Foreign Rolling Stock

I plan to model a loose representation of the ATSF, the UP, and the SP from

The layout will be centered around well defined interchange yards. Although the ATSF will be the dominant player, the UP and the SP will certainly share some of the spot light. I plan to define specific locations as being serviced by each individual RR, thus necessitating the need for two or three distinct interchange yards to assist the three RR's in their shared delivery effort.

The layout will be completely fictitious, but I do hope to remain fairly accurate with regards to operations and era specific equipment. My modest collection of five, model RR, reference books [by John Armstrong, by Tony Koester, by Andy Sperandeo, and others] have been the primary resource for my track drawings with a LOT of terrific input from this newgroup and a couple of other Yahooo, interest groups.

Sometimes I will mix road and switcher locomotives in the same train. Sometimes I'll mix different roads. But I try to make this an exception rather than rule. I might be shifting motive power between towns so a SW12RS might be tacked to the end of a road loco consist. I will usually be running CN intermodal trains with GP40-2w's but might swap in an SD40-2 or something else every now and then. I like to set up a standard usage for locomotives and then sometimes throw in an unusual locomotive for fun. While watching CN & CP trains I've seen locomotives from BC Rail C424's, Contrail, SOO, Chicago & Northwester, Helm, BN so I can include foreign road locos as well. It's just not something you see on every train. But I realy don't see CN and CP mixing locos very often. More often I've seen CN or CP using leased or an american railroad's locomotive.

Jb

I think it also obviated the need to route the car back towards it's home road. So, if you had a Lehigh Valley boxcar, you used to have to send it back that way. With a Railbox, you can send the same car westward, to LA.

I think the slogan on the side says Next Load, Any Road....

Kennedy

For AT&SF and UP, look to the Cajon Pass for ideas. Both of thoes railroad ran over the same tracks in a seperated (the up track and the down track could be a mile apart at points) double track main line and SP was no stranger to that area either, having finally built a main line which goes to a different part of the desert, tieing to it's older mainline which goes through another pass on the west side of LA. UP and AT&SF are hom road engines so you'd see trains of either line running on the trackage. The SP's new line is a little bit to the north of the AT&SF/UP trackage.

-- Why do penguins walk so far to get to their nesting grounds?

Regarding the coal roads like Virginian, there cetainly were 'non-home road' coal hoppers and gons in their consists. Coal going to their own coal piers, for shippment elesewhere, normally moved in home-road cars. But many industries, or other railroads, ordered coal from mines in their (VGN) territory, and would send empty cars to be loaded. Some of this was prvate owner cars, and some just regular railroad cars from the area of the delivery. For instance, even Great Northern coal hoppers moved on the Virginian.

Yes, such moves were a small fraction of the total, but were quite apparent in their trains since the cars looked different.

Dan Mitchell ============

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Some ideas I had not thought of before. Will th>Sometimes I will mix road and switcher locomotives in the same train.

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