All One Color Train Sets

Black Trains Matter!!!!

I had a pair of Chessie, what Lionel called SD9s and bought eleven straight blue Chessie cat boxcars from a forum member and chased it with a nice Chessie caboose.  That was a pretty sweet train.  Color on the head and back end and all business in the middle, with a cute kitty on each car.  Alas... 

Grand Trunk Western had an all blue scheme for 22 years.

In this video is a modern Marx Trains white Rock Island steamer and six custom white coaches. Each coach is named after one of the grand kids and the car number is their birthday. Since this video was made, I've added one more coach and now need to make an eighth.  The engine and tender are from an all white freight set they made.

Steve

https://youtu.be/Nw1oAprWtN4

I believe Lionel and Marx both had a complete Red set prewar. I know one did for sure just can't remember which at this early hour

Military trains in green or desert sand.  The tin plate looked cool, but other than military, monotone is not for me.

Lionel's Blue Comet

A lot of prewar Lionel passenger sets are all one color scheme.

I believe that during the modern era (1970 and beyond) Lionel made a number of unit train sets. The first one that comes to my mind is a Burlington Northern set with almost identical boxcars. Only the road number differed. Here is one on Ebay: Burlington Northern Limited.
I guess it sticks out in my mind because I purchased one of the boxcars from a set breakup.

Passenger trains are easy:

Rusty

One of my projects is a clear set. Lionel made a number of cars in the early post war era that were painted over clear plastic. The silver ones strip easily, but the red cabooses and yellow cattle cars are more work.

I am also working on a chrome set, which will probably have to be a passenger train.

One of my projects is a clear set. Lionel made a number of cars in the early post war era that were painted over clear plastic. The silver ones strip easily, but the red cabooses and yellow cattle cars are more work.

I think you will have a nice set. I have seen various clear cars offered (that have had their paint stripped away).
I have a 4454 boxcar that was molded in clear plastic that I stripped. I even gave it some time in an ultrasonic cleaner. There are still traces of paint in some of the crevices. Any tips on getting those last bits of paint?

rtraincollector posted:

I believe Lionel and Marx both had a complete Red set prewar. I know one did for sure just can't remember which at this early hour

Lionel had the red comet vandy set and Marx had the Mercury.

Conrail Biz train in all blue.

Conrail freight train.

PRR Tuscan GG-1s and the Broadway Limiteds.

Gramps used to run green heavy Madison's with the Brunswick green GG-1.

My add hock military train alternates red and blue every other car, and I've been known to run all blue gondolas, or all red flat cars to satisfy the OCD in me

My DT&I work train is mostly Safety Orange, it will be 100% sooner or later.