[8D][8D][:D] I’m in the process of laying out an operational criteria for my layout . What , I’m looking for is : Does anyone know of or have a source I can go too to find - the operational scheduling of arrivals / departures of a head-end passenger terminal ( kinda’ sounds like a search topic for the Libary of Congress - Well ,. it was . Isn’t getting thru that stuff a rush ? . Yah ! spent a month one evening @ L.O.C. . Well anyway , in particular I’m doing Chicago’s Union Station on Canal Street - Pennsy Power [8D] ! ! On a simpler note - what I’m looking for is info. on what goes in & comes out of a Pass. terminal so I can setup my moves in a proto.typical fashion . HELP ! HELP ! [8D][:D][8D][:D][8D]
As far as I know, passenger stations are much like a yard - trains have to be broken up after arriving, and assembled to depart. The Toronto (Ontario) yard for doing this is now about 10 miles away I understand, but used to be done “on-site”.
Then you have to consider what else is in the consists, depending on the era - mail, milk, mixed freight/passenger. Also consider the things required on board specifically for passengers - food in the dining car, blankets and linens for the sleeping cars.
Andrew
“What goes in & out”.
In those old days of Pennsylvania Power other passenger roads also used Union.
Are you looking for those road names as well?
My father works for amtrak and last i know the amtrak superliners do not get broken up they go back to the yard as a whole train and are cleaned and turned around for another trip like broadway comes in as the broadway and leaves as the texas eagle not sure that train does that but you get the point but all that only helps if your going to do modern day passenger the train does get broken down on its return to Chicago
That all depends on how the station is set up. Is it a spur or dead end or does it run on a line in between the next stop? So many possibilities and are endless. Let your imagination run wild and trust your instincts.
Phillip,
The best resource for all things Pennsy is the PRRT&HS. Their quartly magazine, The Keystone is a wealth of information on the People, Places and Things of the PRR. About a year ago, they did a write up of the Sunnyside New York Passenger Yard. See: http://www.prrths.com/
Loco 3 - "In & Out " doesn’t quite cut it . But in the ensuing time I hit on the Chicago Historical Society ; under transportation : History of . I finally found the timetables I need . I guess all the answers are out there some where . It’s just asking the right question , I’m having trouble with . Thanks for your time .
Later - Phil [8D] [:D] [8D] [:D]