Re: Freight car ratios

Posted by drgwcs on
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Mike Trent wrote

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.

I certainly need to add more stock- although I have quite a few kits in my stash. I am lacking in gons mainly and in HOn3 the Micro Trains are pretty much being scalped on ebay. I think the Grandt lines are back in production?  Really though I need phase one and two gons. Probably going to do some scratchbuilding on them although I do have one Labelle kit already.

I do have to admire your self control Mike- not wanting to add more. Not common among us model railroaders in the collecting department. I would still like someone to explain why I have four pickle tank cars and two helium cars in my standard gauge collection and where they came from. I must have blacked out at a train show at one point.   
Jim