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coach joecoach joeOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

At first I stayed away from Passenger trains thinking the lack of variety in car design would be boring.  Yes you had baggage and vista dome cars but the general sameness didn't strike a chord with me just as long unit trains didn't.  As the number of road names in my roster increased they variety in colors of the passenger trains and some of the dedicated engines became very attractive.  I just couldn't imagine NYC streamlined Hudsons dragging freight. A Pennsy GG1 just had to hustle VIPs between DC and NYC.  The Alaska Railroad relies provides as much passenger service as freight. So now I have several passenger trains that all started with a mismatched Lionel TMCC Wabash Hudson pulling two MPC era Blue Comet Madison Cars.

Alan BAlan BOGR Forum Member

A lucky amateur photographer captured the passing of passenger trains representing two of the best known and loved railroads among those that make up the famous American Flyer Lines.  The reissue of the Silver Flash streamliner imagefrom the mid-1990s glides past the beautiful Polar Express Berkshire and heavyweight cars, which returned to the rails just a few years ago.  The locomotives and the cars all came out of the shops of Lionel American Flyer.

Photographed on the Jack Klein Memorial S Gauge Loop at the Portland (Oregon) Chapter TCA Clubhouse.

Cheers!

Alan

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P pennsynutOGR Forum Member

My passenger service is all heavyweight; a 4 car Kline coach consist with maybe an MTH or Kline RPO pulled by an Atlantic or Pacific.  I do have the Kline sleeper, observation and baggage car. I use the baggage car, 2 other RPO cars, 2 weaver express cars and a coach combine car for my fast mail pulled by the Atlantic or the Pacific. I like the color schemes of the various rrs.  I remember seeing the yellow and green CNW in Milwaukee where I grew up.  The GM&O colors are neat, and of course the SF Chief is also a favorite. I enjoy walking into a favorite hobby shop in Chicago and seeing a wall of colorful streamliner passenger cars and matching F units.  But my favorites are still the heavyweight cars.

MoonsonMoonsonOGR Forum Member
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Moonson posted:

Glimpses of passenger service......

 

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FrankM, Moon Township, USA

WHAT a Trifecta!

Thank you, PRRRONBH, for the reach-back.

Yes, for a while, there, I had become totally enamored of those Art Deco-style locomotives.

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Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.

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So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.

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FrankM

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gandydancer1950gandydancer1950OGR Forum Member
Moonson posted:
PRRronbh posted:
Moonson posted:

Glimpses of passenger service......

 

IMG_8740....trains , here-n-there...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

WHAT a Trifecta!

Thank you, PRRRONBH, for the reach-back.

Yes, for a while, there, I had become totally enamored of those Art Deco-style locomotives.

IMG_1367

IMG_2400b

Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.

IMG_1321

IMG_6152

IMG_2396

IMG_5369

So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.

IMG_9526

FrankM

As usual, great p

hotos!

Bobby OgageBobby OgageOGR Forum Member

My railroad features steam era named trains and Long Island Commuter trains. I run a freight train just to give the dispatcher fits because the mainline has a single track. In an operating session you might see:

The Southern Crescent; The Blue Comet; The 20th Century Limited; The Broadway Limited; The Chessie; The Cavalier; The Flying Yankee; The City of Salinas; The Hiawatha; The Representative; The D&RG Ski Train; The Canon Ball; The Crusader; The Texas Special; IRT LoV & BMT Q trains to the 1939 World's Fair.

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PRRronbhPRRronbhOGR Forum Member
Moonson posted:
PRRronbh posted:
Moonson posted:

Glimpses of passenger service......

 

IMG_8740....trains , here-n-there...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

WHAT a Trifecta!

Thank you, PRRRONBH, for the reach-back.

Yes, for a while, there, I had become totally enamored of those Art Deco-style locomotives.

 

IMG_2400b

Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.

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So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.

IMG_9526

FrankM

Frank am also enamored by same.  And have family ties to Conway.

