to change as the height of the contact wire varied. To sum up, the MP54E pantographs look good and are set up for electrical operation, but may re- quire some fiddling to achieve smooth operation.
Con-Cor has made nine different new underframes for these cars. There are three versions for each of the coach, combine and baggage-mail mod- els with the appropriate end steps or stirrups. One version has a flat bottom for unmotorized cars with very com- plete, separately applied motor control and air brake detail. The second ver- sion has a subtle bulge on the center line to hide the motor in amongst the other details. The third version is for the unpowered trailer cars and lacks the transformer and other motor con- trol equipment on the powered cars. All versions have air lines with separately applied end hoses and end MU connec- tions. They also include rarely modeled handrails on the bottom of the vestibule traps that would fold up on the prototype to help passengers alight from ground-level platforms. Another external change to the new release is the trucks, which like the Pennsy prototypes,
include different
side frames for the powered and un- powered trucks on each car. The pow- ered truck is new model of the distinc- tive 8′-6″ wheelbase type 2D-8-P1 with Hyatt roller bearings. The trail truck is an 8′-0″ wheelbase type 2C-P2 with friction journal bearings, the same as was used on the earlier release of loco- motive hauled cars. Both trucks have photo-etched pilots mounted on their outboard
ends. The wheels have
NMRA RP-25 contour. On the motor- ized models, both trucks are driven by the model’s motor. The motorized cars have flat can mo- tor equipped with dual flywheels mounted with its shaft at about the level of the lower edge of the car sides. The lower part of the motor is hidden by the underbody detail as described above, and its upper part is hidden by the raised floor of the one-piece interi-
or detail. The trucks are driven by shafts and universal joints that are hidden by the car’s center sill. Electri- cal pickup is from all eight wheels and one wheel on each truck has a thin traction tire.
Operating on d.c., our sample coach started at 2.1 volts and 0.05 amp. with a steady speed of five s.m.p.h. The coach had a speed of 108 s.m.p.h. at 12 volts and 0.18 amp., and a top speed of 154 s.m.p.h. at 15 Volts and 0.19 amp. The
motorized coach weighs 8.8
ounces. and produced a drawbar pull of 3.2 ounces. We measured slightly dif- ferent performance from the baggage- RPO. It started at 3.5 volts and 0.1 amp. with a speed of 0.2 s.m.p.h. It had a speed of 97 s.m.p.h. at 12 volts and 0.21 amp., and a top speed of 142 s.m.p.h. at 15 volts and 0.21 amp. The baggage-RPO weighs 8.6 ounces and produced a drawbar pull of 2.2 ounces before slipping. The unmotorized coach weighs 4.7 ounces.
The cars come with factory installed, Kadee compatible working knuckle couplers. We were able to operate the cars coupled in a train on a minimum radius of 15″, and found the motorized units had plenty of power to pull a train of three trailer cars on our level test layout. The cars come with a standard 8-pin DCC socket mounted on the underside of the printed circuit board that runs the length of the car just under the roof. As a test we installed a Digitrax DH123 decoder and without adjust- ment to any CV’s, a smooth 3 s.m.p.h. was achieved at speed step 5 and a top speed of 154 s.m.p.h. at step 99. Con- Cor will be offering two decoders for their MP54 cars. One is a full function sound decoder with a 28mm speaker, and the other is a non-sound function- only decoder for installation in pow- ered cars that will in consist with an- other DCC controlled powered unit. These are beautifully detailed, smooth running, very accurate models of Pennsylvania’s MP54E cars that were a familiar sight in the New York
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