Pennsylvania RR model railcars

Five more!

They're still rolling in.

Folks, I don't have a Monopoly on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Feel free to post your own photos.

PRR keeps chugging.

Five more

From the Free State Junction Railway roster.

A little bit of everything but it's all Pennsy, including the police car.

Bill

Here are a few more for your collection.

And a few more box cars (all different) from the shops of Frank's Roundhouse ....

Bill

I just received these today.

Unfortunately most my Pennsy rolling stock is on silver hydride.

Ron

PRRronbh posted:

Unfortunately most my Pennsy rolling stock is on silver hydride.

 

 

 

Ron

Any postwar collectors/operators want to explain that car to me?

No offense intended, I'd love to have a "circle keystone" car for my Christmas Tree layout of which I've chosen to limit to Lionel cars.     I currently have no Pennsy stuff in the consist and I'd love to have a PRR boxcar from the vintage era of Lionel.   I know nothing about them so I beg to ask the question.

Again, no offense intended since I'm a P:48 2 railer in another life and have tons of rolling stock from all manufacturers and a sizable number is PRR prototype.    Future RR will be the PRR Redstone branch in western PA. 

actually this was a Prewar car that was carried over for Postwar production.

http://postwarlionel.com/freig...s/2458-pennsylvania/

MikeH posted:

I just received these today.

I'm tacking onto my earlier post since I received more Pennsy heavyweights from Charles Ro today.  I'm putting together a Spirit of St. Louis train so this is a timely thread for me.  Thanks for starting it, Vincent.  Now I need a Pennsy engine... 

I can add a few to this post. 

Man! People really love the Pennsylvania Railroad!

Still more!

Research photos with permission of R Breglar.

Imported for Dick Breglar

John in Lansing, ILL

They just keep rolling in!

Still chugging in

Thanks for posting this topic.

Tom

You're welcome, Tom!

More amazing cars from the PRR!

More Pennsy from the shops of Frank's Roundhouse, this time intermodal ….

Bill

More Pennsy from the shops of Frank's Roundhouse, this time stock cars and a reefer…..

Bill

More Pennsy box cars, this time from the shops of Kris Model Trains …..

WFT, all four of those boxcars are beauties. But I have never seen anything like the green one, and I cannot find it online. Do you know if it is a model of a real boxcar? It looks pretty sharp, regardless.

Vincent Massi posted:

WFT, all four of those boxcars are beauties. But I have never seen anything like the green one, and I cannot find it online. Do you know if it is a model of a real boxcar? It looks pretty sharp, regardless.

 

Vincent, yes these are very prototypical.  They were built by "General American Transportation Corp"  (GAEX) in the 50's and early 60's.  They are 50"-6" inside length all leased to the PRR.  

You will find pictures on page 47 of Morning Sun Books "PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" Volume 2.

I have the MTH version made about 25-years ago,

Ron

Edit:

MTH made it in-fact as a 50-foot model as part of Set 20-90003 shipped in August 1999,

Here are some photos of some passenger cars on display at last year's PRRT&HS conference.

Mergers? We don't need no stinkin' mergers!

The only thing that can stop the PRR is a bungled merger.

Here are some more PRR Railcars.

The PRR keeps chugging along!

Unpacked a few more so I thought I would add them to this sting.

I gave myself permission to post this photograph taken by me

     nice Dave  !

permission granted by myself for this photograph taken by me

Steamer posted:

I gave myself permission to post this photograph taken by me

Do we owe you anything?

The only way they can stop this railroad is to merge it with New York Central.

This is the only PRR caboose I have ever seen that had windows in the center, under the cupola.

This is my new favorite thread!! Thanks for posting.

EVERYBODY loves the Pennsylvania Railroad!

At one point, PRR had a bigger budget than the US government.

The PRR repair shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, eventually grew into the largest railroad repair shop in the world. It expanded into manufacturing rail cars and even locomotives.

I've always been partial to this distinct GG1 version....................

Here they come!

Two shots (with some overlap) of my nearly all Pennsy wall – just that one intruder from the Florida East Coast!

Bill

Such a beautiful railroad!

1945 release, Old time scale model kit from Art Fleming,  PRR, Union Line  Wooden Box Car '.

Wow Vincent', you have got some collection there'.. Outstanding'.. Where did you get the Autocar truck?  That's a real beauty'...

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Wow Vincent', you have got some collection there'.. Outstanding'.. Where did you get the Autocar truck?  That's a real beauty'...

sniff  I don't own any of these  sob   I collected the photos off the web over the years   sniff

Admin, I apologize. Folks, it is not the administrators' fault that some people are causing problems over copyrighted photos. A lot of this is fake: people collect photos around the web, put them on a single site, and announce that you have to pay royalties to use them. But someone really did threaten legal action and the admins are properly carrying out their duties when they forbid copyrighted photos.

Yes, this last photo is a model of an actual train. General Motors made two of these underpowered, rough-riding, difficult-to-maintain Aerotrains in the mid-1950's. They were both retired in 1966. The one on the left is a passenger car.

LLook at the third picture. If you can find the decals, you can make any vehicle a part of your favorite railroad.

Love the PRR

                            1954 American Flyer S Gauge Pennsy K5

                                             THIS IS MY PHOTO.

As you can tell from my screen name I'm an N&W fan. But I do have a smattering of PRR models. My favorite is the 3rd Rail brass 6200 Turbine. I am continually amused by octogenarians who confuse my 30" long scale brass engine with a Lionel 671. 

