Tom Wesenberg (It's time)

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Put away the cars, and in with the trains...L.O.L ..Too cold outside here.. Starting to Set the trains up for Christmas.:)
 

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I had a nice HO train collection until some jerks kicked in my front door and stole and broke them, along with my Ertle collection. Between taxes and thieves it's hard to have much. I no longer go to the train swap meets and don't have much anymore in toys. I'm still waiting for steam to come back to the rails! :) LOL
 
Tom Wesenberg said:
I had a nice HO train collection until some jerks kicked in my front door and stole and broke them, along with my Ertle collection. Between taxes and thieves it's hard to have much. I no longer go to the train swap meets and don't have much anymore in toys. I'm still waiting for steam to come back to the rails! :) LOL
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Tom,

If steam does come back, a bit of advice. Don't EVER EVER EVER lean over a bridge railing waiting to drop a big snow ball down the smoke stack when the engine goes under the bridge:eek:.

Yes, there is more than smoke coming out of that stack! And yes, I am speaking from experience.:o Those were the days.
 
I took a steamer from Detroit to Kentucky every summer until I was ten, can still smell the anthracite coal and the green soap in the wash rooms. :)
 
Gary/IA said:
Tom,

If steam does come back, a bit of advice. Don't EVER EVER EVER lean over a bridge railing waiting to drop a big snow ball down the smoke stack when the engine goes under the bridge:eek:.

Yes, there is more than smoke coming out of that stack! And yes, I am speaking from experience.:o Those were the days.
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I rode the 261 up in Duluth a few years ago. It was pulling 10 antique coaches where you could hang out the windows as it rode along the tracks. When we boarded the conductor was handing out goggles. I thought this must be some OSHA crap we have to deal with now. He also said that if you get any cinders in your eyes, don't rub them. Well, I stuck my head out the window and soon found out how useful those goggles were. I didn't realize that the coal would make such fine cinder dust and still get into the eyes even 6 cars back from the engine.
 
Model Trains and Model A's

Yup, time to put the trains around the tree again this year.

If you are reading this, then you are probably interested in both Model trains and Model A's. Back in 1996 Märklin made a special box car for the Köln (Cologne), Germany train fair that featured a Model A on it. They made it in Z, HO and Gauge I scale.

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They occasionally pop up for sale on eBay.

Below is a photo of our Christmas train layout. All trains are LGB (G scale) and include a trolley, two RhB (Swiss) passenger trains and cog railroad delivering Christmas trees on the hill top.....and a German Christmas market with an East German cardboard church and lodge as well as a Department 56 electric ski slope and sledding hill. When it is all running, there is lots of action :).
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Fordially,
Brad in Germany
 
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When I was a boy I had my beloved Hornby HO scale electric set. I was very jealous of one of my friends who had a Marklin set that puffed smoke, if you put a special oil into the smoke stack. Very nice! Marklins were very rear in NZ during the 1970s.
 
When I was a kid we had an American Flyer train set. The neighbor kid was from up north and they had a Lionel train set. One day I made a comment to his dad about the authenticity of our set because we had 2 rail track which looked like the real thing in our neck of the woods and theirs had 3 rail track. He said, "Hell, boy, your track is the one that's oddball! Where we come from 3 rails is normal."
 
When I lived in New England, our family visited Edaville Railroad in Carver Massachusetts. They ran a narrow guage steam train.

I thought that it would be fun to watch the train leave the station, so I was close when the engineer turned on the steam. The train started with a great lurch and the steam surged up the stack. Great sound !!!! But, what a mess with the coal ash all over me !

Marc
 
Tom Wesenberg said:
I rode the 261 up in Duluth a few years ago. It was pulling 10 antique coaches where you could hang out the windows as it rode along the tracks. When we boarded the conductor was handing out goggles. I thought this must be some OSHA crap we have to deal with now. He also said that if you get any cinders in your eyes, don't rub them. Well, I stuck my head out the window and soon found out how useful those goggles were. I didn't realize that the coal would make such fine cinder dust and still get into the eyes even 6 cars back from the engine.
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Tom W,
If you ever get the chance, ride the "Cog Train" on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Besides being a mechanical wonder...goes straight UP the side of the mountain...it throws off such an amount of cinders that the cinders are measured in feet thick on side of the mountain! A woman sitting behind me stated that she didn't know how/why this train was allowed to operate 'due to the pollution'. Don't pass up the chance to ride it if you're in the area..it's a thrill. You didn't see any windows open eigher!
 
