Well I don't have too much to add, that display from Citicorp is just spectacular. I did see it once in person and it was truly amazing. Here are a couple of my modest trains for the post.
Here is the NYC type S from Grand Central station with a little utility train. The Lionel #152 is from 1926-1927
Here is the hardy Marx Alco S-2 with a short freight from the 1950's.
Best Wishes
Don
New York Central P-2b #223 electric motor and heavyweight passenger cars in lightning stripes certainly qualify as NYC Classics. The entire consist is made up of MTH PS1 models. Running on my 12'-by-8' layout.
MELGAR
@MELGAR posted:New York Central P-2b #223 electric motor and heavyweight passenger cars in lightning stripes certainly qualify as NYC Classics. The entire consist is made up of MTH PS1 models. Running on my 12'-by-8' layout.
MELGAR
Love it, Mel. Those NYC electrics are so boxy… absolutely utilitarian, yet there is something so beautiful about them!!! Wish I had gotten to see them hauling commuters through Westchester.
@Apples55 posted:Love it, Mel. Those NYC electrics are so boxy… absolutely utilitarian, yet there is something so beautiful about them!!! Wish I had gotten to see them hauling commuters through Westchester.
That engine is one of my favorites. The model dates from 1999.
MELGAR
Oh what beautiful trains are pictured here, @C Sam, wow, beautiful Hudson’s, beautiful layout, it’s a view worthy of being a painting, @MELGAR, that’s a beautiful lighting stripe electric locomotive, and beautiful passenger cars, great video, wow. @Don McErlean, your pictures are top notch and your vintage tinplate locomotive is awesome, oldies but beauties bring back memories, they seem to run forever with a little TLC… This steamer in my pictures is a re-built K-Line hudson, re-built at the The Harmonyards. Happy Railroading Everyone 
I was trying to watch the video of Mel's electric yesterday at lunch but it wouldn't play. Reception at work especially when I am on lunch always seems to be waning. Great video Mel, nice looking rebuilt Hudson Larry, I'll have one like it soon enough too.
Mel, everything about this engine is way cool. I always wanted one but knew I would never have the radius to operate it.
Larry such a graceful beauty. Look at that smoke!. Pat did a great job.
Picked up these mid 90's NYC passenger cars for my 785. 
I honestly think I have a problem collecting NYC trains... LTI mowhawk hauling some milk with a smoking NYC caboose 
@Donnie Kennedy posted:I honestly think I have a problem collecting NYC trains... LTI Mohawk hauling some milk with a smoking NYC caboose
Never enough NY Central; as long as I'm CentralFan1976, I'll collect them!
I've always loved the 785. I may have to get one even though my layout won't really be big enough. Here's my big NYC steam, a Rail King Mohawk of the first gen.
I've added some details
And had to straighten out a bent roof. I though I had a before and after shot handy but these are both afters. I'll see if I can dig up a before.
Okay so I tracked down a couple of before photos so you can see the difference.
Joe,
However you did the repair, it came out very well. Not visible in the pictures.
MELGAR
@coach joe posted:I've always loved the 785. I may have to get one even though my layout won't really be big enough.
No problem, Joe… from what I’ve found online, “this Hudson will best handle 0-72" curves but, it will negotiate 0-31 O-gauge trackage” 
@Apples55 posted:No problem, Joe… from what I’ve found online, “this Hudson will best handle 0-72" curves but, it will negotiate 0-31 O-gauge trackage”
Paul is 100% right on that! I tested mine on 031 Menards o guage and she handles them perfectly and doesn't look awkward. The 785 is one of my favorites.
Thanks Paul and Donnie just what I needed to know. I'm starting to hear voices. I think they moved south from PA.
@coach joe posted:Thanks Paul and Donnie just what I needed to know. I'm starting to hear voices. I think they moved south from PA.
Coach, …it’s ok to hear the voices….do as they say,….they started talking to me in the 70’s and I never listened to anybody else….😉
Pat
@coach joe posted:Thanks Paul and Donnie just what I needed to know. I'm starting to hear voices. I think they moved south from PA.
The voices are everywhere 
The voices told me to make a video for you coach..
Listen to the voices, Joe… Listen to the voices, Joe… Listen to the voices, Joe…
The 783 ain’t half bad either…
Paul,….be careful though,….If you listen to voices long enough, like I did,…..you’ll become one of them,……..😳
Pat
@Apples55 posted:Listen to the voices, Joe… Listen to the voices, Joe… Listen to the voices, Joe…
The 783 ain’t half bad either…
Is realism no longer a concern for O gauge locomotives and cars ? As a life long NYC fan and former employee, I have to speak up about a photo that could be called almost sacriligeous - an NYC Hudson with a Vanderbilt tender !!!!
