Model Train Journal

Happy Friday!

Did a few little things this week - painted the fascia of the extension to match the rest of the board




& then ran some trains for a bit -


























We also welcomed a new member to our family. Beau - A 3 year old Chocolate Lab. He is one of the sweetest dogs I've met

NS Dash-9 9177 leads 66Z through Cove, PA on Easter Sunday




NJT ALP45DP 4525 brings a morning NY bound rush hour train over the Raritan River. Seen from the Perth Amboy side of the River





NJT PL42AC 4016 approaches Bound Brook as it leads a rush hour train towards High Bridge on the ex CNJ main line. The Conrail shared assets Lehigh Line is to the right


NS GP38-2 5283 (ex CR/PC 8081) leading SA31 down the old CNJ Southern Secondary in Eatontown, NJ




NS Dash-9 9140 shoves on the rear of 42N as it heads eastbound through Bluestone, WV

Love labs, so sweet!!! (and smart)

Good-looking dog Christopher. Agree with Chuck...labs are great dogs, especially with kids.

Decided to chase down the bits needed to complete a 1940 Flyer Pioneer Freight set:



Picked up the 405 loco/tender combination at York a couple weeks ago:



I had a 484 cabin in storage...dug that out:



I'm not sure but this 484 may be a version later than 1940, possibly even post-war. I think the 1940 set probably had a 484 with white or nickel hand-rails.

Need to run down a nice 476 and 478 to complete it...shouldn't be too tough.

Maryland Midland rolling through town on the old Western Maryland main-line a couple summers ago:



Genesee & Wyoming took over back in 2008 and painted all of the motive-power their awful (IMHO) orange paint-scheme. The pre-acquisition blue-and-orange always looked a bit sharper to me.

Have a good weekend.

Healey

Beautiful dog, but how is it he's three years old? How did you come about him?

Healey,
Although most Flyer pre and post war trains were 3/16" scale weren't the pre-war O gauge and the post-war S gauge?
Wouldn't the trucks be the deciding factor?

rogruth wrote:Healey,
Although most Flyer pre and post war trains were 3/16" scale weren't the pre-war O gauge and the post-war S gauge?
Wouldn't the trucks be the deciding factor?

Flyer made some 3/16 O gauge after the war.

rogruth wrote:Healey,
Although most Flyer pre and post war trains were 3/16" scale weren't the pre-war O gauge and the post-war S gauge?
Wouldn't the trucks be the deciding factor?

No expert on Flyer, but my understanding is some 3/16" O-gauge carried over into the first couple of years after the war, but very little. Probably just an effort to liquidate the last of the inventory. Did they sell O-gauge sets after WWII? Need to do some research, but looking at the 1946 catalog there is no mention of O-gauge product offered.

https://eliwhitney.org/catalog7/gallery/1946

Healey

Man I love that old pre war Lionel & Flyer - If I had more money, room & time........

We were looking for a lab for a while. I really wanted a chocolate one. We happened to find someone that was re-homing him due to their schedule & lifestyle changing. He's great w/ the kids & cats. Very well trained as well. We got really lucky - he's a great dog & fits right in

christopher2035 wrote:We were looking for a lab for a while. I really wanted a chocolate one. We happened to find someone that was re-homing him due to their schedule & lifestyle changing. He's great w/ the kids & cats. Very well trained as well. We got really lucky - he's a great dog & fits right in

So, you know the original owner, and how he was treated, his whole life? You're staking your kids welfare on this.

Roy wrote:

christopher2035 wrote:We were looking for a lab for a while. I really wanted a chocolate one. We happened to find someone that was re-homing him due to their schedule & lifestyle changing. He's great w/ the kids & cats. Very well trained as well. We got really lucky - he's a great dog & fits right in

So, you know the original owner, and how he was treated, his whole life? You're staking your kids welfare on this.

Yes we met w/ the original owner. They had him from a puppy. You can tell a lot by a dog after meeting him/her & knowing the breed. All of our animals are recuse ones. Now, I wouldn't do it w/ an aggressive breed - such as a pitbull, doberman, etc. A lab is a very good dog w/ children & has a good disposition by nature.

Someone would have to abuse the crap out of a lab to make it "mean". By nature they love everybody. They are extraordinarily good at reading people and can sense when their family members are upset/in trouble. Check to see if he's right or left pawed.

christopher2035 wrote:Yes we met w/ the original owner. They had him from a puppy. You can tell a lot by a dog after meeting him/her & knowing the breed. All of our animals are recuse ones. Now, I wouldn't do it w/ an aggressive breed - such as a pitbull, doberman, etc. A lab is a very good dog w/ children & has a good disposition by nature.

Agreed, except I don't know what you mean by recuse animal. The thing is, if an animal has a previous history, it may have suffered abuse at some point. There are instances of adopted dogs attacking children - including Labradors.

chuck wrote:Someone would have to abuse the crap out of a lab to make it "mean".

It's not that any of these dogs are mean. But, many, many animals have had the crap abused out of them - and worse. No kidding, no exaggeration.

Roy wrote:Agreed, except I don't know what you mean by recuse animal.

Recuse is derived from the Anglo-French word recuser, which comes from Latin recusare, meaning "to refuse." English speakers began using "recuse" with the meaning "to refuse or reject" in the 14th century. By the 17th century, the term had acquired the meaning "to challenge or object to (a judge)." The current legal use of "recuse" as a term specifically meaning "to disqualify (oneself) as a judge" didn't come into frequent use until the mid-20th century. Broader applications soon followed from this sense - you can now recuse yourself from such things as debates and decisions as well as court cases.

A recuse animal has been given up for adoption (or sometimes dumped by the roadside) by its owner.

Maybe he mis-spelled rescue?