Which "Named" Passenger Trains Do You Run?

The Merchants Limited and Yankee Clipper.

NH Joe

El Capitan, 37 Super Chief, Daylight, Hiawatha  with the Empire Builder on its way in O scale, in N scale I run the El Cap, Daylight, Super chief, Daylight, Broadway Limited, TGV, and a bunch of Shinkansen trains

SP Daylight, SF El Capitan, PRR Congressional, MKT/Frisco Texas Special, NYC Empire State Express east and west bound, 19th Century ESE, 20th Century Ltd (3 eras), Pacemaker, Commodore Vanderbilt, Mercury, Ohio State Ltd., Lake Shore Ltd.

Pete

We routinely run the Stephen Express 

Broadway Ltd

Regards

Fred

I primarily like commuter operations and non-name trains, but I have in my collection or currently run the following name trains:

O scale:  1956 El Capitan   /  VIA Rail Canadian   /  Amtrak Southwest Limited   /  SP Sunset Limited / Empire State Express /  Most of a 1973-1979 Amtrak Broadway Limited 1 car at a time (missing a dorm and a lounge at this point) / CNJ Queen of the Valley (Railking sized for smaller public layouts)

HO Scale:  CNJ Queen of the Valley and pretty much any rainbow era named Amtrak train outside of the double level car trains.

N Scale:  1948 Broadway Limited  /  Custom Painted Amtrak Broadway Limited painted for about 1990.  Just missing the Slumbercoach on it.

Old photos of my Empire State Express

Queen of the Valley

Southwest Limited

El Capitan / Super Chief

Canadian (running as a second section)

Sunset Limited

When it comes to passenger trains, I'm a one trick pony. Amtrak Empire Builder, and nothing else. However, I do have four distinct versions of it from different eras.

Santa Fe El Capitan:

Texas Special:

Pioneer Zephyr:

And the little known Amtrak Prairie Schooner:

Rusty

Southern Pacific Daylight by Sunset/3rd Rail

NYC Empire State Express by K-Line

CB&Q Exposition Flyer by Golden Gate Depot.

CB&Q East End 4-car commuter train, custom painted & lettered Golden Gate Depot cars.

All 21" SCALE length cars.

lionel blue comet   mth blue comet 400e engine     

B&O Capitol Limited, PRR Congressional Special, and of course: Lionel Lines.

running

Erie RR Phoebe Snow.

Empire Builder

youngstown posted:

Erie RR Phoebe Snow.

Well,,,,,,,,the Erie Railroad did NOT have a "Phoebe Snow" passenger train! However, the DL&W sure did.

• The Blue Comet (of course)
• The Commodore Vanderbilt (streamlined)
• The Red Train
• The "Chessie" - hauled by C&O 490
• The Aerotrain
• The 20th Century Limited (unstreamlined)

The Broadway Limited in "Fleet of Modernism" livery (1938-48). This was pulled by K4s (streamlined and regular), as well as GG1s (NYC to Harrisburg). The name Broadway came from the wide span of 4 tracks, not the street in NYC.

CNJ Blue Comet; PRR Broadway Limited & Congressional; Southern Pacific Daylight; B&M Flying Yankee; UP City of Denver; Milwaukee Road Hiawatha

Norfolk and Western Powhatan Arrow

I've put together the Seaboard Air Line "Tidewater" and N&Ws Powhatan Arrow.

I also have a pseudo SAL Silver Meteor,  but looking forward to the GGD version.

OOOOPS, forgot the Zephyr and the CA Zephyr

Chessie Steam Special and Santa Fe El Capitan:

I need to do a new video of the El Capitan as I've changed out a couple of cars and made updates to the last step down to be more prototypical:

Does the Hogwarts Express count?

Super Chief, CA Zephyr, PRR Congressional, El Capitan, Hiawatha, Empire State Express, 20th Century Limited, PRR Jefferson, PRR Spirit of St. Louis, Empire Builder, North Coast Limited, City of Los Angeles, Orient Express, B&O Colombian, and B&O Cincinnatian. All 21" from either K-Line or Golden Gate Depot.  

silver meteor, congressional, Broadway, clocker, Clevelander & akronite, nelly bly, doodlebug to freehold and redbank, doodlebug to Camden. 

 nuff said

mikeg

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Does the Hogwarts Express count?

Yes, why not..................

Soon I will be doing 611 and 1218 running excursions for the NS Steam Program

And 4449 as a part of the steam program it runs with 700.

SP Owl, SP Daylight

I run:

The 20th Century Limited, The 400, The Alton Limited, The Blue Comet, The Broadway Limited, The California Limited, The Capitol Limited, The Chief, The Crescent Limited, The Daylight, The Empire State Express, The Hiawatha, The John Wilkes, The Mercury, The Portland Rose, The Powhatan Arrow and  The Royal Blue, but not all in 3-rail 0 gauge. They, including Named Trains from other countries, are pictured in my ebook (free to down load on my website: hhttp://sncf231e.nl/non-ciwl-luxury-trainssmall-2/ or in attachment at this post).

Regards

Fred

Rio Grande Zephyr and Rio Grande Ski Train (heavyweight cars)

I guess one could say I run the Powhatan Arrow, or the Pocahontas, since I have the 611J and 5 of the matching passenger cars.

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Does the Hogwarts Express count?

I think so.  I run it and the Polar Express in addition to the Powhatan Arrow 

The Utahn, Crescent Limited, Black Diamond, Carolina Special, the Chessie Steam Special and my line's own Spokane Limited. Hopefully the Alton Limited in the future.

I love all this stuff guys! Matt Makens what a cool collection you have. 

A couple in my iPad of some of the trains I like I have   

The incomparable HAWKEYE, pride of the Illinois Central fleet!

Some stills I grabbed off the iPad 

The Chief is still The Chief 

1940 Coast Daylight 

Mountaineer

Of course the 1951 Super!

1940 Daylight is my favorite 

Rocky Mountain Rocket (Denver Section)

1940 Super Chief 

San Francisco Chief 

Rio Grande Zephyr (1970's)

Prospector 1950's 

1956 El Capitan 

1956 El Cap 

The mail train is one of my favorites.. another thread maybe this is number 8 or 9.....

I have many more just no pics loaded in this device 

Rapid Transit Holmes posted:

The incomparable HAWKEYE, pride of the Illinois Central fleet!

This is really cool!

Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, And Southern

The "Colorado Special" a named Colorado and Southern train that ran from Dallas/Ft. Worth through Pueblo, Colo. Spgs., and Denver to Cheyenne over the "Joint Line". It uses a Weaver custom lettered, C&S, Pacific. Sometimes these trains used a C&S 2-10-2. 3rd Rail has not offered that yet.

colorado hirailer posted:

The "Colorado Special" a named Colorado and Southern train that ran from Dallas/Ft. Worth through Pueblo, Colo. Spgs., and Denver to Cheyenne over the "Joint Line". It uses a Weaver custom lettered, C&S, Pacific. Sometimes these trains used a C&S 2-10-2. 3rd Rail has not offered that yet.

ChipR and I started work on a C&S Night Crawler number 29/30 Denver to Billings. The northern cousin.