Model Train Journal

Happy Friday!

Picked up some more LTI items that were on my wishlist as a kid.

The 18004 Reading Pacific always caught my eye for some reason. ( no clue why, but as a kid I always wanted it). It has the distinction of being the last Lionel to feature the MPC era SoS & electronic whistle. It's seen here pulling a consist of Williams Madison cars -




18501 WM NW2 pulling the Fallen Flags # 4 -




224 from 1946 gets to stretch her wheels on the rails






Updated my NYC F3s to the Century Club versions









B&A Hudson cuts through town with a freight -



NS SD70M-2 2696 is seen leading 28Q through Shawsville, VA on the Christiansburg District


Restored NCSL GP7 710 prepares to depart TVRM with the evening dinner train.


Seem through the eye of a 20mm wide angle lens, CSX ET44AC 3447 is on the point of Q372 as it passes the MARC station in Martinsburg, WV on the Cumberland Sub


NS SD60E 6956 (ex NS SD60 6533/ex HLCX 5949/ex UP 5949/ex CNW 8007) leads eastbound 18M through Elkhorn, WV at sunset


NS Dash-8.5 8503 (ex NS D8-4C 8312, ex CR 6047) sits behind the shops in Roanoke, VA.

Love the 18004 with its Flyer-like white-walls...sharp-looking locomotive.

What are these cars behind the locomotives? Plywood empties?:



The angle of the shot has them looking a bit strange.

Healey

healey36 wrote:Love the 18004 with its Flyer-like white-walls...sharp-looking locomotive.

What are these cars behind the locomotives? Plywood empties?:



The angle of the shot has them looking a bit strange.

Healey

yeah they are empty center beam cars

This scene is on a friend's layout in Springfield Mo. He bought it from a person who used to sell these at York. Want to take a guess at who made it.

Floodlight Abuse

Not engineered to withstand railroad vibration.

Marty didn''t say where the pics were from, but it looks like it could have been taken in Cresson, Pa. If I recall there were lights there by the railfanning deck? Might be wrong. At any rate, it looks like vandalism to me.

Mitch wrote:Marty didn''t say where the pics were from, but it looks like it could have been taken in Cresson, Pa. If I recall there were lights there by the railfanning deck? Might be wrong. At any rate, it looks like vandalism to me.

Cresson was my first guess as well

They were taken in Leetsdale, between Beaver and Pittsburgh. South of Conway Yard.