I usually run C&O, B&O and WM trains, but I'm thinking of buying a BLI PRR T-1 Duplex. What passenger cars did this locomotive typically pull? Heavy weights? Streamline? Other?
http://www.trainboard.com/highball/...midsize-steam-locos-cars.122219/#post-1079839 Also, Bachmann has made some heavyweight cars that resemble PRR prototypes.
The short answer? T1s pulled pretty much everything Pennsy had on its passenger roster in the late 40s, starting at the top with lightweight streamliners in '45 and '46, and working their way down to mail trains by the end of the decade. Heavyweight cars would be appropriate, as the T1s were quickly bumped from the top assignments down to secondary trains with older equipment (partly because of the T1's teething problems, partly because by then wartime restrictions on diesel production were gone and E7s were taking over the flagship runs). The T1 had a short tenure at the head end of several Pennsy name trains, such as the Broadway Limited, so lightweight streamlined cars are also appropriate depending on when the cars themselves were built (anything after 1951 would be too late, since the T1s were out of service by then and some were already on their way to the scrappers). Towards the end of their relatively brief careers, the T1s were more often than not assigned to mail/express trains- an entire train made up of head-end equipment, baggage cars, RPOs, express reefers, express boxcars, etc, often with one or two rider coaches at the back. Off the top of my head, a realistic mid-service-life train for the T1 might be built from RTR offerings using Kato's BM70 RPO/Baggage (from the Broadway Limited set), several of Bachmann's heavyweight coaches, MTL's heavyweight diner, an MTL heavyweight parlor car, and several MTL heavyweight sleepers. If you're lucky enough to have any of Hell Gate Models' B60 kits, or if you got some printed from Shapeways, those would look right at home as head-end equipment, or making up an entire train of mail/express. A mixed train of lightweight and heavyweight cars wouldn't look out of place either. Pennsy was not overly picky about what equipment got assigned to its lower-priority trains, or whether the paint schemes even matched. You could, for example, plant a couple of streamlined Intermountain cars in the 30s-era Fleet of Modernism scheme in between heavyweight sleepers, and a couple more streamlined cars wearing wartime and post-war schemes... it won't look any weirder than the real thing.
I have about 8 assorted Intermountain cars in the Fleet of Modernism scheme that I run behind mine. Are they prototypically correct? I would think so, but I don't know for sure. Do they look cool? You betcha!!! (See rule 1.) I love this beast of a loco!
I recently acquired a basic 10 car set of Kato cars for my T-1. Also included at that point, was a PRR GG-1. Monday should have the 14 car Kato Broadway Limited set arrive. Will run either set behind the T-1 or the GG-1.Not really concerned if it's correct or not! If it looks good, I'll run it! Most folks wouldn't know if the consist was right or not!Don't care for the PRR, but I do like the T-1 and the GG-1.
