Hi Guys,
I am a teenage model railraoder and am in the process of purchasing some passenger cars for my new PRR K-4. Would this loco ever have run with streamline or smoothside passenger cars behin it like this?
Thanks for your help guys.
Yes, no problem. K-4s ran well into the late 1950s, and I think most PRR streamliner cars with that paint scheme appeared much earlier.
Thanks for the help. I thought that it would be legit, but I wanted to make sure before spending a ton of $$.
I too am a teenage railfan. [:)]
I too have a PRR K4. [:D]
I have heavyweights which I have it haul.
I think it gives it an older and classic look. [;)]
But streamlined would deffinately look good behind a K4.
To be honest with you, I think I should have gotten streamlined becuase If I got PRR Passenger Diesels it would have better matched. [:(]
Oh Well…
Well it often wasn’t “all or nothing”, heavyweights and streamlined cars often mixed.
It wouldn’t be uncommon from the 30’s into even the 60’s to see trains that were a mix - like a long distance train that would have heavyweight baggage and RPO’s behind the engine, maybe one or two heavyweight coaches (perhaps converted to air conditioning) followed by a couple of streamlined sleeper cars and a streamlined (or converted heavyweight) observation car. A local train might have all-heavyweight cars except for one streamlined sleeper at the end of the train. The train would start out at the rural end of a branchline and end up at a town on the mainline. There the sleeper would be switched into the consist of a streamlined mainline express train headed towards a ‘big city’ like Chicago, New York, or L.A.
ANYTHING looks good behind a K4.