Of course diesel consists were almost never the same so you can vary how that MU consist is arranged, and mix and match a bit. Just sayin…
Here is my 36 Car Ore Jimmy train that used to run from the Whiskey Island Docks in Cleveland to the Steel Mills in Pittsburgh. Power is Alco C628 & C630 Diesels.
Rick Jesionowski
Here is a picture of my completed 23 car N scale rock train.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsrrman/35230464644/in/dateposted-public/
You can see my unit grain train being sideswiped in this video (not my video):
https://youtu.be/oNiSSMzRDKs?t=405
The box car on the end holds the Fred, I had not yet put a fred on a covered hopper.
Do you make sure all the cars have different road numbers or aren’t bothered by duplicates? (no wrong answer, just curious)
I have no rolling stock with duplicate road numbers. Most are accurail cars, so that is pretty easy to do. I carry a list when I go train shopping at shows and so forth, so I dont pick up duplicates.
For my ore train they are almost all unique numbers. Walthers had actually made the exact number of different cars that I had wanted, but I was unable to track one of the old runs down so I doubled up on a different set to get the right amount of cars. I don’t think anyone has noticed.
I love unit-trains! Most of my trains are unit-trains:
• 31K crude-oil tank train: 40+ cars (will be buying 30+ more soon).
• Railbox unit-train: 40+ cars.
• Military train: mixed (pre-ordering 16 DODX MTL 150-ton flats with M1A1 loads).
• FedEx spine-car train: 25 cars complete with Trainworx FedEx trailers.
• Double-stack: very short (only 11 articulated well-cars).
I run 3 types of unit trains. I have two 20 car Intermodal trains which switch out at the Intermodal facility; two 14 car auto rack trains, which are really long on a 20’x20’ HO scale layout. They head right to the auto rack termianl to be switched; and I have my two Tropicana Juice Trains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py2Brn8sa5A
In addition, when I’m hosting an operating session, I have an 18 car TTX Box car train that will be given to someone who has never operated on the layout. I send them all over so they familiarize themselves with running a train for the the first time during a session. It makes no stops, starts and ends in staging. It’s a great looking train, and powered by a Kato SD90MAC. A real beast!
Neal