Pennsy Lovers-What Rings Your Bell?

Pennsy Power II

Pennsylvania Q Class Classic Power #8

Pennsylvania M-1 Dual Service Mountains Classic Power #8

The Pennsylvania Railroad 1940s-1950s

 

 

I have two Postwar 675s

a 671 Turbine

1615 0-4-0, has the Belpaire Firebox but they got the headlight wrong....

MTH RK M1a Mountain

 

 

anything with a Belpaire Firebox, high headlight,but a notable exception is one of these.......added bonus is that Red Keystone

I'm into semi-scale as well, got a k4s,  0-6-0 b6 switcher, gp9 ,and a couple others, those are the basics for any Pennsy fan. I have The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad by Timothy Jacobs, good read, lotta pics, and another good one, the name escapes me at the moment.

 

Lotta good Pennsy videos on youtube as well, just go there and type in "Pennsylvania Railroad" and its a feast for the eyes to see and hear the Pennsy in action.

 

We most of my trains are PRR  scale k_4,Q_2, Y_3 , GG_1,E_8and a few others that are sitting.
I.enjoy running them all

My collection of mostly scale Pennsylvania was started due to my love of steam. My favorite is the K-4. I have two K-4s and love to run them prototypically double headed pulling a long passenger train. I also run My Atlantic and G-5 with passenger trains. Occasionally, I take out the S-1 or T-1 for a great looking passenger consist.

 

 For freight, I love the looks of my Consolidation pulling a string of Atlas billboard reefers. I also run M-1a, or J-1 if want to run "big stuff". 

 

 

 I also have a some electrics and diesels. My pride is, of course, my scale GG-1s. I have a MTH in brunswick green and a Williams in tuscan. 

 

 

 

Actually I think its the scenery, bridges and steel mills in Pittsburgh that I remember most as a kid. Pittsburgh Penn Station was great too!

 

 

 

 

 

The PL&E was my favorite too.

Off course, Pennsy engines are Iconic! And Howard Fogg did such a good job at portraying them in action!

 

 

 

 

As a kid it was seeing G-5's with pings on the LIRR.

Scotie

What do i run?: FA (pair), GG1 (5), GP9, H10, K4s, O1 (scratch built), RS1, RS3.

 

Books: Pennsy Power I, II, & III; Black Gold, Black Diamonds; Pennsy Electric Years; Under Pennsy Wires; Pennsylvania RR in the `40's & `50's; Horseshoe Heritage; The Remarkable GG1; Conquering Gotham and a few others i can't find.

 

One GG1 is currently on the For Sale section of this forum, and i might be talked into selling the GP9 - need to finance the two 44 ton switchers on order.

 

jackson, CEO - Not-So-Great Eastern RR aka The Never Done Lines, Division of the Southern Adirondack Railway Cartel

I've got a PRR K-line Mikado I won years back at my LHS.  Great engine, and probably the largest engine I'd consider for the size layouts i've had.  Also a k-line 0-4-0 switcher, man that's one heck of a smoker.  I pulled out my K-line KCC GG1 this christmas.  Hadn't run it in years, but it looked nice pulling the 15" broadway limited madison cars.  Other than that, some mixed frieght, and a cool little PRR station where the people dissappear as the train goes by, so it looks like they got on the train.

I am surprised that there are not any Lionel Legacy models of the class I1sa 2-10-0.

This would be a REAL seller...

 

 

 

The Pennsy also had unique locomotive wheel arrangements that where just not standard.

 

 

 

PRR T1 as built!

Norm

Norm,

  Do you know that there is a T1 trust that is hoping to build a new T1?

 

http://www.prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/ 

Tom

 

LOL... and I think there is a spaceship going to Mars for recolonization too.

 

I love a GG1 under wire pulling heavyweights.....

 

 

 

 

I have always loved this pic of GG1s in South Philly:

 

 

Peter

 

 

Going to Mars is easy! I'm only an hour away(Mars,Pa)

The Pennsy is my favorite railroad. During the war my father was in the Navy and he and my mother were in Miami for a time. My mom would ride the "South Wind" between Miami and Indiana.

 

I have the..

 

MTH Q2

MTH S1 duplex

MTH T1 dulpex (skirted)

Lionel T1 duplex (unskirted)

MTH Centipede

Lionel J1a

Lionel S2 Turbine

MTH K4 (streamlined)

Williams Alco PA

Williams GG1

 

The railroad bridge that crosses the White river here in Columbus still has the PRR paint on it.

 

Bridge

ES44AC, E8, BP20

M1a or b

Another picture of the BP 20

GE 44 tonner and an A5.

Pennsy C1

Pennsy E6

 

Pennsy F3/7 Lionel

 Pennsy H10

 

Pennsy K4, Lionel

Pennsy L1s Mikado

Pennsy B6

U25b

G5

RSD12

 SD35

 

I was stoked when I read about that bridge, since our oldest daughter lives in Columbus.....Ohio. Oh well!