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If you do have coaches they are usually in front of the diner, and the sleepers are ususally behind the diner. The dirner then separates the lower paying patrons from the sleeper patrons. A typical consist would be an RPO, 2 Coaches, Diner, 3 Sleepers, and an Observation which would give you an 8 car train. The number of coaches and sleepers could be changed to fit the traffic of line being traveled. A neat thing to do is to drop the diner or sleeper at a station and pick it up on the way back which a lot of railroads did depending on traffic and the time for dining in the trains schedule. Another type of train would be a mail and express. there would be an RPO, a number of baggage cars for storage mail, express reefers, express boxcars and one or two rider coaches or sleepers. There are other types of cars that may be included such as crew rider coaches, lounges, dormitory/coaches etc. Rick
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