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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Tom Stangl writes:
> > You want a 25-car Metroliner? I can do that ;-)
> >
> > I've just been playing around with designs for various cars. I have enough
> > Metroliners, I just need to figure out HOW MANY of each car to make. I need to
> > build a mail car, 2-3 Club Cars, a ton of regular passenger cars, then figure
> > out what ELSE to build.
>
> Here is a typical(1) consist for a 15 or so car train from the heavyweight
> era that I just made up, but which ought to be fairly representative.
> Starting from the front:
>
> -baggage
> -baggage
> -Railway Post Office
> -Dormitory
> -Coach
> -Coach
> -Coach
> -Kitchen/Diner
> -Diner
> -Coach
> -Coach
> -Dome
> -Dome/Snack
> -Coach
> -Coach
> -Observation
>
> That's for a short haul scenicly routed train. For long haul you need a lot
> less coaches, replace them with sleepers. Leave one coach for the economy
> class travelers
>
> Sleepers vary all over the map, and I can't recite configs but the variation
> is due to the size of the bedrooms.
>
> Roomettes are the smallest, there typically are two sizes of bedrooms, and
> then parlors are the largest. So you might have a 20 roomette, or a 10-5-5
> meaning 10 roomettes and 5 each of the two bedroom sizes, or a 6-6 meaning
> 6 of the larger bedrooms and 6 parlors.
I just happened to be surfing looking for some Hiawatha info the other night, and
came up with this URL:
http://www.geocities.com/skytop45/olympian/OlympianHi1.html
Somebody has scanned an original, full brochure on the Milwaukee Road's Olympian
Hiawatha-- what a cool primary resource:-)
-John
> Amtrak era, things get simpler. Shorthaul are just coaches and snack or
> diners, no observations, longhaul you cut down on the variety of bedrooms...
>
> 1 - there is no such thing as typical.
>
> ++Lar
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