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Posted - December 12 2012 : 11:58:37 AM
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A penn line boxcar, Union Pacific. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 12:00:01 PM
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A penn line box car, Great Northern. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 2:33:52 PM
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Thank you buss. A penn line gondola Pennsylvania railroad. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 3:41:11 PM
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A penn line gondola , Wabash. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 3:55:04 PM
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* A penn line caboose, Pennsylvania RR. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 3:58:55 PM
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A Penn line caboose, Chicago & Eastern Illionis. One of the odd ones. There was one year 1955, when Penn Line used fleischmenn couplers and trucks on there cars. There is a catalog full of photos of there cars and train sets with Fleischmann couplers on them. I have a penn line trailer flat car with them on also. It is not shown here . It has its own topic. * Here is a link to it. http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8848 toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:00:01 PM
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A Penn Line caboose, Wabash RR. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:01:41 PM
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A Penn Line Caboose, Denver Rio Grand Western. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:03:17 PM
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A penn line Generator working light car. toptrain
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:04:22 PM
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A penn line Generator Light Car. toptrain
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:13:48 PM
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A Penn line B&O standard passenger baggage car. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:15:05 PM
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A Penn line B&O standard passenger coach. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:16:11 PM
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A Penn line B&O standard passenger dinner. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:16:56 PM
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A Penn line B&O standard passenger pullman. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:17:42 PM
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A Penn line B&O standard passenger observation. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:23:53 PM
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A Penn Line, Pennsylvania Railroad, standard baggage toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:24:39 PM
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A Penn Line, Pennsylvania Railroad, standard combine. toptrain1
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Posted - December 12 2012 : 4:25:23 PM
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A Penn Line, Pennsylvania Railroad, standard coach. Still need Penn Line Dinner, Pullman, and Observation cars in matching Pennsy toptrain1
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Posted - December 13 2012 : 05:44:59 AM
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I have like 25 of those passenger cars I need to do something with. No trucks, the Central Valley trucks on them are coming off.
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Posted - December 13 2012 : 08:42:17 AM
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Hello ! Lehigh Valley Railroad.
* If you have 25 passenger cars why are you not running them. Central Valley trucks allowed them to run to. That is why they were put on the cars. If they say Penn line on the bottom post photos of them here. You probably, with 25 of them, have other road names as well as these. They, all of them would be nice to see. Could you share photos of them and post them here. * They and very similar ones were made by HObbyline, Penn Line, Varney, and life like. In both standard cresatory heavy weight style, and streamline style. * All can find a place here in one of the forum topics. Many people here would love to see them. * I have run out of photos for now, need somemore myself. I am happy that I was allowed to get all posted in groups in a row together. Thanks Buss.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 9:10:58 PM
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They say Penn Line on the bottom. All repainted dark green and rubber stamp lettered for a home road, some right over old decals and stuff. Trucks are worth about $15 a pair, cars seem to have little to no value.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 9:58:33 PM
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Here's a Penn Line Santa Fe streamliner:
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Posted - December 18 2012 : 06:50:47 AM
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quote:They say Penn Line on the bottom. All repainted dark green and rubber stamp lettered for a home road, some right over old decals and stuff. Trucks are worth about $15 a pair, cars seem to have little to no value.
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* I have seen that a lot. Back in the days of inexpensive decals, private roads were common. Now to repaint and letter a 5 passenger car set. stripping, painting, and lettering can cost $40. If you can find decal set for $5. each. you always need a extra set for the occasional oppps. And this doesn't count the cost of a spray gun and compressor. I still would like to do a set of Pennsy streamliners is silver and black decals. Can't find black passenger car decals anymore since Walters stopped making them. frank
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Posted - December 18 2012 : 07:00:24 AM
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quote:Here's a Penn Line Santa Fe streamliner:
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Hi Cheez . * Nice car to bad it got a dropped. That same set came made by HObbyline in santa fe and Pennsy. A friend has the Pennsy set. Nice and simple. Silver with black lettering. Penn Lines always were lighted. Varney may have made that santa Fe set to. Thier pennsy set was the same as Penn Lines with a red stripe across the top of the windows, yellow lettering, and a few cars named different. frank
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Posted - December 25 2012 : 7:54:21 PM
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Here's a Hinde and Dauch on an ATSF flatcar, not Monon. Unfortunately, one of the trucks is exhibiting zinc rot, and has broken. The other appears fine.
