Green Pullmans

Check out this eBay auction -
It's two CSS coaches painted green and lettered for Denver & Interurban RR. I've never heard of D&IR owning similar equipment, and I've never heard of CSS painting these coaches green - it was orange from the beginning, right?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nickel-Plate-South- ... dZViewItem

BTW, if I had plenty of money laying around (read: a job) I would buy these asap. But I have no money, no space, no time...

To the best of my railfan knowledge, Pullman and Standard Car Co. did not build any similar cars for any other electric railroad. All our stuff was bought new and we were the only owner before being retired.

someones dream paint scheme

I already have that set, I have been barnstorming for more modern cars but most of the bidding go outa my price range.

I have 3 modern cars

Do you run that stuff or is it a shelf display situation?

Further, did anybody see the O-scale CSS in the O-scale magazine about a year ago? It was amazing.

Nooo....?!? What magazine?

I forget the name, but it was like O-scale digest or something - one of the wierder scale-specific mags you only find at the hobby shop. Has a pic color pic of one of the ex-C&O geeps on the cover, painted for CSS.

D&IR ceased all rail operations on July 10, 1918.

Source:http://experts.about.com/e/0/1918_in_rail_transport.htm

Here's a REAL D&IR "Kite Route" unit with one pantograph one trolley pole. (Jewett??) I don't think they EVER had any trailers.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
then search for: Standley Lake Station on the Denver & Interurban RY

The CLS&SB cars were very similar and one ended, so they had to be turned. Trolley pole was for street running, pantagraph otherwise.

Shops had a wye, south bend had a loop. Gary had a wye.
Kensington the turntable. Make sense now?
By the time the orange cars came on the scene with double ended controls, these features were pretty much removed, and the orange cars could run onto the IC into Chicago, which is what the CSS had been trying to do.

Tadman wrote:Do you run that stuff or is it a shelf display situation?

Further, did anybody see the O-scale CSS in the O-scale magazine about a year ago? It was amazing.

I have a layout planned and its going to operate, I have yet to paint it up, I need to do a really good job on it doing it right.

It will be a modular shelf style my own design incorporating several railroads into the operating scheme. SS included, and NS, Nickel Plate, N&W, NYC, C&NW, Virginian. Multi-levels.

http://www.qtm.net/~dinwitty/rr/rr1.html

You, sir, are awesome. I want a traction layout so much.

I know they aren't prototypically accurate at all, but there's a boat load of K-Line O-scale interurbans out on eBay these days. I've seen PE, RDG, CSS mostly