My father took the NYNH&H from New Rochelle to Grand Central every weekday from 1930 to 1944. They would turn the seat around and play bridge every day.
Danr posted:Paul, thanks for the picture of the car interior. Nice work on your layout. I have that same Lifesaver sign. I drove past the Lifesaver building a number of times.
I found some pictures of it when it was the Lifesaver building and at least at some point it had the "giant" tubes of lifesavers on the lawn in front of the building and wrapping around it. That's why I decided to put my sign on the ground in some bushes. I don't recall if the tubes on the ground level were illuminated or not but I decided to put the sign at ground level.
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eddie g posted:My father took the NYNH&H from New Rochelle to Grand Central every weekday from 1930 to 1944. They would turn the seat around and play bridge every day.
My father took New Haven/Metro North to GCT every day from Stamford Station (and sometimes the Springdale Spur) from the early 70's through the late 80's. His company moved out of NYC and on to Long Island in the late 80's which meant he had to drive it instead.
Here is a picture of an Osgood-Bradley car with the interior painted green. It looked darker on the bench but looks lighter under the LED's in the car. Does this look like the color they were or should it be darker?
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I think the color was much darker. Like a forest green or something. Again, just my memory which could be inaccurate. They also could have started that color and then after 50 years of smoke and whatever wore them down to a much darker green.
Danr posted:Here is a picture of an Osgood-Bradley car with the interior painted green. It looked darker on the bench but looks lighter under the LED's in the car. Does this look like the color they were or should it be darker?
Danr posted:Here is a picture of an Osgood-Bradley car with the interior painted green. It looked darker on the bench but looks lighter under the LED's in the car. Does this look like the color they were or should it be darker?
Dan,
Volume 32 Issue 3 of "Shoreliner," the magazine of the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association (nhrhta.org), has an article about the Osgood Bradley lightweight passenger cars. As built during the 1930s, the article states that "the seats were upholstered in a dark blue, checkered pattern, mohair plush." Color and black/white photographs in the article also show a dark color. During the 1950s, there was a car refurbishment program about which the article says "the coach seats .... are re-dyed a deep blue." A black/white photograph confirms the dark color. Having said that, the Weaver Models O scale New Haven Railroad American Flyer cars (with Hunter Green exteriors) have light grey interiors.
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Deep blue 
Fortunately, these things are held together with about 20 screws and the entire interior comes out for painting. I have two of these cars, The second one is apart but I haven't done anything yet. Not sure that I have a deep blue in stock. I'll post a picture after the next try.
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Danr posted:Deep blue
If you go to the website of the historical association (nhrhta.org) and click on "back in stock," you can scroll through a list of "Shoreliners" that are still available for purchase, including the one with the relevant article. I think it would be useful for you.
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Danr posted:Deep blue
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Sorry if I led you astray. At least you're going from light green to dark blue which is probably easier than the other way around!
No, still a Milwaukee Road fan. Don
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This picture, taken in 2016, shows the bridge on which the tracks of the New Haven (Metro-North) Railroad cross above US Route 1 in Port Chester, New York. The Life Savers building is visible at rear.
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I lived in Port Chester in the late 90's a few blocks from there. Seemed like pretty often a truck would get stuck under that bridge.
My K-Line Jet converted to two-rail:
Unlike the prototype, this one has all axles powered:
I also have three K-Line 21" NH passenger cars that have been two-railed.
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Some of my favorite New Haven locomotives. I commend MTH for having made such outstanding models.
EP3 353
EP5 371
EP5 371 and NYC S2 3207 (The NYC S2 was made by Lionel.)
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MELGAR posted:Some of my favorite New Haven locomotives. I commend MTH for having made such outstanding models.
EP3 353
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Beautiful engines, MELGAR. Now for one of my classic dumb questions... do you know what the purpose of the “sun porch” on the front of the engine is???
Thanks.
Apples55 posted:MELGAR posted:Some of my favorite New Haven locomotives. I commend MTH for having made such outstanding models.
EP3 353
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Beautiful engines, MELGAR. Now for one of my classic dumb questions... do you know what the purpose of the “sun porch” on the front of the engine is???
This answer is somewhat conjectural on my part...
The locomotive length was determined by the need for six axles to mount the motors and produce the tractive force, plus the front and rear two-axle trucks to assist in steering and tracking. The box cab was shorter because a shorter length was sufficient to enclose the necessary machinery, transformers and cabs. The porches were structural members mounted to the front and rear trucks and carried tracking forces into the locomotive frame (and possibly into the six-axle trucks) while also supporting some of the engine weight.
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MELGAR, that boxcab is beautiful. 
Brian,
Thanks for posting. I'm out of New Haven images right now. Will have to buy some new New Haven models.
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I love the colors of the New haven, I have a few NH cars and engines.
The photo your seeing below in the link, was that a NH line into the city of New York?
The sunset is beautiful, that is proof there is a God, He even made NYC look good. 
