I am trying to purchase different cars that have texas on them. I have a few from exactrail. My layout is modern. So my question is does anybody know what modern locomotives travel through texas? I have been away for seven years as i have been stationed at camp lejeune and fort bragg. Also any place other than exactrail where i can get Texas specific cars. I am super new to the hobby and all i got is a 8x4 layout and these cars so far.
I don't know about Ho modern cars. I do 1950s Texas in N, and I have tried to find or customize cars for Texas roads and Texas affiliates of trunkline roads- Texas & New Orleans (SP) Cotton Belt (SP) International & Great Northern (MoPac) St Louis, Brownsville & Mexico (MoPac) New Orleans, Texas and Mexico (MoPac) Ft Worth and Denver (Burlington) Burlington - Rock Island joint line Quanah, Acme & Pacific (Frisco) Kansas City Southern I see you already got TexMex
yeah, being new to the hobby it was awesome to find that. From the list i see, Rock island makes it through Texas? That would be awesome, they have some very pretty cars
Also, Athearn came out with 50-foot cars in their blue-box line painted & lettered for the Angelina & Neches River, a shortline in deep east Texas. Best places I know to find these cars would be at swap meets or on eBay (where I got mine).
Here is a link to all Texas Railroads listed in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_railroads Please remember that a lot of cars were made for the Shortline Railroads like the Sabine River & Northern and Galveston Wharves during the IPD era. Many of these cars mere made by Athearn and MDC in the past and may still be found. Also Herald King and Microscale did decals for these railroads also, I have done the Sabine River car and have the decals for a Galveston Wharves car to do. By the way the IPD era ran from the late 70's to the mid 80's. Cars were later sold to other operators with different reporting marks but many of the original graphics were still found on the cars. Rick J
Somewhere back in the dim, distant past I built three diesels for the Kiamichi Railroad (which ran into Paris, TX from the north), and the first two diesels owned by Texas North Western (both ex-UP, GP7 100 and GP9 273). I still have them all.
http://www.walthers.com/ http://www.internettrains.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc use the product search option and type in different key names like texas, Sabine, Angelina...etc etc to pull up what they might have out there. Another good bet is either a train show or get a car you like and put decals on it for a "patch" of a car. Lots of shortlines like the Point Comfort and Northern and other short lines do this or have plain common cars with just the reporting markings on it. You can look at railroad or railcar picture sites for examples of what the real Texas Railroads might have (terms of patch). http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/railroadList.aspx
I didnt answer your question, sorry hahaha. Modern railroads as in the Big Boy Class1: Union Pacific, BNSF, Kansas City Southern, and Shortlines: see "dti406" post