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Post by harborbelt70 on Dec 23, 2023 10:31:48 GMT
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Post by josef on Dec 23, 2023 14:02:49 GMT
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Post by af3020 on Dec 23, 2023 14:13:51 GMT
Harborbelt70 - you think your Side Shot Saturday post for today is repeating yourself? Ha! To borrow/modify a line from that song "Sit down on that sofa son and let me show you how it's done."  It's solid Marx and the boxcars and reefers all have different car numbers. FGEX car numbers 10961 - 10976 Pacemaker car numbers 174580 - 174595 PRR 37960 - 37975 + an additional with no number SOM 4485 - 4500 I've managed to find an example of all of the FGEX reefers but I'm still trying to complete the series for the other three. As for the flatcars with the trucks - the first three and the last three in the consist are a match with respect to paint treatment and dump bin. Thanks for keeping the Side Shot Saturday thread going. Merry Christmas to you and everyone else on the forum.  |
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Post by healey36 on Dec 23, 2023 14:32:05 GMT
That's a nice WM covered hopper, harborbelt70; it's interesting that my hometown of Westminster, birth-place of the WM, doesn't appear on the map, lol. Anyway, nice fantasy scheme...no way I've got the curve-radius to get that thing around the pike. The baby Stephen Girard set winds its way around the tree loop, easing into the station two days before Christmas:  A custom-painted (not by me) Lionel 248 drags refurbished (not by me) 600-series coaches...looks good to me; too bad Lionel never made one. |
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Post by ron045 on Dec 23, 2023 14:49:49 GMT
Here is a side shot of a custom created Chessie 44 tonner and a Transfer Caboose. The 44 tonner is an MTH model stripped and repainted. Chessie really did not have any 44 tonners but the WM did. So I'm just pretending that WM #75 made it through the merger years. This engine is Deadrail but unfortunately, not enough space for a battery inside the engine shell. So I kitbashed this transfer caboose from an MTH bay window caboose. Chessie did have at least one of these from what I could research. I had to take a little artistic license on the dimensions to make sure the battery fit. What do yo think about the window on the side of the caboose? It's a decal.    |
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Post by Adam on Dec 23, 2023 15:04:20 GMT
Here is a side shot of a custom created Chessie 44 tonner and a Transfer Caboose. The 44 tonner is an MTH model stripped and repainted. Chessie really did not have any 44 tonners but the WM did. So I'm just pretending that WM #75 made it through the merger years. This engine is Deadrail but unfortunately, not enough space for a battery inside the engine shell. So I kitbashed this transfer caboose from an MTH bay window caboose. Chessie did have at least one of these from what I could research. I had to take a little artistic license on the dimensions to make sure the battery fit. What do yo think about the window on the side of the caboose? It's a decal. Very good work! |
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Post by josef on Dec 23, 2023 15:49:08 GMT
Here is a side shot of a custom created Chessie 44 tonner and a Transfer Caboose. The 44 tonner is an MTH model stripped and repainted. Chessie really did not have any 44 tonners but the WM did. So I'm just pretending that WM #75 made it through the merger years. This engine is Deadrail but unfortunately, not enough space for a battery inside the engine shell. So I kitbashed this transfer caboose from an MTH bay window caboose. Chessie did have at least one of these from what I could research. I had to take a little artistic license on the dimensions to make sure the battery fit. What do yo think about the window on the side of the caboose? It's a decal. Excellent and also the decal for a window. You did good.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Dec 23, 2023 15:52:25 GMT
That's a nice WM covered hopper, harborbelt70; it's interesting that my hometown of Westminster, birth-place of the WM, doesn't appear on the map, lol. Anyway, nice fantasy scheme...no way I've got the curve-radius to get that thing around the pike.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Dec 23, 2023 15:56:04 GMT
Harborbelt70 - you think your Side Shot Saturday post for today is repeating yourself? Ha!
To borrow/modify a line from that song "Sit down on that sofa son and let me show you how it's done."
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Post by healey36 on Dec 23, 2023 16:23:32 GMT
Looks good, Ron. The whole dead-rail thing intrigues me...maybe someday.
