I'm looking to place one of these cars in a consist but am unsure as to the type of consist and where this class of car would be positioned.
Any ideas as to how these cars operated? What would be appropriate?
Norm
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From what I understand, the PRR business cars frequently ran at the end of a scheduled passenger train.
I agree with pennsyk4. I have always seen business cars at the end of a train. They had restricted access (like RPO cars), and coupling them to the end suited that. At their destinations, they could easily be uncoupled and spotted where necessary.
A variation would be an Office Car Special (OCS). Several business/private cars are run as an extra. NS and the Reading & Northern run them in this neck of the woods. For a while, Conrail stored an OCS consist at The Reading Shops.
On a road as big as the Pennsy, anything is possible. But running a business car by itself as an extra would require dispatchers to schedule traffic around or past it.
Returning home from New Orleans on Amtrak's CRESCENT LIMITED, I noticed our train was entering a passing siding. After a freight passed, the engineer whistled off and our train BACKED UP! "What's going on here?" I thought. Back on the main, we went forward. Then we passed a short freight (probably a local) on the passing siding. The dispatcher put our train and that one head-to-head on that siding. I have always admired that maneuver.
Norm
put it behind the GOLIATH YOU ARE ORDERING
GG1GUYY
GG1GUYY,
There will be no Goliath shipped to Murrysville,PA. One Brute is more than enough. It is a beauty though,you have to admit.
Norm
Biz cars on the PRR were considered part of the MOW FLEET!
