Before Concor put out a version of the 1947 Freedom Train, I did my own. What follows is a "short" consist so it would fit on my module. I was seven years old and have been told that I saw this train in person. Could fool me. Or is my memory going.......
Carl thats a really Nice Layout and Train you have there, Well Done Here is my Passenger Train the ICE2 [ 18. January 2005, 03:38: Message edited by: Magnat1978 ]
Sweet Hemi, I was waiting to see if some one had one of those fantastic looking Trains, Is it Kato ????
Fluid thats impressive.. I hope to have a Passenger train as long as that once I get everything else sorted out
Hemi, A long shot of the train would be Great.. I have been tempted to buy The Kato Amtrack Engines, Get some Old passenger carriages 2nd hand and repaint them to match..
I am a new member here, and I run passenger trains! In fact, the reason I built my first layout was to run a much truncated version of the California Zephyr, a train I remember from my (ahem) youth. I currently have the Zephyr, and a five car consist of PRR heavyweights, pulled by a PRR 4-6-2 Pacific. I am currently trying to decide between the SP Daylight, the PRR Senator, or Erie Lackawanna...I have been offered a set of those 85' smoothside, my choice. I am pretty sure the Senator used GG-1's for motive power, and I can't find one in n scale. I am not sure what the EL used for their passenger trains in the 40's and 50's. The Daylight is attractive, but it appears that conCor nor longer has the Daylight steamer, only the wartime version w/o the side panels.
I'm a daylight fan. There are still GS-4's out there for sale (new), just type in Con Cor GS-4 in google.com to find out which retailers still have them. There is even one on Ebay.
Bookbear1, Hey,welcome. EL used E-8's & PA-1's for their "name" trains. GP7/9's RS2/3's were used on commuters PS, I"ve got an extra set of PA-1's (Kato) [ 22. January 2005, 22:30: Message edited by: SecretWeapon ]
I run superliners with my 2 P42s, now if bachmanns improved amfleet coaches are any good i may get to use the f40s (given up on finding kato budd amtrak cars) whoppit
Well, of COURSE Concor still has Daylight liveried GS4's....silly me, I read at their website, "New 'Daylight' Scheme 4-8-4 GS-4 First Two Shipments in 2002 sold out quickly. The 3nd shipment arrived in Jan. 2003 and 85% sold out by the date of this posting (Jan. 20st 2002) We do not anticipate re-runing the Daylight version of the GS-4 again in 2003. So we maybe sold out by the time you read this. " I just assumed that they were no longer available, esp. since a "pre-retirement" sale ad only lists the wartime version of the GS-4. It all goes to show....never assume! <G> Thanks for the more accurate information! MArk
thats right mark, never ASSUME because it makes an ASS out of U and ME (so my ma used to say!) whoppit
Here is a flatbed scan of some of the cars I kit bashed to put together a Southern Pacific Sunset Limited.
