any New Haven fans ....

Mr Muffins has is doing a custom run of Lionel Legacy orange New Haven FAs. A color scheme not often run in the O-scale market. Hopefully this run gets enough pre-orders to be produced. https://mrmuffinstrains.com/pr...=1294ca840&_ss=r

Here is the Lionel #6468-25 Configuration A from 1956-1958 double door box car.

After all those locomotives, I think we need to remember that the NH had rolling stock too !

Best wishes everyone

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Here is the Lionel #6468-25 Configuration A from 1956-1958 double door box car.

After all those locomotives, I think we need to remember that the NH had rolling stock too !

Best wishes everyone

Don

Very nice, Don. My brother’s first and only train included the 6468-25. I inherited the car since my brother is the Gomez Addams of the family In addition, I inherited my Aunt’s trains when she passed (they were supposedly my cousin’s, but he just got to watch them run ) which included a 6464-425.

Some additions for me in the New Haven realm.

To be fair, the top car may not be totally new, just new to this thread.  I've since swapped out the chassis with a two rail one so that it goes with the other four I have in this scheme.

Was always wanting this paint scheme to go with my FL9s and was lucky to pick up four recently. 

I have another four GGD heavyweight coaches in New Haven that I have not photographed that are in two rail.   I also just recently purchased the GGD observation, diner, and head end set from this forum.  They are three rail but will be converted to two rail.  I have lots of donors in other road names I want in three rail.  Confused?  So am I!

Williams PA AA power in McGinnis livery with Williams streamline passenger cars. I also have the PB; but with a short train it would be overkill.

@Apples55 “In addition, I inherited my Aunt’s trains when she passed (they were supposedly my cousin’s, but he just got to watch them run” . Paul it sounds like your Aunt was a real life Joe McDoakes😂

Just got done servicing K-Line #377 and took it for a spin. Great running engines K-Line made.

The K-Line EP5s were really sharp.  I've got a Great Northern, thanks to the K-Line Collectors Club.

@Apples55- Thanks for the compliment Paul.  I have not yet been able to acquire a 6464 version of the NH (at least not at a price I was willing to pay) but that is a handsome car.

Don

New Haven Alco RS-3 #527 is a Railking model (30-2897-1) of a classic first generation diesel in its original orange and dark green paint scheme as delivered to the New Haven Railroad in 1950. Shown pulling three New Haven boxcars and caboose C-667 on my 10’-by-5’ layout. Boxcars prototypical with script heralds.

MELGAR

Yes, always been a big NH fan...wish I had more NH on the layout.  My grandfather put in 40 years at the NH and introduced me to the real ones at a very young age...great memories for sure...

I acquired a 4 coach set of GGD New Haven heavyweights that arrived today with the intention of re-lettering them 'PULLMAN' to run with a couple of Hudsons. They are so pretty and to my surprise they have 4 wheel trucks. Jonathan (GG1 4877)gave me a good explanation as to why some cars have 4 and others have the handsome 6 wheel trucks to carry more weight as found in sleepers and diners.

Remembering that I have a K-Line scale EP5 and caboose, I pulled them and will run them with the 4 coaches and probably a REA Reefer for a high speed NH passenger train.

@c.sam posted:

I acquired a 4 coach set of GGD New Haven heavyweights that arrived today with the intention of re-lettering them 'PULLMAN' to run with a couple of Hudsons. They are so pretty and to my surprise they have 4 wheel trucks. Jonathan (GG1 4877)gave me a good explanation as to why some cars have 4 and others have the handsome 6 wheel trucks to carry more weight as found in sleepers and diners.

Remembering that I have a K-Line scale EP5 and caboose, I pulled them and will run them with the 4 coaches and probably a REA Reefer for a high speed NH passenger train.

csam, I have that EP-5 and that is one great running engine!

I sure hope there are enough pre-orders so Mr Muffinas can get the NH FAs in the early orange and green scheme made.

Lionel F3, A-B New Haven rolling through town on the secondary. Destination Worcester, MA with empty milk reefers and other freight to interchange with B&M.

@Donf posted:

I sure hope there are enough pre-orders so Mr Muffinas can get the NH FAs in the early orange and green scheme made.

@Donf,

Don,

MrMuffin did a custom run of MTH Alco PA diesels (2 road numbers) in their original New Haven orange/green/silver-stripe paint scheme during 2024. I looked at his website and there is at least one A-unit still available at a good price.

MELGAR

MELGAR,  Thank you, I have a set of earlier NH PAs in the orange and dark green scheme.  Not PS 3.0 but they suffice for me.  I am anxiously awaiting the run of FAs in the orange/green scheme from MrMuffin.

