New PC Locomotive Consists on the Kings Port Division

Hi all!

I've been putting together some new power lashups on my layout thanks to the addition of some recent acquisitions.   I was alerted about an online clearance sale of Bachmann equipment (thanks Neal!) that included great prices on F7Bs and GP9s.

I couldn't resist the prices on this pair of B units painted in their C&O livery

...and this GP9 as a Pennsy pre-merger unit.

Adding these three allowed me to create some nice prototypical lashups such as a classic F7A-B-B-A four unit consist once I painted the C&O locos Penn Central black

I've often admired John R.'s (creator of the New York Central Train Layout) blog header photo of an FA-B-B-FA consist of NYC units...recently changed to a four unit lashup of his freelanced Empire Belt RR)   http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/ 

Now combining a pair of Athearn F7A dummies with the powered Bachmann  B units, a four unit set can be seen running through Kings Port.  The two Bachmann F7B's run well together and can pull a decent sized train up my layout's grades. 

  
Another cool PC consist that I've seen proto photos of is the F7A/F7B/GP9 grouping seen in the pic in this link. 
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/419782/ 

One of the Bachmann units and a couple of Athearn unpowered units make it easy to recreate in HO scale.  The Bachmann GP9 runs well with the former C&O B units so I plan to paint it for the PC to create this consist with two powered units.

I've spent some time recently looking at a lot of PC consists and filmed the recently posted YouTube video seen below.

 Gotta love the PC for its variety of motive power and the interesting way they put them together!

Thanks for taking a look!