Gas-Electric Cars & RDCs

LV numbers Length over coupler pulling  face Trucks Function Build & rebuild dates & notes Seating 
Capacity
Recommended model References & 
Comments
Gas-Electric Cars
3 Brill, 1923
5 Served Clinton Branch, Clinton to Lansdown NJ Brill, 1927
Sold to Alaska RR 2/1938
Archer p.226
Greenberg & Fischer p.96
Handsomest p.62 (6/1933)
10 Osgood-Bradley/EMC Archer p.357
LV-2
 p.75 (1951)
Joe Testagrose photo on Clint Chamberlin’s web site.
11 Greenberg & Fischer p.14
LV-2 p.81 (1946)
16 Served Rochester Branch Osgood-Bradley, 1929 21 Steam Era p.77
Upstate p.69
Memories pp. 30, 31, 46, 65
FD&S 11/4, pp.31, 44
17 Served Mauch Chunk PA to Exchange Place NJ; also Rochester Branch & Jersey City to Flemington Osgood-Bradley, 1929
Received Otto Kuehler styling sheet metal ca. 1939
Greenberg & Fischer pp.128, 159
Steam Era p.75
Upstate pp.viii, 66, 72, 73 (1/1940)
Handsomest p.63 (9/1938), p.81 (7/1939, Kuehler styling)
19 Served Rochester Branch, Auburn Branch Bethlehem Steel/EMC Archer p.221
Steam Era p.75
Upstate p.69
Memories pp. 32-35, 68
20 Served Jersey City to Flemington St Louis/EMC, 1927
Sold to Sperry Rail Services in 1937
40 Steam Era p.77
Handsomest p.64
21 Mail/express
Served Auburn to Sayre
Osgood-Bradley Archer p.242
Handsomest p.64 (10/1937)
22 Smoker-Baggage Osgood-Bradley, 1927 Steam Era p.77
23 Passenger/Smoker/Baggage Osgood-Bradley 41/10/9 Steam Era p.78
Photo at Sayre on Clint Chamberlin’s web site.
24 Passenger/Smoker/Baggage Osgood-Bradley 41/10/5 Steam Era p.78
25 All mail & express St Louis/EMC, 1925 Steam Era pp.76, 79
26 St Louis/EMC, 1925
27 St Louis/EMC, 1925 22
28 St Louis/EMC, 1925 Greenberg & Fischer p.73
29 Served Flemington St Louis/EMC, 1925
Sold 1939
Handsomest p.63
30
31 All mail & express Floor plan in Handsomest p.65
32 All mail & express
33 Brill/ACF (?)
Served Bowman’s Creek Branch, Towanda to Wilkes-Barre
Archer p.212
Photo on Clint Chamberlin’s web site.
34 Brill/ACF, 1927 Steam Era p.79
Handsomest p.65
36 Served Sayre Brill/ACF, 1928 Steam Era p.80
Handsomest p.65 (10/1936)
Rail Diesel Cars
40 Budd RDC-1
Served Hazelton to Lehighton
Budd, 1951 90 HO: Proto 1000 #31242
Athearn is too short, and represents a later version.
N: Kato #1063004 (undec RDC-1 & RDC-3 set) plus #921502 RDC-2 body shell. Use Microscale 60-4197 decals.
Steam Era p.81
Handsomest p.106
Bill Waller photo of #40 at Penna Railroad Museum on Clint Chamberlin’s web site.
41 Budd RDC-2
Served Hazelton to Lehighton
Budd, 1951 70 HO: Proto 1000 #31243
N: Kato #1063004 (undec RDC-1 & RDC-3 set) plus #921502 RDC-2 body shell. Use Microscale 60-4197 decals.
Handsomest p.106
David Nyce photo on Clint Chamberlin’s web site.