PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

Lionel Santa Fe anniversary set from 2001....

B&O

Rusty

Passengers (including my wife) rush to board Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr.

The photographer might have been standing a little too close to the track.

Ken

New Haven action.....

Peter

Here's my Williams Western Maryland passenger train - Charlie

Ron

Here are a couple of videos of my all Williams GG1 passenger train taken on the National Capital Tracker modular layout at Kids Fairfax back in 2017.

Nice stuff fellas 

GG-1 at point of a Clocker. 

From  a few years back.

Jerry

My Milwaukee Road and Pennsylvania cars.

White stopping in Jacksonville, FL 01Jan06 on Amtrak, the private car "GEORGIA" was in the station:

Jacksonville is also a refueling stop:

Seaboard Coast Line Silver Star coming through town......

MTH PRR E6 with the Nellie Bly 

20th Century Ltd set from 1983......upgraded by Mike Reagan with ERR Command Control and RS.

Peter

The AT&SF passing through on the S&Y RR

Rusty

This is a great thread, many great pictures shown above bringing back fond memories of those really beautiful trains of yesterday and beyond. I road on the beautiful Texas Special, the B&O, The Illinois Central, the L&N, as a child. They were Wow’s. I always wanted to ride The Sante Fe El Capitan. Hope everyone is having a great weekend, staying safe, staying healthy, praying continually. Happy Railroading         LCCA 1460

PRR Red Arrow

20th Century Limited

NYC Mail Train

The Advance Flyer blasts through town ... 

@RamblerDon posted:

Love the whistling tender. Was that a Lionel set, or is it pieced together? Pennsy cars, yes? Thanks for sharing this. There is nothing like a passenger train, and while I love the detailed models some guys have, I am a toy train runner and nothing is as beautiful to me as a loop of track on the floor!

B&O passenger train running at restricted speed due to track work. 

@pdxtrains posted:

Love the whistling tender. Was that a Lionel set, or is it pieced together? Pennsy cars, yes? Thanks for sharing this. There is nothing like a passenger train, and while I love the detailed models some guys have, I am a toy train runner and nothing is as beautiful to me as a loop of track on the floor!

That is a 763e and a set of the prewar Pullman cars. My layout is designed for tinplate so the curves are too tight for more scale sized trains. When I want to run it, I have to set up a carpet central.

Here's one of mine. Don

My GM Train of Tomorrow set.

 https://youtu.be/gLiMGdxV2N4

PRR E8 and Senator Passenger Cars

https://youtu.be/W7LN3DRiGlQ

Here is a NH train on the G&O.  NH Joe

Well since we have some 1:1 scale pictures, here are two I took on a family trip in spring 2019.  It's Irish Rail, the express between Dublin and Belfast.  For those of not too familiar with Ireland, those two cities are in fact in two countries.  Belfast in Northern Ireland, part of the UK and Dublin the Capital of the Irish Republic.

Here is the front view...its a "push pull" train set, not turned at either station.

Here is the "dining car" - snacks and drinks.  The trip including a few stops is abut 2 1/2 - 3 hrs.  Food is simple but quite good.  Prices are modest. 

Love traveling by train, you can see the country your are traveling through vice over.

Don McErlean

I just started building my small empire, so I thought running a small Empire Builder might help... 

MTH Wabash E8 A & B  with 5-car passenger set

MTH MKT Alco PA A & B with 5-car passenger set

Toy LIRR silhouette cars pulled by the only passenger LIRR engine I have. And then, those lovely World's Fair subway cars--my favorite subway set. I aim to add some MTH LIRR Grey and Orange cars soon.