OK, this week I’m not working on my layout or running train. Crazy, right? So instead of discussing projects, I’ll try this small contribution to the forum with a question that I can’t recall ever reading about here.
Mixed roads shot recently from my VRE train near Springfield, Va.
Since available motor power is scarce, I use mixed lash up almost always when lashing up. In the reality it is done quite a lot, even if the loco only needs to be transported to another part of the country. It isn’t helping the train with pulling, but is added as a wagon to be used elsewhere. We have a lot of those combinations in Holland, even electric and diesel mixed and in rare occasions a steamloco as “wagon” behind an electric loco (fired up and running a bit, only to provide lubrication to the moving parts)
Not unusual in my neck of the woods!Last week I saw a 4 disel lash-up consisting of a Norfolk Southen Sd-90,Conrail Sd-90,Union Pacific Dash-9 and a BNSF in hertige livery GP-38!I guess the leasing agreements are pretty liberal between the major rail carriers.
I see Conrail [now NS except the part bought by CSX] and UP lashed to NS. See lots of pictures of NS and CN lashed together. About to get a big stable of NS. Got some CN’s. Will lash mixed roadnames when I get some engines to match those in NS. My thought [that and some money will get you a cup of coffee]; train pulls in with, lets say coal from midwest. UP engines meet NS. They move the train around in the yard with one or two UP engines. Others are cut loose and move on. The ones left moving the train around are left there unmaned. They back the NS engines in and hookup and away they go. Now you have the remaining UP engines lashed to NS.
Yes I do I see them all the time around here so I don’t even think about it. I even do it with steam.
Jamie
Why not. I’ve seen BNSF with CSX lashups before. As for Models all the time. It’s boring to see all the same color locomotives running together.