--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
>
> In my observations regarding passenger equipment is this: It's better
> to power your passenger trains with F units (or similar shorter diesels)
> or steam engines 4-6-2 or smaller. Most people will accept sharper
> curves with passenger cars than a longer engine where the cab sticks way
> out away from the tender--the fireman would then drop off onto the
> ballast while trying to gather the next scoop of coal.
>
> E units are a bit different but if you're a UP fan where you are running
> six E units you simply don't have room for an eight car train. I've
> seen PRR and CB&Q in similar situations--so many of those beautiful
> trains just don't compress well.
>
> All this being said I do have a big FEF and some E 9's that I love to
> run, but I know the appearance isn't the best. Here is where prototype
> practice and our compression factors fight each other.
>
> Bob Werre
> PhotoTraxx
I have several passenger trains that I run, but only occasionally.
My railroad is really too small to even properly support an American Models
seven car Budd set with a pair E's or trio of F's on the point.
But, when no one's looking, who cares? I feel fine running them and remove
them when the desire to run them is satisfied.
Otherwise, passenger service on my railroad consists of a modified AM
heavyweight combine in place of the caboose on a freight train or a pair of
scale-wheeled American Hirail RDC's.
Rich G(ajnak)
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