Hudsons had eight and twelve wheel and centipede tenders, all with straight sides - never a Vanderbilt.
Same problem with those two tone gray heavyweight dining and observation cars. Both HW cars were long gone before NYC began using that color scheme on other than streamlined cars.
@mlaughlinnyc posted:Is realism no longer a concern for O gauge locomotives and cars ? As a life long NYC fan and former employee, I have to speak up about a photo that could be called almost sacriligeous - an NYC Hudson with a Vanderbilt tender !!!!
Hudsons had eight and twelve wheel and centipede tenders, all with straight sides - never a Vanderbilt.
Same problem with those two tone gray heavyweight dining and observation cars. Both HW cars were long gone before NYC began using that color scheme on other than streamlined cars.
Evidently they kept you underground at GCT way too long, …..that Hudson with a Vandy was issued in 1997 ……😆😆😆
Pat
@harmonyards posted:
Paul,….be careful though,….If you listen to voices long enough, like I did,…..you’ll become one of them,……..😳
Pat
What I aspire to be like.
@mlaughlinnyc posted:Is realism no longer a concern for O gauge locomotives and cars ? As a life long NYC fan and former employee, I have to speak up about a photo that could be called almost sacriligeous - an NYC Hudson with a Vanderbilt tender !!!!
Hudsons had eight and twelve wheel and centipede tenders, all with straight sides - never a Vanderbilt.
Same problem with those two tone gray heavyweight dining and observation cars. Both HW cars were long gone before NYC began using that color scheme on other than streamlined cars.
You forgot that they run on three rails…
@harmonyards posted:
Pat
One of us…
NYC Tank engine with 5 MTH passenger cars.
@harmonyards posted:Paul,….be careful though,….If you listen to voices long enough, like I did,…..you’ll become one of them,……..😳
Pat
Ahhh, Pat… I’m afraid it’s way too late for me. Thanks for the pictures of your collection - my collection doesn’t quite rival yours (yet!!!), but we all need something to strive for 
P.S. I was lucky enough to have taken a couple of tours of the Metro North Harmon Yard back when they did an open house every year!!!
@harmonyards posted:
Pat
Pat, I love those shelves!!! What are the dimensions? Thanks'
This picture shows the “downtown” at the front corner of my 12’-by-8’ layout with New York Central #1991 lightning stripe heavyweight passenger car stopped at the station. The station is behind the passenger car and not visible.
MELGAR
@Scott R posted:My all-time favorite. Love the Niagara front end!
This engine has a PS3 upgrade runs great!
The one video that they have on YouTube of the real thing is of a very imposing beast. The interesting thing that I found about watching that video is how different the Niagara is from Northerns. The height difference being chief among them because of the height in and along the Central's lines. It would have been a bad thing hitting the top of the engine going through tunnels.
@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:The one video that they have on YouTube of the real thing is of a very imposing beast. The interesting thing that I found about watching that video is how different the Niagara is from Northerns. The height difference being chief among them because of the height in and along the Central's lines. It would have been a bad thing hitting the top of the engine going through tunnels.
Sleek, elegant, oozing of raw power,….too bad they never had a chance to live up to their full potential, a pinnacle of what was then, modern steam….Merry Christmas 🎄 Dave!
Pat
@harmonyards posted:Sleek, elegant, oozing of raw power,….too bad they never had a chance to live up to their full potential, a pinnacle of what was then, modern steam….Merry Christmas 🎄 Dave!
Pat
Merry Christmas to you too Pat. I'll have that Mohawk running at some point tomorrow smoking me out.
Heading to the shops for an engine rebuild. Looks like the rings or injectors are shot.
Pete
We always seem to marvel at the smoke output of some of the newer fan driven smoke units but I think you hit it on the head some time it looks like an engine is in need of a major overhaul.
You never know where and when you will find a New York Central fan……..didn’t realize Winnie was a fan…….
Have a great day, folks!
Peter
Darn partimer always dogging it.
Not neccessarily a "classic", not terribly accurate either.
The U.S.R.A. mallet from Lionel is as close as a NYC fan can get to the smaller prototype New York Central N2e mallet. A round smokebox door would have been a bit more convincing, maybe a future modification.
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