AydansPop wrote:I was reading that the last train to run in my area on the San Antonio Aransas Pass RR in the late 60's was a So Pac "combination passenger and freight" train. I was curious if this "combination" was common and what the configuration and probable order of the cars might have been. Links to pics would be nice!!
Well, I don't have any links to pictures but on the DVD below there is some excellent footage of the AT&SF Wichita to Pratt Kansas "mixed train daily". There are even have shots of switching the coach in Pratt on the "fly".
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/gfg/gfg20002.htm
Dan
QUOTE: AydansPop: Thanks! I'm new at this but I would have guessed the passenger car(s) would have been up front.
QUOTE: jimrice4449: Your guess would generaly be right (to avoid slack action) if the train was equiped w/ a caboose.
QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 "Mixed" trains were quite common on branchlines. The Georgia Railroad ran them until the mid 1980s with a coach ahead of the caboose. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=231503 Ontario Northland still runs the Little Bear up in Canada.
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