When I was a kid, my Dad would only let me have American Flyer, S gage I think, because it had two rails like the real trains. No three rail Lionel was allowed. Later I graduated to HO for which I have some of his scratch-built box cars and a brass steam locomotive still. Model railroading as well as woodworking has taken a back seat to Model A's!
 
I'm another Model A guy that also had and still have my original American Flyer trains from the 1950's. Seems that the two go together well and I still set them up for Christmas and the grandchildren. They like seeing the trains and then going to the donut shop in the Model A!:)
 
I was always into trains [lionel trains ,,1958 when i recieved 4 sets] .American Flyer i did not know of or H.O. till the early70's. Went to a tag sale and bought a MARKS complete set form 1929. Traded it for more lionel trains. There's a train show at the Westchester Center and first time i went 1/2 of the A.A.C.A. members were walking around, So Trains,Cars and some here are into airplains too.
 
When I was a kid, used to put a penny on the train line and watch the wheels go clack/clack and flatten it.

Our pennys were big, about 1 1/4 inches, and they ended up much bigger.

If done these days, we would be hauled off for terrorism in trying to derail a train.
 
We at one time placed a penny on the tracks just for that. BUT found out "NOT" to place it near a TRAIN CROSSING GATE with arms and lights... The penny set off the gate ,lights went on bell ringing , traffic started to backup and "NO "train...Went to remove penny [which was hot] so kicked it off and then all the bells,lights and gate went off and back up...My brother and friends were scared ****-less . Got back on our bikes and peddled like hell.
 
Re: Model Trains and Model A's

Brad in Germany said:
Yup, time to put the trains around the tree again this year.

If you are reading this, then you are probably interested in both Model trains and Model A's. Back in 1996 Märklin made a special box car for the Köln (Cologne), Germany train fair that featured a Model A on it. They made it in Z, HO and Gauge

They occasionally pop up for sale on eBay.

Below is a photo of our Christmas train layout. All trains are LGB (G scale) and include a trolley, two RhB (Swiss) passenger trains and cog railroad delivering Christmas trees on the hill top.....and a German Christmas market with an East German cardboard church and lodge as well as a Department 56 electric ski slope and sledding hill. When it is all running, there is lots of action :).

Brad in Germany
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Germany is a great place for model trains. When I was stationed in Italy with the 82nd we were often deployed to Germany for training exercises (better jump zones than elsewhere in Europe) On a trip into Berlin I discovered a really neat train store with Z scale trains in the window. I went in and spent two months pay :-)

My kiddos are too little to play with them right now (one is four and the other one) but I have them put away against the time when they're older.
 
In 1987 my dad and I spent 3 weeks touring Germany. It sure is a beautiful country and in each town we stopped my first trip was to the hobby shop. Almost every hobby shop had the same price and most had a beautiful 4-8-4 steam engine from the WWII era. As I recall it was gray and had an eagle with it's wings spread on the tender. I couldn't quite afford the $127 it costs, but I still have the Marklin booklet showing it. Wonder what it costs today?
 
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hardtimes said:
Tom W,
If you ever get the chance, ride the "Cog Train" on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Besides being a mechanical wonder...goes straight UP the side of the mountain...it throws off such an amount of cinders that the cinders are measured in feet thick on side of the mountain! A woman sitting behind me stated that she didn't know how/why this train was allowed to operate 'due to the pollution'. Don't pass up the chance to ride it if you're in the area..it's a thrill. You didn't see any windows open eigher!
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FYI - We visited Mt Washington in Sept. and the Cog Railway engines were big ugly diesels! - no more coal/steam!:(
 
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