w124bob Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 I've just come across this little gem on flickr, it's an NYC train with an IC E8 and just 2cars on TP&W trackage at Sheldon IL dated 1968.http://www.flickr.com/photos/60523918@N02/5698059832/. The track still exists as the KB&S and (new)TP&W cross here, with KB&S serving Kentland grain. The elevator has it's own GE80 tonner. Here is a Rock Island RDC2 with a single coach Here is Penn Central train the South Wind at Boyd tower Jeffersonville IN circa 1971 Now I'm sure there must be more old and new but not tourist or shippers specials. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 ah - Rock Island, a mighty fine line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just posted this nice youtube on my layout thread. Some more short passenger trains worth modelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFBaN7vXAtk My thread http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/52775-rock-island-in-the-rockies/ Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 “Easy Train to Model” thread now merged with this. Thanks. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethashenden Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Here is a Rock Island RDC2 with a single coach RI9002.jpg They're not supposed to do that! :nono: Pulling anything other than another RDC with a RDC violates the warranty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Not sure the RI did warranties, guarantees, or worked by the book much! They were past masters at oddities, one-offs and strange conversions! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethashenden Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Not sure the RI did warranties, guarantees, or worked by the book much! They were past masters at oddities, one-offs and strange conversions! They certainly had their own way of doing things. I thought it was worth pointing out for anyone reading the thread and thinking of modelling that arrangement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-59 Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Yes, RDC weren't suppose to pull, but that didn't stop railroads from trying. The New Haven experimented with sandwiching a coach between two RDCs and even repainted the coach silver to match, but they were careful to hide it from the Budd people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clark33 Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Another short one: UP 2897 Cheyenne-Denver in 1955. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 The GMO Joliet commuter train would be quite easy to do. F3A 883A was a regular on this throughout the 60s and 70s. The train was usually made up of whatever three cars were available. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=167278 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=219530 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=220283 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=260606 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=303684 Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHolley Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Hello, list. The Central of Georgia ran the streamlined Man o' War between Columbus, GA and Atlanta. An E7 and four streamlined cars would sometimes be filled out with and extra coach or two, and if the E unit failed,a four axle CG engine would lead. For those partial to the steam era, the Central of Georgia ran numbers 7 and 8 between Columbus, GA and Andalusia, AL. A P2 class Pacific led a usual consist of three cars. Regards, Tom Holley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadoak Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Following on with the Rock Island's odd practices:In “Down South on the Rock Island 1940-1969 by Steve Allen Goen. is this little gem, a picture of a plain maroon with yellow stripes geep pulling a silver RDC.How's this for a mainline passenger train? After experiencing a recent failure of one of its engines #9016 (an RDC) ended up being pulled by a GP7 for most of the next four months with # 1209 doing the honours on the day the picture in the book was taken. Although the geep was not equipped with a steam generator the RDC's remaning engine provided the interior lighting, heat and or air conditioning.It would make an interesting small train by way of a change I think, in the prototype for everything category.Peter M Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 There was an article in Continental Modeller a while back about modelling that GMO commuter train Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 My contribution . 6th. September 2006. . Niagra Falls, with a train ex-Toronto Union. . Brian R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-59 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The GMO Joliet commuter train would be quite easy to do. F3A 883A was a regular on this throughout the 60s and 70s. The train was usually made up of whatever three cars were available. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=167278 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=219530 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=220283 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=260606 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=303684 Cheers David The F3s were also used on freights on the weekends. And even received ICG orange and white in the 1970s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Now I know this is a tourist line so probably doesn't really count, but these 3 photos of the Hartwell Railroad in Georgia made me smile. Particularly as my baseboards look like the first picture! The Southern switcher may be borrowed as it doesn't appear on the Hartwell roster, Both the little GE's are 44 tonners. The Southern loco is NW2 1048 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted April 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2015 My contribution . 6th. September 2006. . Niagra Falls, with a train ex-Toronto Union. . Brian R Spotting features: First coach has a blue letterboard. This shows it as one of the original CPR Canadian coaches. These are designated as long-distance and have fewer seats. Second coach has blue and yellow letterboard. Does not designate first class, but rather one of the used US coaches that VIA bought. These are short haul and have more seats Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Not strictly a passenger train but easy to model. The Georgia Railroad kept its passenger service post-Amtrak and continued operating "mixed train daily" until 1983. It had an average paying ridership of 1 passenger per day. http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/leeflan/2005727111024_Georgia05.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/tramwayjohn/3614385241/ Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 One I've come across recently is Amtrak's "River Cities" - it ceased running in 1993 when it was replaced by a bus connection, photo's are scarce as it ran largely at night, but it formed a connection to Kansas City from the City of New Orleans. A coach would be set out from the Northbound CONO at Carbondale IL, and an F40 would take that single coach* to St Louis, at St Louis a additional cars would be added for the onward run to KC. So as little as an F40PH and one HEP fitted coach!http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3521119Course the interesting bit to model might not be the short train but the ops at the ends... https://alongtherails.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/amtrak-at-night-in-carbondale-illinois/ (*There are references that suggest it wasn't always just the single coach, but it had been at times...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Since this topic was expanded to include freights, here's a prototype for those of us who buy too many locos and not enough cars: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=563348&nseq=88 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 About as short as a modern freight can get. http://www.rail-pictures.com/bild/canada~companies~canadian-national-railway-cn/793/very-short-freight-train-with-sd75i.html Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-59 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 After a year I realized I posted this by mistake in the street running thread when it belongs here: The normal Yampa Valley Mail plus a GP30 helping out the PA-1 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=512939&nseq=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Blog post about a time when VIA had to come up with some interesting short trains due to a problem with the LRC coaches: http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.ca/2016/01/via-operation-axle-photos.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
w124bob Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 It doesn't get much shorter than this MBTA train, taken at Forest Hill MA Sept '77. Here is the link to the photo site (cars&planes too!) plenty of early '70's stuff http://users.vermontel.net/~tomh/RAIL/Photosrail.html photo came from Conrail Collection vol2 page, check out the other pages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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