Long Island cars by MTH

I overlooked them in the catalog because they are 70 footers.

Too long for my layout and operating with other LIRR items.

They are still tempting. Too bad they don't have the other end door.

 

Thanks Marty, very nice!

 

Still waiting on my other RS-1 from Ro. 30-20247-1

Now April I guess...

 

 

20-65248 from 2014 V2.  This is an all coach 5 car set.  My pictures are awful.  In the flesh these are to die for.  The perfect match for my Long Island RS-1  30-20080-1.  The insides are well lighted with lots of people.

Those will look awesome behind the RS-1 for sure!  

These look really cool, too big for my layout.  I am trying to acquire as much MTH Long Island cars as I can find and that I like.  I like these!

Not that I'm an expert on things LIRR, and it might be old age, but I don't recall ever seeing that color combo with the slogan lettering.  It looks strange featuring slogans on passenger equipment.  I'm assuming the "fair" refers to the 1965 worlds fair in NYC?

 

Bruce

Marty, why am I not surprised that you have this set. Very nice.

I also took a ride on the this set as well.  I also have the aluminum set made for the NLOE made my Lionel painted by PVP.

 

AN excellent idea by MTH to remember the 50th Anniversary of the Worlds Fair.

 

rat

The 64 World’s Fair was the best scheme the LIRR ever did.

 

Things like the fair in that era were amazing along with the orange color.

In today’s world everything is common place now. It was the space race and color TV era.

The excitement is over with the sophistication,advancement and culture mix of society.

 

These cars had green tinted windows and air conditioning too!

I rode these a few times. Generally we rushed on the platform to the new one with-in the entire train because it had cold AC. Never seen a complete train of these as trailer cars only MP electrics. These were always mixed in with the other P72’s and old open window P54 junkers containing Hunter ceiling fans.

 

Islandmodelworks produces the accurate version. Too bad all their stuff is 2r.

 

Travel Easy!

 

You can still ride a train in that paint scheme....well, kind of! The Railroad Museum of Long Island in Riverhead has a Miniature Train Company 16" Gauge G-16 miniature train circling their property, the same one operating at the LIRR's booth at the fair. It is in the World's Fair orange and grey paint scheme and a lot of fun! www.rmli.org

Yeah, yeah, yeah! Finally MTH has 027 Rugged Rails 13.5 inch (54 foot) heavyweight cars in its 2015 Ready-To-Run catalog, Page 34. The livery depicts the diesel Dashing Dan era, but I hope that the Tichy Gray & White steam era livery is in the near future.

33-6261 is the 4-car set.

 

Or behind a C-Liner? :-)

That must be the girls set...

 

I think you will like the new Atlas O Trainman cars much better.

I had them tweeked a bit...