Thanks for that, Howard. I'll look around on there and see if there's anything else useful.
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- Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:19 pm
- Forum: Lakes & Rivers
- Topic: Mirror
- Replies: 2
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- Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:21 pm
- Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
- Topic: Seen around the layout
- Replies: 31
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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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- 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 ...
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This loco had the annoying habit of losing one of the studs that holds the left-hand connecting-rod/eccentric in place. A little ...
- 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 ...
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After two decades of inactivity, the set ran like a champ. It came with baggage ...
- Sat Jan 18, 2025 1:16 pm
- Forum: Welcome to BigIndoorTrains Discussion Forums
- Topic: Seen around the layout
- Replies: 31
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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:

About as close to the real thing as one can get in O-scale.

About as close to the real thing as one can get in O-scale.
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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It's a terrific little set, one that may have made some lucky kid really happy on a ...
- 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 ...
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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 ...
- 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:

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!

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!
- 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 ...