05-06-2013, 12:44 PM
OK, I think I understand. Thanks all round for the help. So, if New Chicago Industrial Park is a leasing company, NCPX would make sense. However, since NCP in this case would be the lessee, it would lease locomotives from a leasing company, say, Mid South Locomotive which would be MSLX for example.
The purpose of all this is I'd like to justify owning a small fleet of locomotives, which would make no sense for the tiny layout I am working on. I'm thinking that with a leased locomotive, it would be logical for a different unit to be operated from time to time due to various maintenance requirements, scheduled and otherwise.
I like the look of patched units because it sort of preserves the ambience of early Conrail, except in my case on a rather smaller scale.
The purpose of all this is I'd like to justify owning a small fleet of locomotives, which would make no sense for the tiny layout I am working on. I'm thinking that with a leased locomotive, it would be logical for a different unit to be operated from time to time due to various maintenance requirements, scheduled and otherwise.
I like the look of patched units because it sort of preserves the ambience of early Conrail, except in my case on a rather smaller scale.