PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

@RickO posted:

A couple of New York Centrals finest meet up........under a Pennsylvania signal bridge????............

Hey Rick - these are great shots!  Have never been a fan of Fastrack but they way you've added the ballast and selected weathering this is the best I've seen!  The center rail reflects the ties enhancing the illusion. Great effect my friend...

 

 

Here is my Lionel D&RG 'Bumble Bee' striped Alcos from some years ago pulling 4 K-Line former Amtrak 21" cars. I may paint them to run with our 3rd Rail D&H PA's at some time. These D&H's belong to a club member - also Lionel production. 

 c.sam Posted: Hey Rick - these are great shots!  Have never been a fan of Fastrack but they way you've added the ballast and selected weathering this is the best I've seen!  The center rail reflects the ties enhancing the illusion. Great effect my friend...

Thanks Sam!  Eventually, I want to tone down the plastic roadbed between the ties with weathering chalk or a wash.

The key to "o.k." looking fastrack is to make sure the plastic edge that the rail sits in is painted too. This plastic edge actually represents a more realistic flared out bottom of the rail. When painted it helps detract from the "U " shape of the fastrack rail.

BTW , your layout is no slouch either!  Much more sizeable than mine ,and I enjoy those wide expansive views that allow extra scenery as well as trains

Broadway Limited

@FJI

Thanks for sharing your video. Your layout looks to be superb! Your Broadway Limited train is GREAT also. Bravo!!!

Western Maryland mail and express train

Thanks The video was taken at the TMB train club in Farmingdale NY I have been a member for several years now

Rode the ST. AUGUSTINE on an N&W 611 J excursion. This is my 611 excursion on my layout.

Climb aboard a passenger train at suburban station, Terryville and take a scenic ride through Terryville, through the T&C yards, around the city of Christopolis, through the long T&C tunnel and back to your departure point. Throughout your trip, you will be passed by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, The Federal, being pulled by a MTH Proto-Sound 2, Brunswick Green GG-1. Enjoy the ride.

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

My Blue Comet: LC+ Jersey Central K4 and Postwar 2400 series passenger cars with names of NJ cities and towns on them:

Arnold

Randy...what a tour...loved your video.  Arnold, great Blue Comet...thanks for posting

Don

The Polar Express.

The Burlington Zephyr.

The Blue Comet.

Here are my early postwar 6000 series brown and green sheet metal cars. These are being pulled by Lionel 224 and 2065 steamers respectfully.

I love both of your Blue Comets Arnold and Bud! 

I thought the  L & N freight paint scheme would look good on a set of passenger cars. So I came up with a paint scheme and had them painted. Thought it makes for something that could of been........Paul 2

https://youtu.be/uZeMmw-n7jw

 Older Williams Amtrak Genesis set with ERR Cruise M installed by Alex Malliae.

Here’s the Phoebe Snow about to pull out from Lionelville.

@cnw4ever posted:

Now that is something you don't see every day! Great looking GG1

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

I love both of your Blue Comets Arnold and Bud! 

My recollection is that my LC+ Jersey Central Pacific K4 was only about $400 to $450, and it was in the 2018 Lionel catalog. Only drawback is that the detail is not at the level of the more expensive models for the Blue Comet locomotives. Arnold

The Great Northern testing out potential new locos.

@Rich Wiemann posted:

Here are my early postwar 6000 series brown and green sheet metal cars. These are being pulled by Lionel 224 and 2065 steamers respectfully.

Hello Rich, I think your passenger cars are very special, I have three sets of these cars, One brown and two green and pull them with a 224 as you do and also a 221. The first set I purchased green from an elderly gentleman at York in the purple hall many years ago, I believe he was selling off his collection and never saw him again as I went back many times, the cars he sold me are gorgeous and will be cherished forever. I really enjoyed your video, thanks again!

Lionel Legacy Consolidation steam with MTH Premier passenger cars.

Lionel Postwar Burlington Route local passenger picking up passengers.

My work-in-progress NYC Mail train. I need a few more baggage and express cars but it is coming along nicely.

