Trainman440Haha I love the cartoon-like look of those passenger cars.
That's what the streamilners looked like, with the flat sides. I remember when Amtrak's Hiawatha service had them.
Amtrak Hiawatha, Milwaukee to Chicago, 1990.
Here's the head end. It was a push pull service.
Mike.
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Cartoon-like? Oh, we got cartoons:
eggliner_atsf by Edmund, on Flickr
The Toonerville Trolley!
Cheers, Ed
Haha I love the cartoon-like look of those passenger cars.
Charles
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I saw a bunch of them in a hobby shop some years ago as trade ins. They are simple vacuum formed shells. i remember when they first appeared. At that time they were the only other line besides Bachman that were low cost.
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An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Hi,
Try this for the locomotive:
http://gaugemodeltrain.com/great_trains_34084_g_gauge_amtrak_f40ph_diesel_locomotive_boxed.htm
Great Trains was a line of The American Standard Car Co. which only lasted a year or so. I had some of their passenger cars which were VERY basic and more toy-like than Aristo -Craft, LGB or USA Trains.
GreatTrainsBrochure1_F40 by Edmund, on Flickr
GreatTrainsBrochurePC by Edmund, on Flickr
Good Luck, Ed
Is that garden scale? If so you may do better in their portion of the forums. Top of this page in light grey - trains.com, then garden railways.
Good luck,
Richard
Hi folks, I'm trying to identify this Amtrak trainset that belonged to my grandpa when I was growing up. Any ideas?