Model Train Journal

Lionel 1065 set from 1935: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55213771928_fce777431e_b.jpg A York find from a year ago, I dropped it off at East Main for some minor repairs. Now it's back with its cab light rewired, a replacement for a cracked drive-wheel, new brushes after a motor clean/lube. Gave...

That looks pretty sharp as well. What's the roofing made of? Almost looks like papier-mâché.

Sorry to hear you're having to take down the layout, Jim; it's never a fun exercise. Still, a 5'x9' is a nice chunk of real estate. That's the size of a ping-pong table, as I recall; many of those found their way to being the basis for layouts during the postwar period. That relay shed looks terrifi...

Sweet, a classic “summer” car. They have one similar at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. I’ll be interested to see if/how you motorized that.

webenda wrote:Well, it is still excellent. Especially the nail heads on the roof. I have never seen that feature modeled.

You gotta love Marx lithography. They had some fairly ingenious folks working in their graphics department.

...looks okay for the tinplate layout. Looks fabulous. I do wonder about the building's right and left sides. Is the light brown area something that the printer did? No, I think the light-colored areas were imperfections in the original scans maybe, perhaps camera flash? Not sure. I could have clea...

HP OfficeJet Pro 9015 (inkjet)...it has proven itself pretty durable and inexpensive to operate (unlike many inkjet printers). The one thing that's a challenge is that the colors can be slightly off (not quite WYSIWYG). I've been a dedicated HP user since I got my first HP11C hand-held calculator so...

Playing around with the printer, MS Paint, and a bit of cardboard/paper, made me a version of the Marx T3-21 Army Training Center: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55191496581_21e4d33721_b.jpg The original came in one of the terrific Marx playsets and featured an open back wall and a lithographed...

Looks like AI-generated images.

I recall the book and a number of different film versions of The Railway Children, one starring Richard Attenborough produced back in 2000. My children enjoyed the movies and the book.

This is coming along terrific. Adding the interior bits gives quite a bit of clarity as to the car’s utility from a layout perspective. It’s going to be quite unique when you finish.

Has me wondering about the era it’s meant to model. My guess would be early 20th century, maybe 1910-1925.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:And here I thought he has just passed out after seeing that ghostly woman,

LOL.

When I first looked at the image, I thought Wayne had Photoshopped/cut her out of the photo for privacy reasons.

Interesting question...I have a loop of O-27 on the layout, I’ll have to give it a try. I use the loop mostly as a buss for a number of accessories...it should work for testing, though. I’ll let you know when I get a minute.

Yeah, that's a lot of stuff...gives me something to aim for, lol. Got the 226E back on the track this week: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55185604439_7955704e84_b.jpg Replaced the smokebox front with a reproduction part made by Trainworx (the original had a broken marker lamp). Thorough clean ...

The Google machine reports that 2500 rail-workers were killed annually on average during the 1920s (total railroad employment during the 1920s averaged 2.2 million). Certainly a bit more precarious than today (which makes sense). We've already had 2-3 tornado warnings here this year, and it's only t...

I look at that pic and think no wonder rail-workers got killed between cars.

End of March...it's been quiet.