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Posted - February 09 2015 : 8:30:19 PM
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Frank, that looks like it could be quite fun taking turns taking each locomotive out for a run . . . I imagine you could get it done in a couple of weeks, hey?
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Posted - March 20 2015 : 9:09:29 PM
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quote:no probs frank,they look great on your layout,which also looks great,ken
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* I am sorry Ken it took so long to answer this. Since my knee replacement my head isn't straight on my shoulders anymore. Maybe in another couple of months I'll get it back where it belongs. I am glade you have recognized all your good deeds. You put together a very color full good running collection for me. I am still very surprised at how good those old Tri-Ang locos and passenger cars track on my code 100 layout. frank
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Posted - April 19 2015 : 4:46:24 PM
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A link to a video of a Hornby Pacific, Coronation Class, City of Sutherland, #6233, LMS. On my layout pulling the Mail and 4 Crimson and Cream passenger cars.
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 01:32:39 AM
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Nice little video Frank. Where's that sound coming from?
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* Good morning Barry. If it is the click I don't know. I thought I was it had something to do with my camera tripod . frank
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 1:15:15 PM
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I meant the sound of the locomotive; like a real locomotive running. I did hear a click which I figured was the camera, but I was talking about the train sound.
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Posted - April 23 2015 : 6:00:25 PM
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* Just the regular wheel and gear noise Barry. In locos with the drive in the loco Triang put a chug chug in some of the tenders. * Here is a link to my Video of my Flying Scotsmen's train set equipped with the sound .
link; https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/17249033075/ frank
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quote:Nice little video Frank. Where's that sound coming from?
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Barry as to the sound you here as the train runs, it is the sound of this train on my code 100 track. There is no sound system, just many wheels passing over the track, and the gearing of the locomotive. * You also asked about the trains I run. The trains I run are the made up trains on the mainlines and in the yards. usually 5 trains are made up. I can fit 6. The engines around the turntable are just there for the pictures. If I have a problem with a engine running I just swap it out with one of the ready locos around the turntable. frank
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** Here is the area between the turntable and coaling tower today where locomotives enter and leave the turntable.
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Posted - May 23 2015 : 10:01:42 PM
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Today a pair of MAGNOLIA PETROLIUM Company cars sit by the general store in Bergen Point. Their are 3 and one is still in the car shop. No.345 the one on the left is still in need of some handrail and ladder work. No.349 on the right is complete, and No.344 is still in the shop with frame problems. frank
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Posted - May 24 2015 : 12:52:27 AM
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Nice Frank. What manufacture are those Magnolia tank cars?
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quote:Nice Frank. What manufacture are those Magnolia tank cars?
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Good Morning Barry! These were made by Athearn. A part of their all metal line of freight cars. They made 2 or 3 different single dome cars. One, two dome car. And one three dome car.
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Posted - May 27 2015 : 09:17:06 AM
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For those who appreciate older tank cars here are Athearn old all metal, 10,000 gallon cars. In sets of three with different road numbers.
Crystal Car Line;
Magnolia Petroleum Co.
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Posted - May 27 2015 : 10:40:35 AM
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Very nice Frank.
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** This is the other 3 dome car that was made by Globe. You can see the different domes used with side vents cast in. This car is smaller then the Deep Rock or UTLX 3 dome. I have yet to see it in a Athearn box as made by Athearn. * The recording marks on this tank are for Shippers Car Line Corp, SHPX 312. * In the AHC 1957 catalog on page 17 the three dome cars are listed. there are three. The UTLX, Deep Rock, and a shippers. All Athearn make. The picture is of the UTLX. So Athearn did make a all metal Shippers 3 dome but which car was used ? * I found a catalog photo of the Athearn 3 doom shippers tank car using the same car as the Union tank and Deep Rock cars. This globe car may not have been made again as a Athearn.
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So Frank . . . with those multiple dome tank cars . . . does each dome represent a separate compartment in the tank car? So a tank car could carry 3 different fluids?
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quote:So Frank . . . with those multiple dome tank cars . . . does each dome represent a separate compartment in the tank car? So a tank car could carry 3 different fluids?
Originally posted by Barry - June 05 2015 : 1:08:59 PM
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Barry yes they are 3 separate compartments. And they will work well with the less than carload way of doing business. frank
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Posted - June 19 2015 : 10:21:27 AM
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** Well here we are today looking around the roundhouse. Some trains here, and some trains there.
