So I’ve had this ABBA set of Atlas F-3 D&RGW engines, but I’ve been putting off running them because I have very few D&RGW zephyr cars to pull behind them. I also have 10 Amtrak zephyr cars, but haven’t put them on the rails for lack of Amtrak motive power to pull them.
So, a perfect match! Or a symbiotic relationship? Both finally on the rails.
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Jay, if it were my stuff I would call it 'A perfect marriage'; the wife letting me run my trains on the carpet!
Rule 1: It's my railroad, I'll run what I like
Jason
You gotta run what you have. The D&RGW f units look awesome.
Dave
If it works for you, who cares what anyone else thinks. If anyone objects, offer them the option of buying you the correct stuff. 
Simon
Looks great! You can tell your carpet railroad citizens that this is the period where Amtrak took over the passenger service and hadn't got around to repainting the engines yet.
George
yep, what is fascinating to me is that the O scale two rail runs so well on a carpet. Lionel46 , they look fantastic together on your carpet run.
Or, even simpler, Amtrak had to lease the engines due to its own motive power shortages.
Chuck
Rule #1, it is my railroad and if you don't like it, there is the door!
In the eighties b/4 discovering 2r 0 scale, I had #1 scale 1/32 trains on white carpet using Lagas Creek Scale track. I saved the carpet by using 6 mil poly cloth under the track. Glad I did. When it came time to relocate the trains there were grease markings on the plastic interface but clean white carpet!
Agreed with the negative comments. That guarantees a time out of anyone's visitation privileges.
Nice engines and nice cars. Run and enjoy them as they are. Perhaps you could carry the story further by creating a model railroad with D&RGW engines and Amtrak cars. If you're looking for a closer match, Atlas O made a recent model of Amtrak F7 #102.
Photo by:
MELGAR
Leroof posted:yep, what is fascinating to me is that the O scale two rail runs so well on a carpet.
Only equipment I've had issues with on carpet are Sunset Models. The way the track gives a little, combined with Sunset's usually accurate detail, leads to some shorts as detail parts (cow catchers in particular) come in contact with the rails. Also couldn't get the coupler height right on a couple GGD SP daylight passenger cars, and they kept uncoupling when the track dipped.
But all Atlas equipment on Atlas track, never a problem.
MELGAR posted:If you're looking for a closer match, Atlas O made a recent model of Amtrak F7 #102.
Yes, I've been searching eBay on a daily basis for a while now looking for this engine in 2-rail!
George S posted:Looks great! You can tell your carpet railroad citizens that this is the period where Amtrak took over the passenger service and hadn't got around to repainting the engines yet.
George
Except the Rio Grande didn't join Amtrak...
Rusty
1983, Rusty, 1983! Neither did my favorite The D&H join at Amtrak's start. Later they got into trouble for painting the Amtrak red stripe over with yellow going north to Montreal! Happily I still have my souvenirs of a ride on the Adirondack.
Jason
Running a complete DRGW CZ as a modeler is fine but the prototype was never that way. The cars arrived from Budd as a hodgepodge of railroads and names and were put in service that way before the official inaugural run and remained that way throughout.
I had hoped that Sunset would have done the FP7s in Amtrak when they were run. Maybe on a second run sometime down the road? Amtrak was a strange marriage to start so run what you like whether it was prototypical or not.
Hi Jay. During the transition to Amtrak in the early 1970's, a lot of Amtrak trains were headed up by private livery-painted locomotives. The San Diegan had Santa Fe power and coaches for quite a while even though they were Amtrak trains, so the DRGW motive power is probably prototypical. But what do I know -- I'm still running on three rails.
BTW, I'm presuming that's Atlas sectional track you're using?
AGHRMatt posted:But what do I know -- I'm still running on three rails.
40 lashes with a middle rail!
Simon
rdunniii posted:Running a complete DRGW CZ as a modeler is fine but the prototype was never that way. The cars arrived from Budd as a hodgepodge of railroads and names and were put in service that way before the official inaugural run and remained that way throughout.
And they were all prototypical, LOL!
MELGAR posted:Nice engines and nice cars. Run and enjoy them as they are. Perhaps you could carry the story further by creating a model railroad with D&RGW engines and Amtrak cars. If you're looking for a closer match, Atlas O made a recent model of Amtrak F7 #102.
Photo by:
MELGAR
Melgar, I think your above Amtrack locomotive is gorgeous. Arnold
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