Scott,
I have a consist (attached) of a train of coal from Galesbug to Inland
Steel near Chicago. It was a 109 car train. In the train were cars from:
SLSF, CNJ, NYC, WM, PRR, B&LE, P&LE, CGW, RI, ACL, D&RGW, N&W, CI, RDG,
BWC, T&P, KGB, EJ&E, and ATSF.
Considering there is D&RGW car in the consist, I do not think one could
rule out that a C&S hopper occasionally wandered east. It would be rare
though.
Bill Hirt
On 7/25/2024 12:31 PM, Scott Frietsch wrote:
So I have done some more thinking about this topic and the cars
offered and realized I never really answered the main question that
was presented. But first I must ask another question, where the c&s
cars ever mixed in with the q cars running out of southern Illinois?
If not where did they operate or where trains of Colorado coal
brought east in unit trains or small car blocks? If they stayed on
the C&S in unit train service one must look at the amount of modelers
that would be interested in such a car for a regional railroad that
disappeared for the most part about 54 years ago. The easiest and
cheapest version of the challenger imports 2-10-2 to find is the c&s
version. I believe most of the Q modelers I have met generally model
the lines east. The conclusion I have come to is that the only car
worth buying out of all these offered new run broadways are the orange
ones as they will stick out in a train of mineral red and Chinese red
and draw in someone’s eye thus a better detailed car would be nice.
Scott Frietsch
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