colorado hirailer posted:That "McKeen" coach looks too professional to be a homebuild, and McKeen made trailer coaches and even a bus body in that porthole configuration, as Kirkman can probably attest. (it's railbus tow power sure looks homebuilt...wonder if that is standard or narrow gauge, and on what Alaska RR?)
Much later steam coaches than the "New England" pictured above, but similar, except for the Unit-Stanley (built by the Stanley steam car maker, and so it had a steam engine and boiler similar to the cars, and no external cylinders or drive rods), were built by ALCO and Baldwin, and a few others, some, uh, unusual lookiing.
I don't know, looking at the axles, it looks like it was built on the same frame work as the truck in front of it, a double axle truck, and then a single large wheel axle in the back. I would have to find it again, but it was one of the major railroads in Alaska at the time, if I remember right.
And about the steam coaches, the Unit Steam Engine Company (?) was what I was talking about, I don't remember the Stanley part however. Also, just a side note, M-103 of the ATSF, a McKeen Car was outfitted with a Unit Steam Engine truck after being sold to the San Antonia and Aransas Pass in 1922.
