If you’ve seen Video Rails 3751 Real Return to Steam you have seen standerd and streamline passenger cars being mixed with one another. Or if you look at a really detailed models you notice how they mix standerd and streamline.
My point is does it really make a model railroad that much more detailed and
look like the prototype[?][?][?]
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I think it does. Many roads swapped equipment around to suit the situation. It all depends on what equipment is available on a given day. Amtrak trains used to be quite colorful in the 1970s because of this. You could see E units from Penn Central, a few cars from UP, or GN all on the same train! Well, until the equipment got repainted anyway 
Well yes and no? The railfan will like it. The visitor will think YOU are whacked out or buying and throwing together trains helter skelter. You decide who you want to impress.
Mix’em up and it’ll look like Amtrack in the 70’s…bleeh![xx(]
Imagine if the great streamliners mixed’em up. I shudder to think what the SP Daylight would look all mixed up. [;)]
When CPR started running the Canadian, they included a bunch of old heavyweight sleepers that had fluted sides added to match the Budd cars. They still had the clerestory roofs. They were designated “Tourist sleepers”. (and what sort of people were in the other cars?) Whne traffic fell of, they were discontinued.
Generally, though, I think the crack passenger trains were kept pretty consistent, but the lesser ones would get mixed stock. Sometimes, you would find older baggage cars with newer passenger cars.
If you’ve seen Video Rails 3751 Real Return to Steam you have seen standerd and streamline passenger cars being mixed with one another. Or if you look at a really detailed models you notice how they mix standerd and streamline.
My point is does it really make a model railroad that much more detailed and
look like the prototype[?][?][?]
A new line from bryan9664:
Welcome to Texas. Now go Home. [:p][:p][:p]
I think it does. Many roads swapped equipment around to suit the situation. It all depends on what equipment is available on a given day. Amtrak trains used to be quite colorful in the 1970s because of this. You could see E units from Penn Central, a few cars from UP, or GN all on the same train! Well, until the equipment got repainted anyway
Well yes and no? The railfan will like it. The visitor will think YOU are whacked out or buying and throwing together trains helter skelter. You decide who you want to impress.
Mix’em up and it’ll look like Amtrack in the 70’s…bleeh![xx(]
Imagine if the great streamliners mixed’em up. I shudder to think what the SP Daylight would look all mixed up. [;)]
When CPR started running the Canadian, they included a bunch of old heavyweight sleepers that had fluted sides added to match the Budd cars. They still had the clerestory roofs. They were designated “Tourist sleepers”. (and what sort of people were in the other cars?) Whne traffic fell of, they were discontinued.
Generally, though, I think the crack passenger trains were kept pretty consistent, but the lesser ones would get mixed stock. Sometimes, you would find older baggage cars with newer passenger cars.