I’m looking for information on building passanger trains in HO scale I need help finding a web site with the following types of steam or diesel perfer steam and the make up of trains for the fowwowing railroads B&O,C&O,L&N and ACL I would like to stay as close as proticipal as I can (IE B&O engine type and car names for any of the routes thanks J
I would suggest that you try the historical societies for the info that you want.
Ken
Does anyone know what a matching color would be in todays paints for the gold lettering on heavyweight pullman cars?
I believe that sometime in the 1930’s, pullman switched from gold leaf to buff color. Floquil has a color called “Depot Buff” that is close. Hope this helps.
You are a better person than me if you intend to hand letter passenger cars by painting the letters. That is what decals and dry transfers are for (at least in my case) and they are available in most colors inclduing gold.
ndbrr is right on target concerning the gold Pullman lettering and striping. Personally, I have had much better luck with Champ decals than other brands. Best of all (my opinion), I believe dry transfers are the least hassle yielding good results. You won’t need to mess with “solva-set,” decal dulling vanish," or worry about too little or too much water, etc. Walthers decals may have improved by now but they were troublesome when I last applied them.
There are two Yahoo! Groups of which I’m aware that may be helpful to you on the topic…
The Passenger Car List - “A list devoted to railroad and railway passenger cars, both prototype and model.” at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PassengerCarList/
…and the Passenger Train Consist List - "…a group set up to share historical and current passenger train consists among railfans. at:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/passconsist/
Hope this helps.
Hi J, what time period are you modeling? The B. & O. ,for instance, was chartered in 1827 and ran under its own name until merging with C. & O. Dec. 1962. During W.W. I, many of the railroad’s steam locos were of the U.S.R.A. (U.S. Railraoad Administration) type. B. & O. seemed to favor Baldwin steam but ran every builders steam locos. You may use the U.S.R.A. types safely on most major U.S. Roads (circa 1914 through the 1940’s) A typical post W.W. II passenger consist would include several day coaches, fhree or four pullman sleepers of various compartmental configurations, two or more baggage cars, a R.P.O. (rail post office), a baggage-buffet lounge combine, and a combine diner-observation, lounge car. Extra fares trains would not include day coaches but baggage, Pullman sleepers, diners, a club-lounge car and observation (head-end) only car would be a general “rule of thumb.” B. & O. ran the gambit in diesel power from the 1935 General Electric TA-1 streamline diesels to the EMD E-6, 7, 8, and 9’s and everything in between. I hope this is of some general help to you.
As mentioned the passenger car list is one source. Also you can look at http://www.drgw.org/data/passenger/lightweight.pdf to provide you with the basics in terms of which cars and models are available. There is also a passenger consist yahoo group and a passenger equipment yahoo group. The ACL/SCL HS is very good, and the Lines South issue from the 3rd quarter of 2004 contains some very useful information on ex C&O equipment for the ACL, SCL & (indirectly) B&O.