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by winced36
Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:19 pm
Forum: Lakes & Rivers
Topic: Mirror
Replies: 2
Views: 14250

Re: Mirror

Thanks for that, Howard. I'll look around on there and see if there's anything else useful.

Paul II
by winced36
Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:21 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

In lieu of watching the Super Bust, headed to the basement to give the Lionel 258 a spin around the mainline; here it is working its way down the backside of the layout with a string of 800-series freights, heading south toward the eastern end of the tunnel at Heat Pump Pass:

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by winced36
Sat Feb 01, 2025 5:02 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

More stuff down off the shelf, this a prewar Lionel 249 with a short string of 2600-series freights:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54299821120_852f167a05_o.jpg

This loco had the annoying habit of losing one of the studs that holds the left-hand connecting-rod/eccentric in place. A little ...
by winced36
Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:46 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

While we're pulling stuff down off the shelf, dug the kid's MTH Super Chief set (30-4021-0) out of the closet of his old room and gave that a spin:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54274806747_c16ff10a5f_b.jpg

After two decades of inactivity, the set ran like a champ. It came with baggage ...
by winced36
Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:16 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

A shot from a good friend's 2-rail O-scale layout, his model of Western Maryland Alco S-2 #125:

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About as close to the real thing as one can get in O-scale.
by winced36
Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:00 am
Forum: Other O Gauge Trains
Topic: Williams O-Gauge Gallery
Replies: 7
Views: 35233

Re: Williams O-Gauge Gallery

Pulled the Williams NW2 down off the shelf for a spin around the mainline:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54268920317_8a467c4b89_b.jpg

This is a pre-Bachmann locomotive from Williams featuring dual motors, True-Blast II horn, bell, and nice graphics (even if the Western Maryland never ...
by winced36
Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:02 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

Taking down the Christmas tree and display today...thought we'd give the Lionel 290E set a spin around the basement layout before packing it up:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54262401611_e7226931bb_b.jpg

It's a terrific little set, one that may have made some lucky kid really happy on a ...
by winced36
Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:44 pm
Forum: Holiday Villages
Topic: Christmas 1936/2024
Replies: 0
Views: 2407

Christmas 1936/2024

The under-tree display featured a Lionel 290E set from 1936 this year (2024):

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54208608281_6c066efe72_b.jpg

All in original form with the exception of the 657 caboose. That was the first O-gauge tinplate refurb I ever did, probably some three decades back at ...
by winced36
Tue Dec 31, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
Topic: Seen around the layout
Replies: 31
Views: 287282

Re: Seen around the layout

Tonight, the newly-acquired MPC-era Lionel F3 took the point on the Coast Daylight:

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After a bit of lubrication, it ran great. It's a nice-looking train, but I'll need to find a couple more cars for it.

Happy New Year everyone!
by winced36
Tue Dec 31, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Post-War Lionel Trains
Topic: Post-War Lionel Gallery
Replies: 63
Views: 295434

Re: Post-War Lionel Gallery


That's a nice looking unit! When you get your consist hooked up, add a photo, please!

Here you go, Paul; from her first run after 41 years in storage, the newly acquired Lionel F3 takes the point on the Coast Daylight:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54238972178_654b512620_b.jpg

These ...