Freight trains — Let’s see them!

Heres some old footage of a NYC Mohawk pulling reefers. No sound on the video back then, so I threw some music over it.

Freight trains - post war style.

Freight train - modern 3rd Rail, Weaver and AtlasO.

From top: F3, L1, N1, and H6

Here’s a Standard prewar freight consist headed by my 1835E.

ABC switcher with a string of Burlington Northern coal hoppers.

Peek-a-boo freight train

Southern Pacific freight train with

SP H-12-44 FM diesel. 

A Penn Central mixed freight passing through the industrial area of the layout:

Tom

See video links below...

The 3 roads I collect; AT&SF, FW&D, SL-SF and affiliates.

SP&S Z-6 Challenger with a heavy freight.

Three freight trains on the Free State Junction Railway.

Thank you for everyone who had posted so far.  Lots of great posts to date here.  

  Let’s    S E E    your   F R I E G H T   T R A I N S  guys.         Post them.

#252 and friends going to Odenville.

John

Here is an MTH Club freight train...

The Northern Pacific with a Lionel Lines auto freight.      

Slow B&O way freight with brakemen riding front and rear.  

BNSF Beep switching duties.

A short CBS Railroad video.

From a review I did for the locomotive:

Rusty

Today I ran my Lionel Rio Grande freight set 2291W, which I received for my first Christmas in 1958, on my Super O postwar layout. This was such an action packed consist for a child or an adult to enjoy. Lionel certainly knew how to keep your interest. It has logged many miles these past 62 years and still looks great and brings back lots of great memories.

Ok Forum members, let’s see those   FREIGHT TRAINS. 

Here’s my Lionel VL Big Boy reefer freight on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD   

Two BNSF freight trains on my layout in a race. An Oil train and an Intermodal.

Another Penn central freight with a U33C on the point:

Tom

@Rusty Traque posted:

From a review I did for the locomotive:

Rusty

Thank your yard foreman for putting the dangerous car mid-consist.  Quirky me...I always notice things like that on peoples' videos.

Let’s see your freight trains!!!   Here’s my Lionel VL CC-2 PRR Baldwin on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

UP Heritage units WP and D&RG lashed up.

N&W Y6b mallet lugs a freight thru Butler Junction.

Well here is a short freight consist circa about 1940.  The Lionel 204 was one of the last die cast engines manufactured by Lionel prior to the war.  It was never catalogued and just offered in sets.  These were typically "General Special" sets offered to lots of stores and more or less made up of standard cars.  This consist is not a set per se, it is just a correct line up of cars for the engine from my collection trying to mimic the 1940 set.  All the cars are correct with the following exceptions a) all the journals should be black and b) the caboose should have a red not tuscan roof.  The engine has a 2689 whistle tender (whistle works) which was one of 3 or 4 different tenders that it came with 1940-42.  Never came back after the war. I have a neat video of this guy pulling these cars but I cannot figure out how to get video uploaded.  If anyone knows where there are some instructions please forward. 

Lumber freight passing through on the S&Y RR

The tale of two freight trains.

@trumpettrain posted:

Slow B&O way freight with brakemen riding front and rear.  

Another great video, Pat. You take the video so that the viewer is trackside, looking up to the train as it goes by, which I also often do. It makes the model train look awesome the way real trains look to us when we are trackside looking up at them.

What is most special about this video, IMO, is what I've said many times before about your photos and videos:  your glorious autumn colors. It is amazing, IMO, how you can be so skillful with autumn colored scenery and you are also color blind.  

Arnold

A homage in S Scale to an HO club I once to belonged to:

Rusty

Here’s my Nickel Plate with a western manifest heading for St. Louis Mo.