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With the Mesaba boxmotors coming out soon, I got to wondering if the railway owned any conductor's cars? I've repainted and "standardized" the Sumpter Valley caboose as an interurban hack, as Mesaba Ry No. X-09:
Purely as a ficticious car to fill the need, this will be uploaded with the boxmotors. It is supposed to portray a third-hand car from two previous owners, with their painted-out names showing through the weathered siding.Tim
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Great Idea!http://groups.msn.com/MSTSNarrowGauge
Jonathan Lewis
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No cabeese, but here's the entire roster:
Passenger motors: 10, 11, 13, 14
Combines: 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Passenger Trailers - 45': 1, 2, 3, 4
Passenger Trailers - 50': 5, 6
Freight-Express motors: 101, 102
City Streetcars - 45': 32, 33
Line car-snow plow: 99
Work flat motors: 200, 201
Dave
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;-) hey, Dave, are you throwing hints out? There certainly are some ideas for future references here! Do you have any pix of those work-flats? Tim
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LAST EDITED ON Dec-30-02 AT 07:58 PM (EST)
There are no known pictures of the work flats. The specs say they were 40'10" over buffers and 9'6" wide. Mechanical details: Baldwin 7822A trucks and Westinghouse air brakes for train service. Maximum load was about 48,000 lbs. I don't know if the cab was in the center or at one end, but I suspect at an end, as all other work flats in Minnesota seemed to be built that way.As an aside, all equipment had a third rail shoe to operate the signal system on the right side of the forward truck.Here's a picture of the street car if anyone wants to tackle it:
Dave
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Well, I've been wanting to build a work-flat for a while, and this description and some pictures I've got would make a fairly believable unit for future reference. The city car could be made by cloning bits from the Brill 51 class. Thanks Tim
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