PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

@Hent05 posted:

The more I look at these videos and pictures the more I"m inclined to buy more. LOL!!

Slip sliding away... slip sliding away   

@trumpettrain posted:

AWESOME!!!   LOVE IT!!!   Is this a custom cars?  

Thanks Pat it's a MTH 2007 catalog 30-2708-1 MA & PA Railking Doodlebug & 2 car set probably my favorite

Finally, the first and last Premier run of MTH E-8's in Erie Lackawanna.  Item number 20-21363-1 Cab #820.  I have the other powered #822 on the way!

Once things are safe and our club has it's 1st public show, both powered units (#820 and #822) with be pulling a 9 car consist of 20" Weaver Aluminum Erie Lackawanna cars.

Anyways, here are my Weaver Lackawanna E-8's pulling the Weaver Erie Lackawanna cars.

Southern Pacific Interurban

Southern Pacific Cab Forward (“Malley”) with Golden Gate Depot SP Harriman cars Passenger train. 

PRR

3rd Rail C&O Greenbrier with a mixture of custom lettered Golden Gate Depot cars.

Ken

Arrivals/Departures at Grand Central Station on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

A Neil Young Signature Series set of Pennsylvania Railroad F-7's lead a consist of MPC era heavyweights. 

Postwar Texas Special 211 with red lettered passenger cars running on the S&Y RR.

            All Aboard

The pride of the Panhandle, the PRR's Spirit of St. Louis occupies the soon-to-be-installed passenger siding at the Steubenville, OH station.  This is K-Line's (K4680) set of 4 extruded aluminum 18" passenger cars, representing the 1950's version of this famous, named passenger train.  The unfinished mainline is in the foreground.

Looking westward, the cars are (right to left) "Alexander Johnston Cassatt" flat-end observation car #8424, diner #4620, coach #4149, "City of Reading" Pullman #8060.

This is the view eastward, giving you a sneak peek at the Panhandle bridge.

George

OK Guys, lots of beautiful passenger trains.  I hope you will forgive me, but being away from home and somewhat short of pictures, I have selected these JUST FOR FUN!  The Smurf Train, carries its little blue people on blue track!.  This was a bottom shelf, back of the antique store, find for $5 complete with the box!  What train guy can resist a $5 complete train set, even if its a Smurf Train...So anyway, just for laughs, here is my "passenger train" (Note: all passengers are small blue folks).

Happy Mid-Week Everyone!

Don

Riding Amtrak in the 1970s

SP 6000 leading the Daylight through Two Bridges.

Guys:  Well we have such beautiful passenger trains today, I thought you might like to see what some youngsters were playing with nearly 100 years ago, 1930-31 to be exact.  Hornby trains brought out a new smaller size train, 0 gauge but smaller in scale than their regular series, called M0 trains.  The first passenger sets came in two liveries , one in red livery and one in green.  The pictures below are of the red version.  Other than color, they were the same and used the same coaches which changed little over the prewar years except for the roof color.  This version is the 1930 - 33 brown roof. 

Here is the whole train, note 2-rail track (engine is CW)

Here is the engine, the M0  engines in 30-31 all had no railway name and the red one carried the number 6100 on the tender.  The engine, at this stage (and until 1936) carried no cylinders or drive rods - note there are  no bosses on the driving wheels. 

Here is one of the two coaches that came in the set.  This is the "Zena" coach.  Except for the name board it is no different than the other coach in the set. 

Companion coach "Joan".  The engine, tender, and 2 coaches along with  a circle of 2 rail track comprised the full set.  There also was a "station" set that included a set of points (switches), a station, a signal box, and a suburban station and 3 telephone poles.  Eventually up through 1937 -38 Hornby made a rather complete line of M0 trains including both passenger and freight wagons plus accessories until the war stopped production.  The series was the first Hornby train back in production after the war and they continued to be produced until 1954. 

Certainly a long way from the realism that our scale like trains today but I am willing to bet that a lot of youngsters were thrilled when they opened a birthday or Christmas gift with these 90 years ago!

