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Re: (erielack) Pullman Standard Commuter Coaches

 Paul R Tupaczewski wrote:

> Hmmm... interesting. It just struck me as a little odd that these cars
would
> be made into MU's. Most MU's, I thought, should have an operator's cab on
> one end, and this just isn't the case with these cars. Obviously it could
be
> done; it would just be a bit inconvenient.

Maybe the intent was just to be able to electrify the trains, using
push-pull cabs?  This way you have distributed power pickup for the motors
of one or two cars, kinda like the DL&W mu's were, but only useable with a
cab-car setup at one or each end of a train's worth of cars.

SGL

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