LIRR P-57 MU trains sets in grey and orange just like I remeber them as a kid.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Even at the commanding price of $1,500.00, I would be tempted to buy ANY named train set if I could get the whole thing as an undecorated kit.
Alas, that will never happen.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
1. Original City of Miami (yellow and green cars and E6)
2. City of New Orleans (3rd vote here, by my count)
3. Panama Limited (I think maybe Walthers did it and I missed it).
Monon Thoroughbred in red and gray or green and gold. Or, why not both. Why does no one make Monon streamlined passenger cars? OK, Rapido did a run of red and gray, overpriced them, and they still sold out while I sat on my hands. And only Athearn has made Monon locos in recent years in red and gray. I got a pair of those. What about locos in green and gold.
Rich
Alton Junction
fmilhaupt City of New Orleans.
City of New Orleans.
As a giant fan of that song, I concur. I often used to request it at folk-rock bars, before Covid shut them down.
In truth, since I don't and never will model the Illinois Central, I wouldn't buy one.
The GF and I rode the excursion luncheon train out of Hyannis, MA, some years ago and got to dine in the salon car once part of the City of New Orleans. Beautifully restored with a plate of delicious salmon, rolling past houses, farms and fields, it was an afternoon to remember.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Trains I want to see Walthers make (they already have some of the cars needed to make some of these trains):
PRR Congressional
PRR Senator
PRR/Other RR's South Wind with the Budd stainless steel coaches, leased NP NCL Dome Cars (winter) and the UP cars.
1940-41 PRR/Other RR's East Wind
ACL Champion
SAL Silver Meteor/Silver Star
IC/Other RR's City of Miami and/or Panama Limited
I just got my Walthers flyer in the mail, the new named train is the CITY OF SAN FRANCISICO.
crossthedogI'd thought my question had gotten buried "below the fold".
I have not been following this thread because it is all about prototype trains, and that is a topic where I have very little input to offer. Ed (GM Pullman) alerted me to your question.
crossthedogIf he's still in business I may want to give him a jingle.
Ron has been retired for a few years now. I expressed interest to him about buying the business, but he made it clear that it was a business that had its time come and go.
SeeYou190Matt: I have ordered thousands of custom made STRATTON AND GILLETTE decals from Rail Graphics going all the way back to 1982 when I placed my first order for 25 decal sets. Since then I have had SGRR decals produced in 14 different sheets with all kinds of variation. Ron at Rail Graphics was always available and very helpful in getting decal projects made. I have decals with multi-color heralds, stylized lettering, extended lettering, slogans, etc.
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
crossthedog Kevin, how do you get locos (and rolling stock) into a Stratton & Gillette livery?
Ed: Thank you for bringing this question to my attention.
Matt: I have ordered thousands of custom made STRATTON AND GILLETTE decals from Rail Graphics going all the way back to 1982 when I placed my first order for 25 decal sets.
Since then I have had SGRR decals produced in 14 different sheets with all kinds of variation. Ron at Rail Graphics was always available and very helpful in getting decal projects made.
I have decals with multi-color heralds, stylized lettering, extended lettering, slogans, etc.
There are still some SGRR models that get decalled one letter at a time. Sometimes I need a color I never had printed, or want to use a different size or typestyle.
The SGRR "Comet Freight" sets are still my favorites. Ron helped a lot with these.
1970-79 version of the Southern Crescent.
(photo credit: Gary Morris)
Cool factor with this train is that, in additions to the E-units, it can be hauled by GG1's in the PRR Brunswick Green, Penn Central, and Amtrak paint schemes. For a nice vareity, early-Amtrak trains would also be appropriate to run in the same era.
However, since the Southern Crescent might not be on Walther's project list, I'm content to freelance my own version by modifying, paint stripping / repainting, and decaling Walthers older run cars of which, fortunately, there are plenty of on the secondary market including ebay. I'm currently doing this on my SCL Champion project.
Yes, it is very cool to have accurate cars, but I keep in mind a simple saying that a friend of mine etched in to my brain, years ago, at my former job when I complained about the lack of equipment:
"Well; ya gotta work with wha-cha got!"