Don

I am enjoying all the passenger trains, and the 1930 Hornby train is really neat to see. In the USA, the Ives 1122 and its cars came out at almost the same time in 1929. It’s fun to compare the passenger trains of 1929-1930 with the passenger trains of today, almost 100 years later!

WP (John)  Thank you for your comment and your Ives 1122 set and cars is really cool.  I have almost no early Ives and I have always regretted passing stuff up over the years.  By the way, the M0 Hornby set I showed really is their attempt at "inexpensive" toy trains in the 1930's (world wide depression).  They did have more elaborate passenger cars of course, much more realistic than "Joan and Zena" but they were much more expensive (P.S. still are today ).  I sometimes think,(my own opinion - not verified ) that the M0 line was closer to what Marx was trying to do in the US rather than to a premium line like Ives.  As an example shown below are some 1935 Marx "Bogota" coaches (called "short wheel base" coaches) from Marx's first year of production after taking over the Gerard Model Works, in fact these still have the Gerard "Joy Line" couplers.  These  as you can see are even LESS decorated in terms of lithography than Joan and Zena, being just two colors on the coach and 2 on the frame.  No window decoration , just square holes cut out, quite basic,even for Marx.  However, in this case, Marx offered an electric engine choice for their low priced line along with clockwork while Hornby (best I have been able to find out) did not offer an electric M0 set.  It's fun to compare what all the manufacturers were doing to struggle to stay in business during those dark economic times (in fact Ives did not make it but went bankrupt and the "Chicago" American Flyer Company was sold to A.C.Gilbert who eventually moved operations to Connecticut ).  Anyway like you I find the old sets fun to look at and see run. 

Best Wishes, Don

Santa Fe hudson pulling out.

Santa Fe hudson with passenger train at 60 mph

A couple of New York Centrals finest meet up........under a Pennsylvania signal bridge????............

At dusk. I managed to catch them stopping to pick up weary travelers. **** crossing bell ruined my shot lol!

Safety first, I guess.

Great videos!!! Actually Rick, the crossing bell adds a nice level of realism to the shot. I regularly find myself in Katonah, NY where there is a Metro-North grade level crossing right in the middle of town. When a train pulls into the station, you can hear the bell loud and clear!!!

Postwar Texas Special F=3 AB units with K-Line Texas Special streamliners.

   All Aboard

Local pulls out of Sandusky.

Pete

Lionel AMFLEET approaching NYC via HellGate Bridge on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Sunday excursion bound for Tuscaloosa.

Here's my latest display of some of my passenger trains including K Line, MTH, and Lionel. Enjoy.

Lew Schneider

I love the passenger trains everyone!

I agree with @Hent05 , the more I see of these gorgeous photographs and videos, I have the urge to buy more! haha

Bryce

Commuter trains.

George

Here comes the Spirit of St. Louis with 15 inch cars.  And right behind it are some more streamliners from my collection.

Lew

Wow, page 7 of Beautiful Passenger trains. Great thread, I’ll need to go back to the beginning to check all of them out. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Passenger trains are my favorite! Especially when they come in a blue and gold box!

Lionel Amfleet on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

Early experimentation with my video camera:

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

Early experimentation with my video camera:

Rusty

Beautiful video (and train) Rusty. Could you tell me what type of camera you got??? Thanks.

Lionel MPC N&W J Class No. 611 pulling the Powhatan Arrow on my Prewar layout with O72 vintage tubular track. I was certainly excited when I purchased these back in 1981. 

@Apples55 posted:

Beautiful video (and train) Rusty. Could you tell me what type of camera you got??? Thanks.

Canon Vixia HF G20.

Rusty

Rusty, I love your video, and your Sante Fe passenger train, Beautiful... Thank You 

@Rusty Traque posted:

Canon Vixia HF G20.

Rusty

Thanks Rusty.

MTH Amtrak Genesis

New Haven "Merchants Limited," wb, Cumberland on CONUS Lines.

I just got this train together. I really like it. The Wabash Fallen Flags set from 1986.