Here are photos of train 106 preparing to depart Birmingham Terminal Station in 1950, with NW2 #256 attending to the switching chores after the train arrived from Atlanta on the Southern Ry. Enjoy. Ken McElreath
The layout was my previous "Birmingham Terminal Division" setting, and the models are mine. The NW2 is a customized Athearn SW7. The station was a photo enlargement mounted on masonite, with some 3D details for depth. Thank you very much. Ken McElreath
Gorgeous models, Ken. I love the effort you placed into replicating the terminal environment. It makes your models look all the more realistic.
Responding to Greg Stout's request, the next two posts will show photos of my Frisco cars assigned to the KC-FS, besides the passenger cars assigned to the Sunnyland, shown in that thread. Ken McElreath
Kansas City-Florida Special Meteor Texas Special Did any of these passenger trains ever swap their cars between routes if any long term significant demand for services changed?
My chart. Frisco passenger volume achieved its acme circa 1921, and the “long-term significant demand for services” was thereafter, downward. The WWII boom when compared with historic values wasn’t much of a boom, but a minor reversal of the inevitable. The Frisco had sufficient surplus passenger equipment so that it could add cars, when the regularly assigned equipment went to the shops for maintenance, repair or when demand required. The Frisco even had enough surplus equipment, that it could put together special “charter” movements, when needed. When the Frisco discontinued The Texas Special during January 1959, some of the lightweight cars were used on the KCFS and other trains.