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FMs are awesome.

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@@modeltrains1479 interesting! What Amtrak trains do you have? Also in such a reality would Amtrak have ever gotten or used steam locomotives? I could see freedom train models being the perfect candidates like 4449, 2101, or the Lionel model of 611 in a freedom train paint scheme

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Thanks!

Glad you like them!

I grew up with the bloody nose SP engines running near our farm in Southern California. It’s my favorite SP paint scheme.

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It’s a mix of postwar, MPC and early modern Lionel. I don’t have much current Lionel, too pricey for me! I also run some Williams, MTH and a few K-Line.

@@modeltrains1479 by early modern Lionell do you mean the stuff from the 90s? That stuff was pretty much the toy trains I dreamed about having when I was a kid because there was so many awesome looking sets like the big boy the Dreyfus Hudson, the Commodore, Vanderbilt, and the Hiawatha and Pennsylvania T1 that I would see all the time on stuff like I love toy trains. Of course they were way too expensive for my family, so I pretty much only had very basic stuff like the Pennsylvania Flyers starter set and a very simplistic version of the Polar Express. I didn’t really get a diesel until about the time I had already finished using toy trains originally by which point the only diesel I got was a 1970s era Santa Fe Bluebonnet streamlined diesel with freight cars. I think that the trains that I had that was the most interesting was a Hogwarts express train set that actually looks pretty nice although again, it was rather simple. in terms of what my stuff could do, they had pretty much no sound except whistle sounds and those whistle sounds were more like what they had in the postwar era than modern stuff. Supposedly the stuff I had was supposed to also be able to have bell sounds, but either they never worked on any single model I had with any transformer, or they just never had them to begin with. I could never really get my hands on the really fancy stuff from Lionel and MTH that I loved to watch videos of as a kid so I’ve pretty much made it a mission of mine that whenever I can get into the toy train hobby when I’m older, I probably am going to go out of my way to try to get some of that stuff. For me, the sounds don’t matter that much so long as I can get a good running model of those things along with good rolling stock. Of course I won’t complain if I get something with fancy bells and whistles, so to speak, particularly if it’s one of those modern remakes of pre-war and postwar stuff but that’s honestly not my highest concern. On a sidenote, you said you had K-line stuff. Tell me do you have the operation desert storm and operation Iraqi freedom train sets they made? That’s probably the two military sets I would want the most honestly. That, and a few modern and postwar inspired space exploration themed sets.

Depends if you are doing scale O or O27. O27 is between 1:64 and 1:48 inconsistently so 1:43 scale cars are already oversize so might look funny with O27. Matchbox is "nominally" in the 1:64 range. 1:50 cars are what we need. If you do S scale there is no shortage of vehicles.

@@MilwaukeeF40C road signature are a good compromise. They also fit inside MPC Lionel 3 decker car carriers. Beep People also fit inside these cars w/o amputations.

The vehicles on my layout are a mix of 1/43 and 1/48. The 1/48 cars are mainly vintage Corgi. Those look the best with O gauge. I’ve been phasing out the remaining 1/43 diecast on the layout and replacing it with Corgi 1/48. Some Matchbox items fit too, an example being the motorcycles.

I picked it up at a train shop in Burbank, CA and at local train meets. Johnson Roadbed. Company is out of business but there is still product in circulation. Mainly old stock and used.

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This is the only Polar Express set I have. Thanks for watching!

@@modeltrains1479 I noticed that you have a mostly postwar style layout except for a decidedly, modern MTH Amtrak sign. Does that mean that this is what the town in a 1950s style layout would have looked like a few decades later? If so I like that there is the appearance of a passage of time and not just something that is completely static. You make great videos!

Nope. Only the steam version.

@@lucasquintanilla1673The MTH Surfliner is our local Amtrak train, so it’s a family favorite on the layout.

@@modeltrains1479 I plan at some point on doing a model railway layout on what people of the 1930s 40s and 50s thought the future of railroading was going to be like combined with what actually happened and what could’ve happened. Basically I was thinking of modern and vintage diesels, futuristic looking engines like streamliners and late steam engines like big boy and Norfolk and western types. I also thought of what railroads would be present and I decided that it would be a combination of classic and modern road names like Norfolk and western, union pacific, Burlington northern, New York Central, and Santa Fe alongside more modern ones like the Chessie system, conrail Erie Lackawanna, and Amtrak. In particular, I actually plan on using a combination of Amtrak engines, and some steam engines in the American freedom train colors for the Amtrak services. I can imagine 4449 in red white and blue with Amtrak and American freedom train passenger cars pulling up to an Amtrak station right now.

Thanks, Curtis. Ideally, I'd like a much longer mainline run and wider curves.

Thanks! I enjoy the trains running with accessories operating.

I really enjoy Lionel. My favorite set is probably any of the Lionel Service Station Special Sets from the MPC era.

@@modeltrains1479 probably my favorite trains are Lionel and MTH items from the 1990s and 2000s. They are the items that I both grew up with playing and seeing on videos like I love toy trains, and the 2000 Lionel VHS instruction video.

Yes, it is! All Lionel tubular track, 032, 042 and 054 curves.

@@modeltrains1479 do you have any MPC stuff (the better MPC items don’t look all that different from postwar stuff and a large part of this is because they used the same tooling.) or postwar inspired modern items? I know that there is a MPC era Lionell, Amtrak, Lakeshore, limited train, set out there that at least a few people have used on post war type layouts because it does kind of fit. Do you have that and in any case do you plan on running any relatively newer Road names from after 1960?

The ZW transformer has 4 channels. Two are running trains, each with separate throttles/rheostats.

Why would you not have an Amtrak billboard?

@@modeltrains1479 the Amtrak billboard simply does not have a place on a 1950 layout unless it is a time-traveling billboard. I am not a rivet counter by any means. I was not even one when I HO scale. You could have put something that was more in time with the time. Why would you want to advertise the failure of the American passenger railroad system due to America's fascination with the car 🚗? On a modern era layout okay but not in a 1950s era layout. Of course your question answers itself because you are not model railroading you are simply playing with trains and there is a big difference between the two of them.

Ok, here’s the deal. I’m a California Gen Xer who was a kid in the MPC era. Amtrak is the only passenger train I’ve ever been on except for local light rail. So, on my layout Amtrak is a big deal, along with my Super Chief, SP, MoPac and UP passenger sets.

@@modeltrains1479a latter day Lionel town it would seem. Either that or Amtrak didn’t mean the end of all other passenger services with a few other railroads remaining in that business as competition. I like Amtrak paint schemes and locomotives but that would be awesome if we could have the best of both worlds like that.