@ArthurL posted:Thanks, I am learning as I go along.
I'm talking about both steam and diesel- I have been watching youtube videos of operations from the 40's to early 50's, the era I am going to model. Trying to study tendencies.
I was imaging that if a motive power got way out there, it may not get returned right away,
Steam locomotives would be serviced and turned/returned right away.
so I was thinking could the original road owner of that motive power just lease it out for a bit,
No. I generally did NOT work like that, back in the 1940s/1950s.
or just wait for it to get returned?
Pretty much yes.
Or are there just switchyards where one railroad ends and another picks up?
Yes, that is the reality of how railroads did things, back in the 1940s & 1950s. In other words, each railroad pretty much kept their own locomotives on their own railroad.
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