what is the usual consist order for an ho scale work train on a regular model railroaders layout?
I’m looking to get the necessary cars, but i don’t know the usual consist for a real work train.
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That would depend on the task at hand.
If spreading ballast today, hopper cars or ballast cars or both would make up the consist.
If laying ribbon rail, a ribbon rail train would be in the picture. This would definitely have to be kit bashed.
But you could be picking up scrap, in which case you’d need a flat car with a burro crane on it, with electromagnet and a gondola on both ends of it.
You could be working with a road-master off loading bundles of cross ties, again with the burro crane and flats loaded with ties.
Or you could go with the "relief outfit." I have modeled one of these after SP Roseville Relief Outfit, circa 1972-6. There is an old clerestory roof coach and heavy weight diner car first and second out from the engine, a baggage car that has been altered to become a tool car for the hook (200 ton crane), the hook and idler itself (the boom always trails when being moved), two cars of "track panels" that I made using kit bashed pulpwood cars, and a caboose. These are a combination of Athearn and Walthers rolling stock. With up graded couplers and wheels I have no more than perhaps $125 to $140 in it, so it can be done fairly inexpensively. Ballast trains are probably the least expensive to model.
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Comment by Samurai Hoghead — December 31, 2009 @ 3:29 am
Engine, box cars, tanks, gondolas, flat cars. If you’re asking about the appropriate order then you’ll have to get a switchman on her to answer that for you. Usually, you don’t put a tank with hazardous material next to say a flat car or gondola that has pipe or something that may potentially rupture the tank jacket in the case of an accident.
Comment by Freenacious — December 31, 2009 @ 3:29 am