TGV
Train (Le Train ŕ Grande
Vitesse) I've
always liked passenger trains
and there is always one running
on my N scale model railroad. The train is changed every couple of
months or so. I usually run the train with two or more
engines and nine to eleven or more cars. Makes a nice long train! There are cars and
engines for seventeen railroads. My latest additions are the Alaska Railroad McKinley Explorer and the Missouri Pacific Eagle. Click on smaller photos to see larger images. The McKinley Explorer My newest passenger train is the McKinley Explorer. There are four Alaska Railroad F9A engines and six 85' full-dome passenger cars. It's really handsome! The McKinley Explorer operates from Anchorage to Fairbanks, Alaska and runs through Denali National Park. The cars have the Westours logotype and are named Kenai, Knik and Deshka (after Alaskan rivers).
Bachmann N Scale McKinley Explorer Train Set Photos of the Westours McKinley Explorer Dome Cars There's also an EMD F9A engine and two blue and yellow Alaska Railroad full-dome cars that I painted and decorated in a free-lanced paint scheme (shown below). Alaska Railroad F9A and Full-Domes
BILL'S RAILROAD
EMPIRE
ALASKA RAILROAD
Amtrak GG-1 with Heritage Cars
AMTRAK
Twenty-five corrugated cars, six Amfleet coaches, seven Superliner cars, three Viewliner cars also material handling cars and heavyweight cars.
Engines include F40PHs (2), E8A, U30CG, FP7s (2), PA1s (2), GG1 Electric, E60CP Electric.
Bachmann N Scale Centennial Passenger Set
Great photos of Amtrak Then and Now
Amtrak E8A with Amfleet Cars
Amtrak E60CP Electric with Viewliner Cars
Amtrak F40PH with Superliner Cars
The Original Auto-Train
AUTO-TRAIN
This is the original Auto-Train from the 1970s in red, white, and purple colors.
There are nine full-Dome coaches and five double deck auto transporters. There's also a heater car and a caboose that I painted and decorated.
Engines: two Auto-Train U36Bs (one custom painted by JD Hobbies) and an Auto-Train GP40 that I recently painted and decorated (the real Auto-Train had only U36Bs).
History of the Original 1970s Auto-Train
Auto-Train GP40 #4114
BALTIMORE AND OHIO
Cars include: fifteen blue and gray heavyweight cars, eleven blue, gray, and black smoothside Cars, six corrugated cars.
Locomotives include: EMD E6A, E6B, E7A, E8As (3), E8B, Alco PA1, FA2s (2), FB2, EMD FP7As (2), a Baldwin RF16 (Shark) (I recently painted and decorated this engine in the B&O simplfied scheme), a Royal Blue 4-6-4 steam locomotive, and "The Cincinnatian" steam locomotive.
There's also an EMC Gas-Electric "Doodlebug."
Visit the Baltimore and Ohio Network
B&O E8A with Smoothside Cars
B&O Royal Blue 4-6-4 with Heavyweight Cars
I recently painted this B&O President Washington #5300
Baltimore and Ohio Gas Electric "Doodlebug"
The Batimore and Ohio Cincinnatian
BALTIMORE AND OHIO CINCINNATIAN
This is my latest engine conversion and decorating project. The photo shows the work in progress on my Cincinnatian locomotive and tender.
The B&O Cincinnatian ran between Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati, Ohio from January 1947 to June 1950. B&O converted four of their "President Class" 4-6-2s for the train.
The train ran with five converted heavyweight cars. It was my first ever (and best) train ride in 1948. The Cincinnatian ran through the West Virginia mountains to Ohio.
Photo and History of the Cincinnatian
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A GREAT BOOK!
"Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, 1945-1971
Volume 1"
Photos and story of B&O's National Limited to St. Louis and includes the Cincinnatian and other great B&O trains.
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