Pennsylvania R.R. Let's see them!

@leapinlarry posted:

Ok, let’s have some Pennsylvania Today. Happy Sunday Eve everyone… Here is the GG1 that will be pulling my Congressional 7 car passenger train, soon. Happy Railroading Everyone

Back at you Larry some Williams with Railking Passenger cars, Railking PS-1 Mallet moving some hoppers.

Hagd and thanks for the post Mark

@Sitka posted:

Back at you Larry some Williams with Railking Passenger cars, Railking PS-1 Mallet moving some hoppers.

Hagd and thanks for the post Mark

Keep those bogies rollin' Mark! WTG!

@RSJB18 posted:

A 44 tonner backing down to couple on to a loaded box car.

Bob

Love this scene and photo, being a lover of 44 ton center cab diesels, like you, Bob.

My favorite is my MTH Premier PS3 NY Ontario & Western 44 ton center cab diesel.

A similar looking 44 tonner ran on The Put: a Wellsville, Addison & Galeton. A color photo of it, in very attractive orange/yellow and white livery, appears on page 39 of Forgotten Railroads of Westchester County. I would buy an O Gauge model of that 44 tonner in a heartbeat. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Love this scene and photo, being a lover of 44 ton center cab diesels, like you, Bob.

My favorite is my MTH Premier PS3 NY Ontario & Western 44 ton center cab diesel.

A similar looking 44 tonner ran on The Put: a Wellsville, Addison & Galeton. A color photo of it, in very attractive orange/yellow and white livery, appears on page 39 of Forgotten Railroads of Westchester County. I would buy an O Gauge model of that 44 tonner in a heartbeat. Arnold

Thanks Arnold. Mine's a Williams with Tru-blast sounds. A good runner for a conventional loco. I'm on the hunt for a LIRR 44 ton with command control. The prices on these are nuts so until the right deal comes along......

Bob

@Sitka posted:

Back at you Larry some Williams with Railking Passenger cars, Railking PS-1 Mallet moving some hoppers.

Hagd and thanks for the post Mark

Alright Mark.......I can't recall seeing a video from your layout.     Nice

PRR Tug Boat

Spruced up pair of PRR (Menards) ore cars. I added real loads to cover up the REALLY FAKE plastic ones.

I used to have this car and sold it. Then a few weeks ago, I got another one at a local TCA auction for $20.  I got rid of the original one because I prefer the 21" business cars and am mostly transitioned to 2 rail for PRR, but this was a price I couldn't pass up.

@GG1 4877 posted:

I used to have this car and sold it. Then a few weeks ago, I got another one at a local TCA auction for $20.  I got rid of the original one because I prefer the 21" business cars and am mostly transitioned to 2 rail for PRR, but this was a price I couldn't pass up.

Jonathan,

Is that the K-Line business car? I have a K-Line that’s longer than the 18” cars; and the lighting is much brighter.

@RSJB18 posted:

Spruced up pair of PRR (Menards) ore cars. I added real loads to cover up the REALLY FAKE plastic ones.

These are about the most realistic looking loads on ore cars that I've ever seen Bob. Kudos.

@RSJB18 posted:

Spruced up pair of PRR (Menards) ore cars. I added real loads to cover up the REALLY FAKE plastic ones.

A job well done! Looking Great! Those ore cars by chance are they the same size as Lionel, or K-Line Thanks

Mark

@pennsyfan--Bob, Beautiful looking tug!

Tom

Passengers ready to board.

@Sitka posted:

Passengers ready to board.

Great shot!

@pennsyfan posted:

PRR Tug Boat

Did you make that tug out of a kit? water also look well done. Mark

@Sitka posted:

Did you make that tug out of a kit? water also look well done. Mark

Thanks Mark, I should be so talented. The tug is a Lionel product. I created the water using Woodland Scenics pellets and various coloring.

I just got this MTH RK Alco RS1 in East Penn Railway (EPRY) livery. Though not PRR per se, she represents an interesting part of PRR history:

Here's the most recent prototype photo I could find on rrpicturearchives.net, taken in 2021:

This locomotive was originally built for the Washington Terminal Company (WATC) in December of 1948. WATC was established in 1901 by B&O and PRR's wholly-owned subsidiary PB&W to operate Washington D.C.'s Union Station. WATC actually owned Union Station, which was built in 1907, and about 5 miles of switching track for servicing passenger trains at the station and other passenger trains that went through the immediate area. So this locomotive likely performed switching duties at and near Union Station for quite a few years. She was even repainted in PB&W livery at some point while still in WATC service at Union Station. After the PC bankruptcy and Amtrak takeover of US passenger rail service, she went through two regional railroads, New Hope & Ivyland in 1971 and Black River & Western in 1974 before eventually ending up at EPRY, which was established in the 1990's and operated on former PRR trackage.  In 2007, EPRY and Penn Eastern Rail Lines (PRL) merged to form East Penn Railroad (ESPN) and #57 came with the merger. Today, ESPN operates on about 114 miles of unconnected sections of former PRR and Reading trackage, with a locomotive assigned to each section. I don't think #57's in revenue service with ESPN now, as the information with the photo above indicates that she is in "private ownership." I hope the owner figures out how to get her running in excursion service, or something similar. Perhaps she can go back to the New Hope Railroad near Philadelphia which is where she first ended up after leaving WATC service in 1971.

