I lived in Hyde Park in the sixties and visited the museum about once a month, as I recall there was always at least one passenger train running at the museum layout. They were all lw PS, ACF and Budd models stainless cars. The custom built El Capitan was THE show stopper imo. They also had two or three other conventional sets representing the Super Chief (had a dome car,) Grand Canyon and Chief (again what I recall not certain)
By then there was only one PA visible on the layout and it was poking it's face out of the one of the bays of the Barstow-ish modern Diesel Shop. One of the cast CLW Baldwin Centercabs was still there too, on a yard lead and like the PA it never moved. Being a EJ&E fan I found that one particularly irresistible. At that time all the moving trains were powered by nicely painted matching four-unit ABBA All Nation F7's, appropriately passenger power in the Warbonnet and freight power in the Blue Yellow. On later visits in the 70's and 80's the freight power was upgraded successively to CLW or KTM EMD Road switcher models like Gp30 or 35's, there might have been even newer models later that I missed entirely, I do seem to recall FP-45's on the last passenger train I saw, but I might have that confused with another museum pike at the time. Compared to how emmaculate it looked in the sixties, it started getting pretty dowdy and run down in it's later life which was sad.
It's a shame it's all gone now, very cool that Carey has found these.
