turtle7 posted:I would like to model the 1950s Lackawanna RR commuter trains out of Hoboken to towns in northern Jersey-the ones powered by the FM Trainmaster.
Not sure where you got your information but, the FM Train Master units (note they are NOT 'Trainmaster', which is a Supervisor title in the RR business) on the DL&W were generally freight units. The non-electrified line, i.e the "Boonton Line", passenger/commuter trains were powered by either GP7/9 units or F units.
They ran 3-6 passenger cars with the engine "pulling" going west, and "pushing" going east-so the end passenger car has to appear to have some kind of an engineer's window/space.
No. The DL&W never had push-pull passenger service on the Boonton Line. The steam or diesel locomotives were always on the head-end pulling.
The Atlas Trainman green/gold Lackawanna cars are reasonable matches, but none have that enginee'rs compartment.
And they shouldn't have, either.
Any thoughts out there in OGR land. Thanks in advance-turtle7
As information, I was raised from the middle 1950s thru the early 1960s in Chatham, N.J. on the DL&W M&E electrified line, and railfaned the DL&W from Hoboken to Denville Jct., to Dover, to Port Morris. Lots of phots of freights & passenger trains.
