Looking thru old Gazette issues aint a good idea… [:O]
Its a bad idea when you look around at an unwanted trolley and an unwanted switcher, open a magazine and that darn Muse clubs you over the head with a coal shovel [:-,]
…but then every railroad needs an Inspection Engine doesnt it??? [swg]
Didnt know if this would really work until I actually cut the drive into the trolley body [:I]
The drive is HLW 0-4-0 switcher, a real PITA to dissassemble as it mostly glued together, the rest will find aonther life soon. [;)]
Neat. That is what was known as a “steam dummy” – used to haul cars on street railroads faster than horses could and before electric wires were put up for trolley cars. The idea behind the horse car body was to avoid scaring the horses in the street as a steam locomotive would, but the huffing and puffing of the engines usually scared them anyway, apparently. I don’t know if passengers were expected to ride in the dummy itself, I thought the body was just for show unlike a true inspection engine.
After the street lines electrified, some of these steam dummy engines were sold to, of all things, lumber railroads and contractors which were always looking for cheap used engines.
