American & Canadian Passenger Train Operations on your model railroad

[dxr8007nz]

I chose passenger ( Amtrak ) & freight trains
I like both for my layout BNSF and Amtrak or special railfans

[CP5415]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45

QUOTE: Originally posted by CP5415

Your not alone Antonio, don't worry.

I now have 14 85' passenger cars in my collection with a combination of F units, PA's & AMD103's & P42's to pull them.
Gordon

Impressive. On a club layout that would be one, long, sweet looking train![:D][8D][;)][8)]

You're probably right Antonio.
TA462 offered to let me run a train on his club layout at one of the local shows recently.
I unfortunately wesn't able to make it but if the offer comes up again (HINT HINT!!!)
I would plan on taking my D&H PA & my 2 D&H coaches & dome car to run, maybe a few more cars [:D]

Gordon

[MisterBeasley]

I've been slowly building up my fleet of aluminum Mantua 72-foot streamlined cars. I had two from a long time ago, plus a Milwaukee F7A of 60's vintage. I de-motored another F7A, and recently I've found more coaches on eBay. Today I added an F7B (dummy) to the train - it looks great. The A-B-A power and the 4 long cars look just about right on my 5-foot by 12-foot HO railroad.

Under the first layer of foam, there's a subway system using those Lifelike R-17's. It's just a loop with a passing siding, but there are ramps up and down to the surface. Like the old Boston MTA, I run both these cars and a Bowser PCC car, although I freelance enough to run them both on the same track.

I've got freight and MOW, too, but after I got the observation car for my passenger train it's assumed a more dominant position. I've got a nice set of old-timers packed away in a box awaiting restoration as an "excursion train," and a few other miscellaneous cars which are mostly in pieces. Someday...

[tomikawaTT]

At the moment, in construction-and-test mode, I'm running a consist of KIHA17 class DMU, a (derailment prone) D50 class 2-8-2 with both freight and passenger consists and several other diesels and motors. In fully-capable mode, the one visible mainline station will be the terminus for a city-to-countryside electric MU service, engine change point where steam gets swapped for motors (to keep coal smoke out of a very long tunnel) and stopping point for every through passenger train, even the KIHA80 class DMU limited expresses. That's 93 passenger movements (plus a dozen freights) on a busy day.

Howcum the odd number of movements? Two separate trains, each consisting of a pair of EMU cars, return as a single 4-car train.

[wjstix]

The area I'm modelling - northeast Minnesota - was served by the Duluth Winnepeg and Pacific (a CN line) and ran freight and passenger trains down to Duluth. Also, most people don't realize the CN mainline runs south of the Lake of the Woods thru northern MN, thru International Falls and Warroad. Plus my freelance model railroad runs up to what's now Thunder Bay, Ontario so I put a little of everything in there !!

[AntonioFP45]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CP5415

How about all of the above in regards to the poll.
Since it's my railroad, I've decided to run CP, D&H, B&M, VIA & Amtrak for passenger service.

O.K, Done!

QUOTE: Call me crazy, but I just don't want to see the same equipment on the tracks all the time. I like to see variety. -Gordon

And that's cool![:D][8D]

[AntonioFP45]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CP5415

Your not alone Antonio, don't worry.

I now have 14 85' passenger cars in my collection with a combination of F units, PA's & AMD103's & P42's to pull them.
Gordon

Impressive. On a club layout that would be one, long, sweet looking train![:D][8D][;)][8)]

[Anonymous]

I model CSX operations like intermodal andother stuff. Occasionally i have an Amtrak run through the layout. It's not finished yet, but it's gonna get finished someday!!!

[CP5415]

Your not alone Antonio, don't worry.

I now have 14 85' passenger cars in my collection with a combination of F units, PA's & AMD103's & P42's to pull them.

Gordon

[AntonioFP45]

SilverChampion, Siberianmo, and all you other good guys!

Great to see that I'm not the only one that appreciates the beauty of passenger trains!

[Anonymous]

i usually run my chesapeake and ohio passenger coaches with my 2-8-0 Northern, and let my Mogul run the freight service.

[siberianmo]

I run VIA Rai, BC Rail (RDC's) and Amtrak passenger trains on my Can-Am HO layout.

The VIA consists are of the Budd car variety seen today on the Canadian and Ocean (alas - soon to be replaced by those Renaissance "Euro" cars!) along with a smoothsides blue/yellow beauty last seen in the early 90's on the Ocean. The Budd equipment is made by Con-Cor and the smoothsides by Rivarossi. Locomotives are Trainline F40PH's for the Budd consists and IHC EMD E-8 "A/A" units for the smoothsides.

The BC Rail RDC's are LifeLike RDC-3's running on a point to point mountain route in the center of my pike.

The Amtrak equipment is made by Trainline and features four consists of Superliner I's and II's along with Amfleet and Horizon cars. The Superliners are are powered by an Athearn AMD103 P40 (or P42) along with an EMD F40PH. Amfleet and Horizon by Trainline and Bachmann F40PH.

