2400 Cars Behind Semi Scale GG1

WOW! That would be one he&& of a LONG train.

It's all a matter of personal taste. I don't think I'd run 2400 series passenger cars behind a GG-1.
I like they way they look behind 2023 style ALCO locomotives.
I believe that Lionel also sold them in sets pulled by a turbine.

Not the greatest picture, but it's the only one I got.  The MPC versions can be seen on the far track:

Rusty

Thanks Rusty! Does'nt look bad at all

Baby Madisons look great behind a traditional GG1. These cars are an inch longer that the 2400 series cars, and the bit larger size matches up better. Just my opinion. The 2400 series will work fine, however.

Baby Madisons look great behind a traditional GG1. These cars are an inch longer that the 2400 series cars, and the larger size matches up better. Just my opinion. The 2400 series will work fine, however.

If you can wrap your head around something that doesn't sport the Lionel name, but would look fantastic and much more real at reasonable cost, check out MTH's 60 foot coaches. You can often find in-the-box MTH used 60 footers in great shape at about or even under a hundred bucks for 4 - baggage, coach, vista dome and observation in nice schemes, Pennsy even. They look better, have interiors you can fill w/ peeps if you want. Toy trains are all about pleasing yourself; no need to be a Lionel snob. (I love Lionel, but I love all my trains; not just Lionel...)

If the train is long enough, maybe eight or more coaches, I think the look would be just right.  

Sure, why not. It's your train.

Might be a bit on the small side, but hey, it's yor train.

I like 60' postwar style aluminum cars behind a traditional GG1. I also like the smaller K-Line/RMT/O-Line cars to. A bit bigger than 2400's, but not quite as big as 60'.

Postwar style Madison look good too.

I have the Williams Silver and red GG1 and routinely I run it with K-Line Streamliners and Lionel 2400 style Santa Fe red stripe cars because they match the loco very well.

I call it the "Penn-Sa-Fe Limited".    But I also run it with Williams NYC Baby Madisons in the late 20th Century Limited color scheme.  "Penn-Central-Century"?  

I think the baby Madison cars look great behind a traditional GG1 engine. In fact, wasn't the Lionel Congressional set cars the same size as the Baby Madison's' ? 

I thought the aluminum Congressional set cars were a bit longer and higher.  

Right, Dan.  Higher, wider and longer. 

The GG1 was introduced with Madisons ( 70 years ago ) and I still find that combo the most aesthetically pleasing.

Bruce

Yes, I agree.  But it looks even better with more than a three car train of Madisons.  

And the selection from the various manufacturers is endless.  With reduced friction rolling ability of today's cars the dream of longer trains is possible.   Dual motors helps a lot too.

Bruce

I kind of think the baby  madisons  would look good .  I always thought the aluminum cars were to big and made the traditional gg1 look small.  Here is a pic of Penn Central GG1 & a train of MP54's

rick king posted:

I kind of think the baby  madisons  would look good .  I always thought the aluminum cars were to big and made the traditional gg1 look small.  Here is a pic of Penn Central GG1 & a train of MP54's

So is the GG1 pulling the MP54s or are the MP54s pushing the GG1 ?   By the way, thanks for the picture.    And I agree, the 2500 series aluminum cars do make the GG1 look a bit undersized.  

Uh Dan p. The GG1 pans are down on both ends. It appears the GG1and the MP54's are there for storage.

Speaking of the 2400 series cars, I like the Williams repros of the 2400 series, esp the ones painted the PRR colors. It blows the drab "dip painted" and sealed vestibule LTI ones of the 1980's away!

Those Tuscan and gold cars always look extremely classy to me. I have a similar k-line set. Untill I saw those Broadway Limited cars, I hated the Tuscan GGs look and thought the red should have been used more for frieght and Brunswick and Green Madison's were the class act. (Yep there was two sets of vintage green Madison's (And  even more in Tuscan )

Some bellows would be a nice touch, didn't they have any? I wonder if any would fit those easily. Im missing one. I filled the doorway by dropping in a loose sheet of styrene as a door and keep it on the head end.

The congressionals are extremely sharp cars, but the color mismatch was always too much for my sense of OCD.  I preferred them behind steam really. Often the turbine. ...except for the Army Navy game, lol.

I'm running a set of six MTH O27 Pennsy streamliners behind by my WBB GG1.  Looks great for a poor man's re-creation of the Congressional set.