MTH came out with the LIRR MU's passenger cars Grey with the orange front.
4 car set and two car add on.
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JUNK Jerrrrrrry
I need to contact MTH and have them remove the head lamps from the trailer cars.
Only the end cars had them.
Junk Brian?
I think not! 
Glad to see that MTH are making them.
Also glad to see making LIRR stuff too.
That's right, well take what we can get.
I will order a set.
They have been selling quite well
Nassauhobby.com
Everything I tell MTH to make always sells well. They should give me a discount, LOL!
I will be expanding the LIRR fleet when the 6 cars arrive.
Now for the Ping Pongs, Path, R-15's and old SIRT cars, everyone will be happy including MTH.
LI Cabooses needed too.
Hope I'm still around to enjoy them. 
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SIRT,
How about a railking version of the Sunrise Special? or perhaps a push pull set w/passenger cars..a white wave gp38? 
Sunrise
MTH just did a blue stripe Sunrise HW set.
I'm a grey & orange old timer guy, LOL!
I wouldn't turn down an MP-15 with an M LOGO on the front and cab.
I guess MTH can't do one. If they had Microscale make the logos, they would sell a bunch of engines!
SIRT,
I believe those cars fit well with the Cannonball. I may be wrong. Here's what we need.
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Sunrise
The sunrise Special was operated for the LIRR by the Pullman company. It originated in the late 1920s and was equipped with Parlor cars from the Pullman company. The mp 54's would not have been in this train. I believe the train was long gone by the time the orange and grays were the colors used on LIRR cars.
A railking G5 with the tender logo in your photo with a set of Madisons lettered for Pullman would be a nice looking set.
MTh made a premier G5 in the Sunrise special scheme
20-3068-1
I've seen the MTH G5 at Nassau Hobby, the colors of the Sunrise Special Logo are very nice on a steam loco.
Yes we have that in stock
Yes, I know MTH produced the Sunrise Special in early 2000. I would like to see a Railking version w/PS3
Sunrise
Why
Affordability...newer electronics...
Sunrise
SIRT,
You seem to have influence with MTH. Please ask them to make the Rail King 2-8-0 and the 027 heavyweight cars in LIRR livery. Please, oh please. Pretty please.
any chance you have that custom lirr mp54 set for sale? thanks nick
Originally Posted by SIRT:
Dave, there is nothing accurate about MTH items. Most are generalized cookie cutter cars and engines.
We take what we can get. I made my own set of these a few months ago.
Round window door versions....
MTH 6 car sets are due out Jan. May have to modify those cars to model the prototype variations?
Lionel might provide a set some day.
Sunrise and I have the same mind set. LIRR Railking trains. My layout is built to run Railking 13" long passenger cars and Railking steam engines!
I would love to see a Rail King G-5 as well but, #35,39 or 50 and a Rail King RS-3 1555 & 1556 in as delivered paint scheme they can call it the end of steam series lol. Yea to dream. Couldn't they re tool the old 2-8-0 rail king starter set engine to fit on the new 4-6-0? Just give it the Rail King K-4 head light.
Mike
Mike
Originally Posted by Hauspiper:
I would love to see a Rail King G-5 as well but, #35,39 or 50 and a Rail King RS-3 1555 & 1556 in as delivered paint scheme they can call it the end of steam series lol. Yea to dream. Couldn't they re tool the old 2-8-0 rail king starter set engine to fit on the new 4-6-0? Just give it the Rail King K-4 head light.
Mike
Mike
Mth changed their cataloged rs3 from 1557 to 1556 to match the one at the Museum Of the Long Island Railroad in Riverhead.
That's nice but hmm that is all I can say
Mike
Mike
1556 due out between Aug - Oct 2014
One issue I have with all my MTH LIRR RS-3's is the incorrect single headlights.
Should be dual beams.
The other is the CSX cab chatter and telephone sounds which didn't exist in 1964.
I have a request in to Bill S. to change the orange top B/W caboose to grey lettering.
That is interesting will it be Rail King? So will look right with my RS1? Because the Lionel Long Island RS3 from the set looks huge compared to the rs1.