DonF

@pennsyfan posted:

Lionel F3, A-B New Haven rolling through town on the secondary. Destination Worcester, MA with empty milk reefers and other freight to interchange with B&M.

1st off, from someone who grew up near it, thanks for spelling Worcester correctly!! LOL.  Now as for the NH moving milk to Worcester MA you say?  There is not much published info on moving milk on the NYNH but indeed it happened.  The NH would have picked up Bellows Falls bottled milk from the B&M interchange in Worcester and transported it to the First National Stores warehouse in Providence RI. They also moved Hood's from Portland ME via the B&M Worc exchange as well.  Pre-war freight descriptions indicate milk was moved on NYNH's Providence and Worcester branch freight's such as WP3 and WP5 however milk was also moved via the State of Maine passenger train which was a joint NYNH and B&M train from GCT to/from Portland ME.

Happy Railroading!

@Farmall-Joe posted:

1st off, from someone who grew up near it, thanks for spelling Worcester correctly!! LOL.  Now as for the NH moving milk to Worcester MA you say?  There is not much published info on moving milk on the NYNH but indeed it happened.  The NH would have picked up Bellows Falls bottled milk from the B&M interchange in Worcester and transported it to the First National Stores warehouse in Providence RI. They also moved Hood's from Portland ME via the B&M Worc exchange as well.  Pre-war freight descriptions indicate milk was moved on NYNH's Providence and Worcester branch freight's such as WP3 and WP5 however milk was also moved via the State of Maine passenger train which was a joint NYNH and B&M train from GCT to/from Portland ME.

Happy Railroading!

Joe,

Truth be told; I wanted to post the NH F units with more than just NH. @MELGAR had posted similar milk reefers with B&M. I brought up a NH map looking at the Northern most points. Then I brought up B&M information and saw that B&M interchanged at Worcester MA. So I made up my train with NH, B&M, Brookside & Riverside, B&A, St of M, and AMCX (AMOSKEAG Mfr. Manchester, NH.

This article popped up on my Google feed the other day. Thought it would be of interest to this group.

https://wrrv.com/mta-metro-north-heritage-train/

Bob

Bob,

Thank you, good article.  I like the green and yellow scheme as most locomotives have been done in the McGinnis red/white/black scheme.  Really looking forward to MrMuffins's FAs in orange and dark green.  Would be nice to have the FAs done in the green/yellow scheme at some point.

@RSJB18 posted:

This article popped up on my Google feed the other day. Thought it would be of interest to this group.

https://wrrv.com/mta-metro-north-heritage-train/

Bob

Excellent…..thank you, Bob…..

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

Excellent…..thank you, Bob…..

Peter

Amazing how train related stories pop up all the time.....you'd think they were watching or something....😂😂😂

Thanks

@RSJB18 posted:

Amazing how train related stories pop up all the time.....you'd think they were watching or something....😂😂😂

Thanks

Oh, you’re just jealous that it isn’t an LIRR engine, Bob So, since the LIRR was originally part of the Pennsylvania RR, have they done a heritage engine??? I know Jersey Transit has a PRR Tuscan 5-stripe engine.

@Apples55 posted:

Oh, you’re just jealous that it isn’t an LIRR engine, Bob So, since the LIRR was originally part of the Pennsylvania RR, have they done a heritage engine??? I know Jersey Transit has a PRR Tuscan 5-stripe engine.

Now now play nice, isn't also known as the Wrong Island RR? 😂

I recently found these NH photos in my prints. They were processed in 1993. A friend asked me to go rail fanning with him up to New Haven. I wasn't much into Metro North or Amtrak. We were standing in the parking lot of the station, when out of the corner of my eye I saw Orange and Black. I went running to the fence. I had to shoot over it. He couldn't understand my excitement. I tried looking up Metro North and New Haven rosters. I couldn't find this engine # 257.

@pennsyfan,

Bob,

Metro-North #257 is a GP38. Atlas made HO models of #253 and #257 in 2014. The models are 10 001 700 and 10 001 701.

The corrugated building in your middle photo houses the New Haven wheel mill.  I don't recall this particular locomotive but GP38s ran on Metro-North in Connecticut. Some were rebuilt and became Brookfield BL20GH.

The train in your photo may have been heading to Stamford, CT.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

@pennsyfan,

Bob,

Metro-North #257 is a GP38. Atlas O made HO models of #253 and #257 in 2014. The models are 10 001 700 and 10 001 701.

The corrugated building in your middle photo houses the New Haven wheel mill.  I don't recall this particular locomotive but GP38s ran on Metro-North in Connecticut. Some were rebuilt and became Brookfield BL20GH.

The train in your photo may have been heading to Stamford, CT.