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Posted - June 20 2015 : 02:05:15 AM
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Is that the superintendent Frank, struttin' around in that nice lookin' '57 Chevy?
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Originally posted by toptrain - June 19 2015 : 10:21:27 AM [/quote]
German Class 50 and Austrian Class 52 - Nice pair Frank!
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quote:
Originally posted by toptrain - June 19 2015 : 10:21:27 AM
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German Class 50 and Austrian Class 52 - Nice pair Frank!
Originally posted by Erich - June 20 2015 : 03:45:18 AM [/quote]
Hi Erich. Locomotives that run good have a way of appearing a lot on my layout. Thanks again for the help.
* A second photo of the pair of decapods on ready tracks.
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 6:06:56 PM
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* With all the train stuff I have shown here from time to time, what is now being run is a Frieght train made up of many different cars (13) by different manufactures from different time periods. Kind of like what the real railroads did. * My head end is a Tyco-Mantua Mikado. 1st car is a 1938 Gilbert metal tank car I painted. 2nd is a Tyco operating Virginian hopper, followed by another PRR hopper same type, the 3rd car. The 4th being a Ambroid watermelon car. 5th a Globe great northern silver box car. The 6th a Red Ball Monsanto chemical tank of a much older type. The 7th is a Walters PRR flat car. 8th is a Athearn Bev-Bel Rio Grand cookie box car. Ninth a unknown old wood reefer made from a kit, it is a model train club car from 1963. 10th a AHM Lancaster and Chester box car. 11th a Pemco Rio Grand stock car. 12th a HObbyline Great Northern box car. Last a MDC Reading caboose. * I put in a video of the train running a couple of laps around the layout. frank
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Frank, How about a few close up photos of that "9th" car from the 1863 model train club. I'd like to hear the story behind that one. Thanks. Barry
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Posted - October 03 2015 : 10:03:37 PM
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It appears as Frank may well like the Mid 55-57 Chevrolet line...
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 8:50:19 PM
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Yeah, those wagons are pretty cool. I'm guessin' Frank meant to say 1963 model train club car.
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Posted - October 04 2015 : 9:16:56 PM
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quote:Frank, How about a few close up photos of that "9th" car from the 1863 model train club. I'd like to hear the story behind that one. Thanks. Barry
Originally posted by Barry - October 03 2015 : 9:41:27 PM
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Barry Some how a lost or orphaned NMRA Wisconsin division car celebrating a event lost to time made it way on a mixed freight to a train show I went to. Should I ship it to you to keep the journey going. I am just a step in that journey. Maybe it will get back home to Central Wisconsin some day. frank
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Posted - November 12 2015 : 9:12:59 PM
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Today a makeshift passenger train set provided weekend Railfan service. Old time equipment is used for this train. frank
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I just realized I need to pay better attention to the notes here; I'm lookin' all over for Frank's 17 November post and . . . alas . . . here it is . . . an edited 12 Nov post ? How do you edit posts Frank? Anyway, I like the photo and I wanted to ask if you would tell the story behind each of those old time cars, and the locomotive. Nice set, that looks to be vintage.
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Barry, I do everything wrong the first 3 or 4 times. My spelling is horrible. Even with spell check things get missed. If we weren't able to edit my posts I could not exist here. The embarrassment would be to much. frank
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Posted - November 17 2015 : 9:22:35 PM
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In the row of icons above the post, there's an icon that looks like a piece of paper and a pencil. Click that and it opens up a text box to edit the post. It has to be one of your own posts, of course.
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quote:In the row of icons above the post, there's an icon that looks like a piece of paper and a pencil. Click that and it opens up a text box to edit the post. It has to be one of your own posts, of course.
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Hi shaggy ! I know about that edit icon. My problem is spelling and composition. I cant spell to good and don't get the wording right in the first few times. Even after I think I get it right, I post it then read it in the forum and find something wrong again. I think the small size of the print in the edit window causes me to miss things in the post. Not a big thing, or something I can't live with. Life goes on till it don't and we have edit, so no problem.
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quote:I know about that edit icon. Originally posted by toptrain - November 18 2015 : 07:51:25 AM
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I know you know, but Barry asked so I figured I'd answer him.
