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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #45 on: March 20, 2011, 09:47:37 AM »
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... where would you find a PC loco ?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=310363&nseq=1

..and check out the air conditioning.....

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2011, 01:32:21 PM »
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A while back Kato sent out a newsletter with an interesting, albeit not done very well, drawing wise, of the two sets being combined to create a "dog's breakfast" consist.

http://www.katousa.com/N/PC-Amtk/Rainbow.jpg

Some might question the idea of a leg-rest coach being in PC green but PC did have just a few that they picked up from UP.  I questioned the idea of the Budd 21 Roomette turned coach being used on a long distance train but a recent post to the Passenger Consist list at Yahoo! Groups listed two of these commuter coaches on the tail end of a Florida bound train... a real surprise to me.

Would really like to see Kato do some up for commuter agencies, especially so MARC, who used them extensively when the cars were sold by Southeast Michigan Transit Authority, but also wouldn't mind it if parts could be had because it would open the door for some cars being painted up for the circus train, where a number of them ended up.

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2011, 01:39:42 PM »
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I know Penn Central ran what it had. I'll have no problem running a commuter coach on my Empire Service trains. I rode a number of old coaches out of Poughkeepsie in the latter Conrail/early Metro North days. Interesting times.

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2011, 02:13:38 PM »
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I'm going to guess; and look to the PC-ites to confirm or deny; that the chances of any PC painted sleeper having ventured too far off PC rails was somewhat remote given the timeframe and short life of non Amtrak passenger service during PC's existance.... so it would be a   s t r e t c h  to have one as part of a "leased car" group sitting on garden tracks in the interior of British Columbia during the late 1960's....?

it would be a stretch.

then again, i know where an ex PC sleeper (ex prr) is sitting in Western Maryland right now... so how far of a stretch is it really?


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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #49 on: March 23, 2011, 01:53:01 AM »
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It might not be all that much of a stretch, depending on what cars you would want to use and the date of their use, in part because of the wholesale sell-off of some equipment.  While a 10-6 sleeper would be a stretch (too important to the core fleet) some other sleeper types did see service into PC but were not sold to AMTK, leading to some notable retirements of entire classes.  These were most often smooth sided cars, though, as the corrugated cars did tend to have a bit better of an existance.

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #50 on: March 27, 2011, 01:22:52 PM »
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Now THIS is a PC passenger train: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=358309

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #51 on: March 27, 2011, 01:29:20 PM »
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Now THIS is a PC passenger train: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=358309

Nice find - the very last day for that train! The last coach looks like it is covered in a coat of coal dust. 8)


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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #52 on: March 27, 2011, 04:01:23 PM »
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That's so dirty, grimey and grungy it's positively beautiful.................... :)
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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #53 on: March 27, 2011, 05:40:46 PM »
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I got a Walthers 64 seat coach in NYC that I'm trying to get to look almost like that one.  Maybe a wash of thinner with black will work.

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Re: Kato Penn Central E8 and passenger cars have landed...
« Reply #54 on: March 27, 2011, 06:44:36 PM »
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First, I am glad to see Kato has issued this set of trains as it is quite a novel choice, sort of eclectic yet near and dear to all of us who have some connection with the sixties and "up north" (northeastern railways). 

I have some old Sekisui smoothsides and old ConCor Sekisui PA's in the Jade NYC green with PC livery and protect them closely. 

But in the sixties I was a kid who roamed all over my hometown Ft Lauderdale in which the FECRR and SECRR railroads went right through downtown and many a time, this all time railroad fan (even when I was a surf nut) loved watching the fading and dying passenger service to Florida back then.  What I remember is seeing extremely mixed passenger consists from just about everywhere, and me being a Pennsy fan even then, would search out PRR and PC livery. 

I think Kato did a bang up job making up a mixed livery set endeavoring to be accurate historically. 

Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman