PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

Here are some tinplate trains running on the G&O.  NH Joe

Track 1 MTH Texas

GGD Santa Fe baggage car

K-Line Santa Fe baggage car with dust from roadbed in the southwest. Messenger service

GGD PULLMAN pool 12-1 EAST CONCORD

Lionel Santa Fe dining car with sounds.  Fred Harvey staff.

GGD PULLMAN pool 8-1-2 ROCK GORGE

Williams observation repainted to LAKE LOUISE

Track 2:  Williams SF 4-6-4 weathered.

K-Line Santa Fe baggage car 1821

MTH Santa Fe baggage car 1812

K-Line 8-1-2 repainted to JONATHAN

K-Line dining car with window treatments and kitchen details.

K-Line Cafe Observation car.

Track 3:  MTH Northern

Lionel REA express reefer(interior milk tanks).

Weaver reefer repainted to an REA car leased from the Santa Fe

Williams REA baggage car.  This is from the first set of five 17" heavyweight cars offered.  Jerry led the way.

Pecos River Brass Fe-24.w/green roof. Two load capacities, one for when in passenger trains and a higher one when in freight trains. Roof and walk should be black.

K-Line SF baggage car 1821

Williams repainted to NH.  Facia is correct scale.

K-Line repainted to NH.  Facia is too tall.

John

Always like to see your passenger cars John.

Here are mine, Pennsy and Reading.

David, very nice layout design and scenery. Your train is a smooth runner. What brand heavyweight cars are you pulling?

I can't take credit for the layout it is the club's 'Lone Star Hi Railers'.  The one engine is a Lionel H10, the other is a K-line tank engine, and the cars are Williams.

Reading RR - nice videos.  my border collie goes absolutely nuts when I run trains - she tries to grab the cars off the tracks. I have to keep her out of the room when I am running.

As Christmas Eve is only 2 days away, I had to start Running my Christmas passenger trains!
This is my MTH 4-6-0 RTR set with additional cars:

Amfleet on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Boy Scoutingdad that could be hazardous to your trains health.  As you saw my border collie just lays there.  But if I try to leave without house for train club without her, she throws a royal fit!  Then she just lays there when we get there, go figure!

@SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Feliz Navidad Santiago, muchas gracias por compartir tu trabajo en el foro, es muy inspirador!

Some of my passenger cars, mostly pw 027, one set of Madison cars from 1991.

Passenger trains for today.

I’m not the best cameraman but here’s a video of my Milwaukee Road-Union Pacific consist, which is made up with mostly MTH cars and six Lionel cars. Had problems with derailments and couplers opening up. First I lubed all the axles, removed the problem uncoupler car and moved wires that were restricting the complete swivel of a truck on the culprit derailing Lionel car.  Placing the Lionel cars on the rear didn’t help since they are aluminum and a bit heavier than the plastic cars.

Larry

Running my now complete UP excursion train.

Running my all RAILKING Union Pacific set. Challenger and cars from the 90's, aux tender and two head end cars from RTR sets.

This is my around the room Christmas layout

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@sinclair posted:

Running my now complete UP excursion train.

Love this train. I'de love to see you fill it up with passengers.

Ron H

Ten pages of fun to see Passenger trains, all roads that lead to Fun.  This is a fun to review thread, keep the trains running and On Time. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Ron H posted:

Love this train. I'de love to see you fill it up with passengers.

Ron H

Thanks, it's taken me a while to get all the items to make this train, but I just had to after seeing 4014 on her maiden voyage to Utah.

As for adding people, that'll never happen.  I personally don't like the people, and generally remove them from my stuff if I ever have to open something.  Hard to tell, but UP#4018 is missing the crew.  UP#70 hasn't been home for a week yet so the people are still there, for now.

Larry, great photos!  Which Santa Fe F3s are these with the nice plating please?

Passenger trains on the KnobKnee, Frenchtown and Bordem Line!

Well with the museum closed till heaven knows when this is the closest I can come to a passenger train:

Thank heaven for the Christmas Layout in the garage.

my MTH Genesis consist, pulling 10 K-Line 80’ Superliners, custom painted in Phase VI. One of my favorite trains to run!! The cars were also upgraded to LED lighting, with new tinted windows and 300+ passengers added.

C Sam, thank you for the compliment, and the Sante Fe diesels are the latest Lionel Legacy ABBA’s, and the passenger cars are the 18 inch aluminum El-Capitan set. By the way, your layout and diesels are super beautiful to. Happy Railroading Everyone

lcca sets,with williams alcos

The Mail Train is almost complete. Here is a short clip of her flying past a grade crossing

Here is one of my recent product reviews that has a passenger train in it. You can find it at 22:45. Thanks, and happy railroading!

Western on the Expo

Some on location fun at East Portal, CO. Precision Scale Boo Rim 1800 class M68 Western leads the eastbound heavyweight CB&Q, D&RGW, and WP Exposition Flyer at the grade crossing circa 1940. Cars in view are Precision Scale finished by me for Expo detailing.

I've been looking for this set for a while.  Just learned how to embed a youtube video, so let's give this a try. Santa Fe Polished Aluminium Set being pulled by postwar 2383 A and B units from Neil Young's collection.  Hope you enjoy.  I've never added music to a video, so this is new for me too.  

The sounds of midnight trains in empty stations . . .

Cheers,

- Mike

Amtrak

At the TMB Model Train Club it’s late 1970s an an LIRR Diesel commuter is heading east

@SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Santiagop23

Really enjoyed your videos and as Mike said, "your videos are dangerous." Normally, I would be running out to buy both engines if I didn't have them already.  Also enjoyed the music selection, they were excellent accompaniments to your videos,

The Pennsy had one 10-6 sleeper that matched the other cars on the CB&Q/D&RGW/WP California Zephyr for through service between San Fransisco and Chicago.  The Pennsy took the car to NYC.  It was the Silver Rapids:

The Penny also had two cars, Imperial Range and Imperial Terrace, that ran on the Golden State from Los Angeles to NYC via Chicago.  The GS ended at Chicago and the cars were taken to NYC either on the NYC or PRR on alternate days .  The cars were painted in 1948 to match the other cars from the CRI&P and SP.

The Silver Rapids is K-Line and the Imperial Terrace is Lionel.  The other cars are either GGD or K-Line.

Buffalo Rapids in UP color ran through westbound on the City of San Francisco. The Lionel model shows Pullman (PS), but I read it was built by ACF with riveted roofs, while PS cars were welded. It got its PRR color back in 1958.

Commuter action on the corridor.

* I turned the the light out over the layout for the video.

This was prior to the disaster that took out the trestle, big tree limb fall down and go boom. Unfortunately health has prevented refurbishing of the rail line.

@sinclair posted:

Running my now complete UP excursion train.

"HEY, That was Me an Elliot, Standing off to the side of the bridge... in Minnesota, Whatching her roar past..... listening to her grand Whistle and hear the powerful Steam Pistons!!!"