Freight trains — Let’s see them!

Heres some old footage of a NYC Mohawk pulling reefers. No sound on the video back then, so I threw some music over it.

Freight trains - post war style.

Freight train - modern 3rd Rail, Weaver and AtlasO.

From top: F3, L1, N1, and H6

Here’s a Standard prewar freight consist headed by my 1835E.

ABC switcher with a string of Burlington Northern coal hoppers.

Peek-a-boo freight train

Southern Pacific freight train with

SP H-12-44 FM diesel. 

A Penn Central mixed freight passing through the industrial area of the layout:

Tom

See video links below...

The 3 roads I collect; AT&SF, FW&D, SL-SF and affiliates.

SP&S Z-6 Challenger with a heavy freight.

Three freight trains on the Free State Junction Railway.

Thank you for everyone who had posted so far.  Lots of great posts to date here.  

  Let’s    S E E    your   F R I E G H T   T R A I N S  guys.         Post them.

#252 and friends going to Odenville.

John

Here is an MTH Club freight train...

The Northern Pacific with a Lionel Lines auto freight.      

Slow B&O way freight with brakemen riding front and rear.  

BNSF Beep switching duties.

A short CBS Railroad video.

From a review I did for the locomotive:

Rusty

Today I ran my Lionel Rio Grande freight set 2291W, which I received for my first Christmas in 1958, on my Super O postwar layout. This was such an action packed consist for a child or an adult to enjoy. Lionel certainly knew how to keep your interest. It has logged many miles these past 62 years and still looks great and brings back lots of great memories.

Ok Forum members, let’s see those   FREIGHT TRAINS. 

Here’s my Lionel VL Big Boy reefer freight on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD   

Two BNSF freight trains on my layout in a race. An Oil train and an Intermodal.

Another Penn central freight with a U33C on the point:

Tom

@Rusty Traque posted:

From a review I did for the locomotive:

Rusty

Thank your yard foreman for putting the dangerous car mid-consist.  Quirky me...I always notice things like that on peoples' videos.

Let’s see your freight trains!!!   Here’s my Lionel VL CC-2 PRR Baldwin on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

UP Heritage units WP and D&RG lashed up.

N&W Y6b mallet lugs a freight thru Butler Junction.

Well here is a short freight consist circa about 1940.  The Lionel 204 was one of the last die cast engines manufactured by Lionel prior to the war.  It was never catalogued and just offered in sets.  These were typically "General Special" sets offered to lots of stores and more or less made up of standard cars.  This consist is not a set per se, it is just a correct line up of cars for the engine from my collection trying to mimic the 1940 set.  All the cars are correct with the following exceptions a) all the journals should be black and b) the caboose should have a red not tuscan roof.  The engine has a 2689 whistle tender (whistle works) which was one of 3 or 4 different tenders that it came with 1940-42.  Never came back after the war. I have a neat video of this guy pulling these cars but I cannot figure out how to get video uploaded.  If anyone knows where there are some instructions please forward. 

Lumber freight passing through on the S&Y RR

The tale of two freight trains.

@trumptrain posted:

Slow B&O way freight with brakemen riding front and rear.  

Another great video, Pat. You take the video so that the viewer is trackside, looking up to the train as it goes by, which I also often do. It makes the model train look awesome the way real trains look to us when we are trackside looking up at them.

What is most special about this video, IMO, is what I've said many times before about your photos and videos:  your glorious autumn colors. It is amazing, IMO, how you can be so skillful with autumn colored scenery and you are also color blind.  

Arnold

A homage in S Scale to an HO club I once to belonged to:

Rusty

Here’s my Nickel Plate with a western manifest heading for St. Louis Mo. 

VL Big Boy on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Here’s a couple of old videos that have freight trains in them. 

The single freight train of the Fenix Transport Action Railroad

Horse Power!

Here's an oldie but moldy unit train video. Scale wheeled MTH C40-8W diesels with mixed scale wheeled and hi-rail Atlas PS4427 hoppers in tow.

A Lionel legacy CSX AC 6000 hauling some Hi Cubes on the TMB Model train club main line

@AGHRMatt posted:

Here's an oldie but moldy unit train video. Scale wheeled MTH C40-8W diesels with mixed scale wheeled and hi-rail Atlas PS4427 hoppers in tow.

Great looking train. I’m jealous. I couldn’t take that much smoke In my small attic.

@WinstonB posted:

Great looking train. I’m jealous. I couldn’t take that much smoke In my small attic.

Thanks. The smoke actually dissipates pretty quickly, plus the spiders that had set up housekeeping over the layout moved away after getting hit with the smoke over time.

@AGHRMatt posted:

Here's an oldie but moldy unit train video. Scale wheeled MTH C40-8W diesels with mixed scale wheeled and hi-rail Atlas PS4427 hoppers in tow.

Great video!!

Today's freight trains ... of the 1950s

Delaware & Hudson Lionmaster Challenger with a string of woodside reefers.

