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	FMIG Lines Reprints: Newsletter 21 continued

Motor Cars

Gilbert's also have the GEM Brass Ma & Pa Gag Electrics in stock for $104.50. They represent stock EMC units much like Frisco's 2120 and 2121. The front passenger windows are not arched on the model although the rear ones are. Any takers? There is a nice large photo of the model in a GEM ad on page 82 of the March 1975 MODEL RAILROADER. Comparison of the model photo with prototype photos from the cover of Newsletter number 9 shows a lot of dissimilarities. If anyone tries to model 2120 or 2121 using the GEM import, be sure to keep notes of all you have to do.

Shown at the top of the next page is a copy of a standard EMC gas electric I found in an old RMC. Many roads had them evidently. The 2120 and 2121 were the closest that Frisco had to this design.

SL-SF 2111.  This image is 8" X 11".  To view in its actual size, double click on the image.

SL-SF 2106 - Gas Electric Motor Car.  This image is 8" X 11".  To view in its actual size, double click on the image.

SL-SF 3001 - Gas Motor Coach.  This image is 8" X 11".  To view in its actual size, double click on the image.

SL-SF 66 - Motor Car Trailer.  This image is 8" X 11".  To view in its actual size, double click on the image.

SL-SF 3001 - Gas Motor Coach.  

This is our first venture in making or rather constructing a motor car In our own shops," L. A. Toupin, motor car inspector of the Frisco Lines said, as he pointed with pride to the 3001 (shown above) Just out of the south coach shops, Springfield, Mo., where It was made from a coach. "This car cost us just one-third as much as the ones which we have built especially for the Frisco, and we think it is one of our best." The car was constructed under the supervision of Toupin and L. W. Melchor, vice-president of the Railway Motors Corporation of Do Pere, Wisconsin. Mr. Toupin, with a Frisco crew and In company with Mr. Melchor was preparing for a trial trip to Chadwick, Mo., when the reporter secured this Interview. In rebuilding this car, two 104 h.p. power units were applied which gives the car a maximum speed of forty-five miles per hour either forward or reverse. One new feature of this car Is that the entire mechanism Is underneath the car sills -the only machinery In the car being the operators' station. The car is operated on the same plan as a motor car, with a gear shift, clutch, brake, speedometer, etc. on a preliminary test on the Green? field hill. which is the steepest grade on the Frisco System or about four per cent, this motor car handled a standard coach as a trailer over the

grade, stopping and starting on the heaviest portion of the grade, both. with one motor and then with two. The station to station time from South Greenfield to Greenfield, up over this grade, was about one minute and twenty seconds less than with other equipment Tests are now being made ) determine the proper gear ratio and units, to meet a universal condition on the Frisco System. The car is equipped with roller bearings and the ease of riding, absence of vibration and noise, and comfort of passengers is very noticeable. Mr. Melcher, who supervised the construction said of the 3001, "the Springfield shops should be commended on their workmanship in the construction of this car." The car has been assigned to the, Salem Branch for service

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