Always liked Andy’s info. What happenned to the end of the video, it just dropped off like Andy said something he should’nt have…LOL!
As a Santa Fe fan I found this video very informative, learned stuff I didn’t know…Way to go Andy.
Interesting…I have never seen REA cars in other than their traditional Pullman green, and Andy say’s Pennsy cars were a common sight in Louisiana? Huh…as I said, interesting. Well, they WERE Americas largest package delivery co. by FAR…bigger than UPS and postal service combined. One question though…what was the purpose of the ventilator on the side end of those cars? Carrying fruit or what?? Anyway, great video, informative et al. Thanks, othimus@msn.com
Thanks Andy’ brings back a lot of old memories of my younger employment. seen a lot of these cars when worked for the Denver Union R.R. Co. Very fine job you sure know your history of R.R.
Andy,
This was a very nice compliment to your column and to your passenger car book. Please consider doing more of these tie-ins with your column on our behalf.
One of the best presentations in this series. Nice to know you can assemble a train of this type with (mostly) available plastic cars. I especially liked the comments about interchange traffic as I am not an ATSF modeler. In fact, I model MP and didn’t know there was that much between the two
Jerry
Very helpful with regard to the Pennsy cars which ran on the Montrealer/Washingtonian if my research is correct.
What a wealth of information Andy delivers in this video! Thank you! Just wish the magazine would publish these videos in a format compatible with the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, which goes with me on "Train NIghts"with my model railroading friends so they could see the videos also.
Thank you for binging together information I’ve been looking for. You have saved me alot of time.
Thank you. It gives me some great ideas for operations in the future. Very informative. Please keep these coming… I always look forward to seeing them.’
This was an excellent video. I learned a great deal from this piece and Andy makes it easy to understand! I would love to see more of these types of videos on all kinds of different rolling stock, including some things on Matintenance Of Way equipment and also cranes! Keep up the good work.
Very well done. I would have enjoyed seeing the cars in run-bys on your model railroad.
An excellent supplement to the Operators article itself. it does the soul good to see even an Andy Sperandeo running an Athearn car with the “claw” doors and cast on grab irons.
A word of advice – should you ever be invited to visit or operate a really nice layout with excellent models of this quality do NOT assume that you are supposed to or allowed to touch them with your fingers as Andy does here, even though it is almost essential for uncoupling. There are many modelers who would get rather testy if they saw that.
I have to agre with WINDLE JAYROE of ALABAMA.Good Stuff. I would hope you guys would do a series of these with different type of cars. Very good stuff.
Excellent video Andy! I want to work in more of the express and baggage switching into my layout. The additional background information as to how they were used is extremely helpful. Thank you!
Very informative video Andy. I have a question - what about the cars made after WWII from troop sleepers and kitchen cars? There were a number of them available…
Hey Andi, great vid with lots of helpful informations. Please keep them coming!
I thought it was very "Express"ive.
Excellent! Thank you Andy. I join everyone who would love to see you do programs on different types of cars and their uses by different roads. I learn something new every time. Thanks again.
Andy Sperandeo’s comments were very informative; I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his “The Operators” columns and especially the occasional pictures of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, including the Clara St. tower seen in the July 2010 issue of MR .
In the mid 1950’s after I got my first driver’s license my year younger brother and I would drive down to the station in the afternoon to see whatever might be in the 12 track station. We could walk freely out on the platforms and even climb on board trains then in the station.
Among others, we walked the length of the IC’s all Pullman Panama Limited, the L & N’s Gulf Wind. If we were there late enough, we could climb on board the Crescent [carried by the L & N from Montgomery to New Orleans], the Southern’s Pelican and the SP’s Sunset.
I’m sure we saw equipment then operated into New Orleans by all the railroads, i.e., the Illinois Centeral, the Kansas City Southern, the Louisville & Nashville, the Missouri Pacitific, the Southern, the Southern Pacific and the Texas and Pacific. By the opening of the “new” Union Passenger Terminal in the early 50’s, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio had ceased operating its Rebel into New Orleans.
Thanks for the video commentary about head end cars. Hope we see more commentary about passenger operations.
Ed Schroeder
Tallahassee, FL