[AT] Old trains

[Al Jones]

Sounds like how I feel about R/C model airplanes.  I could see myself
becoming an enthusiast, but one expensive hobby (that being old tractors!)
is enough.

Plus, I would probably go insane from crashing the first plane, after all
that hard work building it, on its maiden flight.....

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/6/2009 11:33:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
>
> I never got really interested in model trains but I can see the
attraction. 
> The problem is where to put them so you can enjoy them without taking up 
> half the house or shop.  One thing I've seen is to put shelves around the 
> top of a room (all 4 walls) and run the track up above the doors and
windows 
> where it can stay without being in the way and can be run at any time. 
That 
> doesn't give much room for rail yard layouts and the like but it's a way
to 
> enjoy the trains.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ernie" <cchopper at centurytel.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Old trains
>
>
> > Dean, you just gave me the idea to maybe get my old train set out.  I
just
> > moved into this house last Jan, actually still moving in...  Mine is
the 
> > O27
> > scale I had when I was a kid 50+ years ago.
> >
> > Thanks for the idea!
> >
> > Ernie Thackeray
> > "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
to
> > take away everything you have."   Thomas Jefferson
> >
> > 'In God We Trust'
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dean Vinson
> > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:53 PM
> > To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> > Subject: [AT] Old trains
> >
> > Lately my interest in model trains has picked back up, after 30-some
years
> > on the back burner.  I was browsing eBay a few months ago and happened 
> > upon
> > a nice HO scale model EMD F3 locomotive, cast metal, mid-1940s vintage,
> > honest and original looking but non-running and missing wheels and
axles 
> > on
> > the front truck.  Wasn't going for much, so I bought it.  A few days
later 
> > I
> > bought another old F3 with a running motor and good chassis for parts,
to
> > make the first one complete.  It's flat beautiful.
> >
> > But that wasn't actually my first model train purchase this year.  For
a 
> > few
> > years now I'd been aware that one of the model train companies
(Walthers)
> > had been making a really nice Great Northern Empire Builder set.  The
> > Walthers set went out of production early this year sometime, but I made
> > sure to buy one before they all disappeared from retailers.  Still in
the
> > boxes, it's in my closet waiting for a time when I have space and time
to
> > set up some tracks.
> >
> > That was enough for a while, but then I noticed a similar set in
Milwaukee
> > Road livery.  The Milwaukee Road, like the Empire Builder and local
> > commuters and the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern freights, looms large in my 
> > memory
> > of my maternal grandfather, with whom trainwatching was one of my 
> > growing-up
> > activities during visits to his Chicago-area suburban home.  The
Milwaukee
> > Road set is in a box in my closet also.
> >
> > That was enough for a while too, until I saw that F3 on eBay, and since 
> > then
> > I've acquired quite a few other model locomotives, freight cars, and
> > passenger cars.  Something about them feels right to me, in the same way
> > that an M Farmall or a Cockshutt 30 or an Oliver 77 or a John Deere A 
> > feels
> > right.  The mesh of function and optimism and honest production, the
> > elegantly simple and classic designs, the industrial streamlined
designs 
> > of
> > Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss, the defining symbols of their industry
> > during the 40s and 50s.  My Farmall M makes me think of my dad, and his 
> > dad,
> > in the same way these toy F3s and E8s and such make me think of my mom's
> > dad.  Feels like a nice way to settle in for the winter.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Dayton, Ohio
> > www.vinsonfarm.net
> >
> >
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