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Left: Siding (ii). A MoW train is slowly rumbling down Second Street, and it’ll shortly pick up those Difco gondolas (by Walthers) sitting in the siding. They were dropped there previously by the Quisling Turn.
Below: Outfit cars. Most railroads got many years of further service from retired passenger stock, using them for accommodating track gangs and for storage. The two clerestory coaches are old Blue-Box Athearn, and have been modified using photographs, to be reasonably accurate models of Southern Pacific track gang cars. The baggage car is repainted Rapido, and again “close enough” to the prototype.
Below: Water cars (i). These retired steam locomotive tenders were used by the SP to transport water to “hard-to-get” places. Ex-cab forward tenders SPMW 4764 and SPMW 4764A (left and middle) were usually kept permanently connected at Roseburg for fire-prevention service during the summer months until withdrawn from MoW duties in 1983. (4764A was eventually rebuilt to serve as the sole-surviving Southern Pacific GS-4 SP 4449’s auxiliary water tender, DMLX 4219. The allocated number reflects that it was once the tender of AC-10 Cab Forward SP 4219, remaining with the locomotive all its working life.) All three are modified and repainted Rivarossi models, picked up second-hand on eBay.
Right: Water cars (ii). SP used four ex- AC-9 tenders for static fuel storage, and after talking to SP tender guru Arnold Menke, he had no problems in agreeing that a fifth one may well have seen some road service (thus my representation of an ex-AC-9 tender in SPMW 4705, nearest to the loco). Many of these tenders initially served behind steam-powered snow- removal rotaries after their assigned locomotives were scrapped. Also seen is SPMW 1024, a 40’ boxcar still prototypically in service and seen on the SP main line into the 1980s.
28 ROUNDHOUSE February 2017