All About Pocket Knives

DM11 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:45 am Looks like fun.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:40 pm Railfanning across North America on July 4th & 5th. Cameo of Santa Fe 2913 4-8-4 Northern in Madison, Iowa along with lots of BNSF, NS, CP, CSX and more freight and AMTRAK in Ashland, VA. Very cool vid, wondering how they pieced all of this together.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:40 pm Railfanning across North America on July 4th & 5th. Cameo of Santa Fe 2913 4-8-4 Northern in Madison, Iowa along with lots of BNSF, NS, CP, CSX and more freight and AMTRAK in Ashland, VA. Very cool vid, wondering how they pieced all of this together.

DM11 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:28 am So I'm sitting here watching Steam Locomotive videos on full screen and when the engineer looking out the side window goes by I catch myself waving at him. Might be time to turn off the computer and go to bed.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:33 pm David, the most important time to turn off the computer is when you see the engineer waving back at you.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:33 pm David, the most important time to turn off the computer is when you see the engineer waving back at you.

cody6268 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:43 pm I got my Marklin stuff out and am getting ready to get it running again. Thought I'd show off the rolling stock first.


I got my Marklin stuff out. I'd bought it around the time the pandemic had first started, only to find a pile of problems. I decided I'd finally make good use of it and get at least one running locomotive and a small oval layout setup on the dining room table that's rarely ever used.

Various goods cars.


Some are marked for Schering-Plough. They came with my DRG Class 89.0 and a pile of tracks, so I suspect it was a giveaway to doctors before the feds reined in that stuff.


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Beer car! I don't drink, but I really like the wide variety of "beer cars" Marklin did. I think they covered basically every beer sold in Germany--this one being Spaten-Franziskaner brewed in Munich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaten-Fr ... -Br%C3%A4u

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Here are my two locomotives.

DRG Class 89.0; ca. 1980s. It has a plastic shell, not diecast as did those which originated in the '60s. Runs rough, and I had to borrow a pickup shoe from a another locomotive to get it running. I cleaned a ton of crap out of the mechanism. I suspect the previous owner mostly used it as a Christmas train, let their kids play with it, and never did any maintenance.


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The black flatcar is actually a chassis from a tipping car that came broken. I accidentally dropped one of the box cars and broke a coupler, so I'm swapping chassis.


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Hanomag Henschel DH series shunter. Produced starting in the 1960s, and many are still in use today. Marklin still uses a variant in many smaller sets.

The odd thing about mine is that normally, all three axles are powered. This one only has two, and only the rear is powered. I presume it was a cheaper version made for a starter set or something.

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If it weren't for space considerations, I would've stuck with American Flyer S or Lionel O. However, I found my Lionel 0/27 Scout that needs a ton of work recently, and I think I'll switch over to O.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 12:26 am

cody6268 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:43 pm I got my Marklin stuff out and am getting ready to get it running again. Thought I'd show off the rolling stock first.


I got my Marklin stuff out. I'd bought it around the time the pandemic had first started, only to find a pile of problems. I decided I'd finally make good use of it and get at least one running locomotive and a small oval layout setup on the dining room table that's rarely ever used.

Various goods cars.


Some are marked for Schering-Plough. They came with my DRG Class 89.0 and a pile of tracks, so I suspect it was a giveaway to doctors before the feds reined in that stuff.


100_0903.JPG

Beer car! I don't drink, but I really like the wide variety of "beer cars" Marklin did. I think they covered basically every beer sold in Germany--this one being Spaten-Franziskaner brewed in Munich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaten-Fr ... -Br%C3%A4u

100_0914.JPG



Here are my two locomotives.

DRG Class 89.0; ca. 1980s. It has a plastic shell, not diecast as did those which originated in the '60s. Runs rough, and I had to borrow a pickup shoe from a another locomotive to get it running. I cleaned a ton of crap out of the mechanism. I suspect the previous owner mostly used it as a Christmas train, let their kids play with it, and never did any maintenance.


100_0910.JPG

100_0912.JPG


The black flatcar is actually a chassis from a tipping car that came broken. I accidentally dropped one of the box cars and broke a coupler, so I'm swapping chassis.


100_0906.JPG

Hanomag Henschel DH series shunter. Produced starting in the 1960s, and many are still in use today. Marklin still uses a variant in many smaller sets.

The odd thing about mine is that normally, all three axles are powered. This one only has two, and only the rear is powered. I presume it was a cheaper version made for a starter set or something.

100_0919.JPG

If it weren't for space considerations, I would've stuck with American Flyer S or Lionel O. However, I found my Lionel 0/27 Scout that needs a ton of work recently, and I think I'll switch over to O.

Those are cool, cody. S gauge? I've had a few Spaten and Franziskaner, they must have split at some point? Lionel Scouts are pretty cool, check YouTube for maintenance videos.