Apples55 posted:briansilvermustang posted:
Brian;
That is an interesting vehicle. Do you have any idea what exactly it is???
Mack Rail Bus
Jim
Thanks Brian & Jim. When I saw the first pic, it reminded me of some of the trolley buses that ran in Brooklyn back in the day, but there was no pantograph or pole. Thanks for the pics and history.
Hello Hew Haven fans. I’ve lived in CT all my life and in my youth not too far from the NH main line. Spent a lot of time sitting in a trackside honey suckle tree watching trains go bye.
In any case, I received my Atlas O NH Bradley Pullman’s the other day. Do any other manufactures make matching cars like baggage, RPO, dining or observation?
shorling posted:Hello Hew Haven fans. I’ve lived in CT all my life and in my youth not too far from the NH main line. Spent a lot of time sitting in a trackside honey suckle tree watching trains go bye.
In any case, I received my Atlas O NH Bradley Pullman’s the other day. Do any other manufactures make matching cars like baggage, RPO, dining or observation?
golden gate has matching baggage and postal cars on preorder.
mikeg
shorling posted:Hello Hew Haven fans. I’ve lived in CT all my life and in my youth not too far from the NH main line. Spent a lot of time sitting in a trackside honey suckle tree watching trains go bye.
In any case, I received my Atlas O NH Bradley Pullman’s the other day. Do any other manufactures make matching cars like baggage, RPO, dining or observation?
According to the New Haven Railroad’s historical society, except for grill cars, there were no matching dining cars, RPOs, or observations for the original Osgood-Bradley lightweights. (The post-World War II corrugated-side lightweights are another story). That didn’t stop AC Gilbert from “imagineering” some for their S gauge line.
A NH Steamer outside Providence, RI, date and further details unknown.
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My favorite part is the inadvertent shadow of the photographer at the bottom center. He looks like a silhouette of David Byrne wearing "The Big Suit" in the movie "Stop Making Sense".
Steven J. Serenska
I can’t help but wonder what sort of camera the photographer was using to take the photo. I’m guessing that it was a large-format Speed Graphlex, a camera that allowed for big negatives but was nowhere so quick for reloading for the next photo as smaller format Rolleiflexes or 35 mm cameras.
I recently photographed New Haven 40-foot steel boxcar 33401 at the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. The 33401 is one of 500 boxcars (numbered from 33000 to 33499) built for the New Haven Railroad in late 1945 by Pullman-Standard. The closest thing I have as a model is boxcar 33406 made by MTH around 2015. This model was offered as part of a six-car set, so the set may also have included 33401. The model is lettered with a build-date (for the full-size car) of November 1945.
MELGAR
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Any New Haven fans have the model memories catenary? I'd love to use it but it's pretty expensive. http://www.modelmemories.com/oprods.htm
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Recent Sunset/3rd Rail model of New Haven Alco PA1 0771 in Hunter Green.
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Thanks Brian. The interior is well done, too.
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that is cool !!
Gotta share my new RS-3! It's a Railking model released last year, I think. Sounds as good as it looks. This is my favorite scheme, and not one that's modeled as often as those with the orange hoods. Also less common on the prototype, it seems? I'm guessing Melgar could tell us more... 
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Just got a copy of "NH Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" by David Sweetland and Stephen Horsley. Apparently this box car #45097 was a State of Maine car that had been repainted in 1968. Do you think if I scratch the model I'll find State of Maine underneath?
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New Haven boxcars.
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very NICE Paul !!!
briansilvermustang posted:
New Haven RDC 21 is a Sunset/3rd Rail model. New Haven 6843 is an Atlas O Trainman model of a 60-foot car. The second car in Brian's post is an Osgood-Bradley lightweight (American Flyer) car.
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Apples55 posted:This pic popped up on my Facebook feed today... while it primarily concerns the observation car (which apparently serves as a bar in Ohio), it was part of a train including some of the Osgood-Bradley Pullmans. The post had the following info...
Here's New Haven Observation Car "Watch Hill", (stainless steel and red) doing time as a parlor car for Penn Central RR at Mamaroneck, New York. Ca. 1972. Photo by George Hamlin. This car (NH 425) reportedly still exists, somewhere near Cleveland, Ohio. This is now Metro-North's New Haven Line.
The boat-tailed observation car on my layout is the Bunker Hill, an older MTH Premier model which is nice but not very accurate. The New Haven's "Hill-series" cars included the Bunker Hill and the Watch Hill. These stainless steel cars were built for the New Haven by Pullman-Standard in 1949 and ran between New York and Boston on The Merchants Limited.
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I've seen a few pictures where they had installed the diaphragms on the end of the boat tailed cars which really ruined the look. Glad they aren't on the model that I have even if the prototypes had them.
