Which do you have more of, passenger or freight trains ?...

[Tracklayer]

At one time, my passenger train collection was much greater than my freight train collection, but over the last couple of years I've sold off a lot of them, so now it's just the opposite. The only passenger trains I kept where my old Southern Pacific overlands, Santa Fe heavy weights, Santa Fe Super Chief and Amtrak phase III. The ones I regret selling the most now were my Union Pacific smooth sides and Amtrak phase IV double deckers ([V]) - both of which I hope to replace some day.

Tracklayer

[Billba]

Happy New Year Tracklayer!! [8D][8D][8D]

I have about 75 passenger cars and about 800 freight cars, about 10:1 ratio. This has been collected over 45 years though!! [:O][:O][:O]

Keep it up with the good topics!! [swg][swg][swg]

[CP5415]

Freight trains here.

34 passenger cars.
111 Freight cars.
I'm hopeing to purchase some more passenger cars this year, time & available funds will tell.

Gordon

[scubaterry]

I'm a real slacker! I have two passenger cars and 80 Freight cars. And the two I have are the Riv 60' hvy wt. My layout just isn't big enough for big ole passenger cars. They are supposed to do another run of the 60 footers. I plan on buying some more when they do. Maybe even double my current inventory of Passenger cars[:D]
Terry[8D]

[trainfreek92]

alll freight cars here so far......Tim

[Anonymous]

3 pass cars, beacuse i used to run 2 daily passenger trains, but i canceled them last week. I'll still have pass trains, but excursions, maybe a few times a week. I have about 16-20 freight cars and i hope to get quite a few more.

[dwRavenstar]

I've only been at this HO thing for about a year (N-Scaler before) so my collection is still in its infant stage. Roughly 30 freight cars, 9 locos and I'm wondering...... what's a passenger car? [}:)]

dwRavenstar

[GMTRacing]

about 20 pass and about 80 freight, refuse to count the power. J.R.

[Anonymous]

Freight by about 4 to 1. I think my prototype owned more passenger cars than freight but then they went bankrupt.

[PennsyHoosier]

More freight, but regular passenger trains. After all, it is 1947, isn't it?

[Anonymous]

15 freight cars 0 passenger cars

[tstage]

Mark,

Since I don't have any passenger cars, the answer would be...uh...freight.

Tom

[ICRR1964]

I have mostly freight, about 80 or so cars on the setup. The only passenger that I have ever run was my IC which consist of 10 cars and 2 E6's AHM/Rivarossi all of it, it keeps the shelf warm, I really don't run it much.

[Bill H.]

21 passenger cars as appropriate for 3 "name" trains. (1 heavyweight, 2 smoothside.)

Commuter service provided by RDC cars, 2 puling 1 dummy each and 1 running alone.

Many freight cars.

Time is approx. 1950.

[CMSTPP]

I've got about 70 freight cars and 4 paaenger cars and wanting to get more passegnger cars too.

James

[Anonymous]

No question: passenger dominates. I'm not going to go downstairs and count, but a pretty-close guesstimate is about 100 passenger and perhaps 50 freight.

[twhite]

Predominately freight, but enough passenger trains to keep the franchise. I generally run one Limited (Panoramic or Exposition Flyer, depending on my mood) and one local (Yuba River Express, which is ANYTHING but!) and since I'm modeling the 'forties, a troop train. Southern Pacific has trackage rights, so I have a Daylight train, and a two-tone gray Cascade, or Lark, or '49'er--again depending on my mood. But if I'm running strictly Rio Grande on any given day, I'll try and squeeze in at least two passenger runs against all of the freights. Hey, I have to have SOMETHING for my Northerns to do, right, LOL?
Tom

[dragonriversteel]

All freight cars and mill cars. No passenger cars ,what so ever.....well I do have two norfolk southern MOW one passenger car and one baggage. Do these count ?

Patrick

[jecorbett]

When my layout is fully operational, it will be about 50-50. Remember, the question was about the number of trains, not cars. The reason I will have a lot of passenger trains is because I intend to run commuter operations in addition to several limiteds and local passenger service. My branch line will have a mixed train operation.

[tomikawaTT]

Split definition:

Rolling stock - about 80% freight, 20% passenger (by unit count, including DMU and EMU cars, but excluding locomotives.)

Schedule - about 75% passenger, 25% freight.

Reasons:
1. Each passenger set represents several different timetable trains each operating 'day.' Five EMU cars account for fully 25% of the total schedule!
2. The average freight train has a lot more cars than the average passenger train.
3. At any given time there are a lot more freight consists in hidden storage than there are passenger consists.

[Anonymous]

I'm model the early 50's in 1/32nd(Gscale), HO and N-scale.
With about 1600 freight ,and 250 pass in all, so I guess I have
a 20 freights to every one of the passenger trains
Rodney

[Tracklayer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Billba

Happy New Year Tracklayer!! [8D][8D][8D]

I have about 75 passenger cars and about 800 freight cars, about 10:1 ratio. This has been collected over 45 years though!! [:O][:O][:O]

Keep it up with the good topics!! [swg][swg][swg]

Hey there Billba. And a Happy New Year to you too. Hope all is well on your end of the block.

Thank you for the compliment. I always try to come up with topics that I hope are of interest to the majority - though I'm not always successful...

We'll be talking to you down the line.

Tracklayer