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For some reason the New Haven never really caught my fancy until the last 6 months or so. I saw a number of NH rolling stock that really looked nice. The cars that I saw that got my attention were all weathered NH and they just looked great and made me a fan. So my wish list has been updated putting some New Haven in the top spot.
Thanks,
Ed
I have been a NH fan as far back as i can remember. I grew up just outside the small yard in Putnam back in the waning days of the NH . my grandfather and my next door neighbor worked on the track crew in the steam era. A favorite passtime was walking along the tracks with them,listening to the stories they would tell about the good ole days when just about everything came by train and every little village had its own station.
Major New Haven fan here. I have 4 NH trains right now on the layout headed by Lionel RS-11, Atlas RS-1 and RS-3. And the Merchants Limited headed by a 3rd rail FL-9..I live about 2 miles from the NH main in Harrison/Mamaroneck and about 1 mile from the White Plains sta of the Harlem line.
I have a New Haven H16 and RS11 from Lionel.
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Brian,
This is a great subject. Thanks for starting it.
As a resident of Connecticut for 37 years, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad has become a subject of considerable study, great interest, and the focus of my O-gauge model railroading. My under-construction 10-by-5 layout is just an oval but represents a New England branch line and operates almost exclusively with New Haven power and rolling stock. I believe that I have purchased every scale-sized O-gauge New Haven locomotive and piece of rolling stock that has been produced during the past twenty years. Photos of a few below.
MELGAR
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Funny. I am not a "New Haven fan", or a diesel guy, or one who likes bright colors usually, but I think that the NH had the most attractive and elegant and strange diesel and electric paint schemes of any RR. I live nowhere near that part of the US, have never been to New England (to Manhattan a couple of times - the closest to it), but whoever was in charge of that for the NH must have had a lot of masking tape and a lot of paint in inventory.
The "strange" scheme would have to be the McGinnis, of course - but I like it anyway.
I have one of MTH's big streamlined EP-3 (or EP-4; I forget the number) units in the dark-ish green with the almost 19th Century-looking striping in Dulux gold.
The locos with the thin horizontal pin stripe scheme are my favorites, especially the DL-109's.
Even the NH switchers were entertaining to see.
When I got in to O-gauge, a NH EP-5 was at the top of my must have list.
MELGAR posted:Brian,
This is a great subject. Thanks for starting it.
As a resident of Connecticut for 37 years, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad has become a subject of considerable study, great interest, and the focus of my O-gauge model railroading. My under-construction 10-by-5 layout is just an oval but represents a New England branch line and operates almost exclusively with New Haven power and rolling stock. I believe that I have purchased every scale-sized O-gauge New Haven locomotive and piece of rolling stock that has been produced during the past twenty years. Photos of a few below.
MELGAR
Love the layout and the NH pics!
Peter
Putnam Div -
Yeah - that orange/black/striped DL-109.
Anyone have a list of the New Haven locos and rolling stock made during the last 20-60 years? O gauge three rail of course!
One of my videos:
Peter
Here are another two:
All these videos were taken on the River City 3 Railers Modular Layout. Enjoy!
Peter
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The NYNH&H RR is one of the four railroads that make up my Not-So-Great Eastern RR. The attached photos are of my "Merchants Ltd." which is pulled by a single RK Alco PA. It's only a short 6 car train. In my "to do" drawer i hope to build an EP3 on a Kline GG1 chassis - time will tell. Meanwhile i should probably sell the RK dummy PA.
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I reckon I'm a periodic New Haven fan. I'll have New Haven weeks on my layout every couple of months and will also pull out a New Haven video and several NH books to kind of add to the mood.
Growing up in PA I had minimal exposure to the New Haven. My only memories of the railroad are all associated with trips to my aunt and uncle's house in Buzzards Bay, MA.
Curt
My NH freight ...