Nice combination. I really like many of the Williams paint schemes.
Gordon
Originally Posted by HOPPY:
Love my Williams CNJ heavyweight set in Blue Comet colors. I have the blue scale
Hudson that will pull them.
Hoppy
Like the prototype, I like to run heavyweight baggage and RPO cars on streamlined trains.
I like to run heavyweights with branch line mixed consists.....an RPO. A milk reefer. A boxcar +/-. A heavyweight combine.
Peter
I like mixed consists as well. Using heavyweight baggage or RPO cars really helps when you don't happen to have the requisite "matching" streamlined baggage car (broken sets). The best part is that mixing things up is prototypical. Most runs had some odd cars mixed in. Railroads used what they had available and even "shared" cars when the need arose.
Here's heavyweights in 2 of my favorite liveries........NYC and NYO&W.
Peter
Here is a Williams 14" set of Erie-Lackawanna with repainted Marx E-7 A and B units. I run them just the way the set came: One U.S. Mail, a combination, two coaches and an observation.
(When mentioning in my earlier post that the B & O was my only set, I guess the brain just saw "Madison" in the thread title, and flashed "Lionel").
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Good looking sets!
I will try to post some of my own pics soon.
Gordon
Originally Posted by Putnam Division:
Here's heavyweights in 2 of my favorite liveries........NYC and NYO&W.
Peter
Very good-looking set. Again, you got the colors right. The Marx units never looked so good.
Technically, these are supposed to be called heavyweights. Nevertheless, Lionel, MTH, and Williams still use the term "Madison" (adopted after the early Lionel "Madison" name for their Bakelite heavyweights or perhaps from Madison Hardware). K-Line, as far as I know, always referred to them as "heavyweights."
This wasn't the first time that a prototype acquired the nickname of a model. No matter how hard they try, manufacturers of 48:1 trains just don't seem to be able to duplicate the beauty of the original 1:1 O Scale versions. Or am I confused here? 
Gordon
Originally Posted by TrainsRMe:
Here is a Williams 14" set of Erie-Lackawanna with repainted Marx E-7 A and B units. I run them just the way the set came: One U.S. Mail, a combination, two coaches and an observation.
(When mentioning in my earlier post that the B & O was my only set, I guess the brain just saw "Madison" in the thread title, and flashed "Lionel").
Or you could spend the night here in Fredericksburg, Texas:
Gordon
Originally Posted by Richard E:
I'm still waiting for someone to do some Pullman Palace Cars.
