any New Haven fans ....

@DMASSO posted:

Club video taken by member Riley Webb.

https://youtu.be/wBJdJ6hNTeo

Beautiful layout, Don, and a wonderful collection of New Haven equipment. The curved trestle bridge is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Apple55.

@DMASSO posted:

Club video taken by member Riley Webb.

https://youtu.be/wBJdJ6hNTeo

Hi Don looks good , can't wait for an in-person visit!

Photos and video of the 3rd Rail NH GP9 #1200. Great looking model! Note: I have the headlight turned off in this video.

I like all New England road names. Thank you for posting!

These photos show the Stepney Depot in Monroe, Connecticut, about ten miles north of Bridgeport and built in 1850 according to the sign. The Housatonic Railroad was chartered in 1836, connected Bridgeport and Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1850, and was leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1892. Most of the Housatonic trackage became the New Haven Railroad’s Berkshire Division. Looking at the terrain near the station, I cannot tell where the track approached and departed the station. Driving through the area near the station, it still looks like it’s 1850. Photos by MELGAR.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

These photos show the Stepney Depot in Monroe, Connecticut, about ten miles north of Bridgeport and built in 1850 according to the sign. The Housatonic Railroad was chartered in 1836, connected Bridgeport and Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1850, and was leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1892. Most of the Housatonic trackage became the New Haven Railroad’s Berkshire Division. Looking at the terrain near the station, I cannot tell where the track approached and departed the station. Driving through the area near the station, it still looks like it’s 1850. Photos by MELGAR.

MELGAR

Driving to work in Monroe, for 23 years, I would pass this when RTE. 25 was backed up, about 2 or 3 days a week!

If you google Stepney Depot there is a nice historical piece about it.

Very interesting, Mel. I know you have a keen interest in everything New Haven, and what you share about its history enriches whatever models, layouts, structures and scenery we may have relating to that marvelous fallen flag. Arnold

Heavyweight baggage car 5500.

12-1 ABIGAIL

GGD heavyweight observation car FLYING CLOUD. 

John

Weaver NEW HAVEN I-5 just sold for $1550.

WOW!

I just count that as proof that there is a market for 3rd Rail to make some accurate New Haven steam.

Who wouldn't want an accurate K-1-d Mogul, J-1 Mikado, or I-1/I-2 Pacific?

CLASS K-1-c and K-1-d 2-6-0 - NYNH&H STEAM (google.com)

~C. Vigs

I had to cancel 2 preorders to get it… but if you ask me its the prettiest thing on 3 rails runs a little rough with tmcc (starts at speed step 4 and sounds not consistently responsive). I have a few other tmcc engines and know how to program. ** edit I reset it with aux-1 43 runs like a top. It is mint!

New Haven Railroad Alco RS-3 #531 is an Atlas O Trainman model. The video shows it passing through the narrow rock-cut on the O-36 loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.

Note that, despite the bright orange color, the paint scheme on this model is not “McGinnis.” Delivery of New Haven Alco RS-3s in this orange-green color scheme began in 1950 – four years before Patrick McGinnis became president of the railroad. New Haven painted some of its Alco DL-109 diesel locomotives in this livery as early as 1947, followed in 1948 and ’49 by Alco FAs and PAs.

MELGAR

I like the engine and the scenery. I'm just beginning to build a layout and am concentrating on the New Haven railroad seeing how I grew up on their tracks here in the south end of New Britain and am now living back in the same house. I'm currently watching PanAm/Guilford engines pulling a variety of freight cars a few times a week. I would like to know the make and model of the brown NH boxcars because those are the ones I remember growing up with. Thanks for posting.

All the major O gauge manufacturers make, or have made, numerous models of New Haven Railroad locomotives and rolling stock - including Mike's Train House (MTH), Lionel, Atlas O, Weaver and K-Line - which is what the ones in the video are. You can find these online or at local train shows and local hobby shops (there is one in downtown New Britain). In Connecticut, you can attend the twice-yearly show at Cheshire High School on November 21, 2021 or the huge Amherst Railway Society Show next scheduled for January 29th and 30th, 2022 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

MELGAR

New Haven G cars on our club garden layout.

Menard's 4 car dealer pack ......

Fl9

https://youtu.be/jQB8fR0g_I8

Here is my MTH 44 tonners. The orange hood was a PA repaint by Christine Braden.

Picked up a Kline New Haven transformer car from Nassau Hobbies.

A few shots taken in Spenser N.C. in 2014

Cab # 2019 approaching the turntable.

Here is my New Haven 4-6-2 Crusader

Around Halloween, I like to run my K-Line EP5 with a compliment of alternating black/orange cars, such as New Haven boxcars.

All aboard in New Haven!

Are there any New Haven fans out there?

New Haven Railroad FL9 #2043 is a Sunset/3^rd Rail model. EP5 #371 is an MTH Premier model with PS1. The 60-foot passenger cars are by Atlas O.

