favorite passenger train.

[garr]

Growing up along the Georgia Railroad and being only 8 years old when Amtrak was formed, my only choice for favorite passenger train is the Georgia Railroad Super-Mixeds. A dusty Budd on the end of 120+ car freight!

[FThunder11]

ACELA EXPRESS

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by garr

Growing up along the Georgia Railroad and being only 8 years old when Amtrak was formed, my only choice for favorite passenger train is the Georgia Railroad Super-Mixeds. A dusty Budd on the end of 120+ car freight!

[:)][:)] I remember it, I saw it in Milledgeville, Sharon (Thats near Crawfordville in Tellaferro Co), Atlanta and Social Circle up to around 1982. A good thing you got to see one of the last true mixed trains. Piouslion aka Roy

[garr]

Hello Roy,
I also rode the mixed trains a number of times! In the late '70's, the charge was about 40 cents to ride the 11 miles between Thomson and Camak. Usually two or three of us would ride together-but still not enough revenue to cover the fuel cost for the railroad.
Jay

[passengerfan]

I saw but never rode the Georgia mixed trains and regret it but did ride the UP Butte Special between Salt Lake City and Butte Montana. It was a very unusual train having a small dinette and sleeping space combined in one car along with a coach and two head end cars. The rest of the train was freight with mostly trailers on flats and some general freight. Since the train was an overnight schedule in each direction how much dropping and picking up cars occurred I can't say but all that pulled into the Butte Station the next AM was the passenger and head end cars. This reminded me of the GN Western Star-Fast Mail a Mail train that carried passengers in Coaches sleeping cars and even carried an observation that unfortunately had storage mail cars tacked on behind. For power its last year the GN assigned EMD SDP-40 pairs to the train between Seattle and Havre and CB&Q E-units to Chicago, this was after the BN merger. Prior to the merger the SDP-40 pairs operated to St. Paul from Seattle. Prior to the assignment of the SDP-40 passenger units to the Western Star the GN assigned four or five f-units depending on the number of mail cars assigned to the train on a particular day out of St. Paul. Prior to the combining of the Western Star and Fast Mail the former train often ran to eighteen cars in summer months three more than the Empire Builder. And the Fast Mail operated up to twenty or even twenty five head end cars with one or two rider coaches tacked on the rear. Both the UP train and the GN trains would be great from a modellers point of view and certainly interesting.

[Anonymous]

My favorites are.
1. Broadway limited
2.the Crescent
3.The reading railroads crusader.
4. The Silver Meteor