What would be a good wartime consist for the C&O. I have been wanting to put together a nice WWII memorial train to run on occasions like labor day. I have seen the COHS have the 0 scale flats with Shermans on them. Of course there are the troop cars. Anything good photos of wartime consists or known documents?
Can't help with specifics. but most trains were conglamerations of whatever coach, baggage, sleeper, etc. the railroad could grab hold of. Here's a search. C&OHS has an awesome records archive, and though you won't find large pictures. you can find a lot of them http://cohs.org/cgi-bin/cohs_search.pl?st=troop Here's a search for Troop in it. Also, there is runing around a COHS yahoo group. I don't have them handy at the moment, but everyone from there is on it, and you can turn up a lot of info right fast.
Thanks. Yeah, I contact them a bit and buy what I can afford from the store, but I still feel bad for the number of questions I send their way. Our club has open houses and I would love to put a train like that together with photos of the actual train, along with info on what they were carrying (other than just troops).
My understanding was that Troop trains usually worked like Circus Trains. People in one train, and another one hauling all their cra- ah, gear. :smile-big: http://cohs.org/repository/Archives/cspr/web/cspr-16.jpg <Train with trucks on it http://cohs.org/repository/Archives/cspr/web/cspr-17.jpg <Ditto Looks to me like you'll need to be the proud owner of two dozen 50' flats. (A good compressed train, for protoypical, make that 4-5 dozen) Did yuo know we had him? Neither did I! :soldier:
Lots of black tank cars carrying petroleum products. Lots of coal hoppers, and hoppers for coke for use in steel production.
Thanks. I actually was reading through the COHS magazine last night with the war time cars in it, though it focused on the flat cars and troop sleepers. There is actually a photo (post war) of one of the 125 ton flat cars carrying a reactor. Pretty impressive. What tankers cars did C&O use during WWII? I know many might have been used. All I could find on the C&O site was one reference to a DO16.
Actually, just about anything the Allies used in Europe was sent out of Newport News, at one time or another, so you could justify anything your heart desires. Newport was especially busy for the build-up preceding the North African and Italian campaigns. Ron p.s. this would, of course, include disassembled aircraft.
