--- In S-Scale@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chudzinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lots of roads had them! The 'mighty' NYC Pacemaker was a most
colorful specimen and ran them behind Mohawk's, RS-3's, as well as GP-
7's.......whole trains full of them.
Unfortunately, the reality of NYC Pacemaker Service doesn't fit this
fantasy. First off, of many thousand 40-foot PS-1s on the NYC
roster, only 25 were ever painted in the vermilion-and-gray Pacemaker
Service scheme, and they were also different form all other NYC PS-1s
in having 8-foot doors and cushion underframes. Also, these 25 cars
were not delivered until 1954, which was about the end of any
focussed effort to actually provide expedited LCL service (after
that, it was just an obsolete paint scheme).
The most well known Pacemaker box cars were the 1,000 AAR 10'0"IH
cars built in 1946, with 4-3 Improved Dreadnaught Ends. There is no
accurate S-scale production model of this car (and darn few in any
other scale either), but it may be a future conversion kit by SRCC
(aka Earl Tuson) . The PRS car is a reasonable stand-in, and
ironically, the otherwise completely unprototypical AM box car makes
a halfway plausible stand-in also. Ed L pointed out that many mfrs
have applied this paint scheme to cars that are not accurate models
of the NYC cars.
Furthermore, the publicity photos of long strings of Pacemaker
Service cars probably did not last very long, if they ever ran that
way at all except in experimental runs. The original plan was to run
them at passenger train speeds, but there is little evidence that
this plan was ever fully executed.
Finally, Andy Malette ackowledged my disappointment with the Kaslo PS-
1's ends, and he mentioned that he doesn't like the ladders which I
also hold in low regard. One thing Kaslo did do right was to make a
shell that includes all details present over the first few years of
PS-1 production, so that the modeler only has to remove those which
are not appropriate for any given prototype. It should be
understood, however, that no prototype car ever had all of those
details at the same time. And the Kaslo only models cars with 6-foot
doors, whereas 40-foot PS-1s also came with 7- and 8-foot doors. And
we haven't even started talking about <50>-foot PS-1s.
Jeff English
Troy, New York
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