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File Name: PACIFIC ELECTRIC RY. INTERURBAN EXPRESS CAR #1443
File Submitter: timmuir
File Submitted: 20 Oct 2012
File Category: Light Electrics

MSTS PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY INTERURBAN EXPRESS CAR #1443 for 7.2 Meter Trolley Wire
3D MESH CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR
ARTWORK CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR, USING SOME ELEMENTS FROM CGTEXTURES.COM AND OTHER SOURCES
WHEEL TEXTURES BY WAYNE CAMPBELL
COUPLER TEXTURES DERIVED FROM PHOTOS BY STEVE THOMPSON

You must have the Bin Patch Installed to Operate This Motor.

This is a model of Pacific Electric's express car number 1443, second to the last car in the 1430-1444 class of all-wood box motors built by "old" PE in 1905, 1906 and 1910. They were the heart of old PE's express and LCL freight business, and when first operated, were used as locomotives as well. Later on the advent of full crew laws forbade them to pull more than one freight car or one other box motor. They were also used as switchers and were later classified as such on the rosters. Their main claim to fame, however, was the fast and efficient movement of express, packages and even bundles of mail, throughout the vast PE system that has yet to be equaled since their abandonment in 1952.

As built these cars had a single trolley pole in the center, a high flush-mounted headlight between the front windows on a solidly sheathed section where the train doors would eventually be built in 1915. It was then that the cars received two trolley poles, roof boards were extended to facilitate men needing to oil the trolley wheels, Westinghouse Trombone whistles replaced the "peanut whistles", Eclipse fenders installed and other refinements added.

Data:

Cars 1430 to 1437 - Built in 1905 and 1906 by "Old" PE Ry Co.(Pre-1911 merger)
Cars 1439 to 1444 - Built in 1910 by "old" PE Ry Co.

Weights:

Cars 1430-1437 - 69,750 lbs.
Cars 1439-1444 - 71,400 lbs.

Trucks:
Type - PE Class B Rigid Bolster
Size Journals - 5"x 9"
Wheels - 33" -740 lbs. F.C.S.

Electrical Equipment:
Motors - 4 - Westinghouse 76 - 75 H.P.
Gear ratio: - 21:61
Control - Westinghouse L-4

Brakes - Air and Hand:
Air Brakes - Cars 1430 to 1437 - West. Straight and Auto. Air.
Compressor - One West.Type D-3-EG 7-1/2 HP
Air Brakes - Cars 1439 to 1444 - West. Auto Type EL-14
Compressor - Type D-4-K -12 HP

Braking Power - 100%

Car 1438 was converted to Supply Car #007 in 1928. In 1939 it was returned to express service as 1438. Returned as Service Car then wrecker #(2nd) 005 in 1945, keeping this number until scrapped.

The model was created using Abacus Train Sim Modeler Pro. Textures were first created in Paint Shop Pro 7.2 on a multi-layered .psp format file, "built" as needed while the model work proceeded. The main ace from which the lion's share of textures are on is a 2048x2048 map. Bitmap copies of this file were resized to 1024x1024 to work in Train Sim Modeler Pro as the art and model progressed. Graphic utilities used to create Kuju Ace files were PSP7, AceIt and TGATool2a. Polymaster2 was used to create subobjects within the model heirarchy of parts to facilitate the trouble-free use of more than 14,000 vertices.

A second shape file, known as a "freight animation" file, is used to add two crew members and the door chains on each end. The crew members are modified models created by Tom Werb, used here with his most generous permission.

Model Data:

Polygons: 29,845. 7.2 meter wire height only.


Credits and Thanks:

Thomas Pilder for Polymaster v2. I cannot thank you enough for this utility that has widened the scope of model making for myself and others.
Scott M. Miller for AceIt and TGATool. Utilities that I can not live without.
Paul Gausden for Shape Viewer. Indispensable!!!
Tom Werb. Supplying the TSM resource files of his excellent engine crew figures to allow me to "people" my models.
Jim Bebenroth. Enthusiastic PE equipment user and tester.

Tim Muir
October 19th, 2012

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