Assembling a great PC freight train

[BobRunty]

Nice shots there. Man I miss the 70's. To me, THAT was my transition era. 40' boxcars in a myriad of old Class 1 schemes, a caboose on every train, a veritable rolling museum of First Generation diesels, it had it all.
Here's a fav of mine, and keeping with the PC theme, a quick PC patch of an NYC F-7, though it was technically a CR unit in this Sept. '76 shot.



Bob

[cv_acr]

Nice shots there. Man I miss the 70's. To me, THAT was my transition era.

Sure was. I wasn't there to see it myself unfortunately, but you still had first generation getting replaced by second-gen.

40' boxcars getting replaced by the modern Railbox style welded, exterior-post cars. Similar stories with other car types. (Railgon, then-modern 89' TOFC, etc.)

Beginnings of the major railroad mergers and consolidations (BN, PC, CR, etc.)

Major image updates on other railroads (particular on the two main Canadian roads - CN in the early 1960s, CP in the late 1960s with transition through the 70s).

[unittrain]

I agree the 70s was the era for the most interesting trains unlike the cookie cutter modern stuff with very few paint schemes unfortunately I was too young to get trackside back then but my dad took me and my brother on walks along the B&O once in awhile most of my train watching was from a distance then as the B&O and EL ran not too far from my grandma's house. Great time to railfan you had it all even the autoracks had great variety. So that's the era I model the late 70s. And PC is becoming more abundant in my rosters it has a certain legend to it 

[wm3798]

I still have a couple of open auto racks from MT, fully loaded with vintage 1970s vehicles...  Let's talk... they want to go home...

Lee

[wazzou]

I still think this whole topic is somewhat of an oxymoron...

"Great" "PC Train"

 

[cv_acr]

I still think this whole topic is somewhat of an oxymoron...

"Great" "PC Train"

 

That would be any PC train that made it to its destination with all its cars intact.

 

[bnsfdash8]

I think you'll need a GP9B.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I still have a couple of open auto racks from MT, fully loaded with vintage 1970s vehicles...  Let's talk... they want to go home...

Lee

Yes! Let's talk indeed!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I think you'll need a GP9B.

I agree!

[bman]

The GP9B's.  You can't model PC around Columbus without 1 or 2 of these.  The book, "Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West Vol. 1" has a great shot on page 37 of an A-B-B-A lashup of SW1500's and GP9B's.  This was the common power for transfer runs on late PC and early CR according to the text.  Oh to have been a railfan and watched these in service.  I probably passed over them riding in the car on the way to p/u my father from work many times and didn't realize it as that photo is not too far from where he worked then.

[eric220]

I still think this whole topic is somewhat of an oxymoron...

"Great" "PC Train"

 

Amen to that. It still hurts my brain a bit to watch those videos and see PRR and NYC locos consisted. So very wrong!

[unittrain]

http://www.hornby.com/us-en/shop/locomotives/arnold-locomotives/ge-u25c-diesel-loco-dcc-ready-penn-central-6517-1.html 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

http://www.hornby.com/us-en/shop/locomotives/arnold-locomotives/ge-u25c-diesel-loco-dcc-ready-penn-central-6517-1.html 

Oh, I know. I'm pretty tempted to throw one of those in with the other mongrels.