D500 posted:Hancock52 posted:I have tracked down exactly one photo of a cab forward pulling a passenger train and the cars were heavyweights, not streamliners. And yes, the Lionel Daylight cab forward was a fantasy scheme but one of, if not the best such scheme(s) Lionel has come up with.
The SP was not shy about pulling passenger trains with the 4-8-8-2 cab-aheads; that was always intended as a use for them, when the weight called for it. It is entirely possible that a cab-ahead pulled a train of streamlined "yellow" cars - maybe even likely.
Lionel's yellow cab-ahead is purely fantasy, as said, and should be avoided at all costs.
(BTW, I have read - must be true! - that many of the SP engine crews and the like did indeed refer to the GS 4-8-4's as "the yellow engines", back in the day. I like the name - simple.)
Actually the SP Enginemen referred to them as "Yellow Bellies", since the yellow color was under the side walkways.