@Bill Swatos

i agree, definitely belongs here! Thanks for the historical information.

WTG Bill! nice looking engine and Great Historic info. Agree with pennsyfan this is a perfect place, for that diesel. Well one thing missing a video of that work horse pounding the rails

@Sitka posted:

A job well done! Looking Great! Those ore cars by chance are they the same size as Lionel, or K-Line Thanks

Mark

Not sure Mark. I have a MTH car which is larger.

@RSJB18 posted:

Not sure Mark. I have a MTH car which is larger.

Thanks been looking at some Pennsy ore car from Menards I have a k-line that is a little bigger then my lionel Thank for sharing HAGD Mark

@Sitka posted:

WTG Bill! nice looking engine and Great Historic info. Agree with pennsyfan this is a perfect place, for that diesel. Well one thing missing a video of that work horse pounding the rails

Well, here ya go Mark! I sneaked out of the house last night on my bike, slipped under the fence and caught this:

(I think the crew might have called the dispatcher but I got away before the night watchman caught me)

@Bill Swatos posted:

Well, here ya go Mark! I sneaked out of the house last night on my bike, slipped under the fence and caught this:

(I think the crew might have called the dispatcher but I got away before the night watchman caught me)

Nice looking Diesel Bill, nice buy, thought I seen a Railroad detective coming up on your 6, How did you make out on that PW F3?

@Bill Swatos posted:

Well, here ya go Mark! I sneaked out of the house last night on my bike, slipped under the fence and caught this:

(I think the crew might have called the dispatcher but I got away before the night watchman caught me)

@Sitka posted:

Nice looking Diesel Bill, nice buy, thought I seen a Railroad detective coming up on your 6, How did you make out on that PW F3?

I never saw such adolescent behavior.

I sure hope that RR detective didn't catch up to you two though .

I loaded my Atlas PRSL cars with passengers and coupled them up to my newly painted PRSL 6016.

GG1 running lite with caboose.  

Just finished a PRR MTH 19th Century stock car. I added many details that were missing on the basic car. It is painted for PRR, so I kept the original paint scheme and weathered it…

Tom

@Dallas Joseph posted:

I never saw such adolescent behavior.

I sure hope that RR detective didn't catch up to you two though .

Crime don't pay Bill

@trumpettrain posted:

GG1 running lite with caboose.  

@trumpettrain

HIT THE FLOOR AND GIVE ME 20, trumptrain!!!!!! Thats cabin car on the PRR.

According to my grandfather, a retired PRR freight conductor, the PRR had no cabooses. They had cabin cars. They all surely looked like cabooses to me. My grandfather always talked about a food item that was prepared on the cabin car wood stove referred to as "Cabin Car Goulash". As a member of the PRR Technical and Historical Society, I put out an inquiry to see if any older, surviving PRR employees that may have served during my grandfather's tenure of 42 years in the first half of the 20th century, had ever heard of this gourmet delight and had a recipe? I sparked a lot of discussion among older veterans but no exact knowledge of the culinary creation.

@pennsyfan posted:

I loaded my Atlas PRSL cars with passengers and coupled them up to my newly painted PRSL 6016.

@Krieglok posted:

Just finished a PRR MTH 19th Century stock car. I added many details that were missing on the basic car. It is painted for PRR, so I kept the original paint scheme and weathered it…

Tom

Nice paints weather job krieglok, and pennsyfan how about a still shot of that fine 6016 wtg guys

@Sitka

Here is the still shot of the PRSL AS-616

https://ogrforum.com/...5#172471169433111635

@Sitka posted:

Crime don't pay Bill

I'm pretty quick on the bike! Catch me if you can!

Lionel P.R.R. 027 Passenger cars cutting into the Mountain side.

@CSX FAN posted:

Nice.

Here's Williams version.

The Dead line... about a dozen scale K4's from Lionel, MTH, Williams, Scale-Craft etc....

MTH Q2, 3rd Rail Q1, Lionel T1. and Lionel J1

PRR local freight meets PRSL heading to the shore.

@pennsyfan posted:

PRR local freight meets PRSL heading to the shore.

Nice looking passenger cars Bob Mark

@Sitka posted:

Nice looking passenger cars Bob Mark

Thanks Mark, they’re Atlas. They do look nice but the trucks are ver fragile.