As promised, here is a video of Connie's brand new MTH 4-8-4 Great Northern Railway steamer pulling her scale Weaver Passenger cars. The passenger cars are painted in the green only theme which existed from 1924 to 1947.
If anyone knows anything about when these passenger cars where made, year, I'd be interested to know. Thank you.
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Cool video.
Two comments about your passenger cars:
1) That baggage/RPO car should be on the FRONT of the train set and not right next to the observation car. The Railway Post Office cars were locked so that passengers could NOT access the "Post office" portion of the car, thus the RPO cars were always forward of the public passenger equipment.
2) The Great Norther did NOT have any pullman green painted streamlined, lightweight passenger equipment. The GN pullman green color was used on their heavyweight passenger equipment.
Hot Water posted:Cool video.
Two comments about your passenger cars:
1) That baggage/RPO car should be on the FRONT of the train set and not right next to the observation car. The Railway Post Office cars were locked so that passengers could NOT access the "Post office" portion of the car, thus the RPO cars were always forward of the public passenger equipment.
2) The Great Norther did NOT have any pullman green painted streamlined, lightweight passenger equipment. The GN pullman green color was used on their heavyweight passenger equipment.
Good information! I was going to ask a similar question. I thought the same but noticed the car #s were in order with the RPO second behind the engine of my Wabash set.
John C. excellent video! Very nice set! And yes it never fails something bad happens when folks are there and cameras are taking video! Nice running engine and sound too!
Jim
Well I'm glad to see the 4-8-4 and the cars running on your layout. I did a lot of searching but could not find out when the cars were made. At least we know it was while Weaver was making Gold Edition sets. Whatever the history, the train gives a good impression of a steam era big name train running through the Glacier National Park.
Those Weaver cars were made to match their GN P2 4-8-2 Mountain locomotive, circa 1997 or 1998. They don't represent any actual GN prototypes.
The GN Man posted:Those Weaver cars were made to match their GN P2 4-8-2 Mountain locomotive, circa 1997 or 1998. They don't represent any actual GN prototypes.
Well that's a bummer! But they do look good with that locomotive!
Thank you for the information!!
My biggest issue is that these passenger cars DRAIN power badly. There will be LEDs installed shortly....
John,
I really like your videos and the article about your railroad in OGR. You have an inspiring layout.
NH joe
John C. posted:My biggest issue is that these passenger cars DRAIN power badly. There will be LEDs installed shortly....
Looks great John! Now what you need is a set of NP Northcoast limited cars marching over that trestle!
Yes those "Zombie" cars seem to have 2 amp bulbs in them!
I have a 6 car PRR Broadway limited set that is just stunning but await the same LED lights.
They will look much better with LEDs and use less power besides!
New Haven Joe posted:John,
I really like your videos and the article about your railroad in OGR. You have an inspiring layout.
NH joe
Thank you Sir. I appreciate, I should say "WE", the compliment. I cannot draw a stick man. The majority of artistry on the layout belongs to Connie. I did build the long curved wooden trestle and the smaller of the two snow-sheds.
I'm lucky that she has those skills because without her the layout would not be magazine/video worthy.
I do take credit for the amateur video productions. :-) No cracks Richard Melvin!
I do the best I can do. I'm a writer, designer and operations person. Not an artist or video production professional. Connie and Rich, respectively, are light years ahead of me in those specialties! :-)
John C. posted:I do take credit for the amateur video productions. :-) No cracks Richard Melvin!
If you want to see ALL of the Glacier Lines (with a nice, steady camera 
) CLICK HERE.
You'll see:
That's a lot of Glaciers for sure, Rich!!
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