Standing with the camera in Ghost Train Park, a corner of our O gauge, three rail model railroad, you see both a long freight train and a swift passenger trains pass. The freight is pulled by a 1953 vintage 736 Lionel Berkshire locomotive. The passenger train is pulled by an MTH Protosound 2 PRR K-4s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgaFmSSSbc

CNW ALCO C-628 #6701 rolling around the bend and bypassing the yard with 29 loaded ore cars.

Just got it yesterday,  NOS Weaver diesel. Has a goofy sounding horn. 

Hudson running hard through Dough Hill 

Some more Penn Central action:

Tom

Freight trains for today.

W&W—Winchester & Western

@trumptrain posted:

Freight trains for today.

 Wow Great video Patrick'.. The new era high cube box cars are very cool indeed. However, I'm a sucker for the old school stuff...You and I share similar equipment.  I always get a kick out of seeing some of my items on others layouts...Nice presentation...👍

This is one of my favorite line up. Lionel post war F3 with all Lionel Standard O freight cars. 

This was shot at the 2017 ATMA Spring Thaw Train Meet.

Chris

LVHR

@lehighline posted:

This was shot at the 2017 ATMA Spring Thaw Train Meet.

Chris

LVHR

 

Chris, can’t get the download.

Here’s a old Lionel ALCO Chesapeake & Ohio with a manifest of Menards cars and a Lionel pig flat 

Caught an H10 with a reefer local. It looks like its being over fired...cough cough

Minutes later an M1B came outta nowhere.....with alot more reefers

How about some circus freight.

A few of mine from days past:

Hi everyone !  Some might remember that I mentioned in one of the other threads that I had discovered a KLINE Santa Fe S-2 switcher that I had apparently bought and packed up and forgot about.  I commented that I was surprised that this thing had 2 motors, 3 position reverse, great livery, and ran really smoothly.  So today I began to wonder how it would stack up against the Lionel "600" series NW-2 's under post war freight conditions.  So I hooked it up to 5 relatively heavy PW freight cars to see how she did.  The cars were 3464 NYC Operating Box car, 2454 Baby Ruth Box, 6464 GN box, 6464-100 WP box and a fully illuminated 2357 SP caboose.  Well, she did extremely well.  Handled this consist with no trouble at all.  In fact she cruised around my 0-31 loop (mostly flat) with no trouble at 8.5 volts on the ZW.  Here are some pictures.

Well, I remain convinced that we lost a good supplier of trains when KLINE left.  This little guy could clearly hold his own against the PW competition.  

Have a good Holiday everyone

Don 

I ran my NYC Hudson with 3 of my Custom cars in the manifest for a test run 

WM freight.

An SP H-12-44 with a short freight train. 

A short AC&Y freight makes its way out of town:

Tom

Patrick, John, Tom and the Rest great videos I’m so glad I switched to this scale.  

Finally made the last four coal loads and resprayed the others for my coal train.

Freight trains for today.

WP John: I really like the scene in your video. 

Tom Densel: Super scenery for the short freight at just the right speed.

Patrick: Always enjoy your scenes and especially your lighting. What type/color lights are on your layout please?

Local freight headed up with a new set of EMD F-3's passing through on the S&Y RR.

My older video.About 1 min into video...quite the smokers from GP's

@pennsynut posted:

WP John: I really like the scene in your video. 

Tom Densel: Super scenery for the short freight at just the right speed.

Patrick: Always enjoy your scenes and especially your lighting. What type/color lights are on your layout please?

Pennsynut thanks so much!  The lighting on my layout is actually stock.  Whatever came with the building or lamp is what I use.  

BN heavy freight passing through on the S&Y RR.

Been awhile since I ran these two Lionel Famous American RailRoad freights. The Southern has all the cars that make up the set. The Great Northern has some Lionel, some KMT, and a K-line caboose. The sound of steam and whistle were top of the line in early 80s, not so hi tech now, but still a lot of fun.

Here they are in action.

Hauling away...

Two freight trains pass each other on the busy mainline.

Freight trains today are a Lackawanna Camelback powered freight and a SW1 powered way freight train.  

Lionel Vision line CRR Challenger pulling mostly coal on the TMB club layout

Rusty

My Lionel FM H-1044 hauling a cut of gondolas on THE CLRC club layout. 

One more try  Vision line CRR Challenger at the TMB model train club

Lionel Legacy Norfolk Southern freight

Thanks for watching

Here’s my Weaver RSD12 with a manifest of old Atlas O cars 

BNSF Intermodal with an ES44AC and SD-70ACE leading. A pair of BNSF Dash-9's pulling a string of boxcars crosses over on the bridge above.

Some great freight trains from everyone on this thread! Keep them coming!

Smoking it up with my Lionmaster Challenger and a long cut of cars...

Will the month of October feature Fright Trains?

Postwar ALCO FA'S hauling O-27 sized cars on the CLRC club layout. 

A Penn Central local led by an Alco RS-11 disrupts the conversation on the loading dock:

Tom

Southern Pacific F3 locomotive freight train. 

The ABC RR working the coal in NE Ohio.