Mike
Mike
All RK & Premier RS units appear to be the same size.
Some older RK cabooses are smaller, later models are the same size as Premier.
This one is the smaller one and also an inch is chopped out of the middle to obtain the look. It has printed paper sides since there are no proper decal letters available.
Majority of the LIRR fleet didn't have a bay window sticking out the sides in order to clear platforms. The normal size RK b/w first made by MTH tends to scrape the platform edges due to play in the wheel sets.
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Originally Posted by Hauspiper:
That is interesting will it be Rail King? So will look right with my RS1? Because the Lionel Long Island RS3 from the set looks huge compared to the rs1.
Mike
Mike
The MTH Railking rs3 is the same size as the lionel rs3 i converted my lionel rs3 to 1555 and gave it a more realistic paint job. Now i need an engine 39 and 35
Well if Lirr 1555 can have an RS-3 #1555, then I certainly want a DD-1 #351. Actually I have an Atlas-O RS-3 converted to PS2 which is waiting for Long Island paint. Lirr 1555, what scheme is your RS-3? You said you gave it a more realistic paint. I'm thinking of going with the blue and yellow since that's what I remember best (and it looks a lot easier to mask).
Originally Posted by 351_DD-1:
Well if Lirr 1555 can have an RS-3 #1555, then I certainly want a DD-1 #351. Actually I have an Atlas-O RS-3 converted to PS2 which is waiting for Long Island paint. Lirr 1555, what scheme is your RS-3? You said you gave it a more realistic paint. I'm thinking of going with the blue and yellow since that's what I remember best (and it looks a lot easier to mask).
I gave it a gray and orange paint scheme to better match Operation Changeover in 1955 my layout is based on long island in the 30-50s era of trains and i run some modern 
Lirr 1555, I would love to see a pic of your RS-3 - sounds great. I believe Lionel and Atlas are the only ones that make the RS-3 with the dual beam headlights. I just wish the Atlas-O smokestack was cross-ways (is that a word?) instead of in-line. I'll have to modify it before it gets painted.
Originally Posted by 351_DD-1:
Lirr 1555, I would love to see a pic of your RS-3 - sounds great. I believe Lionel and Atlas are the only ones that make the RS-3 with the dual beam headlights. I just wish the Atlas-O smokestack was cross-ways (is that a word?) instead of in-line. I'll have to modify it before it gets painted.
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Originally Posted by 351_DD-1:
Lirr 1555, I would love to see a pic of your RS-3 - sounds great. I believe Lionel and Atlas are the only ones that make the RS-3 with the dual beam headlights. I just wish the Atlas-O smokestack was cross-ways (is that a word?) instead of in-line. I'll have to modify it before it gets painted.
Check out my youtube channel i have updates weekly on the painting process
Looks great!! Now if one company would just find it in their heart to produce some ping pong coaches...
Steve (SIRT)
Nice job on the repaint on the LIONEL MP-54's to LIRR: Two problems make your cars somewhat innacurate:
(1) - You did NOT paint the window frames in the prototype required aluminum color that the TICHY scheme rebuilt cars had - these were new aluminum window frames these cars received.
(2) Your LIRR MP-54 Cars have NO 3rd Rail Shoes on their trucks
(3) Your Bodies have (as being originally Lionel PRR MP-54's) still have the air-cooling ventilator box and large grid-screen on the center of one side of the PRR body car - the LIRR Version car bodies never had that large side vent as they ran on straight 700VDC and not on much higher voltage (and blower cooled resisters) PRR catenary rectified AC juice supply !
MTH also have 3 glaring mistakes in their TICHY version LIRR MP-54 Cars as delivered;
(1) These cars (and I have a 2 car set now) ALSO lack the lighter aluminum-colored window frames on the bodies (The MTH 2013 CATALOG LIRR MP-54 images depicted do correctly SHOW the lighter window frames on the pilot models)
(2) These cars ALSO lack the very important "offset" 3rd rail shoe and its beam for (as like all NY Subway cars) solely operation on LIRR (subway style) 3rd rail only trackages !
