I have a PRR T-1. I know they went out of service around 1951. Can someone tell me if in passenger service they ran heavyweights or streamlined cars & what a typical consist had in it. Thank you
Actually both HW and LW. Depending on the service they could be pressed in a name train with all Pullman varnish to complete baggage and mail service. For a better grasp of what was in a given consist you can purchase a passenger consist book put out by the PRRT&HS. The society members have done some of the most comprehensive research and publishes the books to help all of us modelers. http://pennsyrr.com/admin/2012-09-27-17-11-56
Pete
The make up of trains for the PRR is readily available on Keystone Crossings web site. They quickly wound up on secondary and mail trains as E7s were acquired.
Pete hit the target! I recently bought a few back issues of The Keystone and one issue happened to be the Autumn 2001 issue with an extensive artiicle on the T1. Since much of the T1s early career was at the height of WWII the Pennsy couldn’t be choosy about equipment during this period of heavy traffic. The T1 spent most of its time west of Pittsburgh on the flatlands and spent a lot of time working out of St. Louis. There’s stories in this issue from enginemen and other witnesses seeing the T1 at speeds in excess of 110 mph handling eighteen car trains!
What a machine! Don Ball Jr. has an excellent book with a lot of T1 stories in it called Pennsylvania Railroad 1940s-1950s.
You can still get copies from the Society here… http://www.prrths.com/estore/index_estore.html
These are printed on high quality paper and well worth the investment.
Ed
Sorry, tiny bit of rivet-counting here.
The Pennsylvania Railroad did not use dashes in their steam locomotive designations. Such as K4, S1, Q2, E6, F27sa, I1sa, and of course T1. The Reading Railroad had “T-1” 4-8-4 locomotives, and the PRR had “T1” 4-4-4-4 locmotives.
After the T1s were bumped off the premier passenger trains they drew mostly mail and express trains. A typical consist would be a long string of baggage cars interspersed with express boxcars ending with a cabin car ( caboose ) lettered “Assigned to Passenger Service” and below that “Railway Express Agency”, this in addition to the usual Pennsy lettering. A rider coach or combine might also be included. None of these cars ever made it to the wash rack so they were almost all uniformly filthy. A few of the baggage cars might be from connecting railroads. Putting together a consist like this for your T1 could be a good way to introduce some variety and operational interest.