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Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:16 am**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:30 am A couple of CN locos

Posted: **Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:24 am**

Racked my brain with a wiring issue last night, but I figured it out tonight! Lionel came up with a solution on how to run 2 trains on the same track using 1 transformer, without collision; a 153C Contactor.

Posted: **Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:38 am**

Very nifty redrider.

Posted: **Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:17 am**

That's cool!

Posted: **Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:51 am**

I saw a YouTube vid about it so I thought I'd give it a try. Last night I was beginning to think something wasn't right, but it was just my incorrect wiring.

Posted: **Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:01 pm**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:24 am Racked my brain with a wiring issue last night, but I figured it out tonight! Lionel came up with a solution on how to run 2 trains on the same track using 1 transformer, without collision; a 153C Contactor.

COOL!

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:52 pm**

The RR crossing and signal just south of the house where I was raised from the 7th grade till I got out of high school. Mom still loves there. This is the old Sante Fe Moline Sub. The SKOL operates it now. In 1976 the Freedom Train came through headed west. Back then the signal on Main St. Was a wig wag.

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:06 pm**

Thanks, Tom.

Nice, David.

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:30 pm**

The Freedom Train came through Burden, Ks early in the morning of 03-19-76. It was west bound on the Santa Fe Moline Sub. I went in late to work so I could get pics of it. These pics were taken with a cheap Kodiak 110 camera. The pics are old and faded. Thought yawl might like the history.

Posted: **Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:34 pm**

Few more.

Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:21 pm**

Very cool, David!

Since 2026 will be the 250th Anniversary, I wonder if some of the same things will happen? We can only hope!

Quiet morning at the Landmark Yards. Over the weekend I received a replacement Lionel motor for this engine and turned it into a 2-4-2 Santa Fe Columbia. Thinking I may paint the black parts at some point either gray or a lighter shade of blue. Still need to get the headlight soldered in but I like how it's coming along. The original cheap DC motor wouldn't work for me since I don't have any DC transformers, I think it was originally part of a Pennsylvania Freight set. I bought it with a Pennsylvania rattler tender, which was the main reason for my purchase, and a PRR caboose, all for $25. The new motor was $22 and seems to be working well.

The tender was part of a Cannonball set I believe, it came with a good AC powered motor but the engine shell was missing the boiler plate face. It came with some nice rolling stock including a little red Santa Fe caboose. You can see some of my repair yards parts at the top left in the 3rd picture down.

Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:00 pm**

Yard dudes banging around moving grain cars from the west ADM mill.

Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:37 pm**

EB BNSF manifest

Posted: **Mon Apr 04, 2022 10:22 pm**

Thanks for solving the Archer Daniels Midland location mystery for me, David.

Great pictures, by the way.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:21 pm**

DM11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 9:30 pm The Freedom Train came through Burden, Ks early in the morning of 03-19-76. It was west bound on the Santa Fe Moline Sub. I went in late to work so I could get pics of it. These pics were taken with a cheap Kodiak 110 camera. The pics are old and faded. Thought yawl might like the history.

That is some good stuff there, David, excellent! So cool that you were taking train pics back in the 70s. I was using a 110 back then too, got some pics somewhere of a steam loco making a special run back in '78 I believe.

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:23 pm**

DM11 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:00 pm Yard dudes banging around moving grain cars from the west ADM mill.

I always enjoy the yard dudes! You just can't beat the smells comin from an ADM plant, huh?

Good stuff, John!

Posted: **Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:26 pm**

Just saw this CN local out in the countryside.......

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:09 am**

Whoops!

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:33 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:21 pm Very cool, David! Since 2026 will be the 250th Anniversary, I wonder if some of the same things will happen? We can only hope!

Quiet morning at the Landmark Yards. Over the weekend I received a replacement Lionel motor for this engine and turned it into a 2-4-2 Santa Fe Columbia. Thinking I may paint the black parts at some point either gray or a lighter shade of blue. Still need to get the headlight soldered in but I like how it's coming along. The original cheap DC motor wouldn't work for me since I don't have any DC transformers, I think it was originally part of a Pennsylvania Freight set. I bought it with a Pennsylvania rattler tender, which was the main reason for my purchase, and a PRR caboose, all for $25. The new motor was $22 and seems to be working well.

The tender was part of a Cannonball set I believe, it came with a good AC powered motor but the engine shell was missing the boiler plate face. It came with some nice rolling stock including a little red Santa Fe caboose. You can see some of my repair yards parts at the top left in the 3rd picture down.

Looking good.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2022 2:05 am**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:26 pm Just saw this CN local out in the countryside.......

Good pics Ike! Sure enjoyed them.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2022 11:49 am**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:26 pm Just saw this CN local out in the countryside.......

Awesome shots, Ike.

Thanks, cudgee.

I had my FA2s on parade last night.

Posted: **Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:23 am**

Looking out the east window I can see a EB BNSF manifest and a WB BNSF grain train sitting at the depot changing crews. The EB has some foreign power. A Kansas City Southern with the Southern Belle paint scheme and a faded Ferromex unit. I live such an exciting life.

Posted: **Sun Apr 10, 2022 2:53 am**

DM11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:23 am Looking out the east window I can see......... A Kansas City Southern with the Southern Belle paint scheme.........I live such an exciting life.

A Southern Belle outside your East window? Could be a lot worse, uh..........what do you see out your West window? A Santa Fe Warbonnet?

Posted: **Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:04 am**

Southern Belle and War Bonnet two of the better paint schemes to be on a locomotive.

Posted: **Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:18 am**

DM11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:04 am Southern Belle and War Bonnet two of the better paint schemes to be on a locomotive.

I won't argue with that statement!

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