Re: Freight car ratios

Posted by Mike Trent on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Roof-Hatches-Mill-Car-Loader-and-Bumping-Tables-tp19659p19643.html

Wow! This is a blast from the past. Thanks for digging this back up.

As it happens, Keith drove over from Leadville to Dickey on Saturday and he had an interesting take on the number of Gons and Engines required to feed the feeding needs of the railroad's coaling facilities. I have 8 boxcars in service on my layout, and 10 Coal Gons, most of which (6-8) are in use to populate the needs of the coal dock. Given the needs for coal at all the facilities on the Mainline to Leadville, of the 15-20 cars used on the three long freights per week West of Denver, there were probably 5 loads of Coal in each train as far as Pine Grove and Como, indicating that one of the 3-4 locomotives on each train were hauling tonnage for the railroad's coal. Coal to Dickey and Leadville would have been less tonnage for coal.

My Freight Roster:

10 Coal Gons (6 phase 3, 1 Phase 2, 2 Phase 1, 1 Phase 0)
8  Box (4 Phase 3, 3 Phase 2, 1 Phase 1)
2 Refrigerator (Phase 3)
3 Tank (High Dome CONX)
1 flat (Phase 3)
5 Stock (3 Phase 3, 2 Phase 2)

I'll add a few more eventually, but not many.