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McKeen car 55ft - TPR Downloads

  • . : : McKeen car 55ft (1 vote(s)) Product code: 58422 In stock: yes McKeen Motorcar 55ft.gasoline enginr(100, 200, 300hp), top speed 50mph, the engine had to be reversed to go in reverse.



    Erie Railroad McKeen Gasoline Railcar
  • Erie Railroad McKeen Gasoline Railcar This undated postcard image shows Erie Railroad #4002.
  • . This gasoline powered railcar was one of three by the McKeen Motor Car Company and operated on the between 1906 and 1922.
  • . These cars were designed to operate profitably on runs where steam trains were too expensive.
  • . Undeterred, the Erie purchased a similar car from McKeen in 1907 for operation on the Newburgh branch and later the Avon-Attica line.
  • . Again, they had problems and the car was placed in storage.
  • . Inexplicably, the Erie ordered yet another car from McKeen.
  • . Car 4002 was 70 feet long, generated 200 horsepower and began operation on the Erie Railroad branch between and Bradford, PA in 1909 and operated until 1922.
  • . Another postcard of the same motor car.
  • . Diamondbugs, The story of the rail motor car on the Erie Railroad.



    Alaska Railroad Photographs
  • . It is a McKeen car, no 83.
  • . McKeen, Jr., Superintendent of Motive Power for the Union Pacific, in 1905 designed and built the first McKeen motor car in their shops in Omaha.
  • . Harriman, who controlled both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, financed the McKeen Motor Car Company, and production was started in an old shop building in Omaha.
  • . in his design and construction of these motor cars, was far in advance of his time.
  • . Over 50 railroads operated these motor cars.
  • . The standard model was 55 feet in length although some 70-foot cars were built.
  • . These latter cars were originally built with a 4-wheel truck, but most railroads soon rebuilt them with double trucks.
  • . All the motor cars were built with steel bodies, pointed fronts, round backs, port-hole windows and center entrances.
  • . As built by the McKeen Motor Car Company, the cars had no reverse gears, and to back up it was necessary to stop the motor and re-start it in the oopposite direction after shifting the cam shaft.



    Alaska Railroad Bibliography (Related References)
  • Alaska Railroad Related References Born Thirty Years Too Soon (McKeen Car History) , Railroad Magazine, January 1951, pgs.
  • . Knife-noses and portholes; The story of the McKeen car , Trains, July 1960, pgs.
  • . McKeen Motor Car Co.
  • . Railroad Passenger Car Annual , Volume I, 1973-74, by David Randall, RPC Publications, P.
  • . Railroad Passenger Car Annual , Volume II, 1975, by David Randall, RPC Publications, P.
  • . Railroad Passenger Car Annual , Volume IV, 1978-1979, by David Randall, RPC Publications, P.

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    Builders of Wooden Railway Cars ... and some of other stuff
  • Builders of Wooden Railway Cars — and Some of Other Stuff Telling the stories of the independent builders of railroad cars in North America from the very earliest days of wooden cars, through the transition to metal cars and onward to the present, with emphasis on the more than 200 builders of wooden cars before and into the early twentieth century.
  • . A few railroads built their own cars, but the vast majority were built by independent car builders.
  • . Iron technology was in its infancy and its ore scarce, but woodworking was familiar and the supply seemingly inexhaustible.
  • . The independent railway car builders active during the wooden car era came to that business from almost every conceivable occupation that dealt with wood: lumbering, sawmilling, millworking, general construction, wagon and carriage building, building of cabinetry and/or fine stairways, bridge building and ship building.
  • . Some began with shops so small a single car wouldn’t fit entirely inside, while others began with large multi-building facilities completely laid out in advance.


    CPRR Discussion Group - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
  • . McKeen motor car photo wanted From: "CHARLIE HOPKINS" TWINCOACH@AOL.COM I'm looking for information and a photo of one of the SPCo.
  • . McKeen motor cars running in passenger service in the 1900-1920'S on the old SF MAIN LINE.


    American Experience | Streamliners | People & Events
  • . Though the McKeen car was never manufactured, McKeen's vehicle would influence the design of future trains.
  • . In May 1933, before the had been perfected, Union Pacific announced than a Winton electric engine would power the three-car Pullman train.
  • . Made of aluminum alloy, the three cars together weighed only 85 tons; a conventional 10-car steam train weighed roughly 1, 000 tons.
  • . Furthermore, the distillate fuel, stored in tanks in the floor, could carry the new train 1, 200 miles without stopping for water or refueling.
  • . With its novel bubble top, tapered rear car, and waterfall grille, it embodied smooth forward motion even when it stood still.
  • . The three-car aluminum-clad train had an exterior color scheme that accentuated its horizontal flow: high-gloss brown on top with a wide yellow band on each side.


    American Experience | Streamliners | People & Events
  • . developed a prototype streamlined train, a gasoline-powered rail car for the Union Pacific.
  • . The Philadelphia manufacturer worked on and was deeply influenced by the McKeen car, and would rely on streamlining decades later, when he built the .
  • . Still, in 1913, when the streamlined "car of the future" appeared in Scientific American , though readers were intrigued by the cigar-shaped vehicle with the tapered ends, they preferred their high-backed seats and surrey tops.
  • . The same was true of Buckminster Fuller's streamlined automobile, the Dymaxion Car No.
  • . These designers reshaped objects as varied as cameras, cars, skyscrapers, radios, refrigerators, and even the Coca-Cola bottle.

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    Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Chapter 7, page 462
  • Page 462 Technology in Australia 1788-1988 I II Railways i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x Motor Railcars xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii III IV V VI VII VIII IX Motor Railcars The challenge of the automotive era was met by stoic indifference on the part of the Australian railways.
  • . The condition of roads and State Government regulation of bus competition kept the main-line steam trains comfortably filled until the general ownership of private motor cars after the First World War.
  • . We can note, briefly, the use of adapted chassis of petrol engine motor cars (Queensland 1906) trucks (N.S.W.
  • . W.A.'s first railcar was a custom built 2-axle railway vehicle rather like a motorised box wagon.
  • . 6 Modern developments of motor railcars, showing Queensland Railways' diesel cars, 1900 (left) and 1910, which were the first stainless steel cars built by Comeng in 1954 (photo courtesy Queensland Railways) Where the converted chassis approach was inadequate, a motorised bogie coach was applied, usually custom built and of imported design.


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    Reference.com/Encyclopedia/McKeen Motor Car Company
  • Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Web Premium: | ADVERTISEMENT - - Encyclopedia - McKeen Motor Car Company The McKeen Motor Car Company was a builder of motor cars , constructing approximately 150 between –.
  • . Founded by William McKeen, the 's Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery, the company was essentially an offshoot of the Union Pacific and the first cars were constructed by the UP before McKeen leased shop space from them.
  • . Unfortunately, technology was not, and the McKeen cars never found a truly reliable powerplant.
  • . The vast majority of the cars produced were for 's empire of lines (, and others).
  • . Harriman's death in lost the company its major sponsor and investor, and Harriman's successors were less enthusiastic about the McKeen cars.Most McKeen cars ended up being re-engined with a variety of drive mechanisms—gasoline-mechanical, gasoline-electric, diesel-electric, or even steam power.Most, although not all, McKeen cars had the distinctive "wind-splitter" pointed aerodynamic front end and rounded tail.


    Lantern Slides - SP Car Yard, Sacramento
  • Magic Lantern Slides - Berkeley Geography Collection SP motor car yard, Sacramento, Sacramento County.