Amtrak's Broadway Limited, HO scale, CIRC layout

My HO scale Broadway Limited train makes the rounds on the Central Iowa Railroad Club layout, still under construction as of August 17, 2007. Some areas have permanent scenery, some have temporary scenery for the fair, and others have no scenery at all.

This train approximately represents the Broadway Limited as it looked in a video runby shot at Horseshoe Curve sometime in 1994 or 1995.

The whole train is made up of Walthers equipment, though all cars have been mechanically and cosmetically upgraded. One of the MHCs has been fitted with a track cleaner pad, and a custom-built lounge car (No. 3118, formerly a PRR/PC 29-1 parlor car) can be seen in the consist just behind the coach section.

Two sample photos of the lounge car can be seen at:

http://otto.twu.net/buddlounge/finishedpreview/finished_01.jpg
http://otto.twu.net/buddlounge/finishedpreview/finished_02.jpg

The car was leaning toward the kitchen side at the time, owing to a defective truck on the vestibule end; it's since been replaced. New photos... eventually.

The car has a full interior, the majority of which was scratchbuilt. The main kitchen assembly (first of three assemblies) just before installation:

http://otto.twu.net/buddlounge/finishedpreview/kitchenmain.jpg

Dime included for scale.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Amtrak
• HO
• scale
• model
• railroad
• broadway
• limited

[indie1361]

Gorgeous Amtrak!

[araquan]

@indie1361 Thanks!

[brasszebra]

The most I have seen is one baggage cars on a VIA train today. And thats with 8 coach cars(520pax's) on train 57.

[araquan]

@brasszebra This represents the period when Amtrak still carried express freight. Most of it would ride in the Material Handling Cars (the boxcars with HEP pass-through connections) but Amtrak would sometimes use additional streamlined baggage cars for this freight as well. The arrangement of head-end cars you see in the model is based on the actual consist of the train on one particular day around 1994.

[WAYNE1980AA]

question: a via rail train made up of a fp9a and f9b with a baggage car, how many full coach cars can you add on before adding a second baggage car (in short, how many coach cars does it take to fill up a full size baggage)

[TEMPLE7D]

thats like 15 bags per person--lol

[fixierider97]

Lol, thats a lot of baggage cars!

[araquan]

Indeed. The diaphragms come with the cars, also, there's almost no work- I like to add some silver to the edges of the striker plates to give the impression of the metal frame found there on the real cars, but that's it.

[killerbees177]

Its a nice illusion

[araquan]

There's not an air-tight seal, no... in the case of the model, the diaphragms aren't even touching each other most of the time, except perhaps on curves.