@MELGAR posted:During the 1950s and after the New Haven Railroad filed for bankruptcy in 1961, its passenger trains often consisted of combinations of several types of cars. Photos and videos show a consist of three types of cars pulled by EMD FL9 #2043 (model by Sunset/3rd Rail) and Fairbanks-Morse CPA-24-5 #792 (Lionel 2233291).
New Haven #6843 is a 15-inch model of a sixty-foot coach (model by Atlas O Trainman). The New Haven railroad had 84-foot cars in the black/orange livery but I can’t verify that a 60-foot car with this road number was an actual car on the New Haven Railroad.
New Haven Great Republic is an 18-inch model of a heavyweight steel car that ran in the Yankee Clipper extra-fare train between New York and Boston beginning in 1930 (MTH Premier 20-4040 Madison Car Set, 2001).
New Haven #8204 is a model of one of 50 “American Flyer” lightweight cars built by Osgood-Bradley in 1934 and ‘35 at Worcester, Massachusetts (21-inch scale-length model by Weaver) with ten aluminum-framed windows per side.
MELGAR
Great stuff, Mel!
Peter
