NYC Classics

@NYC Fan posted:

I temporarily moved the Dreyfuss to the inside run! Using the shorter Lionel cars.

That’s just straight up handsome Skip,....🤤

Pat

With all the locomotives we build it only makes sense to have a dynamometer car!..here’s X8007 awaiting pickup to test a freshly delivered locomotive,....

Pat

Wait here’s a better pic,...that one above is dark & lame,...🙄...god I wish I paid attention in photography class,.....Pat

@harmonyards posted:

With all the locomotives we build it only makes sense to have a dynamometer car!..here’s X8007 awaiting pickup to test a freshly delivered locomotive,....

Pat

WOW!!! Now that's really interesting. Great job!

Looks like the Mohawks and Hudsons have been covered.

I have a limited amount of motive power, so all I can add is a heavy "Mike" .

Very Nice Rick!

@RickO Looks like the Mohawks and Hudsons have been covered.

there’s plenty of room for more Hudsons & Mohawks,....😉.......always,...

Pat

#4399, ....a member of the K class Pacifics, waits to pick up a commuter, she once proudly pulled the named trains, until bumped by the Hudsons ........and as fate would have it, some members of the K class would survive till the near end of steam, proving their relatability in commuter duty, & lessor trains.......

Pat

How about some smaller steam at work.

Pete

Some diesels hanging out in the yard.

Great thread Skip and everyone’s contributions are great as well.  Pat, the K class Pacific looks terrific.  Here is 3rd Rail’s Mercury, also a K-5 Pacific.  Happy railroading everyone!

This thread is awesome Skip!!!......I hope it keeps up the traction,....neat stuff!..

sticking with small steam, & vintage scenes, NYC employed several Shays, ..Shay#10 works milk cars near a crossing, ....location & photographer unknown,...

Pat

Here is my NYC ‘switcher’: a USRA 0-6-0 by MTH RailKing.  As I understand it, these were only used by NYC on one of their subsidiaries, Chicago Junction, and classed as B-62’s.  This is a great running engine and works great for yard duties.

NYC subsidiary Boston & Albany. Re lettered MCRR Berkshire and Williams caboose.

@Norton posted:

How about some smaller steam at work.

Pete

I'm a big fan of scale small steam locomotives. I love the Ten Wheelers, Consolidations, Moguls, Suburbans, Switchers, etc. They really look great and work well on our smaller layouts!

I would love to see Lionel make a smaller D-2a 2-4-4T Forney type commuter locomotive used on the Getty Square Branch Line on the Putnam Division.

@rjsmithindy posted:

Here is my NYC ‘switcher’: a USRA 0-6-0 by MTH RailKing.  As I understand it, these were only used by NYC on one of their subsidiaries, Chicago Junction, and classed as B-62’s.  This is a great running engine and works great for yard duties.

There's a NYC 0-6-0 at the train station in Utica, NY.

3/4 of my NYC roster.  Not shown is the original MTH P2a with PS.  These photos go back more years than I care to remember :-)

@harmonyards posted:

Small world Skip, grandad worked at Harmon, during the steam era. When he retired, he’d still take us down to the ( existing) facilities and we’d wonder around ....right around 79-81......we all lived in Poughkeepsie at the time,....I couldn’t get enough of it,....

Pat

Here's a great photo of the Harmon Shops! 266 and 278 are T Motors. 240 ia a P Motor.

Hal Smith photo.

@NYC Fan posted:

Here's a great photo of the Harmon Shops! 266 and 278 at T Motors. 240 ia a P Motor.

Hal Smith photo.

That’s really cool Skip, ....that’s where grandad worked, he was a mechanic on the electrics, mostly S motors ......during the war, he got OT working in the roundhouse as a mechanic and hostler,......he loved backing down the Hudsons to couple on the north & west bounds out of Harmon,....thanks for the photo!..

Pat

Great thread. Did I miss it, or are there no Vanderbilts? Truth is, I don't much like that design.  I had 2, an 18045 and 18063, but got rid of both of them. I like the Dreyfus as much as I disliked the Vandy.

Gerry

Gerry, beauty is in the eye of the beholder right?  Here is my Commodore.

Here is a Big Four Hudson with a Worthington feed water heater added, which was characteristic of these Hudsons, along with not having a water scoop on the tender.

