Model Railroading > Real Revenue Producers

I love switching and I love so-called "junk trains" with mixed freight cars pulled by GP20's and GP30's and maybe even a GP 7 Topeka cab thrown in. However, the railroads are in it to make money and for the Santa Fe, the JB Hunt stacktrain was the real revenue producer and these trains usually got the best power and the hottest schedules. I am glad that I got to witness this period with the rise of intermodal and we were fortunate that Walthers did a great job producing HO intermodal equipment, not too long after it was seen out on the rails. The tradition continues on the Peavine as 600 leads two other Dash 9's and 21 stack cars to the ramp in Phoenix. This is the hottest train on the line and it gets great power!  (I shudder to think what it would cost to recreate this train today with three Kato Dash 9's, four five packs loaded with 48 ft and 54 ft JB Hunt and Santa Fe containers).
Show us your real revenue producer; the train that really pays the bils on your railroad!

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Awesome! Santa Fe...All The Way!

Nice Santa Fe models, sure do miss the real thing. 

Nathan

Here are two of them.

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Actually Intermodal has always been low revenue traffic, but that was where the growth was for many years. It's really the unit coal, oil and grain trains that make all the money.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Santafes95 Wrote:
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> I love switching and I love so-called "junk
> trains" with mixed freight cars pulled by GP20's
> and GP30's and maybe even a GP 7 Topeka cab thrown
> in. However, the railroads are in it to make money
> and for the Santa Fe, the JB Hunt stacktrain was
> the real revenue producer and these trains usually
> got the best power and the hottest schedules. I am
> glad that I got to witness this period with the
> rise of intermodal and we were fortunate that
> Walthers did a great job producing HO intermodal
> equipment, not too long after it was seen out on
> the rails. The tradition continues on the Peavine
> as 600 leads two other Dash 9's and 21 stack cars
> to the ramp in Phoenix. This is the hottest train
> on the line and it gets great power!  (I shudder
> to think what it would cost to recreate this train
> today with three Kato Dash 9's, four five packs
> loaded with 48 ft and 54 ft JB Hunt and Santa Fe
> containers).
> Show us your real revenue producer; the train that
> really pays the bils on your railroad!

Modeling this (these) trains would be the revenue producers for the manufacturers!

Rob

Great point!