Rattler21, and 3Rail, amazing pictures of beautiful passenger Trains, passenger cars. Wow. I’m just getting my City of Denver observation car back from Royz Trains with LED lighting enhancements, his work is excellent. Happy Railroading Everyone 
Amtrak arriving/departing Grand Central Terminal
Some French steam action today!
Bryce
@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:Some French steam action today!
Bryce
That is one beautiful train, Bryce.
Northwest Limited
D&H PA1 on the point of a three car passenger train. 
The Santa Fe Super Chief makes a brief station stop in Terryville on its way to Union Station in Christopolis.
First set is a smoking Marx 333 and repurposed Marx passenger cars. Second set is a K-Line/Marx 333 with Marx NYC passenger cars.
@Apples55 posted:That is one beautiful train, Bryce.
Thank you Paul! She is one of my favorites.
Bryce
To all the posters today especially with videos, the trains and layouts are terrific.
@jhz563 posted:Not a usual contributor to this thread, but I think this fits..
It fits perfectly! I think tinplate is underrepresented in this thread.
You have beautiful locos and passenger cars
Bryce
HI everyone, great passenger trains all. Before I make my contribution let me say...leapinlarry-great observation car, bet the lights really look good in a darkened room. W&W - beautiful picture. Oscaletrainlover - WOW! what a magnificent French train, what are the particulars on its make / model. jhz563- Watch out, you will get thrown out of the "small engine club" if you keep double heading tinplate...really neat work. Trumptrain - a classic picture of the D&H PA's. Randy - we share a bit of interest, my layout like yours is sort of a 50's toy train roll back, really nice work. The Lionel fluted Al cars look great.
OK Here is the back story on my pictures today. We had use of the toy train time machine and leaped back to the 1930's on the Leonardtown and Savannah. Its 1932-35 and we are looking at a Gerard Model Works, Joy Line, CW passenger train. The Gerard Model works was taken over my Marx just a year or so later and became the foundation of Marx trains. Louis Marx had acted as the sole distributor for their products for a number of years and when they declared bankruptcy, Louis and is brother acquired 100% of their assets (51% Louis and 49% to his brother). Of course the rest is history...
Here is a view of the head end power. CW motor (key is on other side) ready to start this heavyweight consist on its trip to the big city.
Here is a full view of the "Joy Line Express" leaving the terminal
Here we see the observation car just passing out of sight.
Happy weekend all, keep healthy
Don
@Don McErlean posted:Oscaletrainlover - WOW! what a magnificent French train, what are the particulars on its make / model.
Happy weekend all, keep healthy
Don
Don,
Thank you and might I say that is a fine looking passenger set you have there!
This is a 2-3-1 Chapelon Pacific (MTH 20-3344-1), they were used from 1923-1960s. I found a great French mini-movie about these beauties on YouTube. The 5 car OCEM passenger set is (MTH 20-60019). If I am not mistaken, these passenger cars were used in the 1950s-1980s (hopefully someone can verify this for me).
Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Bryce
In honor of Election Day today, MTH 4449 makes a run with matching fantasy passenger cars.
Bryce : the American Freedom Train...what a great set and to me a fabulous memory. I personally visited and toured the train on one its many stops throughout the US. I used to have (may still have but its likely in storage) a Durham battery powered set that tried to imitate the AFT , not really to scale, all plastic and ran on plastic track, and all we had was one oval. But hey it was RED/WHITE/& BLUE and fascinated my kids at the time so it was "good enough" ...yours is beautiful , great set.
Don McErlean
I recently ran my GM&O "Abraham Lincoln" pax train on the club's layout and was fortunate to have a videographer capture some scenes for me to share.
This set was one of several early paint projects in the early '90s I completed before I put away the trains for a couple of decades. The livery was one of Rich Sherry's favorites for his many midwestern customers who had him repaint LIONEL PW F-3's in this and other road names not made by LIONEL and later MTH. I was lucky that Rich befriended me and taught me a little about how to paint and decorate LIONEL PW F units. Rich was featured in an early VHS from Tuohy and McComas, and passed far too early--wonderful painter--better Husband, Father, and friend.
