A rare set.

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JackBohm

Discussion Starter · 11 d ago

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I believe AMFlyer said try to find one , referring to the AM Dreyfus Streamlined Hudson. I didn’t have to find this one, I bought it back in 2003. It’s been run less than 5 hours. Some minor paint chips. Here she is, with an abbreviated consist .

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JackBohm

Discussion Starter · #2 · 11 d ago

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The rest of the pics .

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Rusty Traque

· #3 · 11 d ago

I passed on the AM 20th Century Limited set long ago. It's a decision I sometimes regret.

Rusty

JackBohm

Discussion Starter · #4 · 11 d ago

Rusty Traque said:
I passed on the AM 20th Century Limited set long ago. It's a decision I sometimes regret.

Rusty

They had a 20th Century Set?

AmFlyer

· #5 · 11 d ago (Edited)

I wish I had that engine. I passed on a scale version that AM was selling at S Fest, now I regret it. I have the passenger cars.
There was a set, Dennis Bagby had one and it was the only set he refused to sell when he was liquidating his massive collection. I tried several times, bought a lot of other NIB items but could not get that set.
Better get that trailing truck re-railed.

Rusty Traque

· #6 · 11 d ago

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JackBohm said:
They had a 20th Century Set?

Yep. It's the reason the Budd Cars exist. From AM's 2008 catalog:

Three extra coaches were also availble.

Rusty

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JackBohm

Discussion Starter · #7 · 11 d ago

Rusty Traque said:
Yep. It's the reason the Budd Cars exist. From AM's 2008 catalog: View attachment 604872 View attachment 604873

Three extra coaches were also availble.

Rusty

That is the Empire State Express. This is the set.

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JackBohm

Discussion Starter · #8 · 11 d ago

AmFlyer said:
I wish I had that engine. I passed on a scale version that AM was selling at S Fest, now I regret it. I have the passenger cars.
There was a set, Dennis Bagby had one and it was the only set he refused to sell when he was liquidating his massive collection. I tried several times, bought a lot of other NIB items but could not get that set.
Better get that trailing truck re-railed.

I just put it on the table for the pictures. I don’t run it too often at the moment.

Rusty Traque

· #9 · 11 d ago

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Equally rare: The AM Texas Special.

The only set where the locomotives were not available separately.

I would have liked to get the SP Daylight and MP Colorado Eagle back then, but my bucks only stretched so far...

Rusty

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Rusty Traque

· #10 · 11 d ago

JackBohm said:
That is the Empire State Express. This is the set.

Jack is right. The ESE is correct. Sometimes my keyboard gets ahead of my brain. My bad...

Rusty

AmFlyer

· #11 · 11 d ago

That Texas Special is really nice. There are a lot of sets AM could rerun and they would sell. The IC City of New Orleans is another one.
AM has the corner on passenger cars. It was a sad day when GGD announced there were insufficient pre-orders to make their passenger cars in S. I had a NYC set on pre-order.

Rusty Traque

· #12 · 11 d ago

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AmFlyer said:
The IC City of New Orleans is another one.

Ron once indicated the IC sets were poor sellers. That's why there were no IC Budd dome cars made.

There was a Panama Limited decorated by AM using the 85' streamliners: Baggage/Dorm, Coach, Dome, Sleeper, Observation. This was a custom run for Scenery Unlimited in the early 1990's as I recall:

And as there were no AM E8's back in the 90's, Don Heimberger had a handful of FP7's custom painted for IC:

Rusty

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JackBohm

Discussion Starter · #13 · 11 d ago

Rusty Traque said:
Ron once indicated the IC sets were poor sellers. That's why there were no IC Budd dome cars made.

There was a Panama Limited decorated by AM using the 85' streamliners: Baggage/Dorm, Coach, Dome, Sleeper, Observation. This was a custom run for Scenery Unlimited in the early 1990's as I recall:
View attachment 604879
View attachment 604880

And as there were no AM E8's back in the 90's, Don Heimberger had a handful of FP7's custom painted for IC:

View attachment 604881

Rusty

Have to admit that’s a sharp one. Pity it wasn’t a hot seller.

that yours , on your layout?

AmFlyer

· #14 · 11 d ago

Rusty, I never saw or heard of that Panama Limited set. It looks great on the 85' lightweight streamliners. I only have the 85' streamliners in PRR livery. As I recall, you also have a Santa Fe set.
I got tired of looking at the large gap between the AM passenger cars. Here is a picture of my PRR 85’ lightweights after the coupler arms were each shortened by 3/16” and diaphragms from the Budd cars added.

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Rusty Traque

· #15 · 11 d ago

JackBohm said:
Have to admit that’s a sharp one. Pity it wasn’t a hot seller.

that yours , on your layout?

The photo's were taken on my old layout, dismantled in 2020 due to a move.

Rusty

AmFlyer

· #16 · 11 d ago

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Since I missed the chance to get the Hudson, I am making do with a NYC Niagara to pull the Empire State Express. This engine is a Lionel Flyerchief (pre-Bluetooth) that was converted to TMCC/Railsounds. I think it is the only FlyerChief steam engine with wire handrails. It looks like a Gilbert Northern but was made with new tooling.

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Chuck7612

· #17 · 9 d ago

Here's mine running on our club layout a couple of years ago....

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AmFlyer

· #18 · 9 d ago

It looks like the scale version. In the video you linked, it sounds like 2/chffs per revolution but in the longer 40 second video it sounds like 4 chuffs. Has that been converted to DCC?

Chuck7612

· #19 · 9 d ago

Yes Tom, it's an older Soundtraxx unit called an Econami. The previous owner installed it. I bought the set plus four add on cars from him when he advertised on an S scale modeler's forum that he was selling off much of his collection. It is not my favorite decoder so some day I'll put in a Tsunami 2 for better sound.

T-Man

· #20 · 7 d ago

It must be rare. Someone copied it in wood.

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