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** Three German Decapods sit behind the PGW office building waiting for assignments. One is just coming of the turntable. There is 1 BR50 and 2 BR52s.
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The Reading C1s #110 returns to Frankford engine facility after an Atlantic City trip.
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#110 rides the turntable.


Oppside of #110 on turntable.


#110 leaving the turntable.


#110 creaping foward.


#110 entering roundhouse.

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fantastic job you did on the loco,it looks great outside the roundhouse ken
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Ken ; Do you notice no yellow photos. I got the proper floresent lamps. Rated for daylight. It is a big differance in clearity. About the 4-4-4. I may be the only one in New York metro area with one. I never see a article where anyone ever did one.
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Did you get that Old Time Tea Kettle loco with Reading or is that a custom?
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** Tha CNJ steam has arived in some numbers now . The main open storage tracks hold 5.
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** Today four locomotives came out of the Frankford shops. They were aquired at the Mother Seaton train show last Sunday.

Frank

* First out was The Reilance Rock Co. #1 0-6-0t ( Rivarossi)



* Second out was the Peabody short line #6, 0-6-0t ( ahm ).

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* Third was PRR A5s #3600, (HObbyline ).



* forth out was the Frisco mikado #4013, ( Aristo-Craft ).


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I love all your engines! I also love how you show pictures of mainly the engines and your roundhouse, my favorite part of my layout, any layout, and in real life is the shop facility. I have a lot of engines in and around my 2 shops
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* Hyde, It is good to see young people modeling. You can learn a lot from electro-mechanical
skills, to electronics, carpentry, metal working, and just having some fun. I glad you enjoy the things you see here.
* I would like my photos to be more interesting but like I posted while building this current layout. It is only big enough to run 2 trains continualy and have a few places to photograph my trains.

* The difference between a 65 year old and a 15 year old, is the 65 has had more years to prefect being a little boy.

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yeah, been doing it since i was born. I recall my 2nd birthday being in the garage and watching my 6 year old brother run our trains, good times. I work on expanding my collection.
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Camelback Mikado of the Lehigh Valley. N1 class.
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* A new locomotive has joined the roster of Pennsylvania Railroad A5 class 0-4-0 switchers. It is a Hobbyline locomotive from about 1955. It joins a opperating class fleet of 6. A mixture of HObbylina and John English locomotives.
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* Since the arrival of the last Pullman train from the Catford branch. It looked alone on the layout so I pulled out the Tri-ang Pullman set that was previously transfered from the catford Branch. The Tri-ang Princess Royal is doing the duty pulling the triang Pullmans.
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Mallard with Wreen Pullmans.



Pincess Royal with Tri-ang Pullmans.



Two pullman trains.


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looking very good like the duel shot of both ken
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About CNJ #634.
* It is a CNJ class L3s. A 4-6-0 center cab camelback.
* You may be wondering what a non Brooks built camelback is doing on the Central of New Jersey. The 3 cab windows speak loudly of the Reading and Lehigh Valley . They look identical to Readings L5s. Why is the Brooks curved top, placed to the rear window missing on this locomotive. Well it should look like that, because they are not Brooks Built. Not even of CNJ design.
* #634 was built by the Reading railroad. Five locomotives were purchased from the Reading w hen they became excess there. The Reading had just put in service the its G1 pacific. These locomotives became more valuable as a sale item. The Reading sold 5 L5s camelbacks to the CNJ. They were numbers 592 to 596. These numbers were already used on the CNJ so could not be kept. If you remember CNJ #592 , a 4-4-2 Atlantic Camelback is preserved at the B&O muesum at Baltimore Ma. The CNJ renumbered them 631 to 635. I choose number 634. They classified them as L3s.
*#634 is a locomotive of the CNJ that will forever be tied to Bayonne, my home town. 634 was wrecked here at 8th Street station. August 2nd 1946. Something occurred. A signal was missed ? A train because of a unscheduled stop was not switched over to another track to allow it to bypass the stopped train ? A wrong siginal sent to 634 ? I dont know ! It happened ! Many were injured and one, the Fireman, died. Their was no future for this engine. It was dissassembled before the end of August at E-port.
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CNJ 634 Coming out.



CNJ 634 Head First


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Frank,
How many stalls is your roundhouse? It looks GREAT! I have a half circle to build for my engine facility.....Then I have my custom made turntable as well! Which well, I have some repairing to do as its not in the layout yet and my cat had played "Catzilla" and broken a few small pieces of it but nothing serious....

I'll have to get pictures of all this when I have a chance, as none of it is in the layout yet.... As I have to finish building the bench work for it all!

I'll admit, I LOVE engine serice facilities....One of my favorite places in real life to snap pictures, and the same goes for the models!

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John, I have 2 roundhouses. One has 8 stalls, the other 3. I have 20 storage tracks radiating off of the turntable. Starting on the left and going clockwise are 5 open storage tracks. Then the 3 stall roundhouse. Next 3 more open storage tracks, Then the 8 stall roundhouse. Last 1 single open track for storage.
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Frank,
VERY nice! I had to go back and follow through what you had said with the description of the roundhouses and the storage tracks to the pictures you have posted.....VERY nice layout on the structures and storage tracks, and leads....

Another question what type turntable you using? It looks like one of the older Kibri kits or one VERY similar....

