What cars did SR 4501 pull on its excursions in the mid-1970s

Excursion trains in the 70's were assembled from what ever was available.  The consist would vary from excursion to excursion.

The Burlington, for example, usually had a mix of heavyweights and streamline cars, sometimes, the Q even used their double deck gallery commuter cars.

Southern's streamline fleet consisted mostly of unpainted stainless steel fluted sided Pullman Standard cars.  By the 70's, I don't think there would've been any heavyweights painted in the "Crescent Limited" scheme.  Southern used a solid dark green for their remaining heavyweights, I'm not sure of the exact color.

It's also possible cars from other railroads would be in the train.

Rusty

I saw 4501 run in the 70's......don't think the consist was the same twice.....a mix and match string of passenger cars new and old.  So if your layout is set in the 70's and you want to run 4501......about anything around in those years will work.

Rusty and Dave,

Thank you for your inputs.  The few pictures I've found of 4501 in the 70s didn't show much of the consist, but you could see the cars were different styles.

4501 was not painted in the Crescent Limited scheme, but in a green scheme that I think was called just Crescent or passenger green.  You are correct in that there have been no 1:1 cars painted in the Crescent Limited scheme since the 30s.

I did not think Southern had any unpainted stainless cars by the 70s; learned something new.  So a mix of the dark green HW and stainless cars, with some unpainted stainless would work.  These are cars that are available from MTH that I'm looking at.

  

The Southern excursion train in the 1970s was all Pullman green heavyweights.5 silver coaches were added in 1980 after the Southern Crescent was discontinued.

Here is a b&w photo from LOCOMOTIVE 4501, by David P. Morgan

Johnny and Phil,

Thanks for the clarification on the type of cars and the picture (I assume the picture is from the 70s).  My operating layout, if it ever gets up and operating, is set in the late 40s and I have Lionel's seven car SR HW set pictured below (click on link) to run on the layout.  I was going to get a separate consist to run with 4501 because I thought the excursion trains had more streamliners.  Looks like I'll just use the Lionel cars.  Thanks.

Ron

I think that there were cars owned by different NRHS chapters in use and some privately owned cars too.