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History According to Hediger: Modeling the Auto-Train in HO scale
Jim, horn hook couplers, now you are dating yourself. Excellent story. We need an update on the Ohio Southern!!!
I love these Historys. I am glad that they are being saved for the future as most of this type information is lost. Jim is an excellant story teller. Always look forward to this series.
Wow, now that is modelling in it’s truest form. Inspirational
great work and great lookng train
another great story Jim! I enjoyed part 1 of the Auto Train story as well.
That was good. Yeah… those hook horns…
Great Job Jim, I have a number of these cars in my collection as well as a number of slides I took at Lorton and Sanford… I have the Athearn painted engines in my collection as well.
Jim - I was fascinated by your Auto Train video, as I had my own experience with Auto Train - I was a very junior PR guy for a big insurance company’s home office. We must have insured the company, because I was assigned to write an article for our home-office-staff magazine. This actually got me interested in railroads (before, I’d only really cared about airplanes). That led, a few years later, to my first N-Gauge layout and my first long-distance railroad trip (Columbia SC to Orlando), which was great until the air conditioner broke (it was August, near Savannah, so that was a problem). I’m on my third N-Gauge layout now, and my wife and I are planning an AMTRAK trip to the Flagstaff area … and it all began with Auto Train. Thanks for the memories.