Lets See Your Passenger Cars

PRRronbh posted:

Ron those 21/22-inch cars are beauties.  But, in my opinion the need O-106 min and preferably  O-120 which leaves most of us out.

My 18/19-inch again in my opinion need O-89 min and preferably O-96.

Ron,

I agree that these cars might not look great on my proposed O-96 curves, but I can live with that

I have another complete set with maybe a couple more cars but with 18" cars by Lionel and K-Line (no MTH-too short).  I use Weaver RPOs with it.  Here are some of those:

Great thread.

Here are some photos of my Atlas New Jersey Transit Comet II Coach

Some commuters practicing "Social Distancing"

Just took these out of the box after quite a few years, a move...working on a new layout.  One thing discovered after storage, the "gangway" or "corrider" curtains were squashed and coming apart.  The rubber items aren't really salvageable, so I need to locate a source for replacement curtains.  

The passenger cars are the best of the K-Line error..."Heavyweights."  If anyone knows where I can purchase replacement gangway curtains, please leave a comment here...thanks...

Thanks for the tip, John...

There’s some amazing quality stuff shown here and I can’t match that, but here’s a couple of my examples.

First, these are the latest things I have tracked down. A long while back, someone here put me on to the fact that there was a 2 car add-on pack, Lionel 6-29152, to the fine set of anodized aluminum Santa Fe cars issued in about 2003. That set was my first serious buy in passenger car collecting and although they are not scale, the finish on them is brilliant in every respect. Earlier this year I went on a hunt for what I regarded as the mythical add-on and it finally turned up. It’s two sleepers with full interiors. The cars required some cleaning up and a repair to one end cap but otherwise are fully functional, including the original lighting:

As time has moved on so have I to scale 21” cars, preferably aluminum. Only GGD makes them now but I have the Lionel Texas Special set from about 2007, which I believe is based on K-Line tooling. I have heavily modified two of the seven cars so far, in particular this diner which now has prototypical roof vents and a full interior, both dining compartment and kitchen. There’s some operating features too, including smoke from the four exhaust vents on the roof:

Oldcarsrule posted:

I can see a couple of beaver tail cars there but what are the rest? 

Amtrak Rainbow Era

I posted these on a different thread recently but as I have few MTH cars I thought I'd add them here. This is one car from a DAP set issued with MTH's PS2 DDA40X when it was introduced. MTH cars are all sub-scale and fairly generic ACF designs but some, like this one, are a little unusual - and of course MTH provides full interiors and passengers. 

This is the sleeper Green River with clerestory windows above the main ones. I understand that the extra "portholes" were meant to give upper berth passengers a view:

Copper Cannonball. 1930's AF coaches, one converted to a beavertail observation. Custom smoking Marx loco and tender.

A variety of passenger railroads. 

Here are mine - taking a rest on their shelves in the Great Room:

Bill T posted:

Amtrak Rainbow 

Bill,   Nice collection of cars.  The train could be an annual AAPRCO trip.  Thank you for sharing. John in Lansing, ILL

Hancock52 posted:

This is the sleeper Green River with clerestory windows above the main ones. I understand that the extra "portholes" were meant to give upper berth passengers a view:

Imagine anyone with claustrophobia being up there.

Business cars

Ron

Left: Lionel MPC observation car. Right: MTH Railking, O-27 heavy weights in PRR livery.

MTH Railking, O-27 heavy weights in PRR livery behind  a MTH GG-1.

Lionel, MPC Blue Comet observation car with a custom lighted drumhead.

Annie and Claribel behind Percy. Lionel.

Here are some of mine - I have a bunch more, just no videos/pictures of them.

1957 El Capitan (coming at you) - all Lionel Consist:

The Sarah Express (project I did with my daughter):

C&O Consist (Lionel E-8s pulling MTH Cars) with many more consists at the station:

Chessie Steam Special (Lionel Legacy T-1 with MTH and Williams Cars):

Union Pacific (All Weaver except the Aux Tender which is MTH):

A combine built with ICC components and Lobaugh trucks:

My RMT "shorty" on a friend's layout:

My K-Line observations (and others):

My inventory shows a total of 73 passenger cars.

jvega2 posted:

That is a very nice Santa Fe car; is it one by GGD? Judging by the finish I think it must be.

As a late addition to this thread, here's a few more GGD models. First, the Silver Meteor set:

Second, although these are not great photos of it, the single Santa Fe Great Dome GGD did in brass:

Here is a picture of my MTH pretend American Freedom Train cars being pulled by MTH fantasy Freedom Train power at a National Capital Tracker's show.  It is a great looking train and people liked it, although I had to explain to them the real AFT did not look like this.  It did run good with no problems.

ADDED:  Found some more from that show.  The GG1 is a fantasy scheme mainly because the PRR was long gone by the Bicentennial.

PRRMP54 posted:

 

My K-Line observations (and others):

My inventory shows a total of 73 passenger cars.

Only 73!

Of the umpteen passenger cars I have, here's the consist of passenger cars that has made me the happiest...

He is a cousin-in-law, and my wife and I decided that since he took such a strong interest in our layout, that he deserved an impetus to begin his own.

"Uncle Frank"

                             Sunset Models brass Southern Pacific Harriman 70' baggage car.

Night time line-up back in 2015 of Amtrak Amfleets and New York MTA M7's at the Sunnyside Yards in Queens (aka the indoor/outdoor carpet on my Living Room floor) getting cleaned and serviced overnight before the next day's rush. 

And a couple shots of my LIRR M7 rolling stock

B&O train arrives at Patsburg station.  ( K line, early MTH, and Weaver ) 

The N&W Powhatan Arrow with a K line silver business observation car at the rear. 

Home grown from 25+ years ago, the GM&O "Abraham Lincoln" liveried PW Lionel aluminum cars (based on coaching from Richard Sherry, longtime Chicagoland painter who passed much too early); and, NP North Coast Limited (before LIONEL or MTH produced their versions):

Currently completing two offset vista domes for the NP NCL train (a coach and sleeper, ##559 and 306, respectively) which were made possible by Christine Braden painting the vista domes and decals custom made by LBR Enterprises, a former forum sponsor.

2 Labelle cars:

NYC Big Four consist by MTH.  The brown & tan with gold lettering is a nice departure from the usual Pullman green or two tone gray. 

It’s been fun enjoying the hobby with you fellas. Nice stuff! 

Here is my postwar passenger car/train collection.  With these cars you can run any train that was in the Lionel catalog from 1946 to 1946.

These are the trains shown in the 1948 catalog.

And here are the locomotives for those sets.  Some of them had to be pulled from the shop for the photo-op.

My collection isn't all postwar.  You can see my 10E set in the background.  Also there are a dozen cars from the 20's on my waiting for restoration shelf.

1970's passenger cars.  

Carl, the GM&O and NP trains look great!  

Scott, it's always a better Forum day when you post photos of your custom O scale pax cars/trains.

As for the GM&O and NP, thanks for the compliments.  I like most that the two-tone colors and striping extend end-to-end like their prototypes.  I realize these are not nearly prototypical examples, but they work fine for me.

Precision Scale brass CB&Q Express Baggage Car, ex-troop kitchen car, #8690. I three railed this car with high speed Timken roller bearing sprung trucks.

Carl, the paint carrying over to the sides of the end caps really looks great.  

I forgot I had videos of my PRR Heavyweight Consist pulled by my T1 and a second pulled by my GG1:

great videos Frank