Rich, Yes whatever you feel good running--just do it. That's the fun
part of our hobby. It's just like sports--on the golf course you can
spend all your time in the high grass, but when your playing a foursome
in a tourney, it's a time for a better show. A time and a place for both.
When I designed my layout, I had hoped for a 3 car heavyweight train
(Kinsman cars) and a 4-5 car streamlined train (JC cars) at a maximum.
But as we all know the twin idols of plastic and brass shined down upon
us and gave us more stuff than we could use. I now have a brass set of
Harriaman cars, a short HW (Southwind set), a short SHS/AM HW set, a gas
electric, and a 6 car AM plain sided streamline set plus a wonderfully
built set of those Kinsman waiting for Soo Line paint and lettering.
The JC's are about half built and reside in a cabinet (I bring them out
yearly just to change the air in the boxes)!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, 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
>
> 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)