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quote:
The Reading C1s #110 returns to Frankford engine facility after an Atlantic City trip.
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#110 rides the turntable.


Oppside of #110 on turntable.


#110 leaving the turntable.


#110 creaping foward.


#110 entering roundhouse.


Originally posted by toptrain - February 28 2012 :  7:17:01 PM



Excuse me for my lack of attention here, but I just noticed that your Reading #110, is a Jubilee, NOT an Atlantic!

Where on earth did you find the rear truck to fit under that locomotive or is that factory that way? At first glance, it looked to be a 4-4-2, and instead, its a 4-4-4.....

NICE! Now another question on this locomotive Frank, is that true to life prototype on that locomotive to have "inside" trailing truck bearings, or did you make it that way for lack of outside bearing truck frame?

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* My layout , Look Back about 30 years to 1982. A bussy view showing some Tyco old time box cars I custom painted. A New York Central. A Central Railroad of New Jersey. And a pair of NYO&WRR with their " Out and Walk " logo.
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John, Frank used Rivarossi'sCasey Jones lead trucks trucks for a new lead and trailing truck.
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John, Frank used Rivarossi'sCasey Jones lead trucks trucks for a new lead and trailing truck.

Originally posted by Redneck Justin - June 13 2012 :  12:36:46 PM



Also the new lead truck had to be shortned. Side frames for lead truck had to be cut and soldered back together.
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I love the Old Time boxcars *jealous*
NYO&WRR was also known as "Old & Weary"
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Reading C1 #110 leaving for a assignment.
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The Chief East has arrived.
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Always liked those classic warbonnets! - Thomas
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Thomas : It is a MRC F9 . The drive looks like a cross between a Stewart and a good Bachmann . I have 2 Pennsylvania RR ones.
Though this one I got just as a body and put a Athearn drive in it. It runs very good.
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Today at the Frankford Roundhouse.
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pardon my lack of engine knowledge but wasn't that blue engine a record holder for steam speed in Europe?
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But the question was about one of you locomotives. If it's about the topic or photo on hand I don't see the problem here.
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A new photo of the holladay time layout. All old timers fill the seen.
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Layout today. Pennsylvania Railroad Diesels at Frankford roundhouse.
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Another view.
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A third view.
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A END SD7. PRR #8589. Derailed going on to the turntable.
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I sees pre E.J. & E. Sharks in the background... careful, they don't back down for anybody!

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John, They are the Baldwin demonstrators. in white and red.
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** Pennsylvania Railroad Erie Built 9743 rides the turntable at Frankford roundhouse.
* A Life Like P1000 model.
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All diesels cool
Do love your layout too
I don't suppose you has the Centipede or the 4-4-4-4 locos?
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Buss , U like it all.
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didn't you see it? The Pennsy T-1 (4-4-4-4). I was going to ask Toptrain about it. Who made it?
How does it run and pull?

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Hi Paul
My T1 is a broadway Limited. !st run. I like running it without the sound.
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* Here on my sons photo board are his pair of Decapod Camelbacks of our ANNA Railroad. Now completed and operational. The only thing that is missing is the coal.
* About his photo board. Steve places it on the railing of his rear deck and uses real vegatation as a background.



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Wow! Those are real beauties, they look awesome against that scenery. Some very nice work done there.
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* A new locomotive has joined the roster of Pennsylvania Railroad A5 class 0-4-0 switchers. It is a Hobbyline locomotive from about 1955. It joins a opperating class fleet of 6. A mixture of HObbylina and John English locomotives.
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Originally posted by toptrain - April 22 2012 :  12:08:06 PM



I RECOGNIZE THAT LOCOMOTIVE! It was on the Gumby episode "Toy Crazy" (a.k.a. "Toy Joy") from 1956. Gumby even rides on it! I'm trying to find one for my layout as well...
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Wow! Those are real beauties, they look awesome against that scenery. Some very nice work done there.

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* Thats what I tell steve, time and time again. He has a tallent. Did you see his CNJ 4-8-0c camalback in MRC article. multipage spread inside and the cover. June 2012. He is the one who finished my Baldwin Babyface A&B for me. The 2 decapod camelback bodies are completely scratchbuilt. He makes his own castinge for the cabs and the boiler backheads. you can see some of it in this photo.
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Here are two Missing cars from the Pennsy set. These are either varney or life like.



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There life like, I have the exact same dome car in Amtrak colors
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* Thats what I tell steve, time and time again. He has a tallent. Did you see his CNJ 4-8-0c camalback in MRC article. multipage spread inside and the cover. June 2012. He is the one who finished my Baldwin Babyface A&B for me. The 2 decapod camelback bodies are completely scratchbuilt. He makes his own castinge for the cabs and the boiler backheads. you can see some of it in this photo.

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He does amazing work, Frank. Not just on the loco work and detailing, but the cinder-blackened ballast and rail rust look just right. The natural outdoor light really helps fool the eye, too.

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I love that roundhouse! It looks pretty sweet! I wish I had the space for one, not yet sadly!
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John, They are the Baldwin demonstrators. in white and red.
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Originally posted by toptrain - December 29 2012 :  07:38:34 AM



I know. E. J. & E. bought the A-B-B-A Demonstrator Set.

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