locked Re: Southern Passenger Train Consist Similarities
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Bill Schafer
David:
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The Royal Palm, the Peach Queen, and the Piedmont Limited of the 1960s all carried a lot of head-end traffic, typically in heavyweight cars. The Palm usually had lightweight coaches, but the coaches of the other two trains were usually heavyweights. To recreate the consists of these trains would depend on what other heavyweight cars are already available. A PRR X-29 boxcar, heavyweight Southern RPO, and heavyweight Southern baggage car would look right at home on these trains, but you’d also have to add a modernized (or not so modernized) heavyweight coach to maintain a correct consist. Lightweight Pullmans of the kind used on the Southern Crescent would be okay. If your goal is to create the most authentic consists with the least number of different cars, it would seem to me that your original idea of offering the Southern Crescent (to the late-1960s/1970s folks) or the Southerner or Tennessean (to the folks interested in a prewar consist) is the course that will keep you the most sane. Even the Tennessean consist had heavyweight Pullmans in it from the outset. It never was a pure streamlined train, despite the publicity. —Bill
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