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I think Work Trains are neat. Over the years, I have built my own take on a Pennsylvania RR Work Train using items from various manufacturers. Here it is:

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I acquired these cars in no particular order. The MOW passenger car is MTH Premier. The flat car with bulkheads is K-Line (it came with an old cannon and now carries ties and rails). The Pennsy wheel car is early 90s Lionel. The crane and crane tender are MTH RailKing. The Bunk car is 80s Lionel. The Pennsy MOW caboose is Weaver.

Here are close-ups of the cars.

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I will pull the consist with my K-Line Switcher or one of Geeps or RS units.

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Let's see your work trains.

Peter

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Just a simple story here:

Early one morning, a C&O sleeper having some inspection problems is eased into the Edgewater Car Shop by a new John Deere tractor fitted with a coupler.   The Master Mechanic came over in his old Chrysler to check it out. While this may save time and the use of a yard switcher, operating Brotherhoods WILL file their grievances about this!

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As this is a priority job, the Edgewater relief crane was brought in to assist work on the sleeper's trucks.  The car is inside the shop, on lift blocks.  All should be inspected and ready for a late morning departure with the "West Virginian."  Baltimore & New York office car 100 (in B&O livery as car 935) rolls past on the tail of an inspection train heading west.

The C&O sleeper was built from an American Standard kit and named for the car I rode in on a trip west on the "George Washington" in 1968. The relief crane is a 2-railed, modified MTH unit. The office car is a 1956 Walthers kit I built as a teen. It was rebuilt and modified in the 1980's as a "modernized" division level office car from the turn of the 20th century.  It has truss rods with steel sheathing over its wood body, air conditioning, full interior and underbody detail as well. Also, working track inspection and marker lights that are battery powered, with a cut-out switch in the water tank under the car.         

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Imagine that!  It's all part of model railroading.

S. Islander.

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I put together a New Haven work train based on some photos found in the  J. W. Swanberg Papers in the UConn Digital Library - three hyperlinks to prototype photos below.

Danbury Work Train 1

Danbury Work Train 2

Danbury Work Train 3

The RS-3 is a detailed and painted Weaver model, the caboose is stock Lionel, and the gondolas and flatcar are kitbashed from old AHM cars with Weaver trucks. The crawler crane is cobbled together from a Lionel P&H crane, 3D printed treads, and some miscellaneous detail parts.

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~Chris

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