Looking for members who collect/operate Pennsy (PRR) equipment.

Well lets see some, post some photos.

PRR is my favorite road. Would love to see some pennsy photos too-

Well Here's 2 of my videos.

love to see Pennsy pics. 

I have a Rail King M1a,two Lionel 675s,671,several N5s & N5cs and gons and boxcars.

@5:40 - who made the fire station?

To learn more about your favorite railroad, consider joining the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical society, www.prrths.com.  Besides publishing a superb quarterly magazine, they also publish a PDF publication that highlights PRR modelling - The KEYSTONE Modeler.

I've been a PRRT&HS member since 1987 and it's been well worth it.

MTH ES44AC  Pennsy Heritage.
Weaver E8 with extensive power and detail upgrades
Weaver Baldwin BP 20

Rich Yoder GE 44 tonner, electro-couplers, sound, and ERR TMCC drive board.
Weaver A5 with a TMCC upgrade.

Weaver M1a/b with an EOB upgrade.

Weaver C1 with an EOB upgrade.

Sunset Models E6.

Weaver H10 with an EOB upgrade

Lionel K4

Weaver L1s with an EOB upgrade

Weaver U25 B with added radiophone antenna, directional lights and EOB drive.

Another look at the Baldwin BP20 from Weaver

Left is an MTH Pittsburg Shawmut Russian decapod
Right is a Sunset Models Pennsy I1 decapod.

Another look at the Weaver E8's added radiophone antenna and directional marker lights.

MTH USRA 0-6-0

Rear is a Weaver Pennsy M1a, EOB drive system
Double header is front, Weaver Pennsy L1s Mikado, rear Weaver Pennsy H10 Consolidation, both have EOB drive systems.

Weaver Alco RS12 with TMCC drive system.

Weaver G5 with TMCC drive system.

K Line B6 0-6-0  That has an EOB drop in board.

Atlas SD35's TMCC drive system

Lionel MPC F3 set.

Guilty as charged!   Gimme  a Big Jay, an N8, and 160 H21s, por favor !e

Mike CT...you owe me a key board..I just drooled all over mine!

Great photos of your collection.  Can you provide some captions. Provide model type, model number and manufacturer. Who made the little A4 and the 44 tonner?

Mike CT: Who made the Baldwin?

Small fish in this big pond but a PRR lover from my youth.  Hence, Frankford Junction, my old hangout.  Currently, Lionmaster Duplex, two K4s, JLC GG1, MTH A-B-A F set (Brunswick), Two E6s (one PRR-Reading Seashore Line), GP7, lots of rolling stock.  These pics are incredible.  Thanks for posting guys.

Ron

Baldwin BP20 was done by Weaver maybe 5 years ago.

Thank you

Have been modeling the PRR in 3 rail O gauge since the 1987.

A couple of videos

The Baldwin BP20 comes with the Radiophone antenna. 

I added the antenna to the E8's and the U25B  both were castings from Bowser. Near the bottom of this page on their website. Call Bowser they have discontinued a lot of their detail parts.  Click on the underlined phrase to link.

I am thoroughly enjoying this thread, gotta love the Pennsy..

Now what i find interesting the PRR was the "Standard Railroad", but only they followed them!

does anyone have the PRR keystone logo in a vector format, corel draw or in adobe illustrator? I am trying to do a big project and getting this logo would save me the graphic design fees. 

Thanks!

a pic of my MTH J1

PRR is not the primary RR I collect and model: I do the western US in the 1950s - where and when I was a kid - so its mostly Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Rio Grande. 

But it is impossible to be in this hobby and not be aware of the impressive array of locos PRR engineered and built: some of the best engineered, most powerful and impressive locomotives ever made, anywhere, so I have/intend to have, quite a few.

The photo below shows my "PRR shelf": Two of the shelves are empty, waiting for a good K-4 or maybe a pair of Centipedes if I find them at a bargain, and (lower empty shelf) the MTH Premier S-1 I have on order. The 4-6-0 is a Railkind PS3 loco and nice but not scale.  Next to it is a Vision CC2 which is one of my favorite locos: great runner, great looking when running with all the drivers and motion. At the bottom, a TMCC T-1 and the recent Legacy S-2, both with real coal loads put in place over the cheesy stamped metal that came with them.  I also have a lovely scale PRR caboose, but it seems to have hidden itself somewhere this morning. 

 Here's a sampling of Pennsy motive power in action.

Weaver C1 0-8-0 at the yard office waiting for assignment.  I added a Cruise Commander, magnets on a drive wheel for 4 chuffs per driver revolution, short Atlas electrocouplers front and rear and a weathering job.  On the adjacent track are an MTH N5c porthole cabin car and a Brass Works ND bobber.

 Here's a coal drag of mostly Weaver 2-bay ribbed hoppers with double-headed Weaver H10s 2-8-0's in the lead.  These locomotives have been converted to TMCC with an electrocoupler on the tender and a dummy coupler on the pilot.  I also installed 24-volt Pittman motors so that they run at coal drag speeds (they max out at about 40 scale mph).  They have been weathered and the front boiler number plates have been painted the correct black color.  For some reason, Weaver, Williams and even the 3rd Rail decapods have this plate painted tuscan red.  All round freight locomotive number plates should be black.