The FL9s ran throughout the New Haven's service area, from Grand Central Terminal to Boston via New Haven, New London and Providence. The EP5 motors ran in the 72-mile "West End" electrified zone between GCT and New Haven. The locomotive change from steam or diesel to electric at New Haven was a part of the railroad's operation until it was merged into the Penn Central in 1969 - and remained so until about 2000 under Amtrak.

MELGAR

Melgar,

Of course there are! You just need to remind them.

The NEW HAVEN Pullman Bradley car number 1000 is a custom paint job based on the NEW HAVEN’s experimental renovation and paint scheme for one car.

Picked this up from Grzyboski’s the other day...

It’s kind of the inverse of one I picked up from Grzyboski’s at my first (and so far, only) visit to the Big E!!!

This new to me double door auto car # 646825 with a pretty valuable load.

I got this New Haven American Flyer flat for my brother as a Christmas gift. I get him a different car each year. I made the 2 wood loads to replace the somewhat cheesy one that came with the car. I also made for more stakes so I could do 2 loads.

Switch tower visit.

I have pre ordered a Lionel pacific custom numbered for NH by Mr Muffins and a Lionel Mohawk that is supposedly pretty much identical to NH Mountain also being weatherd for slightly more. Just a heads up for anyone looking. I’ll post pictures when I get

Hi WVM,  I would be very interested in seeing what those two engines look like, especially weathered. I grew up on the New Haven to Hartford main line through Meriden, Connecticut. I don't recall ever seeing any NH steam as a boy, but I have a layout with mostly New Haven equipment and most everything is 50-55 vintage including steam. I own 3 Weaver I-5s and I am considering having one weathered. I have been pursuing a I-4 Pacific type Weaver built back about 2012 but to no avail. For the last 40 years I have lived south west of Albany, New York and very close to the D&H main from Schenectady to Binghamton. My front yard is the resting place for a New Haven Maybrook line whistle marker. I was in the area when they tore that line out and the marker was left laying alongside the old right away. It took two of us to load it in my car.  I look forward to your posts on your new engines. Bill

  N.H is on the bottom of my list but I like the spelled out name and this flat car...

Hi Bill Park. Wow you are pretty lucky to own three Weaver I-5 !!

Well, it was sort of happenstance that I have that many. I recently sold my business of selling and servicing Industrial Boilers. As of 3-31-21, I have a lot more time on my hands now. As a NH fan, I fell in love with the Weaver I-5 Steam Locomotive but didn't have time back when Weaver released it to purchase one. I had participated in an E-Bay bid for one in June which I was unsuccessful at. The final price was $1550. Somewhere around July or August one showed up on E-Bay marked "not running". I was very interested in getting something so I made sure I got that one. It was immediately sent out to Roy'z trains in Michigan to get it running and upgrade if need be to Lionel Legacy......I posted a "wanted to buy " on here for a NH I-4 Pacific. I then received a call from a member here that he had seen a NH steamer in a shop in Pa. I called and immediately identified it as another I-5. I called and said I would take it but the owner didn't call me back right away. While waiting for his call, I saw another I-5 on E-Bay and thinking it may be the one that was in the PA shop, I bid on it and got it. After purchasing it, The PA guy finally called me. Since I had agreed to take that one, I decided to do what I said I was going to do and bought that one. My thought is at some point someone might be in a position to trade something I am looking for (ideally a Weaver I-4)  or something and I can use it for that. I know they are a hard piece to come by and I would seel one if the person is enthusiastically looking for one.  Bill Park

Anyone know what happened to briansilvermustang, who started this thread more than four years ago and was very active on the forum? According to his profile, he hasn’t visited the forum for nearly a year.

The Senator GG1 and Patriot EP5

@Jim R. posted:

Anyone know what happened to briansilvermustang, who started this thread more than four years ago and was very active on the forum? According to his profile, he hasn’t visited the forum for nearly a year.

IIRC- he had a falling out with the mods.

New Haven pulling a string of Menards boxcars

@Bill Park posted:

Hi WVM,  I would be very interested in seeing what those two engines look like, especially weathered. I grew up on the New Haven to Hartford main line through Meriden, Connecticut. I don't recall ever seeing any NH steam as a boy, but I have a layout with mostly New Haven equipment and most everything is 50-55 vintage including steam. I own 3 Weaver I-5s and I am considering having one weathered. I have been pursuing a I-4 Pacific type Weaver built back about 2012 but to no avail. For the last 40 years I have lived south west of Albany, New York and very close to the D&H main from Schenectady to Binghamton. My front yard is the resting place for a New Haven Maybrook line whistle marker. I was in the area when they tore that line out and the marker was left laying alongside the old right away. It took two of us to load it in my car.  I look forward to your posts on your new engines. Bill

Could you pls. post a pic of the whistle marker? Thanks.