@LIRR Steamer posted:Some photos attached from the PRR Technical and Historical volume covering Passenger car paint schemes. . Yhe book mentions in the late 1940s some 46 cars built for New York to Atlanta and New Orleans service were built to plan 4140. These were 10-6 sleepers . Southern had 29, PRR 8, L&N 2 FEC 5 cars , Atlanta and West poinrt 1 and Western of Alabama 1 car.
....Another interesting thought for through cars on this train was the last of the transcontinental sleepers, the service started in 1968 with a through sleeper operating from San Francisco through LA to New Orleans on the Southern Pacific and then being carried by the Crescent from New Orleans to New York and later Boston . I believe this service lasted into the Amtrak era so it would be interesting to know if there were Amtrak 10-6s in the 1970s consists or would the car have always been a Southern badged car.
I unfortunately only have records for various trains in 1971-1978. It contains several hundred entries and does not have everyday. It looks like a SP 10-6 sleeper was very common for awhile. In 1971, it looks like there are 10-6 sleepers from C&O and 11 DBR's from the IC that were put on the train from time to time too. Between 1972-1974, it looks like Amtrak, N&W, and SCL coaches (and Amtrak 10-6 sleepers) found their way in once in awhile as well as the rare UP, or CBQ 10-6 sleeper. Even a random NYC baggage car once or twice for the days shown.
Not in this document, but previously, I've seen photos of PRR B60 baggage cars on the train earlier in either the 50's or 60's.
Looking at the consist documentation I have, the car length varied anywhere from 6 cars to 20 cars. I'd say the average is somewhere around the 11 cars.
Looking at the options, I don't see anything other than the SP Sunset Limited 10-6 that Scott has already done. That 10-6 is different tooling than Southern's 10-6 (but I assume Scott's factory still has the old SP SL 10-6 tooling?), and also with a the SP general-pool decals instead of SP SL decals. It would be a valid add-on for those who want to do 1968-1974 modeling. (Which at least on this post seems like there are quite a few.) I would most likely add one if it was listed as an option.