 Two 3rd Rail locomotives are shown here.  An N1s 2-10-2 is on the right and an I1s 2-10-0 is on the left.  The N1s has been weathered, has TMCC and Railsounds (4 chuffs) installed and has been modified so its gear ratio matches the I1s.  The belt drive system that 3rd Rail uses makes it easy to change gear ratios.  The decapod has been weathered, TMCC and 4-chuff Railsounds have been installed, and an operating electrocoupler has been added to the tender and to the front of the locomotive since it is used in pusher service.  In addition to painting the number plate black, the smokebox was repainted dark graphite and the high bell bracket that 3rd Rail used was removed with a Dremel and a low Pennsy bell and bracket from Precision Scale was installed.

 A K-Line B6sb 0-6-0 works the yard.  This loco has a Cruise Commander M, has been upgraded to 4 chuffs and has added wiring so that all 4 pickup rollers supply power to the motor driver boards.  It is stall-proof.

A 3rd Rail N1s 2-10-2 is leaving the yard while a Lionel Y-3 (PRR class HH1) 2-8-8-2 with a coal drag passes overhead.  The Lionel loco now has a Cruise Commander M, 4 chuffs and is weathered.  Special thanks to Jon Z for spending about 45 minutes on the phone with me getting the Cruise M to work with the wireless tether on this locomotive.

A peek inside the diesel engine house shows the nose of an MTH transfer diesel (PRR class LS-25) on the left and a Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 (PRR class FS10) on the right.  Both of these have been upgraded to TMCC and Railsounds.

 An MTH F-3 (PRR class EF15) is at the diesel house.  This former Proto-1 loco now has TMCC/Railsounds, Cal Scale rooftop antennas, nose lift rings and has been weathered.

 A set of MTH Centipedes (PRR class BP60) drifts through town with a passenger train.  These also have been upgraded with TMCC/Railsounds and light weathering (Pennsy passenger locomotives made regular trips through the wash racks in the 50's).

 A pair of well-weathered Atlas RS-1's (PRR class AS10am) lead a freight manifest.  These locos share a single Cruise Commander to run all 4 motors, as do the F-3's and the Centipedes.  Miniatronics miniature plugs carry power from the Cruise Commander to the trailing unit.

The focus of my collection is Pennsylavania RR by Lionel, 1946 to the present.  So ya, I got em.

I'm somwhat of a rare breed on this forum.  I am a collector, with a narrow focus, but also an operator.  I stick to one brand and primarily one roadname.

If it looks like Pennsy, or says Pennsy, and is built by Lionel, I probably have it.

Here's a few.

JohnsGG1:  

This a most impressive collection of Pennsy.  I would like to see a list of your engines by type, manufacturer and model number for reference.  Do you have a list?  I am compiling a "catalog" of O scale Pennsy models so if an item comes up for sale I can compare the model with my notes.

Thanks for your posting.

If any collector has a MIB Lionel 6-38176 Pennsylvania PRR TMCC Alco FA-2 AA #9620 & #9621 please contact me. I am very interested in this set and will gladly pay for same. Would prefer MIB (contact mkolesar@patton.com)

Everything that ran through Columbia PA is of interest. 

PRR J1 at AGHR

Here is my Pennsy fleet!

Conrail was included due to its lineage with the PRR! 

If you want more Pennsy action check out my Youtube page. I have running sessions on there. 

Johns GG1:  How in the heck did that New York Central get in there?   Or is that just an eye test for the forum?   

I visited John once and he does indeed have an amazing collection, postwar layout and he does all the maintenance work too! We should all be that talented.  

Nice looking J.  The weathering on the engine is certainly realistic!

My weathered L1s mikado

My only RR!

THIS ONE CERTAINLY HAS SEEN A LOT OF ROAD TIME!

very nice gentlemen!

Dave, I do have a few NYC pieces.  Of course I have a '64 773.  After all it came with a 773W PENNSYLVANIA tender.  I thought I'd take some extended liberty with that.  I had a restorable 2426W so I though why not.  It looks better behind a 773 than the 2046 type so when I restored it I lettered it PENNSYLVANIA.

I really can't explain the dark gray Commadore Vanderbuilt.  It was advertised as being vastly improved over the first silver/gray one, had a very heady whistle and was Pulmore powered.  So I bought it.  It doesn't fit with the rest of my collection but what the hey.  I like it and it does get run--occasionally. 

I do have all five of the first Lionel Century Club pieces so I have another NYC 773 and the NYC A-B-A.  That's about it though.

here are some on my layout.

Here are two shots on my layout that I hope will satisfy the PRR crowd.

Lew Schneider

Bob,

Thanks for posting those great shots of your layout.

Norm Rish

Nice photos, gentlemen. Heard from one AGHR SPF; where's Pignatelli???