(3) The "Grey" body color of the MTH LIRR MP-54 bodies is a much darker (bordering towards dark grey with dark olive green hues) color rather than the obviously somewhat lighter pure grey seen on the LIRR Cars in the Tichy Paint scheme.
The CON COR HO SCALE Models of MP-54's not only got the TICHY scheme and window treatment correct, with the orange ends, but ALSO have the proper offset 3rd rail shoe on wood beam molded into their MP-54 truck sideframes.
I wonder who the Tech person was helping MTH on these MP-54 cars per the TICHY color scheme....and per the missing truck mounted 3rd rail shoe/beams very important details.
Regards - Joe F
Nice job on the repaint on the LIONEL MP-54's to LIRR: Two problems make your cars somewhat innacurate:
(1) - You did NOT paint the window frames in the prototype required aluminum color that the TICHY scheme rebuilt cars had - these were new aluminum window frames these cars received.
(2) Your LIRR MP-54 Cars have NO 3rd Rail Shoes on their trucks
(3) Your Bodies have (as being originally Lionel PRR MP-54's) still have the air-cooling ventilator box and large grid-screen on the center of one side of the PRR body car - the LIRR Version car bodies never had that large side vent as they ran on straight 700VDC and not on much higher voltage (and blower cooled resisters) PRR catenary rectified AC juice supply !
MTH also have 3 glaring mistakes in their TICHY version LIRR MP-54 Cars as delivered;
(1) These cars (and I have a 2 car set now) ALSO lack the lighter aluminum-colored window frames on the bodies (The MTH 2013 CATALOG LIRR MP-54 images depicted do correctly SHOW the lighter window frames on the pilot models)
(2) These cars ALSO lack the very important "offset" 3rd rail shoe and its beam for (as like all NY Subway cars) solely operation on LIRR (subway style) 3rd rail only trackages !
(3) The "Grey" body color of the MTH LIRR MP-54 bodies is a much darker (bordering towards dark grey with dark olive green hues) color rather than the obviously somewhat lighter pure grey seen on the LIRR Cars in the Tichy Paint scheme.
The CON COR HO SCALE Models of MP-54's not only got the TICHY scheme and window treatment correct, with the orange ends, but ALSO have the proper offset 3rd rail shoe on wood beam molded into their MP-54 truck sideframes.
I wonder who the Tech person was helping MTH on these MP-54 cars per the TICHY color scheme....and per the missing truck mounted 3rd rail shoe/beams very important details.
Regards - Joe F
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Yeah!
I believe the original topic was about the new MTH cars?
The window frames on my Lionel set do have silver paint on them.
As for the rest of the details, 99% of the people here would never notice or really care about your other points mentioned especially since they don’t model a 3rd rail.
After all, it’s 3 rail, which anything goes.
If I was seeking complete accuracy, I would join the rivet counters and model in 2 rail.
I think you’re in the wrong ballpark Joe.
Steve
New MTH 6 car set photos arriving in the week ahead!
The colors and lettering scheme on these colors is post Tichy from the photos shown. Dashing Dan did not arrive on the LIRR until the steam engines left post Tichy. The darker grays were more representative of the cars as they existed from the late 50s to the end of LIRR service into 1970 or so.
The detail which was shown in the catalog bur seems to be left out on the finished MTH product based photo of the cars as delivered from MTH is the aluminum coloring on the window frames. There are many prototype photos that show the cars this way and to the best of my knowledge, I do not believe MP 54 window frames in the prototype were ever painted gray on these LIRR cars .
MTH had it right in the catalog but it was left out on the finished product. The aluminum colored window sash makes a substantial difference in the models appearance and those who are purchasing these cars will want to add the aluminum trim to their cars.
Its unfortunate if MTH shipped these cars without the aluminum window sash coloring as it seems to be a quality issue that should have been corrected before shipping the product. I would hope that they consider recalling the product and correcting the sash issue as it would make these cars a great product more like the prototype model.
I don't know Steve, I for one and not digging that Air-conditioning ventilator box thingie.
