@Chris Burkhalter posted:Ok…so while taking a long weekend I visited a hobby shop…and stumbled on to unobtainium!
OMGOMGOMGOMG!
Nice find.
Congrats.
@Bill Park posted:
The New Haven only had baby Trainmasters. I had this Williams Train Master in another livery and decided to redo it in NH even if there were no such proto types. I selected this paint scheme since it was simple. This will give you what a TM might have looked like if the NH had ever purchased some.
So I picked this Williams up with an unlabeled box. I think it’s an H16, but mind confirming for me? See the black and orange NH locomotive in the background to the left.
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New Haven Railroad Alco S-2 diesel switcher #0615 with four NH “McGinnis logo” boxcars and caboose pass through the narrow curved cut on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.
MELGAR
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@Chris Burkhalter posted:So I picked this Williams up with an unlabeled box. I think it’s an H16, but mind confirming for me? See the black and orange NH locomotive in the background to the left.
That's a GP-7. The tapered ends on the body are a dead giveaway.
FM did a more rounded body. This is a H-16-44
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@RSJB18 posted:That's a GP-7. The tapered ends on the body are a dead giveaway.
FM did a more rounded body. This is a H-16-44
Oh cool, thank you!
Picked these beauties up today. My first New Haven engines! Very cool looking. Anyone know what train these pulled? I know Atlas is making some heavyweight passengers would those go with these?
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Nice. I have one A unit coming.
Not sure which cars it pulled.
Xavi, those New Haven PA units of yours are gorgeous.
I have similar looking New Haven PAs, shown in the video below:
Mine are MTH PS3 units hauling Williams New Haven passenger cars. Arnold
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@Arnold D. Cribari great video, and your PAs look awesome. I going to hunt down some passenger cars as well, Thanks for sharing.
@Xavi_SF3600 posted:Picked these beauties up today. My first New Haven engines! Very cool looking. Anyone know what train these pulled? I know Atlas is making some heavyweight passengers would those go with these?
See attached link. Mainly Passenger trains on the Shore Line New Haven to Boston when in this paint Scheme. In later years After repainting pulled everything including freight.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alcomike/8160169618
BTW only 27 A-units no B's.
@MainLine Steam thank you Jim! I’ll have to hunt down some passenger cars.
@Xavi_SF3600 posted:@MainLine Steam thank you Jim! I’ll have to hunt down some passenger cars.
K-Line and MTH both made Silver Streamlined Cars painted in the McGinnis Scheme (Mid 1950's onward, Black Roofs with Orange Window Stripe). Kind of funny but when those cars were new they where delivered with Green Window Stripes. So to be correct, for this Orange Paint Paint scheme Loco, you would need to repaint the window stripe Green. Or could leave them Orange since they would match better.
Williams GP-38 with Menards boxcars and PW Lionel
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An Alco RS-3 heads a revenue freight through Scranton Pa on my fictitious NYNH&H NYO&W railroad. This is the end of the line and the train is on the reverse loop that starts it back toward New Haven, an 11 minute journey.
On the New Haven reverse loop, an Alco R-1 mountain type makes the turn to head back toward Scranton Pa.
@Bill Park posted:On the New Haven reverse loop, an Alco R-1 mountain type makes the turn to head back toward Scranton Pa.
Wow you have a really gorgeous layout! Gorgeous mountain there!
A chance meet up when a New Haven Mountain No. 3507 heads a revenue freight through the village of Maybrook while going back toward New Haven is Hudson type I-5 No. 1409 trying to maintain that schedule and keep those passengers happy.
@Bill Park posted:A chance meet up when a New Haven Mountain No. 3507 heads a revenue freight through the village of Maybrook while going back toward New Haven is Hudson type I-5 No. 1409 trying to maintain that schedule and keep those passengers happy.
I love that I-4! Will be getting my I-5 upgraded to have fan-driven smoke as well 
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I just came across video on Youtube; I don't know if it was shared before. When I saw "New Haven" I thought of Peter and this thread, and here it is (a very neat model RR).
@Bill Park posted:A chance meet up when a New Haven Mountain No. 3507 heads a revenue freight through the village of Maybrook while going back toward New Haven is Hudson type I-5 No. 1409 trying to maintain that schedule and keep those passengers happy.
Nice crossing gates.......
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Xavi, That orange PA is stunning. As far as proper passenger cars. When I first received my I5 I had nothing to run behind it. I believe the Flyer cars were a ways away from being delivered. The NH ran through trains from Boston to DC. Changing out to Pennsy power in NY City. The Senator is one that comes to mind. There was plenty available Pennsy cars and that’s what I went with. I bought some GGD coaches. Do your research as there are many good books available as well as a great historical society for information.
