Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Pack

[bh762]

Started working on these about a year and a half ago and set them aside for a while. Decided to finish them up this week. This pack contains coaches, diners, sleepers and observation lounges; and one baggage car in tuscan red. Sleeper Cars have been assigned authentic PRR names.















These are repaints of the freeware G-TraX lightweight passenger cars.

[JohnM1945]

I like these!

Many thanks, John M

[Sibell]

Oh wow. Amazing. These cars are well done.

[BillS]

Nice!!!

[Chacal]

Awesome.
These will be great with BritKits' E7.
What models are they based on?

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Awesome.
These will be great with BritKits' E7.
What models are they based on?

I suppose they are repaints of the G-Trax passenger cars, now freeware.

They are nicely done, and most welcome on the NEC. Now only a tuscan red GG1 is needed to pull that Broadway Limited and other Pennsy streamlined trains.
There is still another variation possible, the pre-war scheme of maroon and tuscan red with gold stripes and Art Deco style ornaments.

[Chacal]

Britkits' PRR passenger pack includes a tuscan red GG1, E7A, E7B and heavyweight passenger cars for 15£.

[philmoberg]

Don't be put-off by the lack of a Tuscan Red GG-1 if you don't have one. There were only a very few of them, and I only remember seeing one once, apart form the one Amtrak repainted.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Britkits' PRR passenger pack includes a tuscan red GG1, E7A, E7B and heavyweight passenger cars for 15£.

That's nice. But aren't those oldest Britkits models still very much like MSTS, esp. the heavyweight coaches not available in native Railworks yet?

When the colours match between the Britkits and the G-Trax models, most of the lesser trains of the mighty PRR can also be modeled.

Those lesser trains usually ran with a mixed consist of heavyweight head end cars and diners, streamlined coaches, a heavyweight sleeper and observation or any imaginable variation between the two.
The fluted stainless steel cars were used mainly for trains originating on the PRR that extended south to Florida over ACL/SCL/FEC? Or had their sleepers interchanged with SLSW/ATSF at Chicago or St Louis when there was transcontinental sleeper service, late 40's early 50's (before the advent of passenger jets)?

Re: Tuscan red GG1's? Weren't all PRR passenger engines tuscan red at the start and only later repainted in DGLE (Brunswick Green) for freight service? Or were the GG1 conceived as dual service engines?

[bh762]

These are based on the freeware G-TraX passenger cars.

[philmoberg]

... Re: Tuscan red GG1's? Weren't all PRR passenger engines tuscan red at the start and only later repainted in DGLE (Brunswick Green) for freight service? Or were the GG1 conceived as dual service engines?

Initially, the GG-1s were initially regarded as dual service power, although later batches were built with a lower gear ratio (higher top speed), at which point they tended to get the passenger assignments. It wasn't until the mid-'60s, as the passenger service network began to shrink significantly, that the earlier models became freight-only power. IIRC, Tuscan red wasn't used on locomotives until after the War, at the beginning of the diesel era. It was more common on diesels (particularly E-Units) than anything else. The few red GG-1s were repainted around the same time as the two silver units, and were dedicated to particular "flagship" passenger trains.

IIRC most of the Pullmans in through service went via Chicago. Those that went via St. Louis were all headed for the eastern part of the Southwest, primarily on the Missouri Pacific. In both cases, most, if not all, were gone by the mid-'60s. I was living in St. Louis at the time, and watched Union Station go from a fairly busy hub in '61 to a shadow of its former self by '65. IIRC, several of the tracks in the eastern part of the trainshed had already been ripped out by that point.

[Railfan587]

Awesome! Great job!

[mysterytrain]

A beautiful passenger car set!

Thanks very much for sharing them