Any Delaware & Hudson Fans...

Finally scored a set of MTH Premier 70’ D&H passenger cars from Grzyboski’s. Although they were sold as used, they look like they haven’t been out of the box before... SWEET!!!

Love that Alco sound!

Enjoy them, Paul!

I love the D&H gray/blue livery.....I have 2 engines.....an MTH SD-45 and a Lionel Also RS unit.....part of the Coastal Freight SSS from the early 90s.

I call the 1st picture....Albany......

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

Love that Alco sound!

Enjoy them, Paul!

I love the D&H gray/blue livery.....I have 2 engines.....an MTH SD-45 and a Lionel Also RS unit.....part of the Coastal Freight SSS from the early 90s.

I call the 1st picture....Albany......

Peter

Thanks Peter. I also love the D&H gray/blue livery. I also picked up the recent Legacy C-420 and U33C over the last year, both in the gray/blue - can’t have enough D&H!!!

And I love “Albany”. Is that based on an actual photo??? I swear I have seen a picture of a similar scene taken at the Albany station. And I hope that Lionel makes a version of the NYC (or PC) E in the jade green - that is one classy engine. And I saw another of my favorites zip by in the back of the video - a lightning strip F3.

Apple55. I am in South Carolina, but last year I stayed at the Red Caboose Motel (the Reading caboose) and visited the Pa. and toy train museums as well as the AACA Museum in Hershey. Great trip. I would do it again once this %$$ pandemic is over.

I was running some errands today in and around Scranton, so, since I was in the neighborhood, I stopped at the Steamtown Book Store to pick something up and saw this...

Most recent D&H acquisition.

Yes as a kid I saw those cars about a block from my house. And at the Pennsylvania State Rail Museum a picture of me and my friend in front of a similar one.

A new addition to the fleet.

Lionel RS-11 with Command.

The box car in the background is MPC era.

I have a similar D&H diesel, only mine has a man riding on it. Also I have a D&H boxcar with a hobo riding the rails.

My Sharks. Just picked up the dummy cab unit to get the correct pair. Renumbering planned as they should be the 1205 and 1216...

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

My Sharks. Just picked up the dummy cab unit to get the correct pair. Renumbering planned as they should be the 1205 and 1216...

Tom

Sweet sharks, Tom!!!

Thanks Paul. I have the B unit too. The D&H never had any Shark B units though. I am thinking of moving the B unit motors and system into the dummy A unit. They are MTH PS2/3v.

Renumbering this week end...

My D&H challenger at work. 

@GHD posted:

My D&H challenger at work. 

Fabulous!!! Could you tell me who made the Challenger??? I’ve always wanted a D&H steamer.

This is an early Lionel. It was my first TMCC engine when TMCC first came out.

Here’s a U30C working.

And the Alco units.

Great videos and pictures. BAR GP7 #63’s Alco looks just like the unit that used to work SK yard in Buffalo over 30 years ago! That one was the 5000. 

Here are some more of my D&H collection...

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

Great videos and pictures. BAR GP7 #63’s Alco looks just like the unit that used to work SK yard in Buffalo over 30 years ago! That one was the 5000. 

Here are some more of my D&H collection...

Tom

 

 

Krieglog. Thank you. I am glad you like it.🤝

Johan

Nice rust job !  How did you do it ?

@CHOO-CHOO MIKE posted:

Nice rust job !  How did you do it ?

Mike. Thank you. I use Artist oil paints, Pan Pastels & Turpentine.

Johan

If you are a D & H fan, join the Bridge Line Historical Society, the D & H historical group.   Get a 48 page newsletter every month, the BLHS Bulletin. 

Posted this on SWSat yesterday. The hoppers are a neat pair, painted in opposite schemes. There's a blue box car in front of the yellow one too.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Mike. Thank you. I use Artist oil paints, Pan Pastels & Turpentine.

Johan

Great work Mike. Your layout and detailing style are what I hope to achieve on my layout...when get it built!

Tom

Does anyone know where I might get an ALCO type D&H locomotive?

To answer someone's question re: D&H steamers, my passenger train has a blue D&H steamer from MTH.

I have a Williams Berkshire steamer.  For a nice  D&H Alco, I have a Lionel Alco RS-11.

@GHD posted:

This is an early Lionel. It was my first TMCC engine when TMCC first came out.

Thanks, GHD... I must have been asleep at the throttle when that came out. Hopefully Lionel will make another!!!

Wow!!! Looks like all the D&H-ers are coming out of the woodwork - some beautiful work here!!!

Johan: D&H management has requested that you remove that hopper from service for a complete repaint... they feel it’s unsightly appearance does not reflect well on them   (Seriously, that is amazingly realistic weathering job!!!)

