What trains did you run today?

[Kusojiji]

Oh yeah, forgot my humble OO scale 0-4-0 switcher to get the freight cars onto the main. Complete with firebox flicker.

 

[RhB Michael]

The Br.249 doing double duty pulling a RegioExpress, The ÖBB CityJet Rh4746, and the RhB Capricorn ABe 4/16 hard at work on the Arosa Bahn.

 

[Kusojiji]

C57 Pacific pulling a 7 car Orient Express train.

 

[Kusojiji]

Then the train was shipped to the US and was pulled by a 4-8-4.

And continuing the tour, made it to the UK and pulled by a Pannier tank.

 

[Rico]

A switch was replaced at the grain mill today and the plant switcher was out for service so a lease loco was brought in…

 

[Kusojiji]

Very nice detailiing on that switcher!

 

[Rico]

Very nice detailiing on that switcher!

Thanx!
I’d love to take credit for it but it’s from Jerome's (wheeler1963) stable

 

[Kusojiji]

AMTRAK consignment.

 

[Kusojiji]

PA-1/PB-1 pulling the UP passenger train.

 

[Kusojiji]

While digging out my PAs, I found an SD90 that is NIB. Never installed the handrails or the number boards. Had to change the couplers out to the longer ones, but used the newer stuff.

L - standard, M - long option, R - newer knuckle

The details on this thing is nice.

 

[Espeefan]

Just a cab hop, testing out a steamer that's just been painted.

 

[blackz28]

4-12-2 & 4019

 

[bnsf971]

A switch was replaced at the grain mill today and the plant switcher was out for service so a lease loco was brought in…

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I think I've seen that lease road before...

 

[Kusojiji]

UP E8s pulling smoothsides.

 

[wright]

I was doing some switching with my favorite pair of GP39E's (rebuilt GP30's, Burlington Northern nomenclature) and occasionally, they would take a little more throttle to get started. Suddenly, a surprisingly large amount of smoke erupted from one of them and it was making short circuit noises. I grabbed it off the track immediately. In addition to the thoroughly smoked decoder, the shell has a divot burned into it. Fortunately, it is just a divot and isn't visible on the outside. This is only the third decoder fail I've had in 27 years of using DCC and one was probably my fault. This one has been in pretty continuous use since late 2011.

For being my "favorite", I don't have that many photos of them together. Here's a photo of the one that blew up back in happier times. The rear of the second one is on the right. That one is about 20 years old now.

 

[trailrider]

I always liked the Mantua 2-6-6-2 logger. I had one several years ago with DC. I would like to have one now; but my curves are a little to tight; my two 4-6-0's are about as big as I can go

The LED somehow got fried inspite of a bunch of resistors. Replaced it with a 16v DC incandescent, which is fine. Not sure just how tight a curve I could run this on, but it works fine on my 20"R ruling curves. I replaced the tender with a Roundhouse oil tanker, as the "Q" T-2's were converted to oil. I would have liked to do more detailing, and would have liked making the front cylinders larger, making it a Mallet, but I would have to mess with the valve gear on the lead engine, and it isn't worth the trouble. So, I'll just have to reclassify the locomotive to a "T-2c", with the tender showing a Burlington Route logo, but with larger lettering for my "Grashhook, Galesburg & Western Division of the C.B.& Q". Have to take some pictures. It will pull six fairly heavy hoppers plus the waycar up my ruling 3.14 percent ruling grade. It won't pull 8 without slipping, but six is about all I can run anyway without looking too long for the layout. If I want to pull more, I go to my M4a 2-10-4 or diesels. The T-2c will stay DC, as I just got my real estate tax bill, and am not about to spend $100+ for a decoder. I have a bunch of DC, as well as DCC, anyway.
Main project right now is getting my sciattic back in shape. X-rays today, MRI tomorrow, probably followed by some shots.

 

[Canalligator]

I ran a work train. I have an abandoned branch line that I’m going to turn into a rail trail. Well last night I got up the gumption to actually pull up the rails. Rail and ties are awaiting shipment to a used railroad equipment dealer.

Building the multi use path can wait, but I needed to do the demo in order to do some work on the stub of track (customer site) that’s left.

 

[Rico]

Always sad to see track pulled up Dale but it is neat to see it modelled tho!

 

[Colorado Midland Modeler]

I don't have any photos of the action, but I ran these two doubleheaded today with the below passenger equipment.

 

[Rico]

I didn’t catch the front end but the track cleaning train was out doing its rounds this afternoon.
It’s loosely based on a combination of Loram trains I’ve worked with, there’s still soooo much work to do on it yet!
Eventually it will have all the hoses, lights and sounds including sparks shooting out on the tracks using fibre optics.