They are done! A special run from MrMuffin'sTrains

Very Nice Muffins. very nice paint scheme

Super looking set.....you should go through the 100 fast!!! Nice work.

Nice looking!

 

Peter

Nice looking train.  Wonder what years it ran?  Looks like a nice, shiny '48 Chevy

giving a hint, and is he running the gates?

Steve...this is a beautiful train.  It was always one of my favorite color schemes!  I have a feeling that 100 of these will go fast...

 

Alan

Nice looking train. Since the monon allowed the Erie to share Dearborn station I think I am one of the100

I'm assuming PS-3!!!

Was I first?

Very nice set.  Great to see LHS step up to the plate and get special projects like this done.

 

Art

Very nice looking!

Just out of curiosity: Is the 5 car set the standard baggage, two coaches, dome and observation or baggage, three coaches and observation?

 

Rusty

These F's were delivered to the Monon in May 1947.... and ran into the 60's.... It's commonly believed that the paint scheme was from IU but it's not IU's red - it's the red from Wabash College.....

Rusty - yes - 3 coaches; a baggage and an observation car..... the real deal also ran with an RPO so that's why we added one.

Thank you, Brother Ben. No, not this time. I believe 12th.

Thank you, Art. It was a lot of fun to have all of the volunteer Monon history guys here pouring over the original engineering and painting documents from the Monon; coming up with road numbers and paint schemes. I learned so much!

Jim Barrett will be a very happy man.  I know you will hear from him.  Great job in getting this done.

Wow, what a great looking train. Wait until Jim Barrett sees this!

 

Ed Boyle

Mr. Muffin...I hope we will see some special runs for the Wabash. That has been deeply neglected in O Gauge. I would love to see things like:

 

Wabash F3, F7

Wabash GP9

Wabash GP30

Wabash Ps-2 Hopper, AAR Box, PS-1 Box, Flat, steam gondolas, etc.. 

 

You just might get a sale on a couple of items mentioned above... 

Good ideas. I need to noodle on this and find some drawings. There are a couple more Monon pieces we would like to do, plus a couple of starter sets. A lot of our forum pals are supporting this Monon set with their orders. Thank you. My children are thrilled - if we don't sell out they are all getting Monon trains for Christmas! 

Ed - Will you tell Jim I am getting awfully sleepy sitting here by the phone waiting for his order! 

Thank you, Marty. Means a lot coming from you. 

I got one question though  Where is Indiana?  Is it a territory of the US

 

As a Hoosier, I'd love to add this beautiful train to my collection.  Wish I could have planned for it in my train budget for this year.

 

Any possibility of the black and gold livery for another run in the future?

 

Still need to get by your shop.  Would love to meet you and see your collection/layout. Looked awesome on the local news a few weeks ago.

 

 

That's it - it's a territory.... we just got concrete here in 2008.... lol.

We hope you do stop in.... MTH released the Black & Gold F's a few years ago and they are tough to find.... I hope they re-release them....
I hope you find a way to get a set - they will be terrific....

Thank you MrMuffins Trains. I cannot wait to get this beautiful set. 

Lol. He would be second. Of course if he bought three then.....

Great looking train! Too bad it's not the Milwaukee Road you might have had a player out of me. One of these days I need to budget your "Got Trains?" apparel in my train expenditures.

They sat next to each other in Chicago? 

 

I love the Milwaukee Road as well. All that gorgeous orange. 

Monon used the south end of Union Station, Milwaukee the north end (and never the trains shall meet.)

Rusty

Mr. Muffin.. WAKE UP!  WAKE UP!    Here's my order for the engines, the RPO, and the 5 car set! 

 

Are you still planning on doing another set sometime later featuring the black roof version of the same engines? 

Oh, and Ben...  Indiana is much easier to find than Paterson, NJ.  If it wasn't for your gift to me of the Soprano's DVD set, I might have never found you guys at NJ Hi Railers! 

LOL  As tony would say  "Waddaya gonna do!"

In the early '50s, in Mitchell Indiana, there was a blond headed boy on an old used Schwinn bicycle hanging around the Monon station waiting for the Thoroughbred to come roaring in. 

 

I used to stand there and look into the windows of the passenger cars looking at all those fine people sitting in the windows and wonder what exciting place they were going to, causing their brief stop in my little home town.  Those of you too young to have experienced things like this simply don't know what you've missed. 

 

Thank you to the Muffins for allowing me to recreate such a scene on my train layout! 

Jim:

 

Your story brings back many wonderful memories. I too had a Schwinn bicycle, blonde headed kid as well, and remember the passenger cars filled with folks going on an adventure. Those were the days indeed!!

Lionel just offered a scale F unit in Wabash.  I've seen Wabash PS-1 boxcars and hoppers, although I don't remember who made them.  A GP-30 would be cool.

Wern't those great times, Passenger Train Collector?!  My little ol' home town of Mitchell would see travelers arrive from Chicago or Louisville on the Monon Thoroughbred, make the little walk over the cross tracks to the B&O station and depart for places like St. Louis or Washington DC. aboard the B&O's National Limited. 

 

For my money, the B&O and the Monon were the top two paint schemes for trains, and we had them both streaking through Mitchell 8 or 10 times a day.  Not bad for a little Midwestern town of 2500 people. 

 

I've often attributed my love of trains to that very fact of life when I was growing up.

 

Just five miles south of me in Orleans Indiana, my sweetheart Karen grew up seeing the Monon branch off to French lick, Indiana to what was then a fine resort featuring performers like Bing Crosby, Abbot and Costello and others. 

 

All of them got there on the Monon, riding in from Chicago, to perform in the West Baden Hotel.  Politicians and presidents rode in from Washington DC on the B&O, then transferring to the Monon in Mitchell where they rode south to Orleans and on down to French Lick. 

 

Oh, what a day.....  Can't wait to see my own Monon Thoroughbred from Mr. Muffin's Trains!

Wabash didn't have any GP30's.  GP35's, yes. 30's no.

 

Rusty

Here's the latest artwork from our friends at MTH showing the paint scheme and the details planned for our Premier EMD F3 AA Diesel Engine Pair. Just click the image for a bigger view. I was very impressed with all of the work they have done with us to get the details right.

 

 

 

We have 100 sets coming. MTH is keeping one; I am keeping two ("one to show and one to go" as we say in the appliance business) so that leaves 97. We are way over half reserved already. If you'd like a set, please give us a call or order online. Thanks!