Mixed Passenger Cars

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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Hello All,

Can anyone tell me if it was prototypical for the PRR and NYC to mix Madison passenger cars and streamliners in the same consist?

Thanks,

AceApe

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They did it all the time in the 1950’s and 1960’s prior to Amtrak. I rode both the PRR and NYC and you would see the six axle standards mixed in with the lightweight streamliners all the time. In fact, when I was riding the B&O National Limited when it wrecked, it definitely had both types of cars.

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Back in the late '60’s. I rode the Gulf Wind from Jacksonville, FL to New Orleans. We stopped in the middle of the night in Flomaton, Alabama and eventually were coupled to L&N’s Pan American for the rest of the run to New Orleans. There was a heavyweight diner with 6 wheel trucks in the consist. One of the smoothest riding cars I ever had the pleasure to ride.

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I road the New Haven/ PC from Stamford CT to Boston in the early 70s in a similar mixed train - not quite madisons but heavyweight cars and dirty stainless streamliners. Isn’t it said there’s a prototype for just about everything?