MELGAR

Thanks for the update MELGAR; I saw the BL20GH designation but wasn't aware of the updates.

Photo and video show New Haven EP-5 #371 electric motor running through the truss bridge on the O-54 loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout. This was the first model (20-2195-1) of a New Haven electric offered by MTH and was produced in the McGinnis red-black-white scheme with PS1 in 1999. It’s been running on my layout with a BCR since then.

EP-5s began service between New York City and New Haven in 1955 and hauled modern stainless-steel passenger cars as shown in the consist in the video.

The truss bridges on my layout resemble those on the New Haven Line that carry the tracks across the Housatonic River between Stratford and Milford, Connecticut.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

@Donf,

Don,

MrMuffin did a custom run of MTH Alco PA diesels (2 road numbers) in their original New Haven orange/green/silver-stripe paint scheme during 2024. I looked at his website and there is at least one A-unit still available at a good price.

MELGAR

Mel,

Are those pinstripes silver? Mr. Muffins is running some Alco FA units by lionel and the color plan is showing “white” for the pinstripes.

Here's a closeup photo of MTH Alco PA #0770. The pinstripes are silver - and that's correct for the PA.

MELGAR

I wish my layout had a greater presence of NH...my early memories and experiences go back to the New York, New Haven & Hartford of the 50's and 60's, Santa Fe took the number one standing on the layout, with the warbonnet color scheme of the early days.  Both great "lines" in their hayday!

Photo and video show my model of New Haven EP-3 electric #0360 (20-5631-1) on the north curve of my 12’-by-8’ layout.  New Haven’s ten EP-3s were built by General Electric in 1931 and hauled heavyweight passenger cars and “American Flyer” lightweight steel cars in the 1940s and ‘50s. The EP-3s were retired by 1961.

MELGAR

NEW HAVEN DL109 in McGinnis colors pulls Weaver Pullman Bradley cars in various paint schemes. The red scheme on #6001 was an experimental design of one. The green car with script NEW HAVEN lettering is a smoker.

Where would NEW HAVEN fans be without MTH and Weaver?

I thought that I would post my NYNH&H passenger train:

01 Railway Express 3600 converted Weaver troop sleeper
02 RPO 3280 - Hvywht Weaver
03 Baggage 5307 - Hvywht Custom Brass
04 Baggage 3812 - Wood Kit/scratch built 75 foot wood car
05 Baggage/Lounge 200 MIDDLESEX COUNTY K-Line K4649-40200
06 Coach 8623 - K-Line K4649-48623
07 Coach 8518 - Weaver Osgood Bradley
08 Coach 8515 - Weaver Osgood Bradley
09 Diner 475 WILLIAM BREWSTER K-Line K4649-40909
10 Parlor 400 CONNECTICUT RIVER K4649-40400
11 Sleeper - POPPONESSET BEACH Fluted Walthers
12 Sleeper - DANA METCALF/GULL POINT American Lightweight
13 Sleeper 509 LONG POINT K4649-40509
14 Observation 475 WATCH HILL K-Line K4649-40475

With a K-Line EP-5 or one of a couple of Baldwin Model Loco Works EP-3s to haul it. All are two-rail.

I do have a K-Line EP-5 in three-rail also, it has operated (quite well in conventional, btw) on a friend's DCS-controlled layout far from home rails , his layout is based on Chessie System in and around Baltimore.

I don’t remember if I posted these before…both detailed and painted by me…

Tom

This New Haven whistle marker has been on my front lawn since the early 80's. It resided on the New Haven Maybrook line until that track was pulled up. During the time things were being demolished, something hit this marker and snapped it off and it was laying along side the gutted right-of-way. I was on a sales call down in the Newburg NY area and when we went over the Maybrook line that morning, just beyond the western side of the bridge, we noticed a train pulling up the rails. On our return late in the day, we investigated some of what had been done and discovered the marker snapped off and lying in the weeds. It weighed a lot and another sales rep and myself struggled to get it in my car. I can only imagine the multitude of engines it signaled to whistle. Its a great reminder of the railroad I grew up seeing and that got me so interested in railroads.

The New Haven painted one DL-109 for weekend runs from Boston to Cape Cod The "Cranberry" ran from 1949 to 1953.  Occasionally a second engine would be added for heavier consists as seen here

Purchased Orange PA new several months ago and then recently I found the Green from 2018 PS3 on EBay for $300  Time  on odometer 2 hours.   Seen here leading the Senator through Snow Village (Dept 56) on way to Boston

New Haven Pacific 1389 heads a a local passenger train headed toward Meriden on the New Haven section of my layout. Going in the other direction is Mountain 3310 with revenue freight headed for Cedar Hill yard.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vuY7d77FjrwEimJN6