Have been wanting to post in this thread for a LONG TIME!!! Love me some passenger trains!! What great pictures!
@poniaj amazing scratchbuilts!! The AEM-7 is AMAZING and I love the S RDC! @Dewman51 and @Bill T- LOVE the Amtraks and to @trumptrain AWESOME Pennsy PA & Pullmans!!
Layout is currently under construction but I have the foundations for my mainline in place so I have some good pics and videos. About me and my love for passenger trains- Railroads of choice are almost always from the Northeast/mid-Atlantic U.S.. The railroads that I run or would like to acquire a consist to run include: Amtrak, the Lehigh Valley(born and raised- have freight but no passengers), New Jersey Transit, the PRR, and the B&O. Also, because of my love for the company, I enjoy Bing American Market passenger cars & their Deutsche Reichsbahn cars, the Ives Railway Lines, postwar AMT Santa Fe streamliners.
I'll start with a picture of some of my Bing American Market- all in New York Central Livery, some wood-sided litho others steel sided.
Moving on to modern: the PRR. I love the MTH O-27 Madison 13 3/4 inch cars with the 6 wheel trucks. Below is a front shot followed by a shot from the back of the consist which is pulled by an MTH PRR S-2 Turbine w/ Proto 2. Got the loco prior to the passenger cars. Was never a big fan of steam locos, but the price was more than right.
From the back of the Observation Deck- my dark brown PRR consist. I bought the 4 pack(boxes labeled as Railking O-27 madison), NoS, at my LHS a couple months ago and added a combine(rugged rails box) last week. I always heard that the early rugged rails were basicaly the same as the early Railking & Premier offerings and that is quite accurate. Regardless, all quality cars and I'm looking to get one more to complete the consist.
The next 2 pictures are an oddball:What was sold to me as an Amtrak Williams "Metroliner" I bought in the last month. I knew I wasn't getting a genuine Williams Metroliner like from the MET-100 or -200 sets. I have a Williams 810 Metroliner(motors were gutted, unfortunately) and I love it. Anyway, took a shot on this guy. Obviously a modified coach with a Metroliner piece put on the end. It does have dual postwar motors though and has great pulling power.
2nd to last set of pictures - MTH Premier NJ Transit P40DC Genesis pulling Lionel 12inch passenger cars that I got about a month ago. I personally don't care for the Atlas NJT coaches, ideally this engine would pull MTH 16" amfleets in NJ Transit livery. However, they haven't been made in 15+ years as in 2016 were cancelled. Regardless, I''m happy that what might be my favorite engine has matching passenger cars to pull now! It actually doesn't look terrible and the cars are nice. Especially as opposed to what I ran before...
...see below. As I had no NJT rolling stock what-so-ever, I chose another nearby commuter rail provider- the LIRR. Here's a video from right after I got the NJT Genesis in December when I had it pulling the original K-line Scoot set LIRR cars .
Finally, some Amtrak, and in the form of my most recent big purchase no less! First time posting it...here is my Lionel HHP-8 set with 3 Amtrak Amfleet 18" cars and an unopened add-on 2-pack.
First picture: HHP-8 with 2 of the coaches,
Close-up how the Lionel Amfleets look. One has trailing red markerlights.
I know the engine in this set gets knocked pretty often for its lack of features and subpar motors. However, it's still really neat looking and pulls the consist with ease! I do hope to get the separate sale HHP-8 some day. Had the deal for it and the 5 passenger cars been so good I might still be waiting....but I am darn gladI'm not!
Finally, the 5 18" Amfleets associated with the HHP-8 set
Didn't want to over-do it on my first post, hope you all enjoy! Keep the pictures coming!