John Warren's Blog — WarrenVille RailRoad

If you try, just a little, you’ll find train related activities year round.
Spring: You have rainy days to spend in the basement, playing with, or working on the layout and projects. Flea markets and garage sales are starting to pop-up, you never know what train related items you may find. There may even be a left-over train show (swap meet) around and, of course, the huge TCA show in York Pa happens every April.
Summer: More flea markets and garage sales. Visits to outdoor railroad museums, tourist train rides, trolley museums, etc are fun stop-offs on road trips.
Fall: Still more flea markets, etc and train shows, including fall York in October. Now is also the time to keep an eye out for nice dry weeds, etc that could very well wind up on the layout as wonderful trees and bushes.
Winter: Full swing running trains and working on the layout. Time for cleaning and lubricating trains, and cleaning track, can now be found. There is a train show or layout open house (private or club) almost every week now. Invite the guys to see and run trains on your layout. Set up that Christmas Tree loop!

Most of all – have fun!
John

Just a couple of weeks ago I visited the D-Day Museum, Omaha Beach and the American Cemetary in Normandy. The bravery of those that fought, despite terrible odds, was unbelivable.

We tend to use World War I, World War II and the Korean war as time frames for toy train production, and, yes, World War II put a temporary stop to toy train production, and Korea had us loosing Magnetraction for a year or two.

Let’s never forget those that sacrificed, or who are currently sacrificing,  for our freedom and safety. Today let’s take at least a moment to pray for and honor our Veterans. Everytime we see a Vet  let’s take a moment to thank them for their service.
God Bless each and every one of them.
John

Well, a couple months ago I received a call from the Lionel Operating Train Soceity complementing me on this website and asking if I would write an article for their Switcher magazine. I advised that I would be happy to but I have not been a member of LOTS for a number of years. They reinstated me and I wrote the article, which just appeared in the December issue of the Switcher – you can find it in the Articles section of this website.

The site has also been updated with some Christmas Standard gauge pictures .

Enjoy and Merry Christmas,
John

I hope that you like the updates done by www.Pencil2Print.net !

Also, you’ll see a display of Modern Era Lionel 6464 boxcars in the Gallery.  All of these are for sale – have all of the sets including Series I

E-mail Lionelski@optonline.net for a list.
Thanks,
‘Ski

I don’t know about you, but I like the sound of the wheels on the rails amplified by the tracks screwed directly to the board.
There is something special about the growl of open frame PW motors, the blattt of the bicycle horn sounding horns in PW diesels and the geerrwhooo sound of PW whistles winding up!
E-unit buzz – I wouldn’t do without it.
Your thoughts?

This website was a wonderful Christmas suprise. Seems that many of my family members knew about it but me.
Very exciting – I’m looking forward to building on it and to hearing comments.
THANK YOU KAREN!
I will be posting some for sale items here, sooner or later, keep an eye out.
Karen will be adding a video soon, and a history of the Warrenville RailRoad in the About Warrenville section.
Merry Christmas,
John

Merry Christmas, Dad!!

Here you have it, your new website! *Tears of joy!*

Now, get to work so I can complete it!

I love you!!
Karen

Today images were added to the website. I took the photos while you were gone for the weekend.

I hope you enjoy them! We can add more as we go along.

Love you dad!!

Merry Christmas, Dad!!

Welcome to your new website! I took the liberty of adding a blog to your website. I think it’ll be a good place for you and your train buddies to keep in touch.. also a place for you to post progress of your layouts or refurbishing projects.

If you do not wish to keep or use this blog, let me know and I’ll remove it.

Merry Christmas! I love you!

Karen