PRR freight car presence on the NH

[OldEastRR]

Seeing as the Pennsy ran a lot of PRR passenger trains over the NH, was that also the case with freight cars? I'm wondering what the ratio of PRR freight cars V. NH freight cars was on the New Haven in the early '50s. I also know that there were a lot of other foreign freight cars on the NH because so many places shipped into the northeast from the rest of the country. But I wonder if as a whole they outnumbered the NH stock on line.

[dougnelson]

PRR and NH had a direct freight connection via NY harbor car float.  Some indirect traffic from PRR to NH likely came over the Poughkeepsie Bridge route.  No doubt in the early 1950s there were many PRR cars on the NH, maybe the most of any foreign road.  The best source of information on this may be video runbys from that period. 

[davefoxx]

The best source of information on this may be video runbys from that period.

^This.  Since I model the 1980s, I have my personal recollection.  But, as time passes by and memories fade, videos and photos from the proper era are invaluable.  Paying attention to the ratio of home versus foreign road cars really helps place your layout in the modeled time and place.

DFF

[bbussey]

In the mid 1950s, roughly 40% of active revenue service freight rolling stock on the property was NH, 20% PRR, the rest other roads and private carriers.  Those are very rough rounded numbers but they provide a general ratio.