Port City Car Co. is pleased to present several Mesaba cars for your pleasure.
Here is a photo of Mesaba # 10, a coach, which replaces the earlier coach of the same number.
This includes several destination signs, which will allow you to change the front of the motor, with ease.
There are two coaches, and an express motor (freight or box motor), and we think you will enjoy them all.
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The cars include a third rail pickup shoe on the front truck, on the right side only. This shoe was designed to activate the Nachod signal system, and not for power pickup. Our research material was skimpy, so we made our best guess, and compromised somewhat on this feature. Apparently, the system was only active for five years, starting in 1912. One assumes that the equipment was removed after the signal system was discontinued, but we left the third rail device in place. The whole Mesaba Railway was gone by 1927, a victim of highway competition.Unfortunately, the #101 contained an error. The third rail texture was incorrect, and we will upload a corrected file within a day or two. Nels Anderson was very quick to respond to our request to hold off on uploading the #101, pending our correction. Thanks, Nels.
The #10 is in the charge of Paul Deverter’s Motorman Bill. Dickey Tarkington’s Workman1, used with permission, operates the #101. Car #14 in designed to operate as a trailer, and rather than a motorman, Dickey Tarkington’s Station Master is in the rear vestibule, ready to assist passengers off and on. Of course, #14 will operate alone, if you choose. According to Dave, the powered coaches were generally trained with an un-powered trailer, so we substituted #14 as an expedient way of providing that configuration without building a whole new model.
The coaches have only one trolley pole, accurate for these cars, which were turned on a wye at the end of the run. The express motor has two poles, but only one pilot. Research indicates that this motor was also used as a snowplow, and our best guess is that the end without the pilot was the end that the plow was attached to. All the cars were heated with Baker hot water heaters, located in the motorman’s cab on the coaches, which was a coal stove that circulated hot water through pipes in the baseboards of the cars.We have provided a series of additional folders with the coaches. This allows you to change the destination signs on the front of the coaches by simply copy/paste from the destination folder of your choice and overwrite the file that is the root (main) folder of the car. As an example, you can change the destination sign of the ME10 to Virginia by copying (not cut) the file meends.ace from the Virginia folder, and placing it in the ME10 folder, clicking OK to overwrite.We recommend that if you already have a copy of a previously released version of the Mesaba #10, that you delete it to avoid conflict. We have not tested these new cars with the previously released versions. Also, it’s my understanding that the Mesaba Route either includes or requires a ME10 car, and we have not tested these new releases on an un-modified version of the Mesaba Route. I have operated these cars on my version of the Mesaba Route, and they operate just fine, but I have modified my version of the route.