Earl, The City of New Orleans and Panama Limited are pretty much dreams at this point. I've started looking at the stuff available from The Supply Car*, but haven't figured out the full consist yet. More than likely, I'll purchase the AM E-8s and the Budd cars (however incorrect they may be) to use as a stand-in until I can get the rest of the train built. Operationally, these trains just made stops at the town I'm modeling, so not having a full consist will only hurt in appearance.
If you model the Panama Limited after 1967, it wouldn't be un-prototypical to have coaches in the consist. The IC dropped most of it's coach-only passenger trains and combined one of them (the Magnolia Star) with the Panama Limited. I think these two essentially operated as different trains on the same schedule, i.e. the coaches were all up front and the Panama consist was on the rear. Thanks for all of the responses on the radius question! Regards, Rhett Graves *http://www.thesupplycar.net/DisplayCatalogByRailroad.asp?X=0&RailroadID=1021&RailroadName=Illinois%20Central --- In [email protected], tennsgauge@... wrote: > > Rhett, I would be interested in knowing more about your S scale City of New > Orleans and Panama Limited. > > I have a pair of AM's IC E8s pulling a number of the full length AM IC > passenger cars. They look gorgeous, but the train is a hybrid between the > all-Pullman Panama Limited and other IC streamliners that had coaches. I > have > thought about trying to order new car sides from Laser Horizons to convert > the observation car into an IC coach observation to represent either the > City of New Orleans or City of Miami, but I question whether I would ever > get > the paint to match the other cars in color and texture. I would need to > do a dining car also. > > I hope you can share what you have done or plan to do. > > - Earl Henry, Nashville > > > In a message dated 11/25/2012 11:24:36 A.M. Central Standard Time, > rcandamoonpie@... writes: > > My trains will be the Illinois Central's City of New Orleans and Panama > Limited. They won't pass through at track speed, but we're talking at least > 12 85' passenger cars... > > Thanks to all, > Rhett Graves > ------------------------------------ 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/
