I found the locomotive at Roundhouse Electric Trains in Louisville, KY. It runs very smoothly on DC power.
The drop center flat car is from Trainz.
The load is from a Russell Springs, Kentucky Dollar Store.
Weekend Photos -- May 2022
Weekend Photos -- May 2022
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
There is a warning label on the back of the Dollar Store lantern battery:
I don't know how I ever survived childhood without warning labels.
I don't know how I ever survived childhood without warning labels.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
How much was the locomotive?
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
v8vega wrote:How much was the locomotive?
$99.00
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
If swallowed I’m almost certain that’s on there because someone somehow swallowed a battery that size
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Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
webenda wrote:I don't know how I ever survived childhood without warning labels.
Apparently they serve a good purpose for a large number of adults.
Conservatism: The intense fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is inferior is being treated as your equal.
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
Nice loco, Wayne. How does it run, speed-wise? Like a banshee, I'm guessing, similar to most postwar.
Interesting shot of the General on display at Union Station, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1907:
A locomotive type "modeled" by Marx, Flyer, Lionel, and MTH (and possibly others).
Top to bottom, here's the Marx O-gauge William Crooks, the Flyer S-gauge Franklin, and the Lionel O-gauge General sets (or at least one version thereof):
Only the Marx set featured tin-litho coaches; everything else here is plastic.
Interesting shot of the General on display at Union Station, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1907:
A locomotive type "modeled" by Marx, Flyer, Lionel, and MTH (and possibly others).
Top to bottom, here's the Marx O-gauge William Crooks, the Flyer S-gauge Franklin, and the Lionel O-gauge General sets (or at least one version thereof):
Only the Marx set featured tin-litho coaches; everything else here is plastic.
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
healey36 wrote:Nice loco, Wayne. How does it run, speed-wise? Like a banshee, I'm guessing, similar to most postwar.
At 4.90 VDC it covers 30 inches in 5.15 seconds (15.89 scale mph.) On 12 VDC it runs way too fast. I am afraid to try 18 volts.
It looks like it is going downhill but it is not, the camera was tilted. It backed up at the same speed as it went forward.
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----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
I think this Lionel 8506 is the slowest/smoothest/quietest electromechanical engine I have ever owned. I have to give credit to Tom Budniak at Roundhouse Electric Trains in Louisville, KY. He cleaned and lubricated it before it was put on the shelf for sale.
Reference: https://youtu.be/h4ntwyo0Q24
Reference: https://youtu.be/h4ntwyo0Q24
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----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
It looks good at that speed, nearly prototypical. I'm sure these things could have been geared down back in the day, but kids found the speed appealing, I'm sure. I recall Lionel's old TV ads from the early 1960s, and those always seemed to feature the toy running in hypersonic fashion.
Re: Weekend Photos -- May 2022
caught this pair in Philly
I spend entirely too many hours a day tying my shoes
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