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I'm modelling a fictional museum, loosely based on the Illinois Railway Museum (they have both a museum site and a running line). The stock used is a slightly oddball mix, mostly elderly diesel locos and passenger cars sold off by the main line operators. The museum's line is assumed to serve a few industries that still recieve goods by rail, so the occasional CSX loco is seen hauling short freights. The museum has also been able to boost its funding in recent years by gaining contracts to haul some of these services using their elderly but still capable diesels - usual motive power is a Fairbanks-Morse C-Liner and a Baldwin Sharknose, sometimes a C-Liner B unit is added for heavier loads. CSX are in fact looking at simply delivering cars to the interchange sidings from now on, as running their locos on a branch line hauling three or four cars is not proving cost-effective. In this event, there will be much more work for the museum fleet. The beauty of this fiction is that I can run pretty much anything and still silence the purists - real-world museums tend to have locos and cars that would never have been seen together in the outside world, so having a C&NW Erie-Built arriving with a couple of bilevel passenger cars full of tourists while a NYC Sharknose idles in the yard awaiting its next duty is perfectly feasible!
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