Speaking of Passenger Service

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Another form of action is variety. At CUT, you'd have PRR T-1s and K-4s, N&W Js, C&O 4-6-4s, Southern Ps-4s, B&O 4-6-2s, NYC 4-6-4s, and L&N 4-8-2s. It is hard to justify such a variety on any freight layout. Of these, the NYC, N&W, B&O, and PRR all used the same trackage north out of the terminal for several miles...which was shared by B&O freight trains.

I almost mistook your "CUT" for the Cleveland Union Terminal, which also had an interesting operation.

the Cleveland Union Terminal was electrified with 3,000 volts DC mounted on overhead wire mounted on a catenary system similar to the New Haven's in style.

The "CUT" was operated by big electric motors, the P1a. The New Haven EP3 and later PRR GG1s would copy the P1's wheel arrangement. These motors first arrived in 1929/1930, and apparently did well until dieselization resulted in a discontinuance of the electrification in 1953.

The P1as were rebuilt to run off of New York Central's third rail and reclassified P2 (they would run into the Penn Central years in this service), handling heavy long distance trains arriving and departing Grand Central Station in New York City.

Certainly, most of the power you mentioned for Cincinnati's Union Terminal might have been visible at Cleveland's union terminal, where they might have swapped out the motors for the rest of their run.

Model wise, you could represent these passenger operations without devoting a huge amount of space to the terminal itself. You could simply model the "swap" with the steam and electric motive power.

They just recently released another run of Brass P-motors, and they weren't to hard to get before now anyway (the older brass models are going for less than some of the steam engines out there from BLI and still look pretty good).



I love these engines with the NYC lightning stripes! Unfortunately, I forgot my vast fortune in my other pocket. This sunset models has sound and such, but I don't think I could shell out the $1100 this thing costs.