I tend to approach things more from a prototype POV. Sometimes you can actually look to the real world for examples! Not every 12 inch to the foot passenger train had 3+ locomotives and 12+ cars.
My personal favorite, a train I'm modeling, is Rock Island's "Choctaw Rocket" - daily Memphis to Amarillo - E6a, RPO and three passenger cars. The "Nancy Hanks" and "Ann Rutledge" are two others that come to mind as short name trains. A quick look at some actual 1940's consists yielded Pennsy's "Liberty Limited" - 4-6-2 and 5 cars in December 1948. Two others that comprise a single locomotive and 4 or fewer cars were "The Gulf Coast Rebel" (GM&O) and the "Lookout" (NC&StL), again both in the 1940's. I believe MR, probably 20+ years ago, did a series on short passenger trains you can model for this very reason. Without the on-line all-time index I can't tell you which issue. Man do I miss that resource Jim Kindraka Plymouth, WI --- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote: > > > 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. > Rich G(ajnak) > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
