PASSENGER TRAINS - Let's See Them!

@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.

Atlas F2AA pair pulling Williams 72' cars.

@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

Seaboard Express passing through local station.

Finally unboxed my complete Lionel Norfolk southern Business train , Heres a video of it

https://youtu.be/BDXK1u4A4kY?si=XIZ2Ca2FDXxBqCDc

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...

Here's our version of the 20th Century Ltd using NYC heavyweights with a Premiere RPO behind my MTH Dreyfuss

@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

Wow, nobody has posted in here since August! Let's see if we can get this thread rolling again.

Here's my recent consist of Southern Pacific Peninsula Commute between San Francisco and San Jose, CA. I saw these trains almost everyday when I was a young kid through High School in Palo Alto, CA in the '60's and 70's. The video would be of a small Commute train during midday. Morning and afternoon Commute would have up to 6 Pullman bi-level Gallery cars, sometimes with two Harriman coaches at the end as well.  With one Fairbanks Morse H-24-66 TrainMaster pulling.

Scott, the bi-level cars are really neat.  They are something I have never seen in real life.

A few new (to me) cars to fill in various holes in my passenger fleet.

GGD 12-1 in ATSF.  I have been on the hunt for one of these for a few years having to use Pullman Pool fleet cars for my heavyweight sleepers.

K-Line 10-6 Huron Rapids.  I actually plan on running this on my PC era Broadway limited, but it also goes with the classic 1948 version well too.

Since I'm on the subject of PRR cars here are some older photos of various cars.

Another Broadway Limited car in my collection which is a Walthers Kit I built of Harbor Cove.  An interesting configuration with three double bedrooms, a secretary's office, and a barber shop. 

This aluminum 10-6 from an unknown manufacturer came to me as part of the same purchase of the kit above along with several other heavyweight kits.  This L&N car ran on the South Wind and was painted in PRR colors for a period of time.

Posted last week, this is an interesting variation on the ubiquitous P70 coach of which well over 1000 were built.  Class PC70bR is a coach cafe with a short coach section, some tables in the center, and a broiler kitchen on the end.  This is a PSC brass model.  A little rough on the painting, but it has a natural weathered look to it.

This is the second one of these in my collection. The first one below is more professionally painted.

K-Line Circus Transport Railroad heavyweight set

Rail King Pennsy with Williams passenger cars with added seats and passengers.

Here’s 2 GGD T&P 14-4s - Eagle Country and Eagle Rest.  I’ve positioned them so that one can see the different window configurations for either side.

Cheers 😉