Weekend Photos - February 2026

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks, Wayne, and nope, no easy access for intruders. Does, however, make it equally useful as a birdhouse

Or a mouse house!

[healey36]

...or as the Scotsman once noted, “There’s a moose loose in the hoose!”

[healey36]

Still on a Flyer kick...here's set #4001 from 1940:



Kind of a ghastly combination, an older O-gauge locomotive with a pair of the new 3/16-gauge passenger cars. The locomotive's profile dwarfs that of the coaches. Still, an inexpensive catalog offering in those last couple years before the war, a kid was probably excited to see it.

[webenda]

Kind of a ghastly combination, an older O-gauge locomotive with a pair of the new 3/16-gauge passenger cars. The locomotive's profile dwarfs that of the coaches.

1) Who, besides me, is going to take a caliper to check the scale of our three rail trains?
2) I have photos of steam power pulling a combination of older and newer boxcars. There is quite a difference in the size of those cars.
3) The engine in the photo below really is bigger than the passenger cars it hauls around the country.

Your big engine looks fine, pulling those little passenger cars.