Okay...

got a lot of Lionels. American Flyer, produced by the A.C.Gilbert Co. Was S-gauge, from what I know. I don't think they made HO. My favorite stuff is from the years 1946-1969 or something like that. The classic postwar era.

American Flyer

got a lot of Lionels. American Flyer, produced by the A.C.Gilbert Co. Was S-gauge, from what I know. I don't think they made HO. My favorite stuff is from the years 1946-1969 or something like that. The classic postwar era.

Actually, American Flyer did make HO. http://gilbertho.org/

IIRC, the first engine they made was an NYC Hudson.

Mike

Ah! Vintage model railroading.

• The picture of Wall street set. is for jersey Ralph from jersey frank, toptrain. This is just so he knows a train set existed name Wall Street,  a Lehigh Valley train set.
• Vintage HO trains are basically what I run. My trains are old and everyday getting older. Being old school when I want something bad enough I make it. My ability to run trains was cut short by my wife’s wish to replace rugs in some of our rooms. Up in my attic train room the rugs there was worn out. This meant the removal of the train layout and now my present building of a new one.  At this time I have a slightly enlarged 4X8 tied into my 20’+ 26” wide section built along an attic wall. The 4X8 has two operating tracks I am now using to run my trains. Present interest have faded away from old cast and brass Mantua of the 40’s , 50’s and early 60’s along with my new one toy train co die cast locomotive of various retailers, to the old HObbyline line of trains. Of the 32 sets they released, cataloged, and uncataloged. I can put together 30 or so to run. Three of the nice Passenger set they released I have are the Erie “Lake Cities Express”, The PRR “Metropolitan”, and the Lehigh Valley’s “Wall Street”, the UPRR " Canyon Clipper", and  now any other one they made, with the exception of one uncataloged B&O passenger set sold exclusly by the Lloyd's Hobbyshop of Baltimore Md. Needing just two original coaches this keeps me from running this set as fully original. I have painted and lettered 4 HObbyline coaches to match the originals. Of the first two set I mentioned the first of then is powered by twin Alco FA-1’s, the last being a Fairbanks Morris, Raymond Lowery styled H12-44. The Erie set is done beautifully in Eire light and dark green colors. The FA-1’s and the Clearstory (Cressatory) roof cars that HObbyline made a combine and 3 Day coaches for are done in these matching colors. The PRR set has its FA-1 in Tuscan red  ( Mr English called blck which HObbyline called red )  with 4 all silver Pullman streamlined passenger cars. There is one tail end observation and three Pullman chair cars. All cars are named and numbered. Description starting with the Chair cars #8100 Trenton, #8110 Princeton, # 8120 Morrisville, and the Observation in #8130 Yardley.  The last train set is the LVRR Wall Street. The FM H12-44 is used in this set with a combine and 2 day coaches. All are done in matching LVRR red The passenger cars have black roofs. I am speaking of a HO scale train set made by John English and sold under his HObbyline brand,.
• My photo came up in someones elses site so I came back and removed it

American Flyer

The A. C. Gilbert CO. made HO trains first and S came later.

No Lehigh Valley "Wall Street"

No such train ever existed, model or otherwise, unless you made it up out of thin air.

I seem to remember a Reading train

called the Wallstreeter, but can find no proof to back it up, ran Philly to NYC, but can't find any documentation...

Peace, Bill

Reading for sure!

The Wall Street was the second named train on the Reading's Philadelphia to Jersey City run. The premiere train was the Crusader, which was all new Budd equipment. The Wall Street had rebuilt 1920's equipment with large windows, nicer seats and dining car. It was painted in Reading's 2 tone green scheme.

American Flyer

I have an HO American Flyer hudson with smoke, havent run it in over 40 years. It draws alot of current but it sure did pull good.

O scale, 2-rail, Adams & Son model foundry, 1940 and later

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/o-scale-2rail-adams-son-model-foundry-12208440

http://www.modeltrainjournal.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=15721

Vintage?

I like some vintage for the nostalgia of it. As I have posted at these forums previously, it fell to an HO scale "Lindberg Lines" set I received for Christmas in '62 to set the hook in me for HO. One car (two others IF I can find them) survived from my original set and has seen service on every HO diesel layout I've had since. Needless to say, when a Lindberg Lines set like my original showed up on eBay: I pounced on it.

I also enjoy "saving" (better trucks if needed, metal wheels, Kadee couplers) some vintage pieces and pitching them into rolling stock pool for general operation. I don't know why, but it's gratifying to see nice looking vintage cars from my youth era rolling about the layout. At this point, I have some Varney steel cars (box and reefers) in service, some Lindberg Lines (even found some NOS undec boxcars, now waiting to become KC&G boxcars... THAT'S a rare find!), Athearn, Mantua, AHM, and ??

However, the vintage engines, for the most part, may look okay, but typically run awful compared to today's engines, so my collection of vintage Lindberg Lines EMD switchers are for display only.

Vintage is cool.

Andre

Wall street set

Here is a catalog page showing the set

  I have no idea where my photos went! I replaced missing photos. Please tell me if they are the wrong size to stay with the post.  Show  printed info without the photos is not conductive for people who would return to view them later on.  toptrain1@aol.com

LV set

Lehigh Valley Wall street set. I put back another photo of the set by HObbyline.  Set #411  of 1955. H12-44, 1 combine and 2 coaches.

Frank

"It's a heck of a day"

toptrain...

All four photos show up on my browser (Firefox).

Cool that you still enjoy vintage HO!

Andre