The New Haven was famous for stringing whatever passenger cars were available for service. I grew up on the New Haven to Springfield mainline in Meriden and witnessed all sort of consists. The books on the New Haven echo the same. You could see any combination of old heavyweights (sometimes called varnish)with American Flyer coaches, stainless and some rebuilds, normally black. So almost any combination is prototypical as I have on this train.
@Dave_C and @Bill Park thank you for sharing. I will look into those options and I will post a video of the engines sometime soon.
@DMASSO posted:Nice. I have one A unit coming.
Not sure which cars it pulled.
I'm expecting one of the New Haven PA models to be on my railroad in a few days.
Only the first 10 New Haven Alco PAs, delivered in 1948, were painted in the warm orange-hunter green (upper body)-silver pinstripe paint scheme. By 1949, new PAs were again being painted in the green-gold scheme. Consulting my New Haven Railroad library, there are just a few pictures that show PAs in the orange-green-silver pinstripe scheme with passenger cars. It appears that they did pull heavyweight passenger cars and the New Haven's new post war stainless steel cars with fluted sides and green window band. As far as existing O gauge models are concerned, the prewar Osgood-Bradley hunter green "American Flyer" cars (models by Weaver) would have been in service when the PAs wore the orange-green-silver pinstripe scheme, but I found no photo to verify that.
MELGAR
@Paul Kallus posted:I just came across video on Youtube; I don't know if it was shared before. When I saw "New Haven" I thought of Peter and this thread, and here it is (a very neat model RR).
Thanks, Paul…….it’s great. I’ll have to ask Brian about this layout when I see him at York……..he’s a fixture in the Orange Hall (right across from Bobs TRAINZ 4 U).
Peter
Those EP-5s in Hunter Green are sharp……..a good looking fantasy scheme…….
I also use my McGinnis FAs to pull passenger trains…..like the NH did.
Peter
Found these photos from 2011 at our annual display at the Chesterfield County Fair…….we set up tomorrow for our 15th year there……
Peter
You gotta love the Lionel traditional FA Alco (1962 catalog version) with 21” K-Line streamliners!
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I'm pleased to see continuing posts of the New Haven Railroad in this thread.
New Haven Railroad #0668 is a model of an Alco RS-1 made by Atlas O (6888-2, MSRP $429.95) in 2004. Shown on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad.
MELGAR
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@Xavi_SF3600 posted:Anyone know what train these pulled?
With further checking, I came across a photo of a New Haven Alco PA in the warm orange-hunter green-silver gray pinstripe paint scheme pulling The Yankee Clipper through Providence, RI in 1950. The passenger cars are clad in fluted stainless steel with dark (or hunter) green window band. They are similar to the MTH model of Bunker Hill shown below in the McGinnis scheme with block NH logo from the mid 1950s but they have a dark green window band and New Haven script logos instead of the block McGinnis NH logo.
In my opinion, any type of New Haven passenger cars are OK on an O gauge railroad but the type of cars described above would be prototypical behind these new PAs from Mister Muffin... My new PA will run with the type of car shown below, and also with New Haven heavyweight and "American Flyer" cars.
MELGAR
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Like Mel says, fluted steel streamliners with Hunter Green window bands……..MTH did them at least twice, last time 2020 Vol1.
I have never seen them for resale…….unfortunately…….
Maybe they’ll be made again, someday.
Speaking of remakes, I think the time is ripe for an EP-5 remake………
Peter
@Putnam Division posted:Like Mel says, fluted steel streamliners with Hunter Green window bands……..MTH did them at least twice, last time 2020 Vol1.
I have never seen them for resale…….unfortunately…….
Maybe they’ll be made again, someday.
Speaking of remakes, I think the time is ripe for an EP-5 remake………
Peter
I would by another EP-5 too. I also didn't know that MTH made the stainless steel cars with dark green window band. I believe those arrived in 1948 and were considered lightweight construction similar to the prewar "American Flyer" cars.
MELGAR
We're the passenger cars with green window band ever made?
@DMASSO posted:We're the passenger cars with green window band ever made?
Good point.........the only thing I remeber is that I don't remeber them being cancelled......
Peter
More photos from 2011......this is when my 6x16 layout was relatively new......I seem to be comparing a Premier New Haven ABA FA, with the O27 LCCA ABA Lionel FA.....
Have a great week, everyone......and, long live the New Haven!!!!
Peter
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Checking a "hot" wheel...
Second picture taken in Hyannis, MA
Third picture taken by my grandfather at the "Charles
Street Yard" in Providence circa mid-1950's...appears to be a PA to the right...
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My new New Haven FA from Mr. Muffins.
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Front end shot.
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@DMASSO sweet engine! I expect my engines this weekend.
Thank you Peter.
