Strange Train Prototypes

[Ronayne]

Originally Posted by simulatortrain

Well it also has a trolley pole and a smokestack, so it could have another purpose. Probably not powered, but it could be some kind of MOW car using electricity to power something.

Or it could have been used as the lead car for something, hence the headlight, and the trolley pole to trip grade crossing sensors. Pacific Electric had some diesel switchers with trolley poles on for that reason.

It appears to have un motored bogeys. I can't see any fittings you would find on a motored bogey.

[simulatortrain]

Originally Posted by Ronayne

It appears to have un motored bogeys. I can't see any fittings you would find on a motored bogey.

I didn't think so either. The other thought I had was some sort of push-pull operation. Don't know how that would work, but maybe it just lit the track for reverse running.

EDIT: http://utahrails.net/gallery2/v/inte...-coll.jpg.html This appears to be the same or a similar car behind these two interurbans. It may have been a boxcar used with them and had a light for running with it in the lead. The trolley pole was probably to trip grade crossing sensors as I said, and the smokejack was probably from a stove to keep things from freezing. Interesting car!

[whistlehead]

http://home.comcast.net/~steelmanjules/clinuse_pr_page.html



Strange enough?

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Chris