Prototype question

[rogruth]

ANYTHING looks good behind a K4.

[wjstix]

Well it often wasn't "all or nothing", heavyweights and streamlined cars often mixed.

It wouldn't be uncommon from the 30's into even the 60's to see trains that were a mix - like a long distance train that would have heavyweight baggage and RPO's behind the engine, maybe one or two heavyweight coaches (perhaps converted to air conditioning) followed by a couple of streamlined sleeper cars and a streamlined (or converted heavyweight) observation car. A local train might have all-heavyweight cars except for one streamlined sleeper at the end of the train. The train would start out at the rural end of a branchline and end up at a town on the mainline. There the sleeper would be switched into the consist of a streamlined mainline express train headed towards a 'big city' like Chicago, New York, or L.A.

[traintownofcowee]

I too am a teenage railfan.

I too have a PRR K4.

I have heavyweights which I have it haul.

I think it gives it an older and classic look.

But streamlined would deffinately look good behind a K4.

To be honest with you, I think I should have gotten streamlined becuase If I got PRR Passenger Diesels it would have better matched.

Oh Well...

[dukebasketballer`]

Thanks for the help. I thought that it would be legit, but I wanted to make sure before spending a ton of $$.

[VAPEURCHAPELON]

Yes, no problem. K-4s ran well into the late 1950s, and I think most PRR streamliner cars with that paint scheme appeared much earlier.

[dukebasketballer`]

Hi Guys,

 I am a teenage model railraoder and am in the process of purchasing some passenger cars for my new PRR K-4. Would this loco ever have run with streamline or smoothside passenger cars behin it like this?

 Thanks for your help guys.