The New Haven Railroad

All that New Haven is driving me nutz....I gotta stay away from this thread !

The Woodlawn Flyover in the Bronx.

 

 

I believe the bridge is 241st street in the Bronx.

 

Peter

 

Peter

How about some C-Liners.....I wish I had gotten one of the MTH ones......but I'm sure they'll come back around with another offering at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter

A project on my long to do list is converting a 1970s Rivarrossi C Liner to three rail green and gold New Haven. One of these days right.

MTH Railking F3 in McGinnis colors arrives.....

 

 

Runs great. Good sound package ( better sounding than my MTH Premier PS2 NYO&W F3. Start-up sounds are great. Smokes well. Not as detailed as a Premier engine, but very nice......the McGinnis livery rocks!

 

Peter

Enjoy Peter.

 

A couple of jet pics and a video I found on an old disc.....

 

 

PLEASE, somebody make an affordable set of these. You'll occasionally see the older Premier versions but they messed up the border between the "NH" and the side stripes.

 

 

 

 

 My idea of a 21st Century NH color scheme on a ES44AC................................

 

Regards,

Swafford

Jim, do you run conventional as well as TMCC/Legacy/DCS on your layout?

Peter,

 

Glad you revived this thread - great new photos.

 

chipset,

 

At one time, it was all three (Legacy, DCS and conventional), but in the future it will be mostly Legacy after I recover from a forced downsizing and rebuild.

 

Jim

I don't have any NH, but I always liked the Orange, Black and White color combo especially the (checkerboard?) look.

Jim, I hope your forced situation wasn't too awfully drastic.  Your layout was quite amazing and I hope you didn't have to cut out too much.  But probably the new will be even better than the old!

Hello Frank • How do you make the excellent drawings? If you use computer software, what are you using? Thanks Gary

Good Day Gary,

 

Most of the train drawings are from Michael Eby at http://trainiax.net/index.php. I digitally paint and modify the drawings in Microsoft Paint. 

 

Regards,

Swafford

The bridge in the background sloping down from right to left is 241 street. The photo is taken from 238 Street or Nereid* Avenue (they tend to run together there) bridge.

---PCJ

*(pronounced "near-EED")

Great thread, great pics! 

Alan P posted this pic:

 

 

Here are a few quick pics of my MTH FA built about 10-12 years ago.

 

 

 

 

Peter

Peter, When and where (what station) was that black & white picture taken?

I can't believe they refurbished that rust bucket across the Hudson in Poughkeepsie. 

Don't know Ed.......I just pulled it off the internet years ago......do the cars in the pic give you any hint of year?  Clearly the pic is from the electrified Shore Line......but I know not where.

 

Peter

Yup, those are the ones I was thinking of, Peter. Certain details of the paint scheme just aren't quite right, to my eye, which is odd because their EP5s in the same colors look good. Oh well!

Here are the FAs in action......I believe that the New Haven equipt them with steam generators so they could also handle an occassional passenger run....

 

 

 

Peter

I'll see your EeeP, ....and raise you a Geep !

While I (currently) do not have any New Haven locos in my stable, the name and logo are indelibly imprinted in my mind.  I grew up in Boston in the 1960s.  One of my earliest childhood memories -- of any sort -- was the cover of the Lionel 1958 catalog.  I thought the NH on the nose of that diesel was so magical, it represented something so big and powerful, something that I was absolutely thrilled to see when I had the occasion to witness a real train around my home or in the city.

 

- Mike

 

 

Mike......I clearly remember getting that catalog in winter 58.......I was home, sick in bed with tonsillitis.....my Dad brought the catalog to me to look out and asked me to pick out the train I would ask Santa for........I picked the New Haven F3 freight set.....funny how that happens.....

 

Peter

I am just curious; with all of these NH modellers, has anyone built the rather unique short blade semaphores for their layout?

 

Lou N

One interesting bit of New Haven trivia:

 

Although they sometimes appeared pulling Hartford line passenger trains, the New Haven R-1-a Mountain class did not run in Shore Line passenger service. This was because they could not negotiate the slip switches at South Station in Boston.

 

Also, according to my uncle who worked for NH at the time, the L-1 2-10-2 'Santa Fe' locos were limited to 25mph because of wheel counterbalancing problems. This was lowered to 15mph on swing/draw/lift bridges due to that counterbalance problem causing the wheels to hammer the bridges so hard the operators were afraid the bridges would come apart. They threatend to open the bridges and walk out if the speed on these monsters wasn't lowered.

 

 

All my New Haven engines & cars are on the shelves.

 

 

These cars were custom painted from the Burlington set back in the 80's

Nice photos and videos all. Thanks for posting

ALL NEW HAVEN FANS:

 

I have decided that tomorrow will be New Haven Day.......I'll be running trains from 0900-1400 hrs on the modular display layout.

 

I have assembled:

 

MTH DL109-110 combo; Premier FA ABA; RailKing F3 ABA; Railking Hudson

 

Lionel C-420 and LCCA 1958 ALCO remake

K-Line EP-5

 

3 NH passenger sets (MTH, Lionel & Atlas)

 

2 freights of cars from all manufacturers

 

 

 

 

Pics and videos to follow!

 

Peter

If we were closer, we would have joined you. 

Missed this thread the first time around so, Peter, thanks for bringing it up again.  Hope you had a great time...the trains are beautiful...

 

Alan

Got lots of pics and videos to sort out this week......here's a sample:

 

 

 

 

 

Peter

1st video uploaded......the Merchant's Ltd crossing a stone viaduct on the shore line:

 

 

Peter

Hello Peter • Nice job with YT Video.

Al looks well on the Hew Haven Line.
• Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway.

Video number 2.....a meeting engagement......sorry, it won't embed...

 

 

http://youtu.be/BPQ0wfe-jVc

 

Peter

I just wish someone would do an affordable (<-key word there) model of an EMD FL-9. The only EMD cab unit New Haven ever owned.

 

Having grown up along the New Haven, I really get tired of seeing F3's & F7's, in every scale, painted up in the McGinnis scheme and thrown out there as "close enough". If they're going to do that, at least stick a 3-axle truck on the rear.

 

And why, when they did the DL109's, couldn't MTH stick an A-A DL109 set in the box? Instead of an A-B with a DL110, which again, NH never owned?

 

/vent