There is a beautiful set of Milwaukee Road cars on eBay right now. They are listed under "Phoenix Milwaukee."
I own a set of Milwaukee Road Phoenix Railways cars that I purchased on ebay. Beautiful set!
Bob Nelson
Plenty of threads with information and photos on the forum. Just do a basic search for Phoenix Railways, with a sampling of results shown in this screenshot.
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@navy.seal posted:I own a set of Milwaukee Road Phoenix Railways cars that I purchased on ebay. Beautiful set!
Bob Nelson
Bob, what loco have you matched up to your Phoenix Milwaukee cars?
Back in 1993, I ordered a set of Phoenix cars, in Rock Island. Well, they came with just Railroad Roman lettering, so I got just about the last RI O scale decals from Caboose Hobbies, some Goo-Gone, and re-lettered them. I sold them in 2013 to some museum layout somewhere.
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@BlueComet400 posted:Bob, what loco have you matched up to your Phoenix Milwaukee cars?
I run mine with the MTH/LCT reproduction of the prewar 250E, 4-4-2 class A Atlantic. The colors are not a match, but the look and feel works well.
I was lucky enough to find a loco with a can motor. Replacing Proto 2 with a Cruise Commander from Electric Railroad made a good running train. I also put a knuckle coupler on the rear of the tender.
@RoyBoy posted:I run mine with the MTH/LCT reproduction of the prewar 250E, 4-4-2 class A Atlantic. The colors are not a match, but the look and feel works well.
I was lucky enough to find a loco with a can motor. Replacing Proto 2 with a Cruise Commander from Electric Railroad made a good running train. I also put a knuckle coupler on the rear of the tender.
RoyBoy, when I first saw these cars a few years ago, I thought the same thing: they would look good behind the 250E; they have just enough of a tinplate look to them. I recently acquired the cars, and more recently, the Pride Lines version of that loco. Someday I'd like to find one like yours. It's not an exact color match, but it's close.
If I keep the loco, I'll need to put a knuckle coupler on the tender; here it is running with the tender wired to the baggage car.
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RoyBoy, what radius curves are you running your Phoenix / MTH Hiawatha on? Please post a video of yours running if you have one. Thanks!
I'm video challenged. 
My outer loop is O-72 and my inner loop is O-54.
No switches on either loop, so everything runs fine, just the way I like it.
Thanks. Before checking back here, I tested mine on O54 and the cab just barely clears the tender. I had always thought of this as requiring O72, which would probably be the case with the tinplate cars and vestibules, but I'm glad it will work as I also have both 54 and 72.
Yes. The O-72 requirement was for the articulated passenger cars, not the loco and tender.
