Fred Klein, 2016
It is
usually difficult to accurately model a passenger train with off-the-shelf cars
or components without some re-decaling custom modeling. I have, however, tried to model several
trains staying as close as I can to the prototype using factory made cars,
kits, brass car sides and decaling. I
end up with a variety of different manufacturers and kits, but that is the fun
of modeling whole trains. Beautiful
examples of car-by-car prototype train modeling in N scale are featured in many
issues of the magazine N scale Railroading. Published modelers set excellent examples of
detailing and scratchbuilding that I have not
attained. I will add to this set of
trains as I complete them. I have a page of notes on the coupler changes I make
to get passenger cars of various brands to couple together.
As I
revise them, these pages are formatted for printing from your browser and are
optimized for the web while being conservatively designed. The pictures are
processed using Adobe photoshop elements and the htm web files are built with Microsoft Word.
All
Amtrak trains are on this page
Commute trains are on this page
Baltimore & Ohio’s Ambassador, late 1940s – late
1950s
Baltimore & Ohio’s National Limited, 1949 – late
1950s
Burlington
Pioneer Zephyr,
1934-1960
Burlington Silver Streak Zephyr, 1940-1950s
Burlington Twin Cities
Zephyr, 1947-1970
California Zephyr,
1948-1952, Con-cor cars
California Zephyr,
1948-1952, Kato cars
California Zephyr, 1952-1964, Con-cor
cars
California Zephyr,
1964-1970, Kato cars
CBQ,
DRGW & WP Exposition Flyer, 1939-1949
Chesapeake & Ohio’s George Washington, 1950-c1968
Chicago & North Western’s
Flambeau 400, 1958-1971
Chicago &
North Western’s Twin Cities 400, 1939-1963
City of Las Vegas
Aerotrain, December 1956-September 1957
City of Los
Angeles (Union Pacific), 1956-1960
City of Salina,
M10000 articulated train, 1936-1941
City of San Francisco,
1941-1949
Denver and Rio
Grande Western’s Royal Gorge, c1965-1967
Freedom
Train, 1947-1949. Prototype info.
Golden State (SP and RI), about 1950- about 1954
Great Northern “Baby streamliner”, 1947-1952
Great Northern’s heavyweight Empire Builder, 1929-c1939
Great Northern’s
Empire Builder, 1947-1951
Great Northern’s
Empire Builder, 1951-1955
Great Northern’s Empire Builder,
1955-1967
Great Northern’s Red River,
1950-1967
Illinois Central’s Panama Limited,
1942-1967
Illinois Central’s City of New
Orleans, 1947-1971
Illinois Central’s Green Diamond,
1947-1968
Kansas City
Southern trains #9 and 10, 1957-1968
Milwaukee
Road’s Twin Cities Hiawatha, 1935-1938
New York Central 20th
Century Limited, 1938-1945
New York Central 20th
Century Limited, 1948-1960s
New York Central’s New England
States, 1949-1960s
Northern Pacific North Coast Limited, 1954-1967
Pennsylvania’s
Admiral, 1941-c1949
Pennsylvania’s
Admiral, c1950-c1955
Pennsylvania’s
Broadway Limited, 1949-1967, first string (Kato) cars
Pennsylvania’s
Broadway Limited, 1949-1967, second string (non Kato) cars
Pennsylvania’s
“clocker”, 1936-1950s
Pennsylvania’s
Congressional, c1943-1952
Pennsylvania’s
Congressional, 1952-1967
Rock Island’s Corn Belt Rocket 1947-1960s
Santa Fe’s heavyweight California
Limited, c1928-1938
Santa Fe’s California Special, c1954-c1965
Santa Fe’s El
Capitan, 1946-c1953
Santa Fe’s El Capitan,
1953-1956
Santa Fe’s
high-level El Capitan, 1956-1960s
Santa Fe RDC trains
80-83 (surf line, LA to San Diego), 1952-1955
Santa Fe RDC
trains 311-312 (Newton to Dodge KS), 1956-1968
Santa Fe’s Scout, 1936-1948
First lightweight
Santa Fe Super Chief, 1937-1947
Second lightweight Santa Fe Super Chief, 1938-1947
Santa Fe Super Chief, 1948-1951
Santa
Fe Super Chief, 1951-1953, kit cars
Santa Fe
Super Chief, 1951-1954, Kato set
Santa Fe’s
Texas Chief, 1950-1960s
Santa Fe’s West
Texas express, 1955-c1970
Santa Fe’s Valley
Flyer, 1939-1940
Seaboard’s Silver Comet, c.1955-c.1964
Southern
Pacific Morning Daylight, 1940-1954, Kato set
Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight, 1949-1955
Union Pacific’s
steam excursion train, 1990s to present
Wabash’s
Bluebird, 1950-1964Trains with mostly
non-prototypical “stand-in” cars
Norfolk and
Western’s Powhatan Arrow, 1949-1958
Rock Island’s
Rocky Mountain Rocket 1939-c1954
Southern’s Crescent Limited,
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WITH PROTOTYPES FOR N SCALE PASSENGER CARS
