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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: historical question
- Message-ID: <38759@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:07:09 GMT
- References: <1jefg2INNgd2@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <930120111131@cream.ftp.com> <38723@cbmvax.commodore.com> <16B5EB726.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <16B5EB726.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org> M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org writes:
- > In article <38723@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- > grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >
- > >
- > >Yes, I have a Philadelphia NHRS newletter that has a picture of one of
- > >the Budd/Michelin cars on the branch that runs by my house. It's pretty
- > >strange looking. I wonder how much of it was "european design"?
- > >
- > What branch is this, please? I was wondering where they ran.
-
- This was on the Octoraro Branch, which ran from the intersection of the
- Chester Valley branch and the West Chester Branch at Wawa (near Media PA)
- to Port Deposit MD.
-
- One picture ca. 1940 shows them sitting in Oxford PA, the other shows
- them somewhere dual-track under wire, perhaps at Wawa.
-
- To quote from the article:
-
- A more exotice vistor apeared on the branch just before the war.
- The Budd-Michelin railcar pair, Nos 4688 and 4689,, were built in
- 1933 and classed OEG125 and OEG125A, respectively. They were
- rebuilt in 1936 with steel tires and a new power plant and reclassed
- as GEG125 and GEG125A, and again in 1937 with No. 4688 becomeing MPB48
- and No, 4689 becoming the power car, classified as GEG190. Although
- constructed of stainless steel, they were painted tuscan red in the
- Pennsy tradition. They were assigned to the Maryland Division
- between 1939 and 1943 before being leased to the Washington and
- Old Dominion. For a full account, see Trains Oct 1973.
-
- (from the Spring/Autumn 1986 issue of the Phil. Chapter PRR T&HS bulletin.
-
- By the way, looking at the pictures, the cars actually do look pretty
- streamlined, but marred by a huge/abrubt radiator on one car, which
- looks kinda like the cupola on a caboose. I don't know if this was
- an original feature, or perhaps added during one of the rebuildings.
-
- Other text in the article suggests that the doodlebugs did a lot of
- time in Baltimore area branchline/local service, so the Budd cars
- probably spent time there also.
-
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