the next day. And it derailed every time. This is not a reliable way of mounting couplers on long passenger cars. Now I did something and it worked. Everyone who owns a Athearn RDC knows how Athearn solved this problem. Well that was on RDCs. Will something similar work on a Pullman Palace car. Well it did. I did it today. MY first is done. Maybe not perfected but done.
*-*-* Now the question is how long will it work
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Posted - November 14 2011 : 2:32:54 PM
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Here is a better photo of the Pullman Palace cars coupler. I am thinking of using a longer coupler arm. It will lessen the angle of the box. Saveing a few disconnects.
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Posted - November 14 2011 : 5:46:01 PM
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Wibston Churchill Pulls the Limitted around town.
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Posted - November 20 2011 : 3:08:35 PM
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Camelbacks at the Frankford Roundhouse.
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Wow, that's a lot of camelbacks. Where do you get all the anthracite to keep em running?
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Posted - November 23 2011 : 7:28:54 PM
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Some small Camelbacks on the storage tracks at Frankford Roundhouse . The biggest advantage of a wooten firebox is its ability to burn culm. The waste product of prossed coal. There are mountains of it at coal mines. Cheep fuel.
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New Engine is lost in the crowd. Keeps saying " Hey you English engines, which way to Catford London".
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Posted - January 18 2012 : 1:13:41 PM
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* Burlington Route Passenger Train at Bergen Point Station on the PGW.
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