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My T1 is a broadway Limited. !st run. I like running it without the sound.
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How good are they, I was planning on getting one and I would like to know how much they can pull
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Posted - April 12 2013 : 5:26:52 PM
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I have puller freight and pasenger with them. I have never put a very large frieght behind them.only 18 to 20 freight cars and 6 to 8 passenger cars. It ran Ok !
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Posted - April 15 2013 : 11:01:54 AM
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* Small PRR work wreck train, standing by.
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Posted - April 22 2013 : 5:57:09 PM
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SD40-2 and Alco RSD7 slug work the hump at CNJ's old Allentown PA yard. Photo taken when on a day out with my son.
no one is that good.
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Posted - April 24 2013 : 12:32:49 AM
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I was sleepy, but that woke me up quick. 
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Posted - April 24 2013 : 9:24:18 PM
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| I woulda used an Atlas shell for that RSD slug bash.
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Posted - April 26 2013 : 4:13:47 PM
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Serves you right, Frank. For a few seconds I thought it was a module photographed outside. 
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Posted - April 28 2013 : 10:54:12 AM
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 Well you can't turn around that loco on that turntable
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Posted - April 29 2013 : 09:14:58 AM
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** Here , a photo of the Frankford Roundhouse storage tracks right now. Things are always changing there.
* A B&O EM1 ( AKAIN ), a PRR FA1 (HObbyline), a PR AS616 (Stewart), A PRR SD9 (Lifelike) and GP7 (Athearn), Then on the furthest track to the right, seen is a CNJ I5 2-8-0 camelback ( scratchbuilt ) waiting to get a inside stall to complete a rebuild.
* The EM1 is waiting for a repair of its lead truck. The FA has been sitting on a side track in Germantown (Long Valley) that was closed due to a damaged tressel. Now repaired it needs a basic servicing. the next 3 AS616, sd9, and Gp7 are in ready condition waiting for assignment. The I5 is waithing for space taken up by a CNJ I4 being built. The pair is meant to be released to service together.
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Posted - May 23 2013 : 09:42:32 AM
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| Looks good Top, I have been looking for that yellow MKT stock car for a while.
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Posted - May 23 2013 : 8:43:02 PM
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** A couple of old MKT stock cars ( by mantua-tyco) are spotted here awaiting pickup.
they are painted in KTM's brown paint and the companies latter yellow coloring. Both are stock paint schemes.
V-16161.
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Posted - May 26 2013 : 08:58:20 AM
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The old basement layout photos. The round house area.
Here is the car repair shops behind the roundhouse.
Here is what happens when I tried to put the 2 photos together. Buildings became lifted, and twisted. Track twisted lifted and turned. Locomotives and cars look like they were steped on. There must have been a earthquake or something.
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Posted - June 06 2013 : 03:46:04 AM
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quote:post 142
A view between the roundhouse and the coal tower. Two B&O GP20s awaite the turntable ride to a storage track.
* These are LLP2000 locomotives.
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Frank,
You do know, that the B&O only had one of the GP18's, right? They hated them, and only got one at the time of delivery from EMD due to issues with their electricals, and a soft crank in the prime mover.......The road number was 6599......Whats the road number on the 2 you have pictured? I have the Proto-2000, B&O 6599.......Thought I'd pass along some history!
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Posted - June 06 2013 : 08:03:01 AM
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I checked them and life like has them as GP18s on the box. my mistake. But they are numbered the same. 6599.
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Posted - June 06 2013 : 2:36:52 PM
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Frank,
We all make mistakes! (I didn't even catch till your last posting that you called them GP20's! I just knew what they were the minute I seen them, as I have one of my own!
Crazy thing is, when the B&O and C&O merged, the GP18, that you have pictured as a model, didn't last into the "Chessie" era! It was scrapped, long before "Chessie" was even thought up in a paint scheme!
This is the real life modeling as a real railroad enthusiast goes.....HOWEVER, with alittle "Modeler's Licence" I painted an old AHM model of the GP18 high nose, into Chessie coors, with B&O reporting marks, AND the B&O 6599 road number......
IF my history of the B&O serves me right, and the hospital didn't remove that section of my brain....The B&O had the first GP18 numbered 6599, to have it follow behind the GP9's of the time period, and if they liked them, it would flow into the 6600 number series to give the EMD lass of GP18, its own number sequence. Hence 6600, from the old 6599 number.....
INSTEAD, they had 6600 as GP9's that were still being offered at the time, having the GP18 as EMD seen it, as a GP9 upgrade, and newer power. BUT, the GP18 never really caught on, as I believe, the EMD GP20 sold more units then the GP18 did.....
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Posted - June 08 2013 : 12:38:02 PM
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Lots of Gilbert trains out there today.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 1:23:25 PM
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Two CRRofNJ 2-8-0 camelbacks pass at Bergen Point Station.
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| I likes the pics of your old layout Especially that double track bridge
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 4:25:08 PM
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A closer up photo of the 2 kitbashed camelbacks. CNJ I4 and I5 class.
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 2:13:18 PM
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| Hey Frank, For some reason, I believe this is the first time I've seen your layout page(s). They were/are very enjoyable; and informative. That's like a museum quality train collection. Now if you add a few hundred (a thousand?) little people, things could get pretty surrealistic. Merry Christmas! Barry
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 4:08:28 PM
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Well this thread is 4 years and 2 months long. You can see the layout is 2 loops to run trains on. It is set up to take the same pictures over and over again. Every other year I run the old timers at Christmas. They were out last year. I would like the CNJ and other local steam to run soon.
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Posted - January 01 2014 : 2:06:36 PM
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A lot of the articulates have gone and a few others that haven't been seen in a while are at the roundhouse.
