"LET'S SEE YOUR PASSENGER TRAINS"
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Super nice train John !!
Heres a couple of mine.
At first I stayed away from Passenger trains thinking the lack of variety in car design would be boring. Yes you had baggage and vista dome cars but the general sameness didn't strike a chord with me just as long unit trains didn't. As the number of road names in my roster increased they variety in colors of the passenger trains and some of the dedicated engines became very attractive. I just couldn't imagine NYC streamlined Hudsons dragging freight. A Pennsy GG1 just had to hustle VIPs between DC and NYC. The Alaska Railroad relies provides as much passenger service as freight. So now I have several passenger trains that all started with a mismatched Lionel TMCC Wabash Hudson pulling two MPC era Blue Comet Madison Cars.
greg773 posted:Heres a couple of mine.
Those are outstanding videos, Greg. I enjoyed them very much. Thanks!
greg773 posted:Heres a couple of mine.
That is nothing short of Cool!!!!!! Very Nice!!!!
Try mail and express head end cars and trains. Many were more rainbow than some early Amtrak trains.
While several "name trains" will occasionally make an appearance on my railroad, it's really too small to support any one of them full time.
Therefore, passenger service is pretty much reduced to the "cabbage" that replaces the caboose on a daily freight:
Here it is resting in Iola between runs:
Rusty
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A lucky amateur photographer captured the passing of passenger trains representing two of the best known and loved railroads among those that make up the famous American Flyer Lines. The reissue of the Silver Flash streamliner 
from the mid-1990s glides past the beautiful Polar Express Berkshire and heavyweight cars, which returned to the rails just a few years ago. The locomotives and the cars all came out of the shops of Lionel American Flyer.
Photographed on the Jack Klein Memorial S Gauge Loop at the Portland (Oregon) Chapter TCA Clubhouse.
Cheers!
Alan
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Just the Chessie Steam Special/ Safety Express pulled by one of 9 B&O/ C&O/ WM steam locomotives. Modeling the Chessie System but I’ve got a soft spot for steamers.
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My passenger service is all heavyweight; a 4 car Kline coach consist with maybe an MTH or Kline RPO pulled by an Atlantic or Pacific. I do have the Kline sleeper, observation and baggage car. I use the baggage car, 2 other RPO cars, 2 weaver express cars and a coach combine car for my fast mail pulled by the Atlantic or the Pacific. I like the color schemes of the various rrs. I remember seeing the yellow and green CNW in Milwaukee where I grew up. The GM&O colors are neat, and of course the SF Chief is also a favorite. I enjoy walking into a favorite hobby shop in Chicago and seeing a wall of colorful streamliner passenger cars and matching F units. But my favorites are still the heavyweight cars.
Great photos everyone! Thanks for starting this thread Brian! 
Here are some of my passenger trains or at least partial photos of them.
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Being a prewar tinplate guy for the most part, I only have a select few modern trains, and they're mostly passenger. Here's a favorite, my SP Daylight consisting of a Williams Crown Edition GS4 and Phoenix Railways 18-inch aluminum cars.
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Santa Fe in the east....
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Awesome topic
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I run my passenger service like this young engineer
I can relate to being in a passenger car, not a freight car. I have one freight on my layouts, and they are all "animated/operating" cars.
116 terminal..
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Erik, I'm awe struck as usual by your modelling and photographic talents.
great passenger trains and photos everyone !!
keep them coming.....
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Dennis Holler posted:116 terminal..
Dennis Holler, What a great goal to have accomplished! Congratulations!
FrankM
Moonson posted:Glimpses of passenger service......
....trains , here-n-there...
FrankM, Moon Township, USA
Looking great !
westbound Lakeshore Limited....
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GREAT shots, everyone!
Moonson posted:Glimpses of passenger service......
FrankM, Moon Township, USA
WHAT a Trifecta!
Ron H posted:Fast NYC double headed passenger service.
Not a huge NYC fan, but wow, imagine being able to go back and see that in real life...
c.sam posted:Here's a few I snatched from the old club layout and my dismantled AT&SF
"The Columbian" lightweigh streamliners inauguration run May 1949 pulled by a F3 ABA set.
On a quiet Saturday afternoon in 1953, Engineer Wallace White brings the West Texas Express into Caprock, Texas, for its daily timetable-mandated stop.
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LIRR Greenport Scoot
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RSJB18 posted:LIRR Greenport Scoot
Like the passenger detail!
Nice looking train!
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PRRronbh posted:Moonson posted:Glimpses of passenger service......
FrankM, Moon Township, USA
WHAT a Trifecta!
Thank you, PRRRONBH, for the reach-back.
Yes, for a while, there, I had become totally enamored of those Art Deco-style locomotives.
Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.
So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.
FrankM
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Moonson posted:PRRronbh posted:Moonson posted:Glimpses of passenger service......
FrankM, Moon Township, USA
WHAT a Trifecta!
Thank you, PRRRONBH, for the reach-back.
Yes, for a while, there, I had become totally enamored of those Art Deco-style locomotives.
Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.
So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.
FrankM
As usual, great p
hotos!
