Ed You Need One Of These

[haasmarc]

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[jagged ben]

Lol
Ok, I'll bite...
What is that?

[Mike C]

  Something to supply power to MOW workers in remote areas ?

[John]

Pull loco power trucks around the shop. Or battery pack for jump,starting the shop foreman’s car

[learmoia]

If NS ever decides to get rid of it.. hopefully they donate it to CRHS.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Pull loco power trucks around the shop.

Close. It's used to pull engines through the wheel truing shop in Enola.

It's battery powered and charged inside the shop.

It's an iconic part of the Enola scene. Honestly, I'd rather see it go to the RR Museum of PA. It'd be much better interpreted there (for example, they could couple it to the GP30 and explain it).

[Dave V]

As for whether Ed "needs" one or not depends on whether Ed's modeling Enola.

And this is where I recite (well, paraphrase anyway) a mantra from the great Tony Koester... "Model the mundane, not the exceptional."

If this was a one-off on a system with tens of thousands of track miles and thousands of locomotives, he probably doesn't need it, unless he's modeling that particular shop in Enola during the era it was used.

Then again, we modelers love our critters and our one-offs, so it's more of a what Ed "wants" rather than "needs."

Pedantic to be sure, but a distinction I think we can make here at the Railwire.

[Missaberoad]

As for whether Ed "needs" one or not depends on whether Ed's modeling Enola.

And this is where I recite (well, paraphrase anyway) a mantra from the great Tony Koester... "Model the mundane, not the exceptional."

If this was a one-off on a system with tens of thousands of track miles and thousands of locomotives, he probably doesn't need it, unless he's modeling that particular shop in Enola during the era it was used.

Then again, we modelers love our critters and our one-offs, so it's more of a what Ed "wants" rather than "needs."

Pedantic to be sure, but a distinction I think we can make here at the Railwire.

Now if you're talking as a lawn ornament! 

[DirtyD79]

As for whether Ed "needs" one or not depends on whether Ed's modeling Enola.

And this is where I recite (well, paraphrase anyway) a mantra from the great Tony Koester... "Model the mundane, not the exceptional."

If this was a one-off on a system with tens of thousands of track miles and thousands of locomotives, he probably doesn't need it, unless he's modeling that particular shop in Enola during the era it was used.

Then again, we modelers love our critters and our one-offs, so it's more of a what Ed "wants" rather than "needs."

Pedantic to be sure, but a distinction I think we can make here at the Railwire.

As far as I know that's the only one and I don't think it really goes too far from home. It does look pretty cool though and doesn't look like it'd be too hard to make.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

As far as I know that's the only one and I don't think it really goes too far from home. It does look pretty cool though and doesn't look like it'd be too hard to make.

Exactly. I don't know if it's ever been further than 100' from that shop building.

That said, you all know how much I enjoy our Elctrostang, and this thing is, essentially, that on top of a Blomberg.