I don’t know about everyone else here but I always enjoy reading the pike size passenger trains articles published in MR. With the small layouts I’ve built over the years, they always provide inspiration for me and my passenger operations.
One question I have is how about the passenger train shown on the front page of modelrailroader.com? I know this is a model, I’m guessing either HO or N, but is it based on a prototype? Do we know who it belongs to? This looks like a typical small train that I would try to model.
It’s based on Milwaukee Roads Cannonball. It’s also the first Train in the article. I too enjoy the articles, and I downloaded the information station pdf file, that has them all.
I am a freelancer but these articles give me great ideas for similar types of passenger trains for my layout. I like running all types of passenger trains from commuters to long distance limiteds. I like a lot of variety in my passenger operations. These short passenger trains with a mix of car types have a lot of character.
Me, too. Unless I buy a mansion, there is no way I will have room to run the HO-scale California Zephyr, Super Chief, or 20th Century Limited (in seven sections a day) on a layout. Morning Number 23, however, is something I can fit in.
IMHO, MR ought to collect all the previous “Pike-sized Passenger Train” articles and make them available for viewing on the website. (I only need text; Wordpad with photos by link, please.)
True true, I’ll never have a layout large enough to handle the Canadian in HO scale, but I know I can model The D&H Laurentian. Not much there, a PA or 2, a baggage car, a coach or two & possibly a dome!
The train on the MR.com homepage looks like the work of Lance Mindheim, who models the Monon in N scale. There was an article in MR on his N-scale layout several years ago, and one on his HO layout several years before that one. I believe Lance makes a great effort to follow the prototype, so I would guess that the train in the photo is closely based on an actual Monon passenger train.