@cnwdon This sounds like a great Alaska RR addition, but I can't see the photographs.
Sorry, I have quite a few MTH Railking Pennsylvania Tuscan Red Passenger Cars but they're all boxed up since I'm just starting to be able to get back to working on the layout after getting healed up on the outside surface from successful Prostrate Cancer Surgery earlier this year. I'm still not ready internally to get underneath and finish up the wiring needed to be done to have the layout operational. I tried that one day and learned that out the hard way in a hurry. I got to wait a bit longer before trying that again. 🙄😬
I’m glad you are on the mend, Gary. Pace yourself.
@Mark Boyce posted:I’m glad you are on the mend, Gary. Pace yourself.
Thank you Mark!
Well just for fun, nothing to compare with the great scale trains shown above, but here is the Marx Seaboard FM diesels and their matching Pullman cars from 1955-1962, including the somewhat hard to find matching observation car.
A front quarter close up of Marx's interpretation of the FM diesel locomotive AA .
"There she goes! " This is the view of the departing train and a good view of the observation car.
Best Wishes, happy passenger train's
Don
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Seaboard Express passing through local station.
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Finally unboxed my complete Lionel Norfolk southern Business train , Heres a video of it
WOW! What a beautiful train. Glad you got her up and running. Pretty smart to place cardboard strips under the Fastrak to help cut the noise...
@Don McErlean posted:....here is the Marx Seaboard FM diesels and their matching Pullman cars from 1955-1962, including the somewhat hard to find matching observation car.
@Don McErlean That is a nice set. Brings back a memory of when I went to a TTOS show in California with my brother. He would take his small Marx only 3'X6' table to the shows and run mostly pre-war Marx. But I remember this colorful set, although I remember him running freight cars behind it.
@CAPPilot - Thank you for the kind words and the great background story. You are correct, Marx, especially in later years, never paid too much attention to whether a locomotive was normally passenger or freight. He was selling toys and whatever appealed to his customers ... you got. The Seaboard Diesels (so called FM diesels) were sold in both electric and clockwork and available as an AA, ABA, and A unit alone with both passenger cars and freight cars. Also with Marx, most of the items were also available as separate sales items and you could make up your own "set". The "B" unit by the way, which I do not have, was made in 1962 only and is considered the most scarce of any of the "FM" series components.
Thanks again for posting!
Don
Super Chief loading up and ready to depart
- walt
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