This is one of several Exposition Flyer consists I’ve put together over the years. And, it may be one of my favorites. Every car here was modified and modeled according to the what was in service during 1942. The cars are all-brass, and include importers such as Protocraft, Pecos River Brass, Precision Scale, 3rd Rail, Carworks and Oriental Limited. The engines are E5s, of which I was the proud consultant for 3rd Rail. Nothing here is Lionel.
@WP saw your short video, do you have any posts more related to your layout? I am interested in seeing how you handled your landscaping. I like how you handled the wall section in the video. Started looking through your posts ... you have a lot there.
@Terry Luft posted:Old and abandoned
This reminds me of a scene just north of Imuris, Sonora, Mexico on the old Ferrocarrile del Pacifico that loosely follows Mexico 15 south from Nogales with a branch that heads west towards Mexicali a little further south in Magdelena de Kino. Imuris is only about 70 km south of the border or 43 miles to us northerners in Arizona.
Mexico ended long distance passenger service in 1997 but was still operating some heavyweight equipment on trains up until the end of service. What appeared to be 12-1 Pullman with similar weathering to yours was sitting on a siding outside of town next to a local farm. I passed by in the spring of 2003 and had plans to photograph it on a subsequent trip, but it was gone by the fall when I got back. Your image is very similar to what I saw in person. I did manage to catch some Pacific Fruit Express reefers in the yard in Caborca though on the same trip. Those were gone by 2004. Great memories!
@ScoutingDad posted:@WP saw your short video, do you have any posts more related to your layout? I am interested in seeing how you handled your landscaping. I like how you handled the wall section in the video. Started looking through your posts ... you have a lot there.
Thank you @ScoutingDad! I have posted now and then, when something in my layouts seemed to apply to the discussion. I am happy to share. Let me know what you would like to see.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to everyone!
John
A recent addition to my collection in the form of a PRR P54 suburban coach. This is a Custom Brass model manufactured by Pioneer Models in Japan circa 1978. It joins a PB54 in my collection that I need to get some higher quality photos of.
Nice rivet detailing! Congrats on the acquisition.
Here’s a Lionel PreWar 2-4-2, 265E Commodore Vanderbilt, Blue Streak ‘35-‘40.
Flyer 3/16" O gauge K5 Pacific, repainted for Pennsylvania. With 496 heavyweight Pullman and 497 heavyweight observation. The 496 and 497 cars are rare, even relative to 3/16" O gauge Flyer passenger cars. Loco is from 1940 - 1941; cars are from 1941.
@Jayhawk500 posted:Nice rivet detailing! Congrats on the acquisition.
Thank you! The weather was nice out this morning, so I photographed its sister car, the PB54. These are perfect to run behind my GEM PRR F3 2-6-0 Mogul.
Prewar Flyer 3/16" O gauge passenger train in action.
More 3/6" scale O gauge flyer in action. These are sheet metal lightweights pulled by a K-Line Pacific.
Here's my layout and collection on Pilentum TV
Enjoy!
This is a great topic to review, both 2 rail and 3 rail… I recently acquired a nice K-Line Golden State set, 18” aluminum cars. I do not collect this particular livery, but it’s a beautiful set. Happy Railroading Everyone 
Here is a Texas Special custom paint job I finished a week or so ago
@leapinlarry posted:This is a great topic to review, both 2 rail and 3 rail… I recently acquired a nice K-Line Golden State set, 18” aluminum cars. I do not collect this particular livery, but it’s a beautiful set. Happy Railroading Everyone
Those are nice cars. And I see you are not using the dome cars that came with the set, so you know the real train did not have any domes. There are Rock Island and Southern Pacific engines from all the manufacturers that would go well this this.
By the way, I pull mine with Lionel's early TMCC E-6 AA Rock Island diesels. The cab numbers are 628 and 630, the actual cab numbers of the E-6s that pulled the GS in the late 40s.
I also really like your layout.
Lionel 225E 2-6-2; tender converted to postwar trucks. Repainted 655 boxcar with postwar truck at one end. Lionel Celebration 600 series passenger cars, ca. 2012.
Atlas O Premier Amtrak Genesis P42 hauling some K-Line by Lionel passenger cars.
LIONEL NYC 783 Hudson with NYC Pullman cars.
Lionel Legacy F3 A B painted in the colors as per the 1950s catalog. Never done until METCA did a custom run. Here they are with a consist of Lionel modern stream liners.
Here they are in a meet with the Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar on the point of the Hiawatha.
Finally found some power for one of my passenger trains.
Granted, many who follow my posts may question how this is appropriate for my modeling as well as appropriate for passenger trains. I took a liking to Weaver's wonderful Osgood Bradley cars and one of the roads that utilized this car was the Saint Louis Southwestern, or more commonly known as the Cotton Belt. I picked up enough of the cars to warrant finding a locomotive for and after doing some research, the Alco RS-3 turned out to be the best candidate. Granted it rides very high and is not a great representation of the prototype, but the price was right, and it will be fun to operate.
Cotton Belt didn't run passenger trains after 1959 and by 1952 the passenger roster was all diesel and mostly Alco RS-3s. They did operate a lone PA in Daylight colors, but the RS-3 was much more common. I have cars in a few paint schemes. How I got modeling an SSW train is a complete mystery to even me.
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