Christmas Train Layout

bh69ss · Post by **bh69ss** » Sun. Dec. 27, 2020 8:25 pm

This is all great stuff thanks for sharing, when I was a youngin me and my grandma were into train’s, we would go to the train shop every few months and get a new engine or something. Every summer we would visit family back in WV and it was a ritual to go to Cass and go up the mountain, back the there was an open car behind the engine that I had to ride on all the time but she always sat with me, needless to say you got up and personal with the coal cinders!!!!! Great stuff. Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone!!

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Sun. Dec. 27, 2020 9:38 pm

Same back at ya B.

Erik Carstens · Post by **Erik Carstens** » Sun. Dec. 27, 2020 10:43 pm

bh69ss wrote: ↑
Sun. Dec. 27, 2020 8:25 pm

This is all great stuff thanks for sharing, when I was a youngin me and my grandma were into train’s, we would go to the train shop every few months and get a new engine or something. Every summer we would visit family back in WV and it was a ritual to go to Cass and go up the mountain, back the there was an open car behind the engine that I had to ride on all the time but she always sat with me, needless to say you got up and personal with the coal cinders!!!!! Great stuff. Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone!!

Yes indeed

Homesteader · Post by **Homesteader** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 8:00 am

Nice steam videos guys. Love the stack talk. Nothing like coal steam power.

Post by **franco b** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 9:05 am

Exposed crankshaft?

Erik Carstens · Post by **Erik Carstens** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 10:59 am

franco b wrote: ↑
Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 9:05 am
Exposed crankshaft?

I noticed those too.. Seam to be smooth action

Hoytman · Post by **Hoytman** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 1:10 pm

My 14 year old can tell us anything we want to know about these trains. He’s been infatuated with them since he was 4 years old...inner workings and all. Wood fired, coal fired, diesel, you name it. Beats all I’ve ever seen. I just imagine he’s seen every train video on YouTube at least 20 times each.

Erik Carstens · Post by **Erik Carstens** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 1:20 pm

Hoytman wrote: ↑
Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 1:10 pm
My 14 year old can tell us anything we want to know about these trains. He’s been infatuated with them since he was 4 years old...inner workings and all. Wood fired, coal fired, diesel, you name it. Beats all I’ve ever seen. I just imagine he’s seen every train video on YouTube at least 20 times each.

Wow! Hopefully soon when time allows, you both can team up and start one ....Very fun even when not perfectly to scale or correct like mine.. Kind of easier when they are not "by the book" so to speak...

Post by **franco b** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 4:43 pm

I have some old Lionel catalogs and literature that I saved from the dump knowing someone would like it. I see a 1938 date on one piece.

If you would like it PM me, but if more than one we would have to split it or decide who gets it all.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 4:52 pm

Outstanding save Richard. I got stuff that I also know someone will want at some point!! Airplane,etc. Landfills are good

Erik Carstens · Post by **Erik Carstens** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 5:01 pm

freetown fred wrote: ↑
Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 4:52 pm
Outstanding save Richard. I got stuff that I also know someone will want at some point!! Airplane,etc. Landfills are good

I have a metal salvage yard nearby that I have gotten wood stoves, pellet stoves, oil furnaces from...along with many other things. I just pay scrap weight price. People throw away perfectly good things......Muncie M21 transmission case,, box of new sprinkler heads....too much to list ..Incredible..I kind of got kicked out because the stove shop that was throwing out the stoves didn't want me taking them.... some were not that old that they were taking out of peoples houses... They told the salvage yard not to do it anymore...

Bob500 · Post by **Bob500** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 5:57 pm

My family trains at my folks house.

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Erik Carstens · Post by **Erik Carstens** » Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 6:22 pm

Bob500 wrote: ↑
Mon. Dec. 28, 2020 5:57 pm
My family trains at my folks house.

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Very nice!