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My railroad features steam era named trains and Long Island Commuter trains. I run a freight train just to give the dispatcher fits because the mainline has a single track. In an operating session you might see:

The Southern Crescent; The Blue Comet; The 20th Century Limited; The Broadway Limited; The Chessie; The Cavalier; The Flying Yankee; The City of Salinas; The Hiawatha; The Representative; The D&RG Ski Train; The Canon Ball; The Crusader; The Texas Special; IRT LoV & BMT Q trains to the 1939 World's Fair.

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Glimpses of passenger service......

 

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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.

 

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Yet, I never let go of my Pittsburgh-childhood-roots love of big, black, more traditional looking steam locomotives, either.

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So, for me, happiness includes having and running both styles of locomotives.

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FrankM

Frank am also enamored by same.  And have family ties to Conway.

Have always wanted a scale size 3-rail prototypically correct Commodore Vanderbilt.  They look like a tank!  Decades ago my then local dealer had a Lionel set he would NOT sell me.  He said it would NOT pull the three passenger cars that came with it in the set so could not sell me it  and feel right. 

Ron

Here’s a carnival train of the only services I have.  The Super Chief is pulled by the F3 LAC(Hotwater) conventional, the heavyweights by a K4 Tuscan, the Daylights by a Daylight GS4 or a new Daylight AC9, the UP by FEF3 844.  The Burlington E7s and J3a Hudson are waiting for their consists.  Burma Shave.

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PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother. ) At least, even though it was reputed to only be available for a hefty price, since it was a special issue by Lionel, back in the 90's, I played -hard-to-get and escaped with it for less than had been asked. Its tender is very, very finicky, though, about traversing switches (the tender's trucks seem intolerant of even 0-72 switches), so it only travels on switchless routes. Love their horns, though!

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FrankM

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PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother. ) At least, even though it was reputed to only be available for a hefty price, since it was a special issue by Lionel, back in the 90's, I played -hard-to-get and escaped with it for less than had been asked. Its tender is very, very finicky, though, about traversing switches (the tender's trucks seem intolerant of even 0-72 switches), so it only travels on switchless routes. Love their horns, though!

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FrankM

As I recall there were about a dozen Dreyfus Hudsons, hope yours are different road numbers.  I know how it is.  Have four Pennsy K4's all different some how including a Weaver Shrouded #3768.

Ron

"PRRRonBH / Ron, If you look here, you can see I was so cuckoo at one point, I bought a second   scale Dreyfus Hudson, just because, well, because it was there. (Oh brother."

You only have two? Now, how does one only have two of these? That's the cuckoo part...

I mean, the NYC had 10, plus the 5344 J1e eventually dressed like this; then there's the Dreyfuss Empire State version, 2 of them.

Seems to me you are behind a bit. Get out that credit card.

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