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Post by ron045 on Dec 23, 2023 20:00:13 GMT
Looks good, Ron. The whole dead-rail thing intrigues me...maybe someday. The nice thing about DeadRail is you do not have to abandon what you have or even consider converting ALL of your equipment. Just try one and run it alongside your track powered engines. If you like it, great. If you don't like it, not much lost. The absolutely easiest engine to upgrade is a Lionel LionChief engine. No electronics to replace. Just disconnect the wires from the pickups/wheels and plug in a battery. Since LionChief is Bluetooth it does not need the rails to communicate with the engine. Ron
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Post by Adam on Dec 23, 2023 20:01:34 GMT
Looks good, Ron. The whole dead-rail thing intrigues me...maybe someday. The nice thing about DeadRail is you do not have to abandon what you have or even consider converting ALL of your equipment. Just try one and run it alongside your track powered engines. If you like it, great. If you don't like it, not much lost. The absolutely easiest engine to upgrade is a Lionel LionChief engine. No electronics to replace. Just disconnect the wires from the pickups/wheels and plug in a battery. Since LionChief is Bluetooth it does not need the rails to communicate with the engine. Ron Great tip on LionChief conversion. Never thought of that but sounds well, dead simple. |
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Post by david1 on Dec 23, 2023 21:22:44 GMT
First of all, Merry Christmas to all. It’s a good thing that on the OGF we have a Christmas Spirit/tradition of no snap/kneejerk/angry criticisms or I might be accused of repeating myself or even rivet counting (although I have counted many in the past) because again I’m posting something starting with Santa Fe. Actually, this is a leadoff batter or preview of part of the Founder’s Favorites thread scheduled for 31 December when I will talk about this particular set as an example of what I call “signature trains” much liked by Brian Vaill:
This one is Lionel’s 2003/04 rendition of the postwar (late 40s/early 50s) Super Chief with brilliantly reflective aluminum cars. There must be scores of other named or otherwise fabled consists - everything from the Amtrak Surfliner to the various Zephyrs such as the Mark Twain - particularly in the annals of classic streamliner passenger trains. Aside from the real thing, there must be very many O scale model trains that people consider icons of the hobby – and by no means are all of them are Big Boys.
For example, I remember back when this forum started we looked at the possibility of a Club re-run of another signature train, the E6-led Illinois Central City of Miami:
MTH made a version of this some years back and I have a feeling Lionel did an IC E6 too. In the same category of tropical fruit-themed liveries is the Seaboard Orange Blossom Special shown in these historical side views (I don’t know if it’s been made in 3rail O scale in this scheme):
Obviously I could also be accused of liking bold and even fantasy color schemes but in fact I prefer something with an historical element. I’ve taken these two K-Line travel poster-themed boxcars out of store to run together as I am a sucker for these and billboard and route map cars:One of these days I’ll run my Western Maryland a.k.a. “Wild Mary” route map hopper with them because the map includes Gettysburg, a place I know so well from childhood, and indeed neighboring York PA:
The 19 set of scale detailed F3's was the second set released in around 2006, 2007 I have the 16 set that was released in the 2003, 2004 era. The 21 set came a few years later around 2010. These are the best F3's made by Lionel imo. Dave
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Post by healey36 on Dec 23, 2023 21:22:58 GMT
Wouldn't have thought of that in a hundred years, Ron. Thanks.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Dec 23, 2023 22:43:50 GMT
The 19 set of scale detailed F3's was the second set released in around 2006, 2007 I have the 16 set that was released in the 2003, 2004 era. The 21 set came a few years later around 2010. These are the best F3's made by Lionel imo. Dave
(1) A-B-A led by #19: This is set 6-14588, catalogued in Classic Trains V. 2 in 2005 and delivered either late that year or the next. That's when I found and got it, because my Dad had a much earlier set that I wanted to replicate although mine is infinitely more detailed than his (which still had a C or D cell battery compartment). Lionel later on catalogued a powered B unit to go with that set, which has different gearing and runs at a different pace. Go figure but it's a well-known issue.
(2) The 4-car anodized aluminum passenger set I run with it is 6-15312, catalogued in 10/02. I can't remember when I got this but it was the very first passenger car set I had so it was probably acquired in 2002/03. What I now remember is that at or before that time I got a K-Line A-B-A set to power this train, which is a fine set but not in the Lionel set's class. It came by mail order from Chicagoland Toy and Hobby of blessed memory. I will have to excavate the box at some stage to check the K-Line SKU because it does not appear in the online K-Line Legacy Catalog!
And yes, definitely, these F3's have never been excelled by Lionel.
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