The New Haven Railroad

Well, it was over a year before I broke down and bought these Conventional Classics:

 

 

And now, a little bit of S-HiRail posed on scale track:

 

 

 

 

A Lionel/Flyer EP5:

 

And a hunk of repainted Flyer:

 

Rusty (WHITE Sox fan, sorta...)

My New Haven EP5 was mechanically sound when I bought it, but cosmetically speaking, it was in need of a makeover. I made one stock shell, and the other to duplicate the version seen at the 1955 Toy Fair. I made the nose decals myself after being dissatisfied with commercially available versions. The 2350 is one of my quietest, smoothest runners, with a very reliable horn. It works more like a brand new loco than one that's 60 years old.

 

Peter:

 

My first taste of the big stuff was when we took my dad to the Railroad Station and it was serviced by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. This made a lasting impression on me. Back in those days the engines were painted in the olive green color with gold lettering. Thanks for this thread. It brought back good memories this morning.

Hi everyone,  This sure brings back memories of the Bridgeport, CT RR Station for me.  Taking the New Haven RR to the 1939-40 World's Fair, meeting at the telephone booths and then off to New Haven to be inducted into the USAF, going to Yankee Stadium and lots of trips to Grand Central Terminal.

The New Haven is one of the four railroads that interchange on my Not-So-Great Eastern R.R. Attached are some photos of K-Line coaches that i made into an Osgood Bradley coach and an Osgood Bradley cafe car. Also if anyone is interested i have a dummy Rail King PA in NH livery for sale in the Buy Sell section.

jackson

 

 

 

 

When I move into the new digs I will be glade to post my New Haven in a week or two my trains that are in Atlanta should be here in Fredericksburg VA. They are like long lost friends. But hopefully after the fearless leader give me the ok, down to the basement to produce my version of the Crappy basement layout, cant wait. I degress  I have an ABA NH Dealer set, NH jet scale, E33. after Conrail came we started to see some NH engines going throw Philly on the Northeast Corridor, loved the jets still in NH colors, did not see the ABA units but the E33,s and the Jets were frequent visters.

John

Love those Osgood-Bradley cars!  I wish someone would make 18" versions.  Great job, Jackson!

I too wish someone would make a semi scale I-5 Hudson with semi-scale Osgood-Bradley cars!

 

Peter

 

 

Ah......the hunter green and gold.....one of my favorite liveries!  I am toying with getting one of the announced MTH Premier EP-5s in Hunter Green.......I do not think they ever were in that livery.......but, I already have the K-Line McGinnis EP-5.

 

Peter

Railking:

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTH EP-3:

 

 

 

Well, this one is based on a NH prototype anyway!

 

Jim

They look beautiful, do you have any tips/suggestions on making your EP5 quiet and smooth runner? Also what was your process in making the nose decals?

Thank you!

I keep hoping Bachmann will produce a scale Williams FA-1 set in the hunter green and gold.  Definitely my favorite New Haven paint scheme!

Curt

       
       

Great stuff jere. I too would love to see more green and gold but I'm not opposed to see some green and orange either.

Hi Jim, That EP-3 is really sharp.  Is your "EL" a seperate loop of track?

Here's one of the earliest post-WWII paint schemes on the recently produced DL-109-110.  Hunter green with orange.

 

 

 

 

 

Brought by Santa in 2012!

 

Peter

 

Marty,

 

Yes, it's separate. There are more photos of it in this week's "photo fun" thread.

 

Jim

Yeah but what do you do with the DL-110? New Haven never had these "b"s. If only MTH offered just the DL 109 for New Haven.

Not a lot of NH steam available. Here a few. MTH 0-8-0 switcher. Lionel Mountain. Weaver has done a nice job on the NH passenger trains. Both the I 4 and I 5 as well as the Bradley cars. The I 4 is a real looker. I'll try to snap a picture. Don't think I'll get up the nerve to weather it.

Here's our RK RS1 that have becoome a favorite. Great sounds, especially on start-up and shut-down!

Big fan of the New Haven in Boston, but only have a MTH Rectifier so far.  Here Rectifier is parked at the Gillette siding overlooking South Station yards.

 

4 New Haven engines powered 7 Postwar New Haven sets.

 

3 by the 2350 EP-5. (1956 and 57)

2 by the 2242 F3. (1958 and 59)

1 by the Alco 232. (1958)

1 by the Alco 209. (1962)

 

My dream of having the 209 NH Alco passenger set was fulfilled with the LCCA remake.

 

 

Peter

Getting a little help from the Penn Cent, gang,  janking all those Pac. Fruits around!!!

Here are some of my New haven fleet. Have more at the club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don....beautiful!

That is some New Haven Roster!

 

Peter

Thank you Peter. Here are a few more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really like those cabeese Don - especially the black ones! We have the MTH extended vison orange one. As a boy I always wanted the American Flyer NH PAs but they never materialized. Have been tempted to get the Lionel models to remind me but not yet...

Here are a few of mine at the club.

 

I have always had a soft spot for the New Haven, but it took a detailed look at the FL9 to really appreciate the history of this locomotive as well as the railroad as a whole.  I have always like the paint scheme on the EF-4s as well and have an older Williams one.

 

 

 

Another great model is Lionel's Alco C-420. This is a video of a RK & Premier double headed y6b's......but my New Haven C-420 is pulling my juice train....and it's beast......not a wimper!

 

 

Peter

My $.02 worth...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ed

Here's an interesting shot of my version of Boston's Back Bay station.  An EP5 roars in prior to electrification passing a customized Weaver RS3 pulling an MTH NH caboose.

2 more pics:

 

The 1958 F3 up close and personal:

 

 

 

Real Osgood Bradley cars......or American Flyer coaches :

 

 

Peter

I believe one of the most interesting conversions to a rail trail has New Haven heritage.

The New Haven Bridge across the Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY has recently been refurbished as the Walkway Over the Hudson. 

My photo bucket file.  Click on the underlined phrases to link.  One of my trips East to visit my daughter, in Boston, I did a slight detour off I 84 to experience this old railroad bridge.  I had my bike with me on a rainy day.  Did several back and forths on the walkway.  Uphill from Poughkeepsie to Highland(west side of the river). Wind can be an issue. I had no problems even on a rainy day.  Bikes are allowed.  No skate boards.

Mike.....I hope to do that someday.....

 

When you go to Boston, you should take a detour to Cape Cod and do the rail trail which also follows the New Haven ROW from the central Cape to Provincetown. I typically do 18-19 miles from Catham to Orleans.

 

Here a PostWar Lionel advertisement featuring the New Haven EP-5.

 

 

Peter

Last summer, my daughter took my wife and I to Martha's Vineyard for two days.  Unfortunately we didn't have the bikes with us.  We should have rented bikes.  

MTH once released thier DL109 in the all red and white Cranberry scheme one was painted to run out to the Cape on this line.

       

Modern New Haven CT.

 

I love New Haven Union Station......O gauge models of former New Haven trains are displayed.

 

 

You can just about make out the display cases on top of the benches.

 

 

 

 

Peter