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Posted - January 28 2013 : 10:40:41 AM
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The rot happens. Just replace with another set of trucks. That is one of the reasons I go to train shows and buy cheep cars for 2 or 3 dollars. For parts. I'll buy a 3 for 10 deal and get old cars missing hatches and broken off foot ladders. The ones I get have trucks I am looking for, remaining hatches, sliding doors, door slides, roof walks, couplers, couplers covers, other parts. Any one you can't buy for $2. frank
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Posted - January 28 2013 : 10:48:23 AM
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I have some Penn Line also,ill get up some pics soon.
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Posted - January 29 2013 : 10:17:51 PM
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I must not be looking hard enough when I get to shows because I've never seen these. Nice finds.
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Posted - January 30 2013 : 07:57:10 AM
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Bob They look like mantua -tyco cars but have the old mantua metal bottom, different paint, and say Penn Line. all dont have penn line trucks. You can see that they fall apart. frank
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Posted - July 23 2013 : 4:56:12 PM
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** I was able to get this today from a friend. A Penn line Southern Pacific F7A #5925. It has the Bloody Nose paint scheme. All gray and red nose.
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Posted - July 26 2013 : 01:21:26 AM
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I see a bit of zinc pest in the frame. It doesn't seem to have expanded enough to do damage, though.
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Posted - July 30 2013 : 08:35:00 AM
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Nelson. No frame on this F7. It is a lot alike to a Varney drive where front and rear truck where the trucks fasten to the body . The gas tank is a separate casting that clips into body also. The tank seems to be on it way out. frank
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Posted - July 30 2013 : 08:38:30 AM
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I found this penn Line passenger car which is painted for the ERIE at flea market last Saturday. frank
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Posted - November 01 2013 : 7:42:39 PM
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my LHS has a pennline RDG piggyback flat sans trailer and trucks, and one of those mottles plastic F7 shells. buying tomorrow.
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Posted - March 01 2014 : 4:13:01 PM
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Hi Frank ! is this the cabbose later sold by Varney, looks like it? - Erichquote:A Penn Line caboose, Wabash RR. toptrain1
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Posted - March 01 2014 : 4:54:08 PM
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Erick, No it isn't the varney. Same type but different casting. frank
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Posted - October 25 2014 : 12:43:14 PM
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quote:Penn- line : The Wabash GP7 to go with the train set. toptrain
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Oddly enough, Penn Line actually called the GP7 a GP9 even though it's clearly an Athearn GP7 shell on a Penn Line chassis.
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Posted - October 25 2014 : 1:00:17 PM
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My Penn Line D2 Whitcomb:
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Posted - October 25 2014 : 2:59:03 PM
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will look for these at train show next month Does Penn-Line put their name on the bottom?
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Posted - October 25 2014 : 3:06:23 PM
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Think so. Neat little engine and a smooth runner at best Ben.
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Posted - December 02 2014 : 11:16:07 AM
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Well I got lucky and got another flat with a wood load. This one is the Southern railroad and painted gray. frank
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Posted - December 02 2014 : 11:26:50 AM
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Also at the same train show a pair of passenger cars made for Penn-Line to sell by Fleischmann. A Great Northern baggage mail car, and a Pullman sleeper. frank
No 541 the Pullman sleeper.
No 425 the combine, Mail, baggage car.
