My first ever Lionel didn't come to me inside wrapping paper. I was in 4th grade, and it was at the town dump. A friend of our family saw it, and grabbed it for me. It was MPC era, and appears to be a incomplete, slightly mis matched 1970 "Yardmaster" set. I was going on a biking trip with my family that day, and couldn't wait until I could see the train. I dug it out of the box, and looked it over. Funny thing is, the container it was in was by coincidence a trash can, without a lid. The train was in junk condition. But it was complete. The tracks were rusty.

There used to be bunch of videos of Mike Confalone's Allagash Rwy on YouTube, but about two years ago they all disappeared. What happened!? I loved those videos!!! (Mike, if you are reading this, please could you show us some videos of your railway? If you could, that would be FANTASTC!) 

I am rebuilding a Lionel gang car into a steeple cab. It won't be prototypical, but will be very close to a steeple cab. Main difference is mine has one truck, and larger wheels. I'll post some pictures of how it is progressing. I have already started, considering on doing an interior. I'll put pics in when I have the time to shoot some. This project is being made out of low budget materials. No, wait. I meant "no budget" materials! I'll try to get in posts once a day, if I can. It's gonna be a slow project.

Anyone know how many kinds of RS3ms there are/were? (Send in pictures of every last kind of RS3m you can find!!!) Also, how many are left, and where are they? Sadly Cape Cod Central scrapped 1201 roughly 2 months after I visited the cape for the first time. I took the train that year, and saw 1201 out the window. Then, about 3 years later, I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olZQ2gRjbl0