Large Scale Central

Midland Terminal Motor 102

Here’s a neat one I havent run across before.



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Those look like tram trucks - maybe Brill? Wonder why it needs a front pilot truck?

Because it looks really cool that way?

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Found a color version of one of them

and a new one

Not a lot of information on this motor car.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0608/27/midland-terminal-102-slide-colorado-springs-co_1_ba59c9a36ab8d5d285951db2e3023e89.jpg

I tried that and it told me I had to go and try the link at Worthpoint. So I did, and got 1,000 hits, mostly train passes! I did see a couple of pics:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/midland-terminal-colorado-motor-train-487508927

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/c-s-r-colorado-midland-ry-diagram-3833849797

Just to throw a wrench in the works

Ed Keilty in his book “The Short line Doodlebug” gives us this information

Midland Terminal Railway # 102

Built in company shops in 1937

Drive - Buda 118 HP, diesel mechanical

Body type - 2 window ( no idea about that one) ex-street car, baggage , 8 passenger

Length and weight _ 42 ft., 18 tons

Scrapped about 1943

An ex Colorado Springs street car.