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 😉

One of 2 that I have:

- walt

@cnw4ever posted:

K-Line Circus Transport Railroad heavyweight set

Great to see another C&NW foamer’s train! I grew up in Wheaton just about 12 miles from Bartlett. Would love to visit you when I’m in Chicago area if you’re open to that. We live in Washington near Portland Oregon.  C&NW in Chicago area lives on in our basement 😌. Will come through Chicago in November as it happens.

Don

i found and purchased a Lionel 2005 UP Sound Dinning Car.  It has Kadee couplers that I need to modify back to Lionel standard.  I found the parts that will work and this will be a very nice addition to my K-LINE K1121 set.  I have not tested the sound effects yet.  Work in progress!

Here are some Hornby's for you:

A type NOE SNCF French Railway steam engine pulls 2 French Pullman cars on a "blue train" special
A

An English LMS tank engine (type 101) pulls two LMS day coaches on a branch line trip.

An English type 51 tender type steam locomotive and two type 31 coaches.

Best Wishes, Don

I didn't know whether to post these here or in the passenger train cars thread so I'll do both.  These pictures were taken while I was in the process of populating all 6 of the cars.  I can't find an image for the other cars.  I pulled the with an ABBA consist (obviously Super Chief)

- walt

Wow.  Now all you need is a Dearborn Station or LAUPT for them to depart from at sunset!  Nice work!

A few new (ish) cars to round out the fleet.

Atlas PRR Budd 10-6 to fill in the last spot on my CA Zephyr.

GGD CB&Q Baggage-Coach which finishes out my heavyweight CB&Q train.

Weaver Osgood-Bradley coach.  I'll likely use it mixed with my New Haven cars.  I really like the quality of these cars.

GGD Amfleet I in Phase VI paint.  This will complete my east coast modern Amtrak train once the 3rd Rail Genesis and Chargers are done.

Well here is one that that unlike GG1 4877 and walt rapp 's trains, has no connection with realism at all .  This is a Brimtoy passenger set from the 1950's.  The set included all these trains, an oval of track, and a highway crossing with gate type safety guards for the roadway.  The model is post nationalization in the UK (1948) as it has the "Lion and Wheel" symbol on the tender.  Its clockwork so no need for a transformer.  Its a pale imitation of a real train, but if you were a youngster in post war England in 1950 I bet you would have loved this under your  Christmas tree and played with it endlessly.

Wow! It's fun to see all this care-free modeling Here's my Key Model Imports MILW E6 AA #15 set pulling a Hiawatha train. The engines are as rare as it gets, with only two sets produced in Korea by ATM.

I have the new 777 berk from lionel love the whistle

The passenger cars are mth the paint matches perfectly

Here's my lionel f40 with Lionel & golden gate depot cars

https://youtu.be/uV7ANfrfgH8?si=p9Z-k4sefgNRpesv