Elvas Tower: PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY 60-PASSENGER INTERURBAN COACH - Elvas Tower

PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY 60-PASSENGER INTERURBAN COACH.
1252-1263 CLASS, The "PORTLAND TWELVES".
1252 AND 1255 BETA PREVIEWS IN 6.2 AND 7.2 METER WIRE HEIGHTS.
MESH AND TEXTURES BY TIM MUIR.

!! YOU MUST HAVE INSTALLED BIN PATCH v1.7.051922 OR LATER !! OR YOU WILL EXPERIENCE ENGINE FILE ERRORS !!

THESE TWO (FOUR) MODELS ARE WORKS-IN-PROGRESS-PREVIEWS OF EQUIPMENT TO BE RELEASED IN FUTURE WITH THE ROUTE "PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL", PROJECTED RELEASE IN 2012. Those models to be released for the route will be for the 7.2 meter P.E.T. only, no 6.2 meter versions will be made for entire classes, but I will make at least two sample 6.2 meter versions of each type within classes.

On July 1, 1928, Pacific Electric Work Order 28210 specified the purchase of 18 steel interurban cars from Southern Pacific's abandoned "Red Electric" interurban Portland to Eugene, Oregon, lines at a total cost of $214,659. The cars were towed to Torrance shops where they were brought back to top condition after years of neglect. Rebuilt with larger motors to keep up with the PE's own Twelves, which the "Portlands" had to run with in trains. Twelve four-motor sets of Westinghouse 557-A-5 motors were removed from the PE 1001-1012 and installed in the dozen Portland coaches, which operated on 600/1200 volts for service on the San Bernardino line. Other changes made were installation of standard PE pneumatic trolleys from the original pantographs; Westinghouse automatic couplers; Hunter illuminated destination signs; anticlimbers for spring buffers; moved roof clatter gongs to underfloor; PE-type roof bells were installed in 1937.

Cars 1252-1257 were originally built with luxury seating and operated as Parlor cars on steamer trains between Los Angeles and San Pedro on the "Catalina Specials" as extra-fare trains, beginning January 3, 1929. They were equipped with special low-profile versions of the PE-style pneumatic trolley bases permitting them to operate in the subway when in parlor car service. These remained after the cars were converted into regular coaches after October of 1936.

Cars 1254 and 1258 were retired in 1947 after each suffered damage in separate wrecks. The rest of the fleet ran until 1950 when all the PE's 1200 class were retired. All were scrapped by Kaiser Steel's Fontana plant in 1951.

These models reflect the cars after their 1942 modernization program.

Model Specifications:

Built: Using Train Sim Modeler Pro, starting in 2004 through 2008.
Parts: 97
Vetices: 16702
Polygons: 24600
Textures: 40 @ 2.25 Megabytes
Freight Animation Parts: Yes, 1 Motorman Figure, 29 Kilobytes
Trolley Pole Animation: Yes, double-ended, cab-switching per Bin Patch operation.
Lighting: 1252 Single-Ended, 1255 Double-Ended for reversed movements.
Cabview: Built by Tim Muir using parts from Wayne Campbell, Kenji Kimura. Still a work in progress.
Sounds: Chuck Zeiler and MSTS Defaults

Original File Name = PE1252_1255.zip