I enjoyed making the goose--I've made two so far , each in a different style but based on the real thing. I think the 114 would work good for an 0 gauge goose---you could use the same motor I use but not have to convert it ----I use post war Alco's and extend the axles an add the type of wheels I want

Yes, five---if I wanted to live on the edge--which I do once in awhile---I'll run six---0 gauge and std at the same time on the five rail track. No switches , no crossings --I did have some at one time but slider and roller pickups don't always like them---I've had slider shoes get caught and almost pulled off.

@@keithwood638 Lots of prewar tinplate still out there. I started in Lionel PreWar 0 right after I got out of the Navy in 73. I've still got most of what I bought.

@stevendouglas6594 I'm not sure which o gauge tinplate engine to start with?

@@keithwood638 Watch this one--might give you some ideas------kzbin.info/www/bejne/moixo6ydoMaaiac

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Steven...the variety of items and topics in your films are teriffic. The cast iron soldiers look right in place on the layout. And the new engine makes me feel like a kid again. She's a beauty. We're freezing are butts off here in Maine with several inches of snow every few days. Life is good...thank you. 👍

Jim, did ya ever read any books by Kenneth Roberts? Arundel or maybe Rabble in Arms?

@@stevendouglas6594 No... recommended?

​@@jimmelchin1531If you like American Revolutionary War historical fiction. The main characters are fictional, the events true. Written in the 30s and events out of Main towns, Arundel and Kittery. At the time the books were written, the were hailed as being historically accurate. I read a number of his books after I got married, that, Yankee magazine and four years in the Navy made me develop a love for the East Cost. The original 13 colonies. The true Yankees though are from the northern part. Main and that area around there reminds me of a poem about the sea and ships. There was a time, before our time, and it shall not come again, when the best ships were wood ships but the men were iron men. Clipper Ships and Captains. Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet.

The 5 rail track has regular 0 gauge track--the 0 gauge on the elevated is GarGraves. At one time I ran 2 rail DC scale on it also, as all rails are insulated. It's 12 Illinois time and 50 deg and I'm heading out to walk--the warm air should be coming your way. 🙂

It's German---Karl Bub---KB---PreWar I think---yes, it does look a little like Marx's , but it's original---the only thing on it not original is the pickup--it'd been replaced with a copper strip that works darn well.

If you go out to the German Ebay and paste this in the find, the spot lite car will come up---Karl Bub KB 989 - Spur 0 - Scheinwerferwagen ---it doesn't work on the US Ebay

I try to, but sometimes I get it wrong.

@@PopPopsTrainRoom Yes, I think it's the right choice.

Jim---have you ever been here?? Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum

@stevendouglas6594 Unfortunately never...and its only an hour or so drive. There are many narrow gauge RR's in Maine. I've been on the Maine Narrow Gauge in Portland many times. And that RR has been forced to halt production due to new outside corporate construction close to their track line. A big stink up here presently.

@jimmelchin1531 Of course, I've never been there, but I kinda follow them on FB. An interesting group.

Hi CHUCK, I frequent you, hope all is well.

A lot was carried over after the War with very little change. I've got some post War JEP---French---and every car I have was made before the War --they made them the same after the War but put different couplers on them.

Well, even though I model in tinplate, it's nice to base it on something that was.

The original Bassett-Lowke company failed in 1965 and after the name had changed hands several times, was purchased by Corgi in 1996, with a range of 0 gauge models being developed by Len Mills, and launched in 1999. The first locomotive was a spirit fired live steam Mogul, but subsequent releases were conventional electric powered. All of the Corgi Bassett-Lowke locos were made in China except the J39 and English Electric Type 1 (Class 20), both of which were manufactured by ETS, as were the various goods wagons. All loco development was by Corgi, although the final two issues, the J39 and Peckett tank were released after Corgi's takeover by Hornby (2008). At the time of the Hornby takeover, Corgi was developing a range of tinplate buildings but that range was cancelled by Hornby who developed and released the resin building range

www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/blcorgi/locos/index.html

@@stevendouglas6594 Amazing... thank you so much ! 👍

I would also highly recommend the most recent version of--All Quite on the Western Front---2022-----and Masters of the Air--2024----in my own way---I try to give a sense of living through those times---of course growing up--I too was born in 1950----every adult I knew was affected by the depression , the War and the fear of those times.

@stevendouglas6594 I had two uncles that served in the Navy, both in the South Pacific. One was on the USS Franklin CV13 while being attacked by a kamikaze fighter. That's how my interests began. I have a Japanese brass match stick container with inscriptions on it and a small green hand size piece of a A6M Zero that was given to me from a veteran.

@@jimmelchin1531 I always considered the Pacific War to have been the toughest of the two---Get the DVD from PBS's American Experience-----Victory in the Pacific--it is brutal ----I doubt many people know the A bomb was developed to be used on Germany instead of Japan. . My great uncle joined the army when they still had a horse calvary and fought all across Europe in WW2----I believe he was under age when he joined up.

That's just what I did. Put the new bulb and gave the four tabs a slight twist. Yes, I motorized a series 10 truck. I built it like a trolley motor and can change it out to another truck at any time. I'm thinking about building a second one and have two power trucks on it.

@@stevendouglas6594 With 2 power trucks you could pull a train of cars.

@myjunkisstuffgarage967 Off by 4, like we said when I was in the Navy. Close enough for government work 😁.

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Only one was bent down, the rest were twisted which seems to be what Flyer did---I've never found a Lionel tab twisted---I un-twisted and re-twisted the tabs and now have a light---thanks for the info. 🙂🙂

LOL---Right---did my 2.5----3 deg., no wind and I got hot--LOL

Yes--I did all the work on the shorties ---some are scratch built, some are kit-bashed---I have more up on the shelf--the mine engine pulling it is scratch built using an Alco 0 gauge power unit I converted to std gauge.