Model Train Journal

Not much happening here, distracted on other projects. I ran down some two-rail tinplate track to run the Bing mechanical set. Sarge had some Marklin which we sold a couple of years ago at York. I reached out to the guy that we sold it too and he still had it, and happy to sell it back to me for quite a bit less than he'd paid for it. Only six pieces of an eight-piece circle though, so I had to run down a couple. Found a pair on eBay from a guy in the Netherlands.

Early Marklin track is neat because it had an engineered track-clip:



The clip slides through a slot in the tie of the adjoining piece, holding it together. Leave it to the Germans.

Also found some replacement tires for this Dinky 152b Morris staff car:



If you were a fan of "Hogan's Heroes" you've seen a real one...it rolled through the show's intro every week, even occasionally showed up in an episode.

A couple months ago my daughter grabbed a shot of Maryland Midland rolling through Middleburg, Md. at dusk:



A pair of SD40M-2 heading a drag of empty hoppers returning from the interchange with CSX at Highfield.

Hopefully Christopher chimes in with a layout update.

Healey

Went to Fostoria and Deshler with fellow Hoosier rail-fans last month. Just a quick blast of pics. One of the more interesting things was the CSX Inter-modal facility located between those towns.. You can't get very close but you can see some things. Some of these trains were running up and downhill! Sorry.

Jim K

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And from the layout:

Nice.
Interesting way to load logs on the flat car.

A Conrail North Yard-bound freight trundles through Delray interlocking with a trio of standard cab EMD locomotives and a Conrail bay window caboose in tow