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Posted - December 02 2014 : 11:40:24 AM
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quote: quote:Penn- line : The Wabash GP7 to go with the train set. toptrain
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Oddly enough, Penn Line actually called the GP7 a GP9 even though it's clearly an Athearn GP7 shell on a Penn Line chassis.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â October 25 2014Â :Â 12:43:14 PM
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"GP9", if I remember correctly from my vintage MR expeditions, is 1950s Lionelspeak for "GP7 with dynamic brakes". (Well, hey, it was a geep-type diesel, who noticed those with all the steam and flashy streamliners still around? I'm half-surprised any molds were even produced for GPs back then...)
Decals: Sigh. Another thing like kits and parts that I never thought we would ever have to do without. It's so weird that we went so quickly from the full-color Paint Shop features in MR to the disappearance of Champ and Herald King and the downscaling of Microscale. Anybody else miss the Champ private roadname sets? What a great idea that was.
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Posted - December 05 2014 : 2:55:07 PM
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Great stuff - I love reading about, and seeing, the old stuff. I'm sure most of you know about this but just in case:
http://www.hoseeker.org/pennline/pennlinehistory/pennlineindex.html
Great history of the rise and fall of Penn Line.
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 10:21:59 AM
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This is also edited into the first post in this topic. The reference to info link in the last post before this one, refers to its location here.
***About Penn-Line: ** If you go to the HOseeker site listed in our Tyco Forum, or to the direct link to Penn-Line trains to HOseeker in the previous post, You can view their early catalogs. Before 1955 you can only find Locomotives. Now in the 1955 catalog you see a line of cars, both Passenger and freight. The only car made be Penn-Line in this catalog are the flat cars and the caboose. If you look closely you will see a different type of coupler used on all these cars. The Passenger cars, Reefer, box car, gondola, and the different type of coupler are all made in Western Germany by Fleischmann. This is how Penn-Line got into the train set business. In the following years Penn-Line made more of their own cars. Adding more each year. When the NMRA ( National Model Railroad Association) designed and released their choice of a new common type HO coupler for American HO products, Penn-Line changed to this type coupler. Fleischmann adopted this type coupler also, on the cars they supplied to Penn-Line. This car be seen by longer time modelers having Penn-Line cars. Penn-Line phased out the use of Fleischmann cars before 1960 as the catalogs show HObbyline, Varney type passenger cars. These were provided by Varney to extend the Penn-Line line. Also A Mantua style box car is seen in the Penn-Line line in Great Northern, Union Pacific, D&RGW cookie box, NH, MP eagle with yellow door, WP feather, and Main Central. Mantua also provided gondolas in PRR, Wabash, B&O, and Monon. Some of these cars can be recognized by different lettering, coloring, and numbering. Some have, like all the passenger cars of the Varney type, the Penn-Line logo on the car bottom. Others don,t. Some came with a black sticker with white lettering of the Penn-Line logo on their bottom. Collecting these cars can be challenging. You may think you have a Penn-Line, and only have a Mantua. * Happy, successful, collecting. frank
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 12:31:15 PM
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A H-9 class 2-8-0 and K4 class 4-6-2 .
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Posted - May 27 2015 : 11:21:50 AM
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*** in 1957 American Hobby Center in their catalog shown 2 Penn Line train sets for sale back then. In each a flat car with trailer load came with the set. Also include was a second trailer which was different, a unloading ramp, and a Ford tilt cab tractor to unload the flat car, and pull them around the streets of the train layout. It seemed that each set had the Monnon and the Hinde & Dauch trailers. Making a nice addition to these train sets. frank
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Posted - May 27 2015 : 10:55:20 PM
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I've got some Penn Line stuff, too. It's a lot of 4 Pennsylvania coaches.They're kinda stiff, though, so pretty much all my trains struggle to pull them.
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Posted - January 14 2016 : 11:37:13 PM
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I have a couple of shorty full dome shells apparently produced by Penn Line:
The one on the left sadly fell victim to a bit of clumsiness on my part while I was wearing shoes, and so it has a crack in the roof. At least it will mostly be hidden when I paint them.
They're nice pieces. A lot of model dome cars I've seen (including the other two I own, one of which is an O.K. models shorty and IDK who made the other) mold the top of the dome as though it has windows, when on the real deal the top was solid roof.
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