Have always wanted a scale size 3-rail prototypically correct Commodore Vanderbilt.  They look like a tank!  Decades ago my then local dealer had a Lionel set he would NOT sell me.  He said it would NOT pull the three passenger cars that came with it in the set so could not sell me it  and feel right. 

Ron

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Here’s a carnival train of the only services I have.  The Super Chief is pulled by the F3 LAC(Hotwater) conventional, the heavyweights by a K4 Tuscan, the Daylights by a Daylight GS4 or a new Daylight AC9, the UP by FEF3 844.  The Burlington E7s and J3a Hudson are waiting for their consists.  Burma Shave.

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MoonsonMoonsonOGR Forum Member

PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother. ) At least, even though it was reputed to only be available for a hefty price, since it was a special issue by Lionel, back in the 90's, I played -hard-to-get and escaped with it for less than had been asked. Its tender is very, very finicky, though, about traversing switches (the tender's trucks seem intolerant of even 0-72 switches), so it only travels on switchless routes. Love their horns, though!

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FrankM

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PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother. ) At least, even though it was reputed to only be available for a hefty price, since it was a special issue by Lionel, back in the 90's, I played -hard-to-get and escaped with it for less than had been asked. Its tender is very, very finicky, though, about traversing switches (the tender's trucks seem intolerant of even 0-72 switches), so it only travels on switchless routes. Love their horns, though!

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FrankM

As I recall there were about a dozen Dreyfus Hudsons, hope yours are different road numbers.  I know how it is.  Have four Pennsy K4's all different some how including a Weaver Shrouded #3768.

Ron

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"PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother."

You only have two? Now, how does one only have two of these? That's the cuckoo part...

I mean, the NYC had 10, plus the 5344 J1e eventually dressed like this; then there's the Dreyfuss Empire State version, 2 of them.

Seems to me you are behind a bit. Get out that credit card.

MoonsonMoonsonOGR Forum Member
briansilvermustang posted:
Moonson posted:

PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother. ) IMG_2428

FrankM

                                               Frank, why not make it three....

Awlawdee, you make a clear and convincing, detailed and thorough case, Briansilvermustang, of course. However, fortunately (with the emphasis on "fortune") I have stopped buying locomotives. I wouldn't even confess to how many I have, along with the consists to accompany them down the tracks (!!) So enough is enough. Some collections and layouts do fill up, and mine is one of them. Alas.

MoonsonMoonsonOGR Forum Member
D500 posted:

"PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother."

You only have two? Now,how does one only have two of these? That's the cuckoo part...

I mean, the NYC had 10, plus the 5344 J1e eventually dressed like this; then there's the Dreyfuss Empire State version, 2 of them.

Seems to meyou are behind a bit. Get out that credit card.

Well, that certainly identifies you as a good and loyal li'l capitalist, doesn't it. D500. ALL of what you have said here makes sense. And, I do appreciate the information and the pep-talk; yet, I have to chicken-out on the temptation. My stable is full, and it's time to just sit back and enjoy the show, as well as seeing what others have indulged themselves with. But, you are a good man, evident from your sensible and wickedly tempting treatise. AND obviously, you are a fun guy.

FrankM.

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Here's the Marx-Flyer Copper Cannonball.

 

at the stationleaving town

Have you posted a pictorial on how you built the beaver tail observation car? That is really nice.

I had posted some photos during the build, but the great Photobucket debacle of 2017 has rendered them useless. I basically cut off one end and reattached it at an angle and filled in the gaps with sheet styrene and bondo.

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T thebeemanOGR Forum Member

Very good thread, I love southern engines and trains.  I have recently acquired the Lionel Southern 4-6-2 Pacific, however I'm not real sure I like the matching pass. cars.  Only have the engine.  I would like to run 60' coach and matching cars.  Did SSR ever mix SCL, SAL, and ACL pass. cars?  Anyway, my question,  what pass. units do you folks pull behind Southern Steam.

Thanks for your help

Tommy

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