Photos and Artwork: Colorful Passenger Trains--updated 2/27

Bob, I should have given Mr. Nowak credit for the Alco NYC photo in the original post in this thread.  I've had his book, Ed Nowak's New York Central, for years.

Pingman thank you for starting this thread....and to all of you for contributing to it. I loved these trains. 

luvtrains, you're welcome.  These types of threads cause me to scan a modest number of images; I'm glad to have them on the computer.  A thread like this is an added bonus.

 

Looking forward to others posting their favorites.

Took this picture at Washington's Union Station's 100th anniversary in 2008. From left to right; PRR E8, ACL E3, PRR GG1, SR Crescent E8,  and C&O F3.

Thanks CNJ3676 (Bob) for the Blue Comet photos.

 

And, thanks to CAPPilot (Ron) for that beautiful color shot.  I'll be better versed in E units once I get Jeff Wilson's E unit book and have some time with it.

Finally found the folder with all my Union Station's 100th anniversary pictures, although because of the lighting none are very good.  They do show the colors of these great engines.

 

 

Here is a B&O GP9 that was used in commuter service.

 

 

And now for a slightly more modern engine.

 

CAPPilot, glad you found the photos; I like them a lot.

 

I like to repaint PW F units in liveries LIONEL never did; still want to do the ACL purple/silver scheme.

 

Thanks for taking the time to locate these pictures and sharing them here with us.

These are great!

 

Being from Florida I may be biased, but I love the colors of the old Seaboard Orange Blossom Special and Silver Metor locomotives.

 

Joe, those are great artwork.  Are they postcards?  Seaboard ads/marketing?

 

I was in G'ville from '65 to '69 and never saw them; were they operating then?

The postcards I found online.  From what I have gathered, the Orange Blossom stopped running in the late 50s.  The Silver Meteor kept running, but Seaboard merged with Atlantic Coast Line in the late 60s.  Perhaps they discontinued that color scheme after the merger?

Pingman and Joe,

 

By the time I moved to FL in 1953, the SAL had switched the Sea Foam (VERY light green) and Red paint scheme.  I must admit, I never saw any green on a loco, they all looked like white or cream.

 

ChipR

The Cincinnatian is most famed for its original dedicated equipment, rebuilt in the B&O Mount Clare Shops. The design work was done by Olive Dennis, a pioneering civil engineer employed by the railroad and appointed byDaniel Willard to special position in charge of such work for passenger service.^[4] Four P-7 "president" class Pacific locomotives (5301-5304) were rebuilt and shrouded as class P-7d, with roller bearings on all axles and larger six-axle tenders. Older heavyweight passenger cars were completely stripped and rebuilt asstreamliners. The livery used the blue and gray scheme designed by Otto Kuhler, which Dennis laid on the engine and tender in a pattern of horizontal stripes and angled lines From Wikipedia

Steam into History runs this train on the historic Northern Central Railway between New Freedom and Hanover Junction south of York, PA, about 6 miles west of Exit 4 on I-83. No 17 rolled out of [David] Kloke Locomotive Works, Elgin, IL, in May, 2013. The Reader Railroad in Arkansas built these wooden passenger cars that summer.

 

President Abraham Lincoln changed trains here at Hanover Junction from the main line to Sunbury to deliver his Gettysburg Address. The curve in the foreground is the remnant of the branch to Hanover and Gettysburg. No. 17 is facing New Freedom.

 

 

 

 

Agreed and thanks for sharing Joe. 

Outstanding !   What is it about a really classy passenger train?  My earliest recollection is the Pittsburgher in the mid '50s.  Cleanest Pennsy passenger train I ever saw...and I saw an awful lot !   Anyone have the Phoebe Snow, especially with NKP through sleepers??

The thread's title has been edited to include artwork which was often used by the railroads to market and advertise these colorful trains; keep 'em coming.

THANK YOU, ERIK!

       
       


Sure thing Carl

Anyone have any good pictures of the IC City of New Orleans?  Was there more than one paint scheme?  I believe the CNO was a night train out of Chicago to NO?  It must have returned to Chicago in the daytime?  My all-time favorite train song is "The City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie.

 

Art

Art,

 

CNO was coach, daytime train, both directions.  in 1954: 7:50am - 12:15am southbound, 7:15am - 11:40pm northbound.

 

ChipR

Thanks CNJ 3676 for that awesome Phoebe assemblage!  When Ms. snow first appeared in the late 19th century, she was turned about with long straight black hair.

I also thank you for the Miss Phoebe tribute. 

D&RGW Alco in the lead with an EMD B unit with a two car consist:

 

 

A Central of Georgia E unit with a two car consist:

 

 

Some interiors...

 

 

C&O Tavern Lounge, circa 1940. Note the aquarium.

I will begin throwing in some of my collection of original literature.

Not sure if it means anything I must give respect to copyrights of the commercial artists and railroads the owners of the following. These may and likely contain (c) copyrights