I tried to copy and paste it but nothing let me use the photo, So here is a link.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/658631/
"Brand new fan, as soon as my custom painted Box Cab comes in. Thanks to Peter Carbrey, OGR Forum Member.
My first New Haven engine.
Chris Sheldon"
Chris, I was wondering whether this boxcab is a "fantasy" piece or whether it is based on a prototype? Either way, it is a beauty!
Is this a K-Line-by-Lionel-era boxcab repainted? Is Peter Carbrey is your designer, or custom painter, or both? I may want to order one, myself! Nice job!
David
It was loosely based on CNJ #1000, a GE - Ingersol Rand - Alco diesel electric switcher built in 1925.
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Running F3 today
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Custom New Haven Station made exclusively for one of TW TrainWorx Traintastic Layout Customers!
Happy Tracks!
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Traindame posted:Custom New Haven Station made exclusively for one of TW TrainWorx Traintastic Layout Customers!
Happy Tracks!
TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
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Beautiful piece of work, Dorcie. Love how compact yet detailed it is.
Traindame posted:
If TW TrainWorx offers the New Haven control tower model as a kit, I am an immediate buyer of two...
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MELGAR posted:Traindame posted:
If TW TrainWorx offers the New Haven control tower model as a kit, I am an immediate buyer of two...
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Stay tuned 
Apples55 posted:Traindame posted:Custom New Haven Station made exclusively for one of TW TrainWorx Traintastic Layout Customers!
Happy Tracks!
TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
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www.blog.traindame.comBeautiful piece of work, Dorcie. Love how compact yet detailed it is.
Thank you Paul!
Brian,
Thanks for posting on “Any New Haven Fans.”
New Haven #649 is an EMD SW1200 and New Haven #531 is an ALCO RS3. Both models by Atlas O.
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very nice MELGAR, great looking engines !
check these out.....
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NICE !!! that is really cool
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I look foward to every new post to this thread. Especially Melgar's informative narrative and historical perspective. But there was another portion of the NH that hasn't been explored. That being the Cedar hill to Maybrook segment with its heavy steam roster and long freight drags through Connecticut over the Poughkeepsie bridge spanning the Hudson River to the interchange yard at Maybrook. And to continue my constant plea, please we need an RK Imperial I-5!The interest in this thread is proof enough that it would sell out.
Tom McGriel posted:I look forward to every new post to this thread. Especially Melgar's informative narrative and historical perspective. But there was another portion of the NH that hasn't been explored. That being the Cedar hill to Maybrook segment with its heavy steam roster and long freight drags through Connecticut over the Poughkeepsie bridge spanning the Hudson River to the interchange yard at Maybrook. And to continue my constant plea, please we need an RK Imperial I-5!The interest in this thread is proof enough that it would sell out.
Thanks Tom. I appreciate your comment. But it's usually up to Brian to revive the thread after it's been quiet for a few days. Then I reply! As for the Maybrook Line, since it was freight only, I guess it is considered to have been much less glamorous than New Haven's main line with its famous passenger trains, electric and steam locomotives, and catenary between New Haven and New York City. They did run some impressive engines on the Maybrook Line including Santa Fe types (2-10-2) and later ALCO FAs. It seems to me that there is little modeling of the Maybrook Line among New Haven fans. A model of the Poughkeepsie bridge would be spectacular but no one has accepted that challenge as far as I know. And, although I have a Weaver I-5 Hudson, I would certainly be a buyer of an MTH Premier, Sunset/3rd Rail or Lionel model.
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I know you're right Melgar, but a glimpse at the impressive motive power there would fill out the full story of the NYNH&H at its height. Some of those brute steamers were awe inspiring.
Someone on another board pointed me to this - https://collections.ctdigitala...ject/20002:860065486 which is an image of a right of way map of Stamford yard in 1915. Shows a turntable there. Who knew?? There are a bunch of other maps of many areas in Connecticut for those that are interested.
Traindame posted:Custom New Haven Station made exclusively for one of TW TrainWorx Traintastic Layout Customers!
Happy Tracks!
TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
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Please offer the station as a kit, too!
Peter
Putnam Division posted:Traindame posted:Custom New Haven Station made exclusively for one of TW TrainWorx Traintastic Layout Customers!
Happy Tracks!
TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
Dallas, TX | Concord, NC USA
(214) 634-2965
www.blog.traindame.comPlease offer the station as a kit, too!
Peter
Absolutely beautiful station - it really wouldn't be that hard to duplicate especially if most of the windows were commercially available. Otherwise not too hard just time consuming to make all those windows from scratch. What's especially nice about this building is that it could fit on most model railroads.
Seventy-five NE-6 steel cabooses were delivered to the New Haven Railroad between November 1947 and August 1948. The pictured New Haven NE-6 caboose model was made by Atlas O in several runs between 2003 and 2015. The New Haven never had any extended vision cabooses which therefore are referred to by New Haven enthusiasts as “Non Haven.”
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