PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

The Santa Fe scheduled stop

@Bill T posted:

BIll- are any of these Great Northerns made by K-Line or K-Line by Lionel?? Just curious. Either way, beautiful Passenger cars!

Can't forget the great CNJ Blue Comet.  And Lionel's last run was one of the finest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldukrRtvxJE

Here are some of mine in an oldie, but still a goodie (I think) -

- Mike

BIll- are any of these Great Northerns made by K-Line or K-Line by Lionel?? Just curious. Either way, beautiful Passenger cars!

These are K-Line, I don't believe they had turned out the lights yet. Only got 3 of the Sky Blue GN 21 inchers out before the lights went out.

Nothing better than the soothing clickety clack of this train. When people ask me how I can sit and watch a train go around a circle for hours. This is the best I can describe it. These new trains might have so many cool features but to me Lionel nailed it here.

The video was too long for an upload here so I published it over on YouTube. 

Northern Pacific Mainstreeter

C&O's "Resort Special" slows for Cumberland station.

With "Resort Special" pulling away from Cumberland Station, K-4 Berkshire-led RBB&B Circus Train drops downgrade exiting east Honeymoon Tunnel.

I've got a wienie train (lil' ol' HO)... can I play?? Can I, can I?

The scenario:

"What's left of passenger train #11 hustling south after a brief station stop at Mountain Springs, Ark. during the autumn of '64."

The specifics:

Engine: Model is a vintage Stewart/Kato F7A with a Tsunami 2 sound decoder and "Sweet n' Low" cube speaker.

Cars: Athearn heavyweight w/clerestory roofs. Need to have the lettering removed and reletted/weathered.

Layout: My partial dual-level Ozark theme layout in its current "Kansas City & Gulf" diesel era mode. (I guess it could also be known as the Plywood Pacific at this point!)

All fer now.

Andre

Amtrak Rainbow Era

Some prewar Lionel Passenger trains. Including my favorite consist. The 261E with the uncatalogued blue cars.

Bill-where is your beautiful Northern Pacific GG-1?

Bill-where is your beautiful Northern Pacific GG-1?

Its resting, letting the NP F-units carry the load.

LCCA Burlington passing through on the S&Y RR.

A Western Maryland passenger train tender takes on water as mail is loaded and unloaded from the RPO car.  WM passenger trains were typically short in length ( usually 2 to 3 cars ) which makes for great prototypical modeling on mid to smaller layouts.  I'm grateful that MTH made WM passenger cars in both the Premier and Railking lines.  Shown here is the Premier cars.  The locomotive is Lionel. 

I found this MTH Premier nice 2 car NPR set recently

Here is a FS10 moving some passenger cars in the yard.

The FM 10-44 is MTH, the cars are GGD.

This is our scale PRR passenger train running on the Crescent Model Railroaders modular layout at a train show. My son Chris, in the second photo, was about 8 years old at the time of these photos.

The Union Pacific passing through.

Here's an all K-line post. As I mentined somewhere else, I've been on a K-line kick recently!

Amtrak F40PH pulling away from the station, Horizon passenger cars in tow, all phase 3 livery. Acquired the engine rather recently. K-line with tmcc, RS, and cruise 4.0..Horizons are 15 inch k-line

K-line 15-inch Red Cross Heavyweights...added some phase 4 MTH 60'  'Amfleets' to Amtrak consist

Arrived earlier this week-K-line PRR interurban(non-powered/dummy)

Though I'd post this here for passenger train aficionados to help me with- is the paint scheme on this MTH Amtrak passenger car based on a prototype? I know it's supposed to be base on Budd stainless steel streamliners. Only thing I saw in my search that looked familiar was a baggage car. Photo below is part of the 30- 67045 set

Thanks for any help you can provide!

" Night train "  I took these shots back in April.  

@StevefromPA posted:

Though I'd post this here for passenger train aficionados to help me with- is the paint scheme on this MTH Amtrak passenger car based on a prototype? I know it's supposed to be base on Budd stainless steel streamliners. Only thing I saw in my search that looked familiar was a baggage car. Photo below is part of the 30- 67045 set

Thanks for any help you can provide!