There are 8 full consists in my Union Station, sitting at their respective covered platforms. The station and platforms are Walthers Cornerstone.

All my other locomotives are in sidings and engine houses - a total of 30 for the pike.

I run two CP/CP Rail freights and two CN freights, just to add to the flavor of it all. But, passenger operations are the keystone for my pike.

The period I have tried to model would be the 90's to present date, with all vehicles and buildings pretty much of the modern variety.

[Anonymous]

Antonio fp45, it nice to hear from you. My Eastern Railroad is a 1950's railroad. My love for passenger train of that time is what I run mainly on my railroad. About 75 o/o of the time.

[AntonioFP45]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trolleyboy

Hey i run mostly streetcar city stuff but for giggles I do plan on having the city cars meet with cp rdc's at the stations. I have a limited number of VIA equipment which I can run as well if I feel like being a little more modern. Rob

Trolley Boy,

What type of streetcars are you running? I've looked at the Bachmann HO PCC cars before and at first glance they look cheesy, but after studying a photo, I think they have potential with some modifying.

With the resurgence in light rail here in the U.S, it seems like more modelers are becoming interested in street cars and interurbans.

[chateauricher]

Tatans,
I'm planning an N-scale all-passenger layout. So far, I have VIA Rail, GO Train, and Algoma Central locomotives; with cars for VIA and GO Train. I'm toying with doing the tourist train run by the Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield RR; but I'm not really a big fan of steam trains.

So far, I have focused on Canadian passenger rail of the late 20th C to present; but I dream of having a Japanese bullet train or a German ICE. Also, I have to find a source for N-scale AC passenger cars (found one in HO; but not N).

[trolleyboy]

Hey i run mostly streetcar city stuff but for giggles I do plan on having the city cars meet with cp rdc's at the stations. I have a limited number of VIA equipment which I can run as well if I feel like being a little more modern. Rob

[Anonymous]

I do plan on running versions of the C&Os sportsman and george washington,Also a Broadway limited K4 pulling the Broadway limited.I have a ten car set of old Herkimer metal streamliners that i don't want to paint or decal,so still trying to work them into some sort of express,or run through,pulled by whatever is available.Probably NYC hudson.Although mostly dominated by freight,and modeling the 40's -mid 50's it would be hard not to have some sort of pass. ops. considering all the great trains of that era.

[tatans]

Is there anyone out there that runs Passenger trains only? that means they don't even own a boxcar---strictly passenger cars, I would love to see some photos of a completly coach layout, does one exist?? remember, nothing but passenger cars ONLY. lets have a look.

[tatans]

Just some old retired C.P.R. heavyweights hauling the loggers out to the bush.

[Anonymous]

Just a couple of RDCs on my layout, but then again it is quite small, so hardly has room for a E8 with ten coaches!

[AntonioFP45]

Madhouse,

What type of Amtrak train? Will it be modern or from the past? Amfleet cars, Superliner cars, or the Heritage Cars? Locomotives: EMD F40s or Genesis units?

Will it be a particular train like the Hiawatha, Yankee Clipper, Panama Limited?

Just curious![:)][:D][8D][8)]

[Anonymous]

When I get this layout finished , I will be running a 10 car Amtrak on the outer loop.

[Fergmiester]

As the MESS is a scavenger's haven I run anything and everything. Predominently CN, CP but Pennsy and Reading are also in the mix.

[AntonioFP45]

Train Boy,

Could you tell us a little more?

Will this be a freelanced line, or will you be modeling trains from a prototype commuter transit agency? What types of cars and locos do you plan to run?

[Anonymous]

I am going to model a suburban/semi-rual branchline so passanger service will be more intense than a regular rual branch line, but there will be alot of freight .

[FThunder11]

I have the Acela Express going, and my own version of the current California Zephyr!

[Anonymous]

I didn't vote as not all the category combinations are listed and as a Canadian, what has Amtrak got to do with anything.

So I will be running the Via Canadian, The Rocky Mountaineer and West Coast Express on my layout. The Canadian is passenger service, the Rocky Mountaineer is excursion and West Coast Express is commuter.

[AntonioFP45]

For those of you that haven't check it out yet, look above on Fiverings response and check out the website that he listed.

The Southern Pacific Daylight locomotive is sound equipped. Suspect that it's a BLI unit. Very nice looking streamliner with 13 passenger cars. Now that's a passenger train!

Not meaning to be overly critical as the videos are outstanding, but proper Rolling Stock Weight makes the difference. You can see that some of the other passenger train cars vibrate and shake as they cross bridges. Plastic passenger cars that are weighed down, even slightly heavier than the NMRA standard, along with metal wheels tend to "hug" the rails better and shake less.

[Dayliner]

I voted "pre-Amtrak", although since I model a Canadian road (E&N, mid-1970's) it should really be "non-Amtrak" (also "pre-VIA"). The passenger service is a local RDC, nothing fancy in operational terms, but it does serve to provide interference for the freight crews--one more thing for them to worry about as they try to complete their run.