I have purchased an E8 B&O and am wondering what passenger set I can get for it. The color scheme is blue/white and would like to get a color match. The engine is an MTH. Would I have to get a MTH set to get color match? or would other mfg colors match as well ? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Ralph
If you are planning to model a B&O consist when the equipment was new, color match would be critical.
I road the Capitol Limited from Washington, D.C. to Chicago in June of 1970. There were B&O and C&0 cars in the consist as well as a coach still painted in the American Railroads blue with yellow trim for the centenial of American railroads a few years earlier. Two blunt end observations were next to each other in the middle of the train, obs ends facing each other.
We derailed in South Chicago going through Rock Island Junction. Put the middle part of the train on the ground in tracks that had spread because of the muck the tracks were on.
What is the smallest radii in track that the locomotives can navigate without derailing?