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
SeeYou190Any... as long as they offer the set undecorated as well. That will never happen. I am sad now.
Thanks, we now return you to your regular programming.
1977-78 Chessie System Steam Special. Christine wanted it to go with her Chessie System/C&O HO scale layout.
I would prefer another run of the NYC 20th Century Limited or anything Amtrak.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
i want to see them make awvr 777,1206,7375,and 7346.
Frisco Firefly
Steam era Overland Limited. Operated by three railroads, it could be offered with a choice of locos.
I like too see a Ho Metrolink F59/ and the passenger cars,when Metrolink first came out.
Im am selfishly going to elect this post an best answer to this question....
Q: What name train do you want to see WALTHERS make?
A: ALL of them!
(Keeps Walthers in business for many years to come, and would make all of us happy knowing we got a train coming!) = WIN/WIN situation!
Am I right?
PMR
(So the real question becomes...... which one's first/how long is the wait for the one you want?)
1950's "Sunset Limited"
The Queen of the Valley
The Crusader
The Hustler (No, not Athearn's free-lanced critter)
-Lackawanna streamlined Phoebe Snow
-Illinois Central City of New Orleans
SP Coast Daylight
Ray
ricktrains4824Let's have the Erie Limited, or the Lake Cities version.
I agree. Walthers seems content with offering the shiny-splashy name trains, I guess in hopes of getting customers to shell out for fifteen or twenty cars.
The recent announcement for the PRR The General is mostly re-hashed Broadway cars with a few extras. I'll definitely be in for some 6 BR lounge cars but the rest is pretty much "ho-hum".
They were going to produce some Nickel Plate, Rio-Grande and a few other cars a while back but they dropped those not long after announcing them.
I went ahead and started making some of my own from what's available in brass:
Erie_ten-hundred by Edmund, on Flickr
NKP_DL131 by Edmund, on Flickr
ERIE_1075_A by Edmund, on Flickr
EL_DinerLounge by Edmund, on Flickr
I've always wanted to see more "betterment" cars but these aren't the kind of things that Walthers seems to have a penchant for.
Keystone_Banks by Edmund, on Flickr
PRR_P70kR_4244 by Edmund, on Flickr
Another opportunity I think they missed was to offer their PRR twin-unit (couplet) diner and the 21 roomette Inn series cars in the post-1968 version with the Tuscan paint stripped off. These cars wore late PRR, Penn-Central and Amtrak lettering and the 21 roomette cars were converted to coaches and used on MARC and, I believe, NJ Transit.
IMG_0068_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
IMG_0158_fix_W by Edmund, on Flickr
Thank You, Ed
TheFlyingScotsman I'd like to see an SP Lark or an SP Golden State.
I'd like to see an SP Lark or an SP Golden State.
What paint scheme were you thinking of for the Golden State? The original red and silver with matching E units. Or the updated version with the red stripe on stainless steel cars.
I would like to see them in the original colors.
We have two named trains from NY to Chi., but not the competitor's from Hoboken?
Let's have the Erie Limited, or the Lake Cities version.
Erie Green locomotives look just as good as PRR Tuscan, or NYC Grey.
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
Oh and put me down for a GM Train of Tomorrow
I'd like to see an SP Lark or an SP Golden State. A Texas Special too if poss.
I do think a full train of Fleet of Modernism cars would sell, but then I an sure these guys do thier homework.
garyla garya The Texas Special (SLSF and MKT) or the Meteor (SLSF). I understand that the Texas Special was a very big seller, back in Lionel's heyday. Maybe it would only have regional appeal, but it wouldn't be a hard one to produce, and one can picture it being towed by E-units or Alco PAs, and could include matching sleepers from the Pennsy or B&O.
garya The Texas Special (SLSF and MKT) or the Meteor (SLSF).
The Texas Special (SLSF and MKT) or the Meteor (SLSF).
And later owners of some of these cars were GN, NP, SP&S, MTA and CN.
Ed
Since most Walthers releases are diesel:
The new Walthers Mainline SW7 switcher is very nice.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.