Abingdon Branch pax cars

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Based on photos I've seen taken in 1956, '57 and '62, the M-1 RPO #10
appears to have stayed the same on trains but the coach changed to a combine
by 1962.  The 1950s coach was a 6-wheel truck, 20-window style.  The combine
was a 4-wheel truck, 12-window design, very similar to what ran on the
Blacksburg branch.  I don't have road numbers for either.

 

All of the M-1 photos I've seen from these years shows the side windows
plated over.  Only the RPO and baggage doors were left.  Modeling this car
becomes much easier using Athearn parts and applying 4 styrene window
patches to simulate where they "used to be" would be easy.  I suspect
Central Valley trucks could be found on ebay in time.  I have a couple pair
under an old Walthers kits of RPO 90 I built during college days; those will
go under an M-1.

 

Jim King

http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/

 

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