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A pair of CNJ USRA leased 2-8-0 that were destine for France in WW1 have been working the Frankford branch recently. If you have the information, you will find that USA 663 and 665 were leased to the CRRofNJ for a short period in 1918. Also the Rivarossi 2-8-0 is very close to that particular type locomotive.
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Posted - January 02 2014 : 05:34:18 AM
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In this photo a pair of Central Rail Road of New Jersey switchers wait at the platform at Bergen Point Station.
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Posted - January 02 2014 : 06:36:02 AM
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That roundhouse/turntable area is amazing. And I love the BIG passenger depot. Very impressive layout frank
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Posted - January 02 2014 : 4:57:17 PM
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AHA! Now I see how you get to all the layout, with the movable bridge I imagine I'll have to do something similar that on my next layout.
Great videos, thanks for sharing them frank.
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| hi frank great locos smooth video ken
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just how big IS that station?
Looks like moar than one model put together
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Posted - January 04 2014 : 12:34:50 PM
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That beautiful station really balances out the roundhouse area. It's like "look at this.....no wait, look at THIS..."
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 8:50:12 PM
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| Nice videos Frank. It is really fun to watch those trains move around your roundhouse and yard area.
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 8:27:21 PM
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| That's a very satisfying photo to look at Frank.
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Posted - February 23 2014 : 11:29:05 PM
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| What a tremendous train collection you have with a huge layout that seems to be ever changing.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 01:16:56 AM
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quote:| What a tremendous train collection you have with a huge layout that seems to be ever changing.
Originally posted by wks - February 23 2014 : 11:29:05 PM
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* I must be looking at a different layout . My layout is not big. At least I don't think so. The roundhouse area, loco service area and yard are about 3/4 of the layout. The rest is downtown and the station area. I wish I had other places to take photos. I keep repeating the same spots just with other equipment.
* I am glad, and do appreciate that you like it. At least I can share something we you.
I did a little more with the 4-4-0 camelback I am building. Looking forward to next Sunday at the Clark train show.
C U Latter.
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 3:32:07 PM
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quote:When I walk around the train shows my eyes pick out all the old stuff, without searching for them. It is like, I don't see the new stuff. To find a incomplete old gilbert, or marx, or varney, or penn-Line, or mantua, silver streak, or a old wood car is like finding a piece of eight. It never stops being fun.
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Yes that's what I love about train shows. It's not the prices because I usually more than make up for the savings by money spent on travel to the things. It's all the things you might find there, most unexpected. I go to shows with a list of wants but rarely if ever get what's on the list, but rarely am I disappointed. Each one is a treasure hunt
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 6:15:05 PM
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| hi frank,they look great ken
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 8:40:35 PM
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Why does the 0-4-0T have a funny bumper on it? 
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 10:47:35 PM
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| A bunch of very nice trains Frank! Wow!
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Posted - February 26 2014 : 8:11:20 PM
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quote:My layout is not big. At least I don't think so. The roundhouse area, loco service area and yard are about 3/4 of the layout. The rest is downtown and the station area. I wish I had other places to take photos. I keep repeating the same spots just with other equipment.
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Frank, to me your layout is BIG. At least you have a yard and a dream roundhouse, not to mention the enormous passenger depot!
I have the same feeling about my photos, the same spots just with different equipment. 
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Posted - February 27 2014 : 04:18:28 AM
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Wow, that shot of the passenger consist rounding a corner and into a station knocked my socks off. Somehow, that curve just underscores the nature of arrivals and departures. A most impressive and well thought out layout.
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| what a huge collection you have, very nice. are you going to ballast more of the track area?
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Posted - March 26 2014 : 08:32:02 AM
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This is temporary layout made to run trains, exercising the locomotives. And I use it as it is for photos.
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Posted - May 13 2014 : 08:44:41 AM
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* I have been lax in keeping this thread going. Here is my last almost full roundhouse since the articulates left. The last look at the layout till my attic window replacement is done.
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Posted - July 17 2014 : 11:04:28 AM
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I still haven't recovered from my window replacement as of yet. I still have a few things to do before the layout runs again. I need to put a door of some sort in the opening to the stairs. It took a lot of work just to get to what you see.
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Posted - July 17 2014 : 12:26:31 PM
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Looking good Frank. All the effort is definitely worth it.
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Posted - July 27 2014 : 1:12:15 PM
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Well tom thanks for posting. I have recovered a little more and have placed some steam and diesel locomotives on the layout because I don't know what to do with them as of yet.
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It's all coming together very nicely Frank.
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Posted - July 28 2014 : 11:49:30 AM
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quote:In this photo a pair of Central Rail Road of New Jersey switchers wait at the platform at Bergen Point Station.
Originally posted by toptrain - January 02 2014 : 05:34:18 AM
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I've seen the older style 0-6-0 (the one in the back) at a train show one time for $15 last year in working condition and I didn't get it for some reason.I'm still kicking myself for not getting it along with the Rivarossi streamlined Hudson in 20th Century Limited livery.
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Posted - October 19 2014 : 6:51:21 PM
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Stumbling on through the day I'll post this layout photo of the 5 camelbacks on the storage tracks at Frankford roundhouse. In this you can only see 4. The CRRofNJ I4 is behind the PGW office building on the left. Wake up Ken ! what do you think?
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Posted - October 22 2014 : 11:24:37 AM
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nice camels Frank! I´ll get one too someday.
where is Ken? - Erich
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Posted - November 04 2014 : 3:00:16 PM
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Lehigh Valley 4-4-0 camelback David Laury no. 5 pulls a rake of Valley passenger car through the Hollow.
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