With new leadership, and expectations for increased passenger traffic for the upcoming Expo 67 in Montreal, planning began to upgrade the road's flagships, the daytime Laurentian and the overnight Montreal Limited.

With used cars and locos readily available, D&H found some great bargains. Four Santa Fe PA diesels were purchased for just $30,000 each, and a dozen lightweight Pullman-built stainless cars, including coaches, lounges and head-end equipment, were acquired from the Denver & Rio Grande Western. The locos rolled out of the D&H shops in late 1967, resplendent in a unique D&H variation of the classic Warbonnet colors, which were also used on the cars.

The popular trains remained in regular service until Amtrak took over in 1971. For the next few years, the equipment languished, and two of the engines suffered major mechanical failures.

Help arrived from an unlikely source in 1974, as the State of New York sought to restore passenger service between Albany and Montreal, much of it along the D&H tracks. Amtrak found itself unable to provide equipment, but the D&H fleet was still mechanically sound. Two of the Alcos went west for rebuilding, while the other locos and the cars (along with a pair of former CP Rail Budd domes) were assigned to Amtrak's new Adirondack service, where all served until 1974.

Bumped from their jobs by new Turbo trains, the four PAs drifted into freight service before ending their days in commuter runs around Boston. All four were sold to Mexico in 1978, but two of the four later made it back to the states. The former #18 was reborn and restored as Nickel Plate #190, while #16 was acquired by the Museum of the American Railroad with plans to restore the unit to its original ATSF colors.

Features:

• Mix and match passenger cars and locomotives for realistic consists
• Prototypically accurate window tinting and printed gaskets as appropriate on passenger cars
• Available in standard non-lighted and factory installed DC/DCC LED lighted versions
  
• Car name and/or number decals as appropriate
• Factory-installed grab irons
• Turned metal wheelsets
• Proto MAX metal knuckle couplers
• Matching Walthers Mainline ALCO PA and PA-PB locmotives available in DCC Ready and DCC w/Sound versions
• PLEASE NOTE: As these cars are the correct prototype length and feature full underbody detail to match the prototypes, a minimum 24" radius is recommended for operation