I model the ATSF, SP UP, & BN in the transition era to the 60s. I would say abouut 60% of my fleet is homeroad cars with probably 50% of this being reefers. SF UP & SP ran alot of reefer blocks east during harvest season. I wouldn’t worry too much about roadnames on rolling stock unless your visitors are a bunch of rivet counters. Tweet
Home road: Santa Fe 116 freight cars
Other trunklines operating in or associated with Texas (38 total)
- Burlington & affiliates 6
- Frisco 2
- MKT 3
- Missouri Pacific & affiliates 7
- Nacionales de Mexico 1
- Rock Island 2
- Southern Pacific & affiliates 16
- Texas Mexican 1
Logging and related shortlines 12
Pennsylvania RR 7
Other Northeastern trunklines 5
Midwestern railroads 6
Dixie railroads 3
Western railroads not in Texas 9
Private owner reefers, tankcars, etc. 47
United States Navy 4
Undecorated, dedicated to strip & repaint 85
Total freight cars 332
There are five companies represented on my pike:
- The Japan National Railways - owns EVERYTHING (can you say monopoly?) except for rolling stock owned by:
- The Tomikawa Valley Railway - which owns some freelance unit coal equipment and a selection of teakettle steamers, and operates a bunch of JNR hand-me-down freight cars.
- The Kashimoto Forest Railway - 30 inch gauge, operates only on its own rails with equipment that would never be permitted in interchange.
- The Harukawa Electric Railway - 30 inch gauge (mostly) tourist line that doesn’t connect with anything.
- The Tomikawa Tramway - Streetcars, supposedly running on wider-than-JNR gauge.
As for roster, I carefully arranged to buy a close approximation of 1/700th of the prototype JNR cars operating in September 1964. Large classes are accurately represented, but most of the minor classes and one-of-a-kinds aren’t.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)