Elvas Tower: PE Box Motor 1453 with Brill trucks - Elvas Tower

MSTS PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY INTERURBAN EXPRESS CAR #1453
3D MESH CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR
ARTWORK CREATED BY TIM W. MUIR, USING SOME ELEMENTS FROM CGTEXTURES.COM AND OTHER SOURCES
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 1453, of the 1451-1456 class of wood with steel underframe box motors built by PE in 1916. They were built to operate on both 600-volt and 1200 volt lines, so that they could run on the San Bernardino Line. 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 equalled since their abandonment in 1952.

The class rode on unusual (for PE) Standard C-80-P cast steel trucks, with the exception of 1452 and 1453, which rode on Brill-27 M.C.B.-3X trucks, same as those used on the Tens.

Data:

Cars 1452 & 1453 built in 1916 by PE

Weights:

Cars 1452 & 1453 - 83,200 lbs.

Trucks:
Type - Brill MCB 3X
Size Journals - 5"x 9"
Wheels - 33" -750 lbs. F.C.S. Cast iron

Electrical Equipment:
Motors - 4 - GE-205-B 110 HP 600/1200 Volt
Gear ratio: - 20:54
Control - Westinghouse Type 272E-5 600/1200 Volt

Brakes - Air and Hand:
Air Brakes - West. Automatic Type EL14
Compressor - One West.Type D-4-K

Braking Power - 100%


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:

Main Shape:
Parts: 88
Polygons: 29,065

Freight Anim Shape:
Parts:43
Polygons: 9099

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. Indispensible!!!
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.
And all those at Elvas Tower for their support over the years.

Tim Muir
Railroad Earth Models
May 5, 2012