I have been busy today (between making arrangements for some purchases) sorting out some paper work that I printed off the Internet back in my early days of using the beast, but also more importatntly when someone else was paying the bill for the printouts. Now most of the the paper is heading Recycle wise. However some is going to a luddite mate who wont buy a computer, but who is interested in USA Short Lines.
What is this to do with rolling stock purchases for USA lines? Also much of the List would work pretty well much the same in Europe for a general carrier railway. So where does this match with the heading?
Well the paper work was being read by self whilst enjoying a pint and I thought that the roster (stock list) of a particular line had much relevance to what most of us are trying to do in our gardens. I know that we all buy too much, but for any beginners out there a PLAN may be of help if it is followed and looked at with a relevance to what the real thing did,
The line that interested me (and I hope some of you) was a 5 mile line the "West Virginia Midland Railway". This was an impoverished line that connected with the Baltimore and Ohio at Holly junction. Link to site:-
http://www.taplines.net/January/wvmid1.htm
The key part that interested me and makes a GOOD stock list for a Garden railway was the list of stock available to the line on their last listing in 1931. This comprised of:-
4 Locomotives
3 Passenger Cars
1 Combination car
1 baggage and Express Car
10 Box Cars
4 Flat Cars
10 Coal cars (Opens)
2 Cabooses
2 Company service Cars
52 Logging cars (these could easily be ignored)
Now with the exception of the logging cars, that is a fairly comprehensive, but not massively onerous stock list. particularly if you start to build things up in the Proportion of those numbers (say 1 locomotive and build in Quarters).
Hope that some of you find this of interest, if you go to the main site of the Webb link, you will find many more interesting histories.
http://www.taplines.net/
JonD
What is this to do with rolling stock purchases for USA lines? Also much of the List would work pretty well much the same in Europe for a general carrier railway. So where does this match with the heading?
Well the paper work was being read by self whilst enjoying a pint and I thought that the roster (stock list) of a particular line had much relevance to what most of us are trying to do in our gardens. I know that we all buy too much, but for any beginners out there a PLAN may be of help if it is followed and looked at with a relevance to what the real thing did,
The line that interested me (and I hope some of you) was a 5 mile line the "West Virginia Midland Railway". This was an impoverished line that connected with the Baltimore and Ohio at Holly junction. Link to site:-
http://www.taplines.net/January/wvmid1.htm
The key part that interested me and makes a GOOD stock list for a Garden railway was the list of stock available to the line on their last listing in 1931. This comprised of:-
4 Locomotives
3 Passenger Cars
1 Combination car
1 baggage and Express Car
10 Box Cars
4 Flat Cars
10 Coal cars (Opens)
2 Cabooses
2 Company service Cars
52 Logging cars (these could easily be ignored)
Now with the exception of the logging cars, that is a fairly comprehensive, but not massively onerous stock list. particularly if you start to build things up in the Proportion of those numbers (say 1 locomotive and build in Quarters).
Hope that some of you find this of interest, if you go to the main site of the Webb link, you will find many more interesting histories.
http://www.taplines.net/
JonD