Hi folks! AZL released the PRR lightweight cars. http://www.azldirect.com/passenger/prr-lightweight Would these cars fit the Loewy K4? I mean, does the color scheme and the era match?
The era matches, and the K4 was a passenger car locomotive. I think I remember reading Pennsy had more than 400 of the K4's and that they ran them on passenger trains till almost 1960. So it would have been K4's pulling heavyweights up till the 30's, transitioning into lightweights, and by the 1950's mostly lightweights. Remember Pennsy had lots of fancy name trains like the Broadway Limited, which was pulled by a shrouded K4 pacific that made it look faster and pretty, but train crews did not like the fancy shrouds because they made maintenance harder, so after a while the shrouds came off and the plain jane K4 was what you would see. Those Dark Green or Bronze torpedo shrouded K4's would be stripped down to regular K4's by 1940. You can run your Lowey K4, or the regular stripped down K4's with AZL lightweights and look correct. Also a good match for the AZL cars are the Marklin GG1's for catenary electric operation, which is what I have a collection of PRR for.
And don't forget, Robert, AZL's beautiful, beautiful ALCO PA1s....... (any doubts that this picture shows the Z-scale Broadway Limited from AZL are highly appreciated) Best, Sven
