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RE: (erielack) Freight Car Mix

I would echo Paul's comments, but again it depends on location. If you're 
modeling NE Ohio with all the ore, coal and steel traffic, you're going to 
have a higher proportion of EL cars. If it's Buffalo east, there's going to 
be the CN, CP and Maine boxcars with newsprint, also auto parts cars coming 
off the old Wabash and PM with mostly Eastern roadnames: N&W, EL, 
Chessie/C&O/B&O, DT&I, PC/PRR/NYC, depending on era. EL was primarily a 
terminating carrier for east-west traffic, and generally, loads went in the 
originating road's cars. So you're going to have lots of western roadnames. 
Remember also that almost all tank cars and many CH's were privately owned 
(X-suffix).

A good example is the consist sheet for SF-100 of 2/19/76. This was a 
primary Chicago-Croxton train on the latter-day EL. Of the 122 cars, only 
one carried the EL roadname, and I think we decided it was in company 
service at that.

http://lists.elhts.org/erielack-digest/200510/msg00167.html

Paul B

> Hello again group-was wondering if anyone out there has done
> any research into the mix of freight cars on the EL-have
> noticed on several other web sites that there is discussion
> about the mix or percentage of home road cars vs. foreign
> road cars and the most common foreign road cars in that
> mix-if anyone has similar info for the EL would appreciate
> hearing from you the information would be most helpful in
> filling out a freight car roster for my HO layout.Hope to
> hear from you all soon.
> Thanks-
> Ed Barry


Ed,

General rule of thumb is that 20% of your freight equipment should be
home road cars (in EL's case, mostly EL with a token few Erie and fewer
still DL&W, depending on what year you model)

I find photos useful as a guideline as well. I notice there's a big
predominance of Penn Central equipment in mid-to-later EL years (after
all, they had the most freight cars nationwide!). And of course,
depending on the area you're modeling, you'll see certain roads' cars
over and over again (CP and CN newsprint cars, State of Maine boxcars,
etc.)

I'm trying to stick with the "20% EL" rule and mixing up the rest.
Additionally, you should give heavier weighting to connecting road cars
(think D&H, PC/PRR/NYC, N&W, ATSF, BN+variants)

- - Paul
 


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