Anybody know of any accurate drawings for this beast? Trains had an article years ago. It was a corrugated side stainless steel doodlebug that ran on Michelan tires with a flnage mounted behind them. The PRR had too many flats and sold it to a aouthern short line.
Ndbprr,
This citation, from the Index of Magazines, of the Trains article might help refresh someone’s memory of another source:
Budd before the Zephyr Trains, April 1973, page 24 Budd-Michelin railcars
( “PENNYPACKER, BERT”, RAILCAR, STREAMLINER, T&P, TRN )
The Zephyr patents citation in a Google search includes patent drawings in a .pdf file that you could verify against any photos you have:
http://search.earthlink.net/search?q=Budd-Michelin+railcar&area=earthlink-ws&channel=narrowband&
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
I’ve seen drawings for these somewhere in my buried resources collection…Have to rattle the nogin and get back to you.
Dave
The Reading Company Technical and Historical society had a issue of their magazine, “The Beel Line”, devoted to gas electrics and it had pictures and maybe a drawing of one that operated (briefly) on the Reading. I’ll see if I can find the issue and article.
Dave H.
ndbprr, In the The Passenger Car Library Volume 4 there are pictures of the various ones built by the Budd Co. But the only drawling is for one built for the Texas & Pacific. It’s different than the ones for the PRR. But there is a good picture of the power truck and a cross section drawling of the tire and rim, it says " Licensed under Michelin Patent. Tires built by Goodyear"
I guess I’ll just have to scale off the pictures and do the best I can. Thanks
Ndbprr,
Guess I wasn’t explicit enough, below is the link to the patent drawings in the Google search. Admittedly, they aren’t dimensioned but they include cross sections and other structural details:
http://www.prototrains.com/patents/2129235.pdf
Please take another look.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
Great! Now I need to find a dimension and start building. thanks.