GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Now you can finally start turning a profit instead of just hauling around all those free loading people!

Tell me about it! Your statement is true in its own way, since these freight cars and related projects can be measured in the time span of hours, and tend to be way cheaper than the passenger projects I'm working on.

If profit = satisfaction, then to heck with those HO commuters!

To be honest though I find freight modeling a little more intimidating. Its not as well documented as passenger trains. I'm not super picky about the specific railroads on the cars, but if a train typically hauled autoparts or chemicals, I would like to know that information. The "flow" of traffic from 1979 is probably lost to time.

Hey, Hey there. Don't be so hard on him. He has some PRR power on there and they did run for profit, for a while.

Well to be fair, by this date (1979) Conrail had already dramatically cut losses, and after pruning the system and passing some legislation (including one to make those free loading people the state's problem), became VERY profitable.

That is one of my favorite parts of modeling Conrail. I haven't been good about weathering my equipment, but I hope to capture that "struggle" the railroad was going through at the time. There is a little bit of corporate and political drama that can be subtly incorporated.


As far as Amtrak and profit goes..... No comment