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File Name: PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY STEEL EXPRESS CAR AND MAIL-EXPRESS 6-CAR SET
File Submitter: timmuir
File Submitted: 04 Oct 2008
File Updated: 02 Jan 2011
File Category: Light Electrics

PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY STEEL EXPRESS CAR AND MAIL-EXPRESS 6-CAR SET.
"PORTLAND BOX MOTORS".
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 IN YOUR MSTS ROOT FOLDER !! OR YOU WILL EXPERIENCE ENGINE FILE ERRORS !!

For the fans of the MIGHTY PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY:

THESE SIX (TWELVE) 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 sample 6.2 meter versions of each type within classes.

PE 1445 and 1448 are part of the 5-car 1445-1449 class originally built in 1913 by Pullman as true express cars for the Southern Pacific's "Red Electric" Oregon interurban lines between Portland and Eugene.

PE 1457 part of a two-car (1457,1458) rebuilding program in 1937 wherein two ex-SP Portland coaches were converted to express cars.

PE 1459 and 1460 are part of the six-car 1459-1464 class, hastily rebuilt from ex-SP Portland coaches during a pre-war boost in express and freight demands during 1941. These cars had four 8-foot freight doors cut into their sides and their window sashes plated over but retained their characteristic leaded glass upper sashes.

PE 1405 part of the 1404-1407 class. 1404-1406 were original SP Portland interurban Mail and express cars, built by J.G.Brill in 1913. (1404 was burned in 1937 after a collision with a tank truck. 1407 was rebuilt from an ex-SP Portland coach in 1937.)

All cars received new trucks and stronger 600/1200 volt motors; new PE-style pneumatic trolley poles in place of original pantographs and many other details.

Pacific Electric once had an extensive express and less-than-carload freight business all over the city of Los Angeles and it's surrounding areas, supplementing it's large carload freight business with door-to-door service. In all, there were 78 cars in the 1400-class. It also enjoyed a lucrative mail contract with the US Post Office for many years, running two-car mail and express trains three times daily, except Sundays. Railway post office service ended on the Pacific Electric in 1950 and all box motor service ended on November 15, 1952. Most box motors were scrapped in 1953 and 1954. 1406 was rebuilt as wrecker 008, sold to Orange Empire Rail Museum in 1958.

How to use these cars: Although capable of hauling a dozen or so standard freight cars of the era, union full crew laws forbade the box motors from hauling more than one standard box car or one other box motor. Mail-express cars were MU-capable with 1445 and 1457-class cars after 1947. PE classified the box motors as switchers although their true duty was hauling package express and less than carload freight on-line door-to-door. These models represent cars of the 1947-49 era. I suggest using 1448, and 1460 with headlights at each end at the rear initially if reverse moves are anticipated.

There will be a supplemental set of files for the 1464 that goes into this folder at a later date. It shares the same main ace file as the 1405 RPO.

Thank You's go to:

Matt Austin, Wayne Campbell, Chuck Zeiler, Herb Kelsey, Paul DeVerter, Kenji Kimura, Bill Hall, Jim Walker, Ira Swett (and all the photographers who captured these cars during their lives and share their images for posterity).

Tim Muir
Railroad Earth Models
October 3, 2008

Original File Name = PEboxmotors.zip

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For those who want more numbers, here's a guide to road numbers for each class:

http://elvastower.com/user/RNs-BOXMOTORS.jpg

If you want to make a 1449, use the 1448 as they both had the whistles located over the right-hand port-hole in a horizontal position, where all others had the vertical whistles to the side of the port-hole.

There will be at least one supplemental car, the 1464, coming later.