Lionel Northern Pacific F3's with Passenger and Freight cars (from the late 90's)

Great video! Love the layout!!

Sweet!  Those are handsome sets.  Your layout is amazing as well.  I think the Pullmor is inappropriately maligned.  Never let me down.  Glad you’re having fun.

The 90s and early 2000 was Lionel making great stuff.  Love the AC motor powered F3s.  And your layout is gorgeous!

Very nice Don.

I'm upgrading a pair of SantaFe F3's with a ERR AC Commander and railsounds boards. They are sharp looking engines.

I recently saw a couple of those vista domes on the back of an Amtrak train out west on Virtual Railfan too.

Bob

3rail,

Enjoyed your video. Your layout is wonderful. Take care and have a great day.

Thanks guys. Jim, Bob, Ray, William and Scott I appreciate the kind words.

I am old school, to some degree, and also like the Pullmor’s. Easy to maintain. My only complaint is I like to run my trains slow most of the time (unless my Grandsons are visiting). It is tough to get those motors to spin at the lower speeds.

Don

Another outstanding video of your layout!

In a way, I thought the pullmors almost more realistic.  They eased into a startup and cruised into a stop.  I had every TMCC GP7/9 made at one time.  And they all were great runners once broken in.  Was interesting to see the advances TMCC made from its inception with the NYC model to the last GP7 made, the mighty Rock Island.  That was a honey.

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. Best, W

@3rail posted:

Good morning, guys. Today I am posting my new video highlighting some older Lionel Northern Pacific F3's. One is painted in the "Freight scheme" and the other is painted in the "Passenger scheme".

Lionel issued an aluminum passenger car and a freight car set to match these locomotives back in the late 90's. However, originally, the passenger car set was issued with the freight car painted F3. Lionel corrected this oversight later in the year with the issue of F3's painted to match the passenger cars. They also offered a 4 car "freight set" to match the freight locomotive.

Lionel F3's at their best with the famous Pullmor motor. I hope you like the video.

Donald

They actually made a add on dummy A unit for this set. But, I believe they produced very few. I found. One by accident at a show. A long time ago.

And LIONEL offered a two car add-on (obs and baggage) to match the four domes.

Thanks guys for the nice comments.

I knew about the dummy F3’s but I did not remember the additional baggage and observation cars. I would like to find the additional cars for sure since I think the 4 car passenger train would look a lot better.

Don