F/M C-Liners...what to hang behind them?

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I bought myself an Proto 1K PRR C-Liner about 2 years ago, and I was wondering what kind of trains the PRR (and other operators) would normaly hang behind their drawbars, where they ever used on mixed unit lashups, or only in pairs with other C-Liners?

thanks in advance!

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I remember seeing them a few times on the NYC’s West Shore line in the early 1960’s. They were used on general merchandise trains and mixed freely with other similar locomotives, although by that time they had been repowered with EMD 567’s.

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thanks alot alfadawg01! information about the C-liners on the net is as rare as the units where themself!

thats interesting, I’ve been thinking about something similar as an “excuse” for the presence of those C-liners on my layout, but I never knew any real C-liners where re-engined… thanks for the info!

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The PRR used the few they had in general freight service. I’ve only seen a couple of pictures of them. One is a train leaving Enola by Don Wood (the only shot of them he ever got) and one is by Malinoski of a pair decending Horsehoe Curve. The Malinoski shot has the FMs, F units and FAs on side by side by side tracks on the curve. That may be the only known picture of trains with those three types in action in the same picture. Both are in Pennsy Power Two by Stauffer. They were pretty rare!