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Posted - November 18 2015 : 08:43:27 AM
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quote:Today a makeshift passenger train set provided weekend Railfan service. Old time equipment is used for this train. frank
Originally posted by toptrain - November 12 2015 : 9:12:59 PM
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Nice! Who built that RPO? I think I have the same one, it's cast in yellow plastic and appears to be rather old as plastic kitbuilt stuff goes.
I'm using it as a yard office because it was missing all but a fragment of one truck, plus some other pieces.
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Posted - November 18 2015 : 12:54:16 PM
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Hello Mister Prime. The company name on some of the boxes was Trail Blazers. frank
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quote:Hello Mister Prime. The company name on some of the boxes was Trail Blazers. frank
Originally posted by toptrain - November 18 2015 : 12:54:16 PM
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Cool, now that you gave me the name I can dig, and digging turns up a little info. The producer of Trail Blazers was AMC, "Advance Molding Corporation", of New York City. Evidently they were a pioneer maker of 1:32 plastic auto kits as well, and their auto molds went to Aurora (perhaps the train molds as well?)
The RPO is apparently intended to go with an unpowered HO scale General 4-4-0 they made...though it's a bit modern to have an RPO in the Confederate States, the first RPO car was built in 1862. :) Apparently, the Kitmaster unpowered plastic General is knocked-off from the locomotive of this set.
What is really neet, though, is that AMC's factory building in New York is still standing:
It doesn't look very industrial, and in fact it has a restaurant in the lower level, but actually it wasn't unheard of, back in the old days, to see light manufacturing plants in the upper stories of downtown business buildings. But anyway, your train cars, and mine, came from there. :D
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Well Hello again Mister Prime. I am glade you like it. For me it is more a nick name not meant to take away from your name Autobus Prime. * Well here at Bergen Point things are always changing. A new bus line stopped at The Bergen Point Station. It had a hard trip to get here. How knows how many little Kids have played with it before this old kid got it to play with. The Bus will need some repairs done at Speedy Andrew's repair shop before the return trip. frank
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Here is a second post for today. Not at the same place where the bus was found another passenger car for the Makeshift Passenger Train was also found. Here is a picture of it with the 3 other cars. * Another beat up Lincoln car joins the train. frank
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Posted - December 05 2015 : 9:59:00 PM
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That is a fine classic bus Frank.
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Barry That old bus has had a hard life up tp now. It will spend its time with me being around Bergen Point, still working, earning its keep. If I can match the paint it will get a new finish. It was built by ERTEL so it wont fall apart and will keep its wheels under it for a long time to come. I will first repaint the face . I hope not wrecking it. frank
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Posted - December 06 2015 : 11:57:26 AM
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One of the more interesting 19th century passenger consists I have seen of late. One does not see that Lincoln Funerary Car very often. Looks good in front of the cityscape.
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**The Christmas gathering of old timers on the PGW. *** The Gathering 2015. * I am just getting out the Locomotives and starting to set them up. Last year was almost mainly Tyco-Mantua old time equipment. This year is different. I am still arranging the locos. frank
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Posted - December 12 2015 : 7:41:45 PM
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nice video frank,so envious of the fact you have a layout full of great locos,starting mine in new year,just hope it turns out half as nice as yours.have a great xmas and a bright new year matey
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Those videos were fun to watch Frank. The sound was pretty well matched to scale on some of those, it seemed.
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Posted - December 13 2015 : 6:04:52 PM
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Nice layout Frank.... One can never have too many trains.....
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Thank you all, Kenny. Barry, and Pete. Without the Tyco 4-4-0s, 4-6-0s, and 4-8-0s a lot of color is missing. Maybe as time go by some will get replaced with the yellow, blue, silver and red of the other locos. frank
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Here are some photos of the Gathering for 2015.
Four Thomas Rogers together.
The five ready storage tracks
The entrance, exit and coaling tracks.
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My layout from its last photo shoot. The 4 photos that didn't come out. The out of focus ones. To much back lighting. frank
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I'm thinking it would be a real trip to walk into a hobby shop with a train collection as nice as yours. It seems like a hobby shop with that wall full of model boxes. And, Frank, I am glad to see you've got your treadmill handy for when you just can't get the thought of that run out of your mind.
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Barry it is a reclined bicycle. Keeps me moving better. frank
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Posted - December 19 2015 : 3:57:32 PM
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Always a pleasure to view your photos and videos Frank. Happy Holidays.
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