Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

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Re: Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

Postby aterry11 » Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:40 am

I believe the swank interior above is a former SP lounge car. They also have Ex UP National Command Pullman. The tracks they are on used to be outside and track #1 of 29 platforms between the UP and Burlington station to the south. Before it was enclosed Current UP executive E # 950 sat on static display. I have sat in that cab for many an hour and imagined in 1979 1980.
844 will be here for the CWS and we shall see what we can do for pics then.
What kind of trucks belong on the trolley? I know Ruf is busy rolling in a pile of parts right now as I would be too but I get to go form up steps today and tomorrow. Yeah :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
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Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:41 am

rogruth wrote:YES! Swank. That is the right word to describe it.

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Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:49 am

I am intrigued at how much the models I have look like that prototype from real life! Thanks so much for sharing that photo, aterry11 ! :D
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Postby aterry11 » Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:16 am

As a kid of 12 to 15 I and friends would drive ,ride our bikes downtown and across the decked UP river bridge and disappear into the CB yards headed for the old UP commissary at Fox Park where the remaining passenger cars were stored. I joined the UP Drum and Bugle corps just to get the first class trip every year to Cheyenne Frontier days. We got to live in the Pullmans for a week at a time and UP spared no expense feeding us Mr Dean was the best. Walter Dean Lived down the street from us across Paxton Blvd. and was in charge of the commissary at the time.
1980 or 81 Our regular trip was extended to include Salt Lake City and we spent 21 night and days on the railroads Pullmans mostly the Sun series sleepers and some Western cars. Most of my old friends form then have no real Idea how lucky we were to get this experience. I have been hooked on passenger cars ever since.
The railroads security apparatus is the only thing preventing me from posting more pics. Try as they might I seem to get the access somehow :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

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Re: Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

Postby rex desilets » Sat Mar 18, 2017 12:06 pm

aterry11 wrote:As a kid of 12 to 15 I and friends would drive ,ride our bikes downtown and across the decked UP river bridge and disappear into the CB yards headed for the old UP commissary at Fox Park where the remaining passenger cars were stored. I joined the UP Drum and Bugle corps just to get the first class trip every year to Cheyenne Frontier days. We got to live in the Pullmans for a week at a time and UP spared no expense feeding us Mr Dean was the best. Walter Dean Lived down the street from us across Paxton Blvd. and was in charge of the commissary at the time.
1980 or 81 Our regular trip was extended to include Salt Lake City and we spent 21 night and days on the railroads Pullmans mostly the Sun series sleepers and some Western cars. Most of my old friends form then have no real Idea how lucky we were to get this experience. I have been hooked on passenger cars ever since.
The railroads security apparatus is the only thing preventing me from posting more pics. Try as they might I seem to get the access somehow :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
I weep with envy! :wink:
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Re: Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

Postby J. S. Bach » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:16 pm

rogruth wrote:Dave,
You mean the trucks on the one just above?
If so, I give you a big WOW. I can't see any details on those trucks. :(

I could see the general shape. Wayne did a great job hi-lighting them.

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Postby rogruth » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:49 pm

Yes, Wayne did a great job lighting those trucks.
Now even I can see that they are wrong.
Thanks, Wayne.
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:58 am

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 29, 2017 7:37 am

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Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:15 am

Does that equipment make ties for rails, or does it carry poles for erecting to hold trolley lines, I wonder. (It's enjoyable seeing contraptions so antique that I have no certain idea of what their actual function is.)

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Re: Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:27 am

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Does that equipment make ties for rails, or does it carry poles for erecting to hold trolley lines, I wonder. (It's enjoyable seeing contraptions so antique that I have no certain idea of what their actual function is.)


I bet that those are poles for the overhead.

Another neat work motor photo that I will store away for future possibilities. Like those metal hinged drop sides - somewhere I have some very small working hinges (USH? PSC?) that might serve for modeling such a detail.
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Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:19 am

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Re: Some more trolleys....C&G, CG&W, H&F, and others....

Postby rogruth » Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:39 pm

Interesting cars that were probably not common. ???
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Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:05 am

rogruth wrote:Interesting cars that were probably not common. ???

I'm going to guess they were, likely, handmade by a group in a machine shop somewhere within the company.


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