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mu26aeh

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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2016, 03:21:09 PM »
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I'm sure you can find some useful information in the YouTube series on Penn Central from GreenFrog


I'm currently on #3 at the time of this post.
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2016, 04:06:18 PM »
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You gotta have a PC F-unit in the lash-up. 

Right behind a SD35 or GP38-2.

That screams PC.
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2016, 04:22:02 PM »
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Quote from: MichaelWinicki on January 06, 2016, 04:06:18 PM
You gotta have a PC F-unit in the lash-up. 

Right behind a SD35 or GP38-2.

That screams PC.

Oh yeah! I grabbed an AB set when IM came out with them recently because I couldn't decide which was crazier, the A or the B, so I went with both. I'm currently on the lookout for a PC GP38-2, but until then I think I've got a good stand in with my GP30 and GP40 combo.
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2016, 04:58:36 PM »
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Heh, I saw trains in that Green Frog video with only one locomotive.  Those PC boys must have liked living life on the edge.  Haha!

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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2016, 05:02:53 PM »
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What ever you do, just make sure it derailed.  :trollface:
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2016, 05:58:54 PM »
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Hey,

Don't forget the Peoria and Eastern!

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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2016, 06:05:08 PM »
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Get an NS boxcar or two; I've seen photos of boxcars of paper from the paper mill in Plymouth in PC consists.  Grey scheme would be your best bet.
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2016, 06:21:02 PM »
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Hey Ed, very cool your doing PC!! If you are interested I have the 6 volume Green Frog PC dvd set you can borrow. Just pm me your address and I will mail it out. It's just sitting on the shelf anyway so no big deal.

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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2016, 06:39:31 PM »
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Quote from: mu26aeh on January 06, 2016, 03:21:09 PM
I'm sure you can find some useful information in the YouTube series on Penn Central from GreenFrog

I'm not saying the Green Frog videos are bad, but they are somewhat biased by Emery Gulash's love of the New York Central. If you watch this video taken along the former Pennsy in the Altoona area, you'll get a completely different perspective of the Penn Central in 1974.




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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2016, 08:16:58 PM »
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I have been buying every PC loco that has come out. One thing I noticed in the Morning Sun books is that in the later years most PC trains had a Rail Box and Southern waffle side in the consist..
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2016, 12:14:45 AM »
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One thing about train videos: there ain't much footage of the freight cars in the train.
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2016, 01:48:24 AM »
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Oddly, the BN didn't bother to "patch" anything, other than to neatly renumber and initial their diesels and cabooses.  Freight cars were either repainted or left alone, and a fair number lasted into the BNSF era.  I wonder why the different philosophy? 
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2016, 08:33:04 AM »
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Who really wants a politically correct freight train?
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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2016, 10:33:27 AM »
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Quote from: Rossford Yard on January 07, 2016, 08:33:04 AM
Who really wants a politically correct freight train?

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Re: Assembling a great PC freight train
« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2016, 10:58:56 AM »
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Here are some of my grandfather's pictures of PC trains.

A well known curve somewhere in Pennsylvania...




On the Boston & Albany


I don't know where, probably Massachusetts


There are also a lot of pictures of B&M trains with PC power.




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