Since it has two revenue passenger cars at the end, it think we can let it qualify for this thread.

Bryce

Bryce. Nice train. What brand headend cars? 

A Niagara and Berkshire are probably a bit more power than a half dozen cars require but if the the dispatcher wants it the dispatcher gets it.

@pennsynut posted:

What brand headend cars? 

It is a mix of several manufactures:

MTH: 1st baggage car and the 2 passenger cars

Weaver: B60 Baggage and RPO

GGD: express Reefer 54'

Lionel: 3rd Baggage car (grey)

Kline: 4th baggage car ( I have a second one but the bulbs need to be replaced) 

I plan on getting 2-3 more Lionel baggage cars and perhaps another 54' reefer to complete the consist.

Bryce

An SP passenger extra works it's way up the slope of the Sierras...

Thanks Bryce. That would be a nice long mail train with your additional cars. I have 2.25% grades on my main line so I will probably limit my mail train to six or seven cars alternating a coach car with a K-line baggage car I bashed closer to a B70. 

@Don Winslow posted:

An SP passenger extra works it's way up the slope of the Sierras...

Don,

I am a big fan of Baldwin's Sharknose diesels.  You have a beautiful engine and layout!

Bryce

@c.sam posted:

Here are a few more

Aspen Leaf PA's are Williams Warbonnets that I repainted 6 or 7 years ago when no one offered these in O gauge. The Yellowbonetts are RK's

Love those backdrops. Especially the scene with the Hells Gate Bridge. Are they hand painted?

NYC Hudsons running behind schedule

@Ron H posted:

NYC Hudsons running behind schedule

 

Ron;

Hudsons are NEVER behind schedule... they are fashionably late  

Since I had to disconnect my failing Legacy base to make a backup, and since I just got my 637 steamer back from Len Carparelli and wanted to test it out, I figured I would give another of my favorite old MPC era conventional trains a run. Here are a pair of F3’s pulling some of the smooth sided aluminum passenger cars which were issued around the same time - the drum head on the observation car says 20th Century Limited.

Wow, beautiful pass trains folks.  Rich / Charles , I also have both the green and the brown sets of early postwar sheet metal pass cars and pulled, like you, with a 224 and 2065.  I also have a pre-war set (cars are essentially identical to postwar except for trucks and couplers) in silver / blue pulled by a 1666 die cast 6 driver steamer.  I really like these cars, they run well and look good.

Well, here is my contribution for today.  This is the Burlington GP set, with the small streamlined cars in silver with the red window band.  This matches the silver/red livery of the Burlington GP really well.  Here they are exiting the depot tracks and taking the main.

Best wishes for a happy weekend all.

Don

The Reading Line 

GGD Santa Fe baggage car

GGD T&P baggage car

K-Line baggage car repainted with messenger window

K-Line 1821 with messenger window and weathering, ballast dust from the southwestern US

K-Line 1821 from the factory

Williams 17" baggage car from first five car passenger set.

Lionel milk car as an REA express reefer

K-Line New Orleans resembles a Pullman 8-1-2

K-Line Night Route resembles a Pullman 8-1-2

K-Line dining car with window treatment and kitchen added.

K-Line Fairlane repainted to Santa Fe Chief Red Cloud

GGD dining car

It was a weird day in NE Pennsylvania... 

First, a short NYC Harlem Line passes through Pike County, having taken a wrong track coming out of Grand Central. (A Lionel Legacy NYC 4-6-6T with a pair of GGD cars)

Following close on it’s heels is the Montreal Limited - the engineer was heard exclaiming “at least the D&H ran through NEPA”!!! (A 3rd Rail PA pulling a set of MTH cars)

Finally, we have the totally befuddled Denali Star... they had to take a detour near Talkeetna, headed too far south, passing through Anaheim, Azusa, before taking a hard left near Cucamonga... (All Lionel)

Over on the Lionel page are a lot more pics. Lionel Neil Young PRR Trail Blazer and Texas Special.

Donald