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Post by josef on Nov 19, 2019 11:28:39 GMT
This used to be a common sight throughout the US and overseas. I remember the Milwaukee Rd and NYC running through and stopping in our town with one or 2 passenger cars attached to freight cars headed to and from Chicago and Indiana. It was early 60s when this stopped. Does anyone model these mixed trains on their layout? |
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Post by ptc on Nov 19, 2019 13:13:23 GMT
Nope, never, but I am a purist when it comes to passenger trains. I like to think of them as the best the railroads had to offer in terms of equipment and the sleek passenger trains like the Super Chief. Yes, there is the baggage car and RPO, but I don't regard them as freight cars.
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Post by laz57 on Nov 19, 2019 13:33:46 GMT
Yes I run a NYC “MILK RUN”. 5 milk cars along with the Lionel CC Passenger set and the NYC Niagara. Looks cool.
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Post by pebo on Nov 19, 2019 14:45:24 GMT
All the time......NYC milk trains like Laz does and short NYO&W trains like they did in upstate NY. I will try to find some pics.
Peter
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 15:32:34 GMT
In the early days of steam trains always had a mixture of passenger and freight behind them. This practice continued for many years. There were steam trains that had a singular purpose as well. Such as U.P.'s long refrigerated fruit and vegetable consists bringing these perishable halfway across a country. Also in the east were the massive coal hauling trains. Soon all products were shipped by rail in north America and other parts of the world to meet their growing demand. It is not uncommon today to see mixed freight consists as well as singular purpose freight train consists. There are still railroads today that have a mix of passenger and freight cars. These are usually found in the northern or other remote areas of a country. Below is a video of Ontario Northland's Polar Bear Express from Cochrane ON to Moosonee ON. A place so remote that Google Maps could not compute a route.
Gary.
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Post by dennym57 on Nov 19, 2019 16:40:04 GMT
I never thought to do that.
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Post by JDaddy on Nov 19, 2019 17:06:59 GMT
I always chuckle when I see photos of oil/gas tank cars right on the headend behind the tender and in front of a passenger coach or combine...
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Post by Adam on Nov 19, 2019 18:14:04 GMT
I never thought to do that. Me either. Just didn’t fit logically into my thinking of what a train should be. But I guess in some situations it makes sense. |
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Post by Country Joe on Nov 19, 2019 22:28:53 GMT
I've seen photos of mixed freight and passenger trains but they just don't look right to my eyes so I've never run a mixed train.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 23:13:26 GMT
We are getting a Polar Express boxcar to add to our PE train. The elves on our layout are gonna be well fed unlike some others that have a bunch of string bean elves but a fat Santa. Boo/hiss... strikes a’comin.
Our jolly elves have been eatin Mrs Clause’s cookies with chocolate chips, raisins, and coconut from across the seas. Mrs Clause makes them special and it takes a box car to get all the ingredients there.
We are also going to have an Egg Nog tanker. The train stops in Tennessee at the Jack Daniels family still. Prohibition never stopped Santa. Each elf gets a daily ration just like on the sailing ships before the big war.
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Post by pebo on Nov 20, 2019 1:27:34 GMT
Here are a few:
These are milk/mail passenger trains.......next time I do an O&W mixed train, I'll post some pics.
Peter
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 4:07:59 GMT
I run passenger or freight trains but not mixed. I enjoy the different type of operations. I might goof and leave a passenger car on a siding for a lumber company! 😁
Andy
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Post by ptc on Nov 20, 2019 11:42:30 GMT
"We are getting a Polar Express boxcar to add to our PE train. The elves on our layout are gonna be well fed unlike some others that have a bunch of string bean elves but a fat Santa. Boo/hiss... strikes a’comin."
Too funny.  More latter.
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Post by sdivtim on Nov 20, 2019 14:50:15 GMT
My Thomas the Tank stuff does it. Annie and Clarabel and some troublesome trucks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 15:24:28 GMT
NYC ran ME trains as in Merchandise and express trains. Milk, Mail, or other time sensitive commodity and since the NYC did so do I. Usually pulled by a Hudson.
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