Re: Underrepresented roads and car types
Tony,
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At the risk of pointing out the obvious that everyone already understands ... and taking an admittedly cheap shot at your focus on all things PFE ... *W* UNLESS you are modeling one of "those other - and often forgotten(?) - RRs" of the West Coast that had their 'own' reefer fleet and so need to include reporting marks such as WFEX rather than PFE ... *VBG* I agree that you can get into a can of worms about how you apportion the reefer fleets if you try to include them in their parent RRs. It's a lot easier to just use them as a 'separate RR' in terms of any apportionment. All, Personally I feel that many of us are taking this search for the proper mix of freight cars way too far. To my way of thinking the big picture trends and generalities of what the mix was (should be) are the important things to focus on. I.e. that if you have a layout that is too heavily loaded with home road cars it "looks wrong". I will even go so far as to say that if you want to really take it to this kind of distribution level I don't think you can go wrong if you just "go counting" in the pics you have available for the RR(s) you model for the era you are modeling. There are lots of pics out there that are of entire trains and yards that will give you a very good ... and easily accessible ... feeling for the mix of what cars were/were not represented on "your" RR. Just use those numbers and you will have a fleet that is highly representative and will look and feel "right". If you really love the research into the mix of freight cars - then by all means go for it ... and I ... and the rest of us will benefit from it ===> and praise you for it. But if you are trying to decide if you should have 1 or 2 DT&I gons on your layout because you want to represent the "true" mix of cars ... maybe you have forgotten why you started down that road and it would be better if you got back to doing more modeling and less "research" ??? - Jim
________________________________________________________________________ If we're looking for bragging rights vs. other railroads, hey,
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