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Twice a year we tear it all apart and do something different. THIS year the summer layout will be an attempt to incorporate those Lionel accessories from the 50's. But FIRST need to "fix" something and build a base to work from. This is about the tear down and beginning that conceptualization...

The longest I've captured on video for me, AND the busy day provided a few more But a unique catch for this area. With two lead and two DPU Locomotives all under power on this west bound monster of a train.

Got one for a present "mew in the box", needed a little help :)

A focus on manifests. "Creeper" creeps in on track 4 from the east. Passed MP280 Kirkville crossing, I was able to get to Minoa's cross walk for an over head shot before he "creeped" to there :) Had some cool trailing locomotives, and they were ALL running as they went under the cross walk.

Had this Williams SD45 in Pennsylvania colors. Wouldn't pull but maybe two or three cars. Because it only has one powered truck. With a weight. Pretty useless actually. SO I went about trying to figure out how to make it usefull....

What I usually do for relaxation when the camera is OFF, just mix up and build goofy consists with my old Lionel ALCO's. SO turned on the camera for a typical rain/snow evening

Couldn't turn it down for $120 delivered. With the vertical can motors and detail they have.... a LOT of locomotive for that money in my humble opinion.

Kicked around the difference between the two brands spine cars, ran some "scale 0" for a bit and then went home to 027 ALCO's :)

Bachmann has a nice web site & parts diagram with virtually no parts! Have a almost complete Williams ALCO Pa in War Bonnet Santa Fe where I need a powered truck assembly and side plates for it.

This is actually an experiment. I video'ed this in 160fps A setting on the Samsung s23 Ultra. Then ran it through "OpenShot" video editor & output in 60fps 4k

A look back to when I was a kid, AND a little Lionel Alco train run time :) A look at the 1962 Catalog & One Of the books I wore out.. :)

Behind Tractor Supply in East Syracuse. That would be in the area of CP 285 or Between MP 286 & MP 285 on the CSX Main Line, Syracuse Terminal Sub. One train has EMD SD70MAC 4788 as a DPU and another a SD70MAC 4724 as lead. AND the trailing locomotive on that one is a rare ET23DCM 1715 ( A CSX...

Something we all wrestle with Is the fun the Toy, Mechanical, Scale, Realism, Collecting, "Brand" loyalty & collection, Technology, Electrical, problem solving, or Some "Blend" that is different for everyone? My hope is everyone finds that place , that blend where they build a place where it's...

ALREADY building a 2.0 that will be totally normal looking in a caboose. But this real time info was REALLY useful for me to debug track and track connections so I figured I would share.

THE contrast of Toy trains even model trains and the real deal :) I have no aspirations of grandeur, just want to have fun with the physics of these thing as I did as a kid. AND share with my grand kids. But based on a few comments I did receive on the lack of accuracy, I sometimes need to...

Enough logging and construction for the year, and PART way thru another layout over haul and addition. Need to finalize and detail and finish a trolley track that now is in the "mock up" stage. Really Need to run the trains! Isn't that why we do this? So this is a Train Run of some of my Lionel...

Kind of in a less serious mood on these set of video's. It's Mid December 2023 and here was little of NO snow on the ground. BUT the sunsets are spectacular. SO Just finished a Logging Job ( Maybe I'll post a little of that later from my other channel ) and was looking for a bit of Rail Ran and...

I'm having fun bringing a couple of these back to life....two video's

A couple of trains, M363 with 662 axles WB and I104 with a DPU EB