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MILW branchline combine

 

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A few days past I must have mentioned the Milwaukee's home made combines that served the smaller populated towns with fairly good service until the shuttered mail contracts took the lines from margine able into distress!

Anyway here are some photos of them in restored fashion plus one used as MW--like a cat in it;s 9th life!? For anybody thinking of creating one--it's very possible with traditional methods.


Bob Werre

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Bob,

Nice info.? Where would the combines be placed in the train?? Would the train also have a caboose?

Dan

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 2:30 PM
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A few days past I must have mentioned the Milwaukee's home made combines that served the smaller populated towns with fairly good service until the shuttered mail contracts took the lines from margine able into distress!

Anyway here are some photos of them in restored fashion plus one used as MW--like a cat in it;s 9th life!? For anybody thinking of creating one--it's very possible with traditional methods.


Bob Werre
 

The car didn't have steam lines, it need not be immediately behind the locomotive.? Most likely also served as the caboose.
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Rich G(ajnak)
 

Bob,

Like the one that ran on the Reader Railroad in Arkansas?

Charles Weston






On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 03:30:13 PM CST, Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:


A few days past I must have mentioned the Milwaukee's home made combines that served the smaller populated towns with fairly good service until the shuttered mail contracts took the lines from margine able into distress!

Anyway here are some photos of them in restored fashion plus one used as MW--like a cat in it;s 9th life!? For anybody thinking of creating one--it's very possible with traditional methods.


Bob Werre
 

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Dan,? Yes The car was close to the Swiss Army knife:? a caboose, Railway Express area, some had PRO functions or simply bagged mail, plus several coach seats.? Early versions had plain slab sides with arched windows with the latter versions being ribbed (like the boxcar and many passenger cars).? Those later versions had rectangular windows as shown., I understand all were built in the roads shops as were the boxcars along with the fleet of Hiawatha train sets. ?? I don't know if it had two coal stoves or just one, it also had just a basic 'outhouse' for those needs.? One that ran through my hometown, derailed a few miles out on the prairie along with some tank cars.? It derailed and tilted rather severely.? The express guy received a broken leg when stacked cream cans crashed to the floor.? My aunt. a PO clerk, complained that all the mail was soaked in old sour cream--a smell you have to get used to.
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? One car had a second life on the Reader RR in Arkansas, and I think it went on to another life beyond that.? Maybe Gale Hall might know something about it?

Bob Werre
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Bob,

Nice info.? Where would the combines be placed in the train?? Would the train also have a caboose?

Dan
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 2:30 PM
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Subject: [S-Scale] MILW branchline combine
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A few days past I must have mentioned the Milwaukee's home made combines that served the smaller populated towns with fairly good service until the shuttered mail contracts took the lines from margine able into distress!

Anyway here are some photos of them in restored fashion plus one used as MW--like a cat in it;s 9th life!? For anybody thinking of creating one--it's very possible with traditional methods.


Bob Werre
 

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Although Rich G. Is correct that the combine was usually on the end of the train (why it had a coal stove and either kerosene or battery lighting—although few mixed trains operated after dark) to allow the locomotive to do way freight switching, there were occasional exceptions.? One that comes immediately to mind was on the Norwood & St Lawrence up in northern New York State where the combine usually was coupled to the tender.? And although some mixed trains had both combine and caboose, the more usual (and more cost-effective) practice was to have the conductor's desk at one end of the car.

Jace Kahn


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Bob,

Nice info.? Where would the combines be placed in the train?? Would the train also have a caboose?

Dan
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 2:30 PM
To: S-Scale <[email protected]>
Subject: [S-Scale] MILW branchline combine
?

A few days past I must have mentioned the Milwaukee's home made combines that served the smaller populated towns with fairly good service until the shuttered mail contracts took the lines from margine able into distress!

Anyway here are some photos of them in restored fashion plus one used as MW--like a cat in it;s 9th life!? For anybody thinking of creating one--it's very possible with traditional methods.


Bob Werre

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