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[daveklepper]

[gmpullman]

Wire Train II

https://www.shorpy.com/node/23153?size=_original#caption

 

Cheers, Ed

[Overmod]

 

Here's the Daylesford regional station,

 just east of Paoli.

[Erik_Mag]

Ed,

I was wondering what the pantagraph was doing in the kitbash of boxcar and caboose. Makes sense to have something to firmly ground the catenary in case the power director makes an oopsie.

 - Erik

[gmpullman]

Erik_Mag

Ed, I was wondering what the pantagraph was doing in the kitbash of boxcar and caboose.

I'm kind-of knocking together an HO line car "loosely based" on some of the PRR prototypes:

PRR_line4 by Edmund, on Flickr

I had a spare Con-Cor RPO MP54 and hacked a coupola from a Bowser N5C to the roof. One of these days I'll have to get back to it  Many of PRR Tower cars were built from former gas-electrics so they could be self-propelled.

Note the round catenary poles in the Daylesford photo linked by Overmod. Installed before PRR settled on the H section column.

Regards, Ed

[Overmod]

gmpullman

Note the round catenary poles in the Daylesford photo linked by Overmod. Installed before PRR settled on the H section column.

If I'm not mistaken these may be from the original 11kV installation on PRR, for the "Paoli local" service before 1915.  Ed probably has detail drawings of some of the components from that time...

I also believe a different type of cylindrical column was used on at least parts of the electrification of the Atglen & Susquehanna, in the '30s -- don't some of them still survive as part of the transmission-line system for commercial power? 

[rcdrye]

The pantograph also allows crews to test alignment and movement of the wire.

[Penny Trains]

They didn't have anything quite so fancy in my neck of the woods:

[Flintlock76]

gmpullman

 

 

Erik_Mag

Ed, I was wondering what the pantagraph was doing in the kitbash of boxcar and caboose.

 

 

I'm kind-of knocking together an HO line car "loosely based" on some of the PRR prototypes:

PRR_line4 by Edmund, on Flickr

I had a spare Con-Cor RPO MP54 and hacked a coupola from a Bowser N5C to the roof. One of these days I'll have to get back to it  Many of PRR Tower cars were built from former gas-electrics so they could be self-propelled.

Note the round catenary poles in the Daylesford photo linked by Overmod. Installed before PRR settled on the H section column.

Regards, Ed

 

Great "kitbash," if that's the right term.  My complements!