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The first "set" I bought for my kid back in 1996, a pair of O-27 Reading Alco FA units (6-18934) and a set of similarly-schemed O-27 passenger cars:

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He was seven at the time and a huge fan of Batman/Power Rangers, so I figured this ...

Another shot from the archives, here the Lionel 253 hauls its drag of 2800-series freights around the northwestern corner of the mainline:

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The 253 was a cab-off restore using Woods enamel (peacock) and a few reproduction parts. I ...

Shawmut Terminal Alco S-2 #90 ready for work:



From an operating session on a friend's two-rail O-scale layout.

Standard gauge trains at the model train exhibit at the Brandywine River Art Museum in July 2018:



Photo courtesy of Ron Cogswell.

I found this Williams boxcar in a lot I recently purchased at a local estate sale. A B&O "Time Saver" boxcar (#WAL-41), likely a custom run for the Baltimore Packaging Company:

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Williams cars are close to 1/48-scale, unlike a lot of ...

Thanks for that, Howard. I'll look around on there and see if there's anything else useful.

Paul II

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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More stuff down off the shelf, this a prewar Lionel 249 with a short string of 2600-series freights:

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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 ...

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:

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After two decades of inactivity, the set ran like a champ. It came with baggage ...

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.