Your Model and Railroad blog by the folk at SMARTT
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SAYRE, PA (PART 2) – THE LATER YEARSNovember 3, 2011 The LV was not the only railroad that ran through the Lehigh Valley. In Waverly, New York, the Erie and the DL&W main lines ran through the town, each road having a station there. By 1960 these two railroads merged, and the Lackawanna was abandoned… |
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SAYRE, PA – A LOOK BACKNovember 3, 2011 If I ever look to a starting point of why I love trains so much I must place that on a small town on the New York / Pennsylvania state line. Sayre, Pa. was the main shop facility for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Here both heavy locomotive and car repair… |
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MY WISH LIST: 10 NEW MODEL RAILROAD PRODUCTS I WOULD LIKE TO SEENovember 2, 2011 There are so many items available now in all scales of model railroading. Never in its history has there been so much to choose from. However, there are always things that we specifically would love to see released that have never been. Here is my li… |
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WOMEN IN MODEL RAILROADINGOctober 17, 2011 Model railroading is not just a one gender hobby. Over the years many women have become very involved and a very important part of this hobby. You could say, “behind every great model railroad there is a woman.” From the NASA engineer who incorporates… |
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MAKING TOY TRAIN ACCESSORIES LOOK REAL – LIONEL 6-22997 OIL DRUM LOADEROctober 6, 2011 Recently we have been doing upgrades on several O gauge accessories; these upgrades have brought toy train animated accessories to a near scale appearance. The surprising thing for me is how these simple out-of-the-box toys can be transformed into some… |
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MODELING THE OVERSEAS RAILROAD THAT COULD HAVE BEENSeptember 27, 2011 Yes, modeling the Railroad that Went to Sea has been done before. In a previous blog entry we talked about Calvin Winters’ Key West extension of 1930, and how he conducts his running sessions. Calvin models a specific month in 1930; everything on his l… |
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KEY WEST AND THE OVERSEAS RAILROAD – PART 2: WHAT IF IT STILL EXISTED?September 23, 2011 Some people have kicked around the idea of what if the railroad was rebuilt? If it did get rebuilt would it ever have become profitable, and what would it look like today? If the government had decided to help rebuild the railroad, it could have seen a… |
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KEY WEST AND THE OVERSEAS RAILROAD – PART I: THE RAILROAD THAT DIED AT SEASeptember 20, 2011 2012 will mark 100 years since the completion of the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, “the Overseas Railroad.” Yes, up until 1935 you could take a train all the way to Key West, Florida. There are many long abandoned but famous rai… |
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WHEN THE STARS RODE THE RAILS – PART 2: MOVIE STARS & TRAINSSeptember 12, 2011 SHE CAME IN ON THE SUPERCHIEF vintage ad circa 1948Yes, she arrived on the Super Chief all the way from Chicago, she has officially Chiefed! That was the term used by Hollywood Types for doing the Chicago to Los Angeles trip on the Super Chief for th… |
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WHEN THE STARS RODE THE RAILS – PART 1: BASEBALLSeptember 8, 2011 Before the 707 made flying convenient, most celebrities would travel by the most luxurious conveyance possible, trains. Railroads would not just brag about the accommodations of their passenger trains, but who would ride on them. Babe Ruth, Cary Grant… |