EDIT: OOPs, I seem to have misplaced a photo of the F3 A unit.
Found the photo of the A unit.
Scratch one from the bucket list. I’ll get to add the GGD Santa Fe sleeper in a month.
In honor of the Army-Navy Football game today: A GG1 pulls a game day special to Philadelphia
Go Army, Beat Navy!
O Scale Train Lover : Don't know if you knew this, but in the 1950's when the PRR was the undisputed king of passenger rail on the east coast, their largest single day number of passenger moves was....The Army - Navy game, from everywhere to Franklin Field in Philadelphia. I can remember going with my Dad, and when you left the stadium there were all these trains lined up on sidings next to the stadium and (normally) a beautiful GG1 on point, and each train would have a big sign up near the engine giving the destination (ours was Newark, NJ) . The signs reflected every big town or city up and down the electrified corridor. What a sight.
Don
Couple of old ones..
@Don McErlean posted:O Scale Train Lover : Don't know if you knew this, but in the 1950's when the PRR was the undisputed king of passenger rail on the east coast, their largest single day number of passenger moves was....The Army - Navy game, from everywhere to Franklin Field in Philadelphia. I can remember going with my Dad, and when you left the stadium there were all these trains lined up on sidings next to the stadium and (normally) a beautiful GG1 on point, and each train would have a big sign up near the engine giving the destination (ours was Newark, NJ) . The signs reflected every big town or city up and down the electrified corridor. What a sight.
Don
Don,
Yes! Being an avid fan of the Black Knights and trains I did know that the PRR ran the most passenger moves for the Army-Navy game. It amazes me how Greenwich freight yard transformed into a passenger station one day a year, it really shows how powerful the railroads were back in those days. Thank you for sharing that wonderful memory, it must have been really something to see a fleet of engines from the "Standard Railroad of the World." Newark, NJ you say? Greetings from a fellow New Jerseyan!
Bryce
Pennsy MU cars. 
Some of my passenger sets.
Budd cars, set of modern era 400 & 404, postwar 400 & 404 sets, Amtrak set and Canadian National sets.
Bottom pic is some of my other passenger sets. I have several more sets to be posted later.
@Trussman posted:
Some of my passenger sets.
That is a VERY impressive collection of passenger trains!!!
@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:Some French steam action today!
Bryce
Bryce, she's a beauty !
Too bad I could never find any of the MTH DR/DB engines, talk about an impulse buy 
But I've got a number of HO EU sets so...
@jhz563 posted:Not a usual contributor to this thread, but I think this fits..
Awsome double header set - looks like custom front couple there...
I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it here, SantiagoP23 is certifiably dangerous. The combination of his modeling, video skills, and production values inevitably forces me to fight an intense desire to reach for my wallet.
This thread is a terrific collection of passenger train modeling, collecting, and display making, and I appreciate all that I've seen here. Still, in my not so humble opinion, Santiago is simply the best of the best.
- Mike
B&O passenger train running on a slow signal.
@Mike Casatelli posted:I've said this elsewhere and I'll say it here, SantiagoP23 is certifiably dangerous. The combination of his modeling, video skills, and production values inevitably forces me to fight an intense desire to reach for my wallet.
This thread is a terrific collection of passenger train modeling, collecting, and display making, and I appreciate all that I've seen here. Still, in my not so humble opinion, Santiago is simply the best of the best.
- Mike
Thanks a lot, Mike! Glad you enjoy the work.
More great photos of neat cars and great modeling from Santiagop23.
Patrick W, I really enjoyed your "slow signal" video, and the view angle showed your buildings well.
Commuter operations on the corridor!
With 9 pages to this thread, maybe I've posted in here before, sorry if I have.
Here are the few I run on my On30 layout. I can only run one car passenger trains as my Accucraft passenger cars are too big for the 'S' curve I'd originally built for Bachmann coaches:
This is older shot as I have since changed the locomotive.
These are newer:
The above coach is ET&WNC number 23. It wasn't on the RR by '43, but it's the only coach I ever saw in person, as the Tweetsie Diner at Newland, NC. I saw it as a kid but sadly it burned down a few years later.
This is Linville River number 4. It's the only LR lettered coach on the property during WW2.
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