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My L shaped O gauge layout in garage

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CNJRR:
Nice, the last video, are you working the throttle or are they speeding up and slowing down by themselves?
What the tractor trailer parked back there? A K Wopper?

pjdog350:
Howdy CNJRR - The postwar and prewar trains have problems with speed as the table is not level. The floor drops on it’s way to the garage door. So they are going down hill. When going along the wall it’s up hill so the slow down. Modern locomotives maintain there speed but not so for the older trains. I don’t dare run the 1700’s along the wall to the door as they really take off. Scary?

I guess sense I was always running modern I really never noticed the level of the layout. I could level it but I’m working train right now. Probably will never level it?

pjdog350:
I leveled the layout table this morning. Makes a big difference. I don't know why I put up with that for 7 years? Thanks for the wake up CNJRR. I guess working on the trains was more fun to me. I love repairing and restoring old trains. Everything on my layout was rusting junk when I got it. Now I have removed the rust and put good paint on everything. A good feeling. Some people want it just as it was, some like them like new? Different strokes for different folks?

A year ago i was driving back from the doctors on highway 19. A real old Dodge pickup went by me that looked like it would fall apart. But it had all new stuff underneath. Then I noticed a the smooth sound of the motor. These guy who was very old had completely rebuild this truck but left the outside as it was. This thing was a beautiful truck. I really wanted to own it. Truck had a California plate on it and 2 very old people in it. A bumper sticker in the back window said. Being old is not for sissies! It was a great truck. I loved it! So maybe not repainting is a good thing?

CNJRR:
I thought it was nice the way it was.
It automatically slowed down for the curve, then hammered down the countryside. :)

Brought my Old Peterbilt tractor to a truck show/race a Raceway Park, NJ. A drag strip.
For the truck show/races.
I parked down the end of the line along side a few buddies that where there and took a nap.
We were down by the finish lights, to us that was the best spot even though the burnout starting line was far away.

As I was sleeping an old guy with a flatbed tow truck pulled in with an old rack truck with a tarp on it.
This guy had installed a rocket engine of some kind on it! When he started it up my head almost went through the sleeper top!
LOUD.

Well that old guy finally got to run and we prayed for him that his old truck would hold together.
With a big burst of flame he flew down the track on fire, went by us at the finish line the speed of light.
He ran it once more and broke something but it was something to see.
I didn't take pictures back  then, I wish I did.

My Old cabover Pete 1977, 350 big block Cummins. 13 speed. 352 Model, all leather interior, Cherrywood steering wheel.  8)
Picture was taken in 1999 ish.


  

pjdog350:
Sweet Truck.

My grand father was a semi truck driver. He had a small trucking company in Collingswood NJ. The had probably 20 semi’s. I loved trucks. Every Friday night I’d stay a his house and we would get up at 6:00 AM and go to a dinner for breakfast. The high light of the day was I got to pick the tractor we would go in. My favorite was a Mack cab over (green). He had one that had solid rubber tires and was chain drive. I didn’t like it back then but sure would love to have it today. No pictures. Lost all those when he and grand mother died. They kept all this on there property.

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