By the time the Phase IV paint scheme was introduced in the early 2000's with the introduction of the Viewliner sleepers.  Most of the Heritage cars stayed in Phase III paint until they fell off the roster when enough Viewliner sleepers were in service.  The only phase IV painted Budd cars I'm aware of are Diners and Baggage cars.  The last running baggage cars were coaches with the windows plated over however. 

An addendum - some of the former Santa Fe El Capitan double level cars were painted into phase IV as well.  Mainly coaches converted to dorm / baggage cars and a few lounge cars.

@GG1 4877 Thanks so much for the info! Much appreciated! I want to add some variation in my 15" and 18" consists and this would help with the former. After spending wayyyy too much time trying to find SOMETHING resembling this coach, the closest I found were 3  phase IV coaches- although the background was shaky. The baggage car from the set, however, is pretty spot on. Thanks again, gg1 4877 for the help!

Phase IV Heritage coach cars? https://railpictures.net/viewp...id=340813&nseq=1

@Bill T posted:

Bill-where is your beautiful Northern Pacific GG-1?

Its resting, letting the NP F-units carry the load.

Bill T....I never saw a GG-1 in the NP paint scheme.  Or was this a repaint?

Do you have any pictures you could post?

Thanks.  Jim

Passenger service on the TMB:

The Aerotrain.  When I was in elementary school the Aerotrain was on the cover of a book called " The Wonder Book of Trains" which was in my school library.   I was really taken with the design of this "cool" locomotive!  I read that book cover to cover many times over.  When MTH came out with this train I had to have one!  Thank you MTH!!   

The Powhatan Arrow speeds by while a postwar 773 Hudson powered local waits at the junction. 

Running today at the TMB;

Amtrak early 2000's Lake Shore Limited with heritage cars.

I have several sets of passenger cars, but most of them I rarely run.

My favorite, by far, are the silver gray colored Postwar Lionel traditional sized passenger cars with the names of NJ cities on them like Newark, Livingston, Chatham, Hillside, etc. I think they look great with any locomotive, and run great on my conventional Postwar tubular track O Gauge layout with sharp 031 curves.

Here's a short video of these cars with the LC+ Jersey Central Pacific steamer:

My son jumped into the act and set up and photographed this Santa Fe passenger train.

I can remember riding Santa Fe's San Francisco Chief while my son was born well after the start of the Amtrak era.

My own Dad remembers steam engines and GG-1's and was especially fond of the Pennsylvania RR.

Fun thread guys as always 

@Jim Rawlings posted:

Bill T....I never saw a GG-1 in the NP paint scheme.  Or was this a repaint?

Do you have any pictures you could post?

Thanks.  Jim

Jim, the Northern pacific GG-1 is a custom paint by Jeff Sohn.

New Haven's "Merchants Limited" arriving at Cumberland on CONUS Lines.

@Rick Wright posted:

New Haven's "Merchants Limited" arriving at Cumberland on CONUS Lines.

Rick:

Your photo and scenery are superb!. I love your catenary system. Is that scratch-built? If so, would you consider sharing the plans for it with us?

Passenger Trains – Let’s see them!

Not sure why? But here you go…

Since no one’s ever offered SCL passengers items in "O", the most traveled and important routes from NY to Fl. in history, I had to make them myself as usual.

                                                                Maybe it was time to retire?

@Rick Wright posted:

New Haven's "Merchants Limited" arriving at Cumberland on CONUS Lines.

Rick, WOW, you need to show more of your fantastic work.

@Bill T posted:

Jim, the Northern pacific GG-1 is a custom paint by Jeff Sohn.

Bill,

What a fantastic looking engine. Now that is a fantasy scheme I would want to get!

Bryce

A Pennsy custom diner with full interior including candles on each table and full place settings.  

These passenger wait for a train on the adjacent track. 

Service members will ride in Pennsy's business car 120. 

A sailor going home enjoys the view from the rear of business car 120, which is part of Pennsy's " Fleet of Modernism"

@trumptrain posted:

A Pennsy custom diner with full interior including candles on each table and full place settings.  

Trumptrain,

Great photos! If you have a few pics of that fully done interior, I'd love to see it! 

Bryce