Hello everyone, it's been a minute since I've posted on this forum.
As I'm sure many of you know, back in the 1930s and '40s it was a common sight to see the 20th Century Limited and Broadway Limited racing each other out of Chicago on parallel track. As an artist I thought it would be a fun challenge to re-create this scene as a digital hand-drawn animation. Before you ask, yes, I have experience in the animation field and have devised a technique that I can use to make the work easier on me. I plan to use one of the PRR's prototype T-1s and one of NYC's streamlined Hudsons as the locomotives of choice to reduce the amount of "pencil mileage" (a term animators use when referring to the complexity of a drawing in animation in relation to the production's budget).
Various photos of this daily race exist, and I was wondering if anyone would happen to know what speed both trains would have been travelling on the 6 mile stretch south of Chicago? I want to make the animation an accurate depiction of the scene. Even though it is 2D, I want to give the locomotives and cars a solid feel.