Some diesel Freight action........Lionel ABA FTs which are TMCC engines with decent sounds and pulling power.......and two MTH diesels: a GP 30 and E8 ABA.

Some commuter action.....

Keep the great pics coming.........great idea for a topic, Skip!

Peter

@gmorlitz posted:

Great thread. Did I miss it, or are there no Vanderbilts? Truth is, I don't much like that design.  I had 2, an 18045 and 18063, but got rid of both of them. I like the Dreyfus as much as I disliked the Vandy.

Gerry

Just before the original 18045 was released, Neil Young brought the layout that he had on his HORDE tour to York. Lionel had it in a huge tent with a Jumbotron outside. Neil was in the tent running trains with Jim Bunte. The Commodore Vanderbilt comes by and I said something like, look at the unpainted Commodore Vanderbilt!!! To which Jim Bunte replied, "Those are the correct colors. We got the actual paint chips from Alco." Well, the thing came out and it was obviously wrong. A while later they came out with a corrected version in a darker gray.

I never liked the look of it much to start, mine coming in that silver gray color didn't help. I don't think I've ever taken it out of the box.

@Putnam Division posted:

Keep the great pics coming.........great idea for a topic, Skip!

Peter

Thanks Peter!!! Yes, keep the pics coming!

For those who fly economy class, here's my Commodore Vanderbilt.  It's my first restoration so showing before and after.

Malcolm Laughlin

@mlaughlinnyc posted:

For those who fly economy class, here's my Commodore Vanderbilt.  It's my first restoration so showing before and after.

Malcolm Laughlin

Hmm, this engine looks really familiar to me. I'll have to post when I get home.

@rjsmithindy posted:

Gerry, beauty is in the eye of the beholder right?  Here is my Commodore.

Just curious, I thought Lionel put out a correct gunmetal version. Is this that one? Looks a bit dark but it may just be the lighting.

Here is mine with a bit more light. Pittman motor and Legacy electronics.

https://ogrforum.com/...udson-stage-1?page=2

Pete

Some of my NYC Classics - 3 rd Rail RDC and a couple of Hudsons

It doesn't get anymore classic than Grand Central Terminal.

My NYC 5430.

@NYC Fan posted:

Just curious, I thought Lionel put out a correct gunmetal version. Is this that one? Looks a bit dark but it may just be the lighting.

The Lionel Commodore was a 2-4-2, coming in several versions.  It was black in the first year  Later there were many variations in both gunmetal and black.  It was also done in red for a passenger set called the Red Comet.

@Ron H posted:

My NYC 5430.

Hi Ron,

Is that the Williams Masterpiece Series J3a?  If it is, what did you do to make it look so good???

@mlaughlinnyc posted:

The Lionel Commodore was a 2-4-2, coming in several versions.  It was black in the first year  Later there were many variations in both gunmetal and black.  It was also done in red for a passenger set called the Red Comet.

And blue as well, for the Blue Streak

Not a big NYC collector(fan), but I do have one.  

New York Central #5187 USRA Light Mikado 6-84468

DOH!!    Check that, I have two:

@BlueComet400 posted:

And blue as well, for the Blue Streak

My Dad's boyhood train was the red comet. Here he is  in 1954 after he set it up for Christmas when I was one year old. I still have it.

Skip, thanks,

I super detailed it using NYC historical books on the Hudsons.

For example: All correct piping, wheel sanders, pony truck wheels, trailing truck wheels and brake detail etc..

Ron

Skip, that's a good-looking Red Comet; that set came with either the 261T or 265W tender; I can't tell from the photo which one you have. I have the same set, which was my Dad's, with the 261T; it's all original except for the loco, which he restored.

Some NYC / PC pics taken in the late 60's by a young teenager with a 124 roll film Argus along the Harlem and Hudson rivers. 😊

Between the Marble Hill and Spuyten Duyvil stations:

At the start of the Putnam Division:

Just south of the old Marble Hill station heading to Grand Central Station (I had to duck right after I took the pic because I had almost no room between the track and the river):

A train waiting just north of the Spuyten Duvil station for clearance to proceed down the west side freight line along the Hudson River.

An outside braced wooden box car still in main line use in the late 1960's:

Scene outside Penn Station at the beginning of the old High Line down the west side of Manhattan:

Tutbo Train in Grand Central Station: