GGD Southern Crescent Passenger Train

@Steve Adby posted:

Hi everyone.

I'm hoping that I can get some help and advice from the wonderful pool of knowledgeable folks here please.

I'm looking to get some cars to make up a  Gulf Wind (or my own 'abbreviated' version) as it would have run at the Seaboard end of it's run in the late 50s-early 60s. I have a pretty extensive selection of US railroad books here but this one is proving tricky. My question is would most of the cars have been marked for L&N or did other 'pool' cars marked for A&WP, WRoA or SRR ever creep into the consist and if they did, which car types?

Also, did Seaboard provide any cars for the train or just motive power at the Eastern end of the trip. I've noticed in a few photos that the Obs car seemed to run into the 60s which is great as those picture windows are stunning!

Many thanks for any pointers...it's not always easy loving trains that ran 3500 miles from home! Lol.

Best wishes to all.

Steve

here’s a link with some info on the gulf wind. https://nolahistoryguy.com/blo...ouisville-nashville/

This is a train I want to build too, I work in New Orleans & live close to the route of the Crescent, Humming bird & Gulf wind.

Reserving the L&N observation car is a good start. Maybe we can get Scott to do a Gulf Wind drumhead for it. I will use my GGD silver meteor, plus the crescent cars to build this train. I also have Lionel’s blue L&N RPO.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...9#184156761144798149

Many thanks for this. I've seen this and a couple of other posts but none of them really mention what cars were used and in which road names....I'll keep searching but any other info is greatly appreciated.

The Golden Gate Depot website says reservations for these cars are closing August 1st.  Also, looks like the Amtrak cars weren't approved.

So, who's ordering what?  I'm not an expert on some of these pooled cars so am quite interested to hear what others are buying.