WTB - MTH Premier Northern Pacific 5-Car Passenger Set 20-65238

That same exact set came out in 2007.  All 11 cars with the F-3 A-B-A.  I have the set on my wall on display in un run condition.  I saw a set at York last April and do not remember any others I have seen for sale.

Did the cars from 2007 have the remodeled passenger car trucks?  I think I recall some of the older passenger cars having smaller trucks, that just didn't look right.  Also did the cars have individual names or just numbers?  The MTH database indicate the cars from 2014 have names.

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They have it all.  Same as the recent release.

If it isn't too much trouble, could you post or email me a picture or two?

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Here are a few quick ones.  

Your welcome.

Appreciate the time to take & post photos.  No wonder they are so hard to find....beautiful set.

I am sorry these are not great pictures.  The colors are stunning.  I wish Mike would do a PA to go with the cars.  Yes, I know the NP did not have any.  Back in the 50's my friend got the Flyer North Coast Limited for Christmas and it was a mind blower.   Years later, Lionel did a remake of the 50's set.  

They are tough to find, for sure. 

Beautiful paint scheme.

I too have the NP passenger set, sans the full length dome, and one A-B-A set each of the F3s and F7s in one of the most attractive passenger car schemes ever, IMO.  All the cars are numbered, as the two-tone green scheme eliminated the noun names for sleepers that were found on the cars when they were in the Pullman Green / Light Green scheme when first purchased.  My two-tone green "North Coast Limited" is set in 1954.

I have some MicroScale decals which have allowed me to put "CB&Q" or "SP&S" in the upper letterboard corners on one each of the domes, and change the numbers to match the prototypes.  At York this year I was able to purchase two "extra" flat top coaches.  One of them will become the lounge car "Lewis & Clark Traveler's Rest" in a future project using Champs decals.

I also have the Pullman Green / Light Green scheme F7s and passenger cars that MTH issued years ago.  Here I changed the observation car to "Montana Club" from a MicroScale decal set, and changed the sleeper "Butte" (MTH lettering) to "Missoula" (MS decal set again).  I also changed the font size of the lettering on the dining car.  I run a Pennsy sleeper and a heavyweight Pullman with this 1952 train, to set out at Livingston for a Yellowstone Park tour.  My sleeper is "Chief Blackfoot" with Northern Pacific in the letterboard (Champs decals).

I eagerly buy Northern Pacific when MTH issues it.  I am hoping in the future to see the SD45 and U30C models issued in the classic NP black / gold-buff paint scheme.

One of my favorite schemes for certain. Another Lowey home run. Traveler's Rest is an amazing and fun car. some early images...

Some more recent pics...

Lacks some of the charm with loss of the murals and the addition of inappropriate furnishings, but still very nice.

Rick, please post pictures when you have completed your project.

The kids got me 3 NP cars for Christmas 2 years ago and that started thew bug this winters builds include. Love the Wasatch trucks just need decals as suppliers seem to be unresponsive too requests.

This is one of the times I'm glad I opted for the MTH set over the GGD aluminum set.  Long story short... I had started to purchase ala carte GGD NP coaches, but it was taking FOREVER for them to deliver the "finish set" that included the observation car.

Then MTH catalog'd this set, so I pre-ordered it and sold the 3 or 4 individual GGD cars here on the forum.  All's well that ends well.  MTH delivered the set (which I knew would be hard to find months/years later), and hopefully the buyer who bought my GGD cars purchased the "finish set" that was eventually delivered a few months ago.

I passed on the MTH locomotive though, 'cause I had already purchased the Lionel NP heritage SD70ACe's (all 3 units -- two powered and one dummy) in the brilliant and matching paint scheme.  A nice modern-day touch to a classic train.

David

I think if Lionel did these in the new 21 inch cars, they might sell a few.  What do you think guys??

Photos look great.  They further convince me that these are the cars for me. 

As for Lionel doing them in 21"....let's see how the ESE (and other sets) turn out. 

For the look, quality, variety, and price....the MTH cars are hard to beat. 

They'd sell GREAT!!!  Just avoid a full length dome; get the car numbers correct; and, offer some correct diesels to pull them!  Some period correct interiors would also offer a great feature.

Marty,

    They would sell like hot cakes and they probably would not be able to keep them in stock.

Would love to have a set, maybe 2!

Mine however would be pulled with the original GP7/GP9 Engines, in the Pittsburgh Steelers Colors.

PCRR/Dave

The ESE cars will do.

I almost preordered the MTH but unscale size and all the domes having the same window configuration was my sticking points.  The actual Northcoast had 2 passenger domes all season and 2 Pullman sleeper domes in the summer, in the winter the sleeper domes were leased to Illinois central and repainted the other to PRR for the South wind and not repainted anybody got a pic of this dome in a PRR train?  Mac shops and Moline made the extrusions for the coach dome with accurate windows but I am not sure about the sleepers. Any info on these domes is greatly appreciated as I have exhausted all the readily available sources.   If Lionel produces accurate dome cars as I have stated before I would rather buy them than build them, domes are abatch!!!