I've long said that you could put the PRR keystone logo on a soup can, and it would sell. 

Gilly@N&W posted:

As you can tell from my screen name I'm an N&W fan. But I do have a smattering of PRR models. My favorite is the 3rd Rail brass 6200 Turbine. I am continually amused by octogenarians who confuse my 30" long scale brass engine with a Lionel 671. 

I've long said that you could put the PRR keystone logo on a soup can and it would sell. 

Don't forget back in the day that the Pennsy own 40% of the N&W.  But then in 1998 the NS acquired almost all of what once was the Pennsy.

PRRronbh posted:

Don't forget back in the day that the Pennsy own 40% of the N&W.  But then in 1998 the NS acquired almost all of what once was the Pennsy.

My grandfather and father both retired from the N&W. I'm aware of the Pennsy connection. IMHO the best part of that is the Pennsy left the N&W alone. 

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Gilly but I think both railroads learned alot from each other especially at the end of the steam era when both tried to hang on to steam. I heard once that the PRR even tested the J for a while.

This last one is one of the few PRR cabooses I have seen that do not have the cupola centered on the top with no windows underneath it. And a brown PRR caboose is a rarity indeed.

I'll be setting up my Christmas lay-out on November 1. How about the rest of you?

One more from my HO days

                                          The first photo is one of the best-looking cast-iron locos I have ever seen. And I hate to say it but the second one is about the worst-looking railroad crane I have ever seen.

                                          I THINK that the first one is inside a box that is lying on top of a box of cars. I THINK the second one is a drawing of the first one outside the box. The last photo is an electric locomotive that operated through New Jersey and New England during the 1960's.

                                          The water tower comes equipped with sound. The last two photos are some of the most realistic-looking weathering jobs I have ever seen.

Nice job of weathering which makes my "suggestion" look a little lame. It also reminds me of the only time I saw a Decapod on "my" branch (Indy/Logansport) of the PRR. It was rusty looking from one end to the other and creaking and groaning to match how it looked. We had a switch right back of my grandparent's home and I got to look at a lot of switching activity. 

The third photo is a nicely-weathered Althearn HO boxcar, but I can't find out if it came out of the box that way. And if I didn't know any better I would swear that the fourth one is a tender with an operator's cab. 

Those are quite nicely done and illustrate how the PRR usually ran their equipment. I don't know if I'd have the nerve to try and dirtify a nice piece of rolling stock or not. Well done. 

                                          The last two pictures are actually the same photo. I wonder: Is that object next to the track a covering for the flat car?

 The only thing not PRR in this pic is the Royal Gorge (bottom right).

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

Brian, gotta' love those Centipedes. 6000HP on the hoof. Hustle Muscle in the '50s!

Photos mine.

More pics in my post Just Arrived From Strasburg.

Thanks to the three of you sending PRR photos. I did get my own "Horseshoe Curve" up in the living room this afternoon. The south end is an O72 half circle, then goes north into an "S" curve which has been throwing the 0-4-0 into the love seat. (Sharpest curves on the layout.) I have to fiddle with things as I thought I had it going as slow as it could go. The north half circle is O42 and leads to the back of the love seat. I have a couple more straights I can insert on both straight sections but at my age (83) I need to rest a little. I had enough odds and ends of track so that all the angles worked out. All I need to do now is get a few more connectors so I can lift things up for the cleaning lady when she vacuums. I'll try to get some photos up soon of my seven car Broadway Ltd and see if the 675 can haul them all. I picked up a ZW in the box not too long ago and haven't tested it as yet. I'm using a 1033 right now. I also need to get the 2-4-2 with the Ives cars which replicates my first set out and "play" with it, too. 

                                             What's with all the wiring on the cabooses in the first and last photo? In the early days of WW2 the PRR experimented with telephone antennas. There was a phone in the engine and in the caboose. The talker's voice was broadcast to telephone or telegraph lines parallel to the track; these lines would act as antennas to get the voice signals back and  forth. PRR experimented with antennas on the locos, the cabooses, and on cars in the middle of the train.

The idea was good enough to be worked on and improved, eventually being phased out in favor of radios.

I understand this engine is a factory defect.  It has 5 stripes (faint) and a large PRR decal.  Can anyone shed some like on this?  I am trying to gather info and plan to sell the complete 2293W set.  I believe it is 1956.  What is ballpark value for this engine with the faint stripes and large decal?

RogerOtto posted:

I understand this engine is a factory defect.  It has 5 stripes (faint) and a large PRR decal.  Can anyone shed some like on this?  I am trying to gather info and plan to sell the complete 2293W set.  I believe it is 1956.  What is ballpark value for this engine with the faint stripes and large decal?

Roger, try these links:

http://postwarlionel.com/motiv...1/2360-pennsylvania/

http://www.tandem-associates.c...ns_2360_electric.htm

eBay has one for $669.69 US. It has another one for $299.99 US.

Could you please clarify about the factory defect?

Thanks Vincent

the large decal on a 5-stripe engine is the “defect/rarity”.

normally the 5-stripe engine has the small decal.

the large decal is normally found on the single stripe engine.

while at a train show a vendor showed me a reference to this “defect/rarity” in one of his train books.   I have asked for a copy but have not received it yet.

i have no ides if there are individuals who collect this sort of thing or how to reach them if they do.

the stripes on my engine are nit brilliant.  I assume this detracts from the value of the engine.