SP Coast Daylight cars
Jul. 26th, 2013 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Most of you know that I am a serious H-O scale model railroader. I addition to modelling my own road, the South Jersey & Western, I am entranced by the Southern Pacific's Daylight series of trains.
They have been called "The most beautiful trains in the world".
The Daylights had some very unique cars. One of which was the articulated triple unit diner. Three cars semi-permanently coupled together riding on four trucks. One of the others were the twin unit coaches. These were two coaches semi-permanently coupled together riding on three trucks. These were labeled as men and women, as the bathrooms were located one in each coach next to the articulation joint, with the men's room in one coach and the women's room in the other.
Here is a picture of those two types of cars with a standard 85' long observation car for comparsion:

The top car is the diner. It is set up as follows: Coffee Shop - Kitchen - Table Car. This car is over 27 inches long! Each bridge is 9 inches long and are standard Atlas Deck Truss bridges.
The bottom left car is the twin unit coach and the bottom right is the Observation car.
These cars are H-O scale and are from Broadway Ltd. Imports and I have 14: 5 twin unit coaches, triple unit diner, observation car; of the 19 car train set. The rest are on back order and I have two GS-4 steam locos and a PA-PB-PA diesel set to pull the consist.
All I need now is a layout to run it on. :=3
They have been called "The most beautiful trains in the world".
The Daylights had some very unique cars. One of which was the articulated triple unit diner. Three cars semi-permanently coupled together riding on four trucks. One of the others were the twin unit coaches. These were two coaches semi-permanently coupled together riding on three trucks. These were labeled as men and women, as the bathrooms were located one in each coach next to the articulation joint, with the men's room in one coach and the women's room in the other.
Here is a picture of those two types of cars with a standard 85' long observation car for comparsion:

The top car is the diner. It is set up as follows: Coffee Shop - Kitchen - Table Car. This car is over 27 inches long! Each bridge is 9 inches long and are standard Atlas Deck Truss bridges.
The bottom left car is the twin unit coach and the bottom right is the Observation car.
These cars are H-O scale and are from Broadway Ltd. Imports and I have 14: 5 twin unit coaches, triple unit diner, observation car; of the 19 car train set. The rest are on back order and I have two GS-4 steam locos and a PA-PB-PA diesel set to pull the consist.
All I need now is a layout to run it on. :=3
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Date: 2013-07-27 10:10 pm (UTC)For some things though I'll have no choice, such as the date format Month/Day/Year. That's going to annoy me to no end.