Bob: I love the whole D&H consist... the colors just go together beautifully (and management appreciates your keeping the equipment in crisp and clean condition )

Tom: nice D&H collection... the cabeese should run nicely behind your sharks (or those other nice engines)

GHD: thanks for sharing those videos... very nice layout

@Apples55 posted:

I've decided to take my own advice and start this... Although I am primarily a fan of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad, there are a few other smaller lines that I really like. One of these is the Delaware & Hudson.

And it's a good thing you did start this thread.  There are now 5 pages of D&H themed postings in it.

Who couldn't like D&H?  This is a railroad which had handsome steam locomotives.  It pulled its passenger trains, for years, being a pair of raspy, snarling, smoking, Alco-GE RS2's, and then bought one-owner Alco-GE PA1's from Santa Fe to replace them.  It embraced its on-line customer, Alco, in steam and diesel days, and maintained its track and locomotives well.  And it had a cliff-hanging main track near Lake George, NY.

I never was able to experience Delaware and Hudson in person, as it was diagonally clear across the USA from where I grew up, but I always enjoy seeing photographs of it.  So, yes, there's at least one D&H fan in Texas.

Happy Labor Day everyone! 

I’m a long time fan of the D&H. I recently converted my Lionel Camelback to battery powered with a Soundtrax board and love it. I have a suethe smoke unit powered off the battery too. I get a lot of good operating time out of it. Futures plans are to swap out the front coupler for a Kadee (rear coupler has one already).

The MTH GP38-2 is also battery powered with a Soundtrax board.

There is power on the rails. These locomotives needed new control systems and I opted for CVP Airwire. The layout is stored until I make room at my local club to set it up.

Enjoy!

Larry

Proud member of the Bridgeline Historical Society. I have been helping with some of the research work going on for the canal and gravity road. 

Having worked on the lesser branches of a mid-sized railroad, it is difficult for me to picture myself marking up on a Pennsy or New York Central.  But I have always thought I would feel "right at home" on the Delaware & Hudson.  I am just willing to wager they had some really nice people working that system, too.  Count me in with #90 for being a fan.

@Apples55 posted:

Wow!!! Looks like all the D&H-ers are coming out of the woodwork - some beautiful work here!!!

Johan: D&H management has requested that you remove that hopper from service for a complete repaint... they feel it’s unsightly appearance does not reflect well on them   (Seriously, that is amazingly realistic weathering job!!!)

Bob: I love the whole D&H consist... the colors just go together beautifully (and management appreciates your keeping the equipment in crisp and clean condition )

Tom: nice D&H collection... the cabeese should run nicely behind your sharks (or those other nice engines)

GHD: thanks for sharing those videos... very nice layout

 

Apples55. You're welcome. 🤝

Johan

My son got me to join the TCA in 2000 and we have attended almost every York meet since. We like the Lionel 3 bay hopper cars with the Lehigh Valley, Reading and D&H road names. Every time we saw one at York we would pick it up. I have a few of the D&H as you can see on this video. I did find one that the Lionel inspector apparently missed. The correct one is on the left and the one missing labels is on the right. 

@Dick S posted:

If you are a D & H fan, join the Bridge Line Historical Society, the D & H historical group.   Get a 48 page newsletter every month, the BLHS Bulletin. 

Thanks for that info, Diok. Printed off the membership form and will send it in. I live south of Honesdale, so I’ve really got to get up there and check out the D&H Canal sites.

@Number 90 posted:

I never was able to experience Delaware and Hudson in person, as it was diagonally clear across the USA from where I grew up, but I always enjoy seeing photographs of it.  So, yes, there's at least one D&H fan in Texas.

Thanks, Tom. I grew up in New York City - subways I knew, but not too many railroads ran through Brooklyn (other than the LIRR cut!!!). I can’t be totally sure, but I think I actually road on the D&H. In 1967, my family took a train to and from Montreal for Expo ‘67 (being in the city, we never owned a car until the 70’s). It was just overnight, so we road coach, but it was a very interesting trip. Will never forget the sign in the bathroom about not flushing when you were in a station!!! 

@GHD posted:

My son got me to join the TCA in 2000 and we have attended almost every York meet since. We like the Lionel 3 bay hopper cars with the Lehigh Valley, Reading and D&H road names. Every time we saw one at York we would pick it up. I have a few of the D&H as you can see on this video. I did find one that the Lionel inspector apparently missed. The correct one is on the left and the one missing labels is on the right. 

Oops!!!

You have a beautiful layout, GHD... and that is a great D&H consist!!!