M10000

[Bobsmr2]

I just received my M10000 along with the 4th car from Con Cor. The train runs smoothly but I have a problem with the location of the 4th car.  Since it has the speaker grill (for future sound decoders) and it is shown in drawings as being between the loco and chair car shouldn't that be it's location. I can only connect the 4th car between the chair car and the Tail car (I never considered it to be an observation car since there is no view to the rear) is this standard or has mine been miss wired.

[up1950s]

I really think it goes between the obs and the chair car .

EDIT , looked it up in a UP Streamliners book , the above is correct for the prototype .

[Bobsmr2]

thanks, I also found a photo of the M10000 at the 33 Chicago Worlds Fair and it does show the 4th car between the chair car and Observation car.

[up1950s]

Got mine today with the 2 add on cars . Hooked it all up , which is a pain , and all lights worked , and ran smoothly over a Kato double crossover forward and reverse to tangent track . Instead of pins they should have used additional magnets for inter-car continuity . In all but one case , the loco to coach , that would have been four instead of two magnets . That would have been soooooooooo much more easy than prying stubborn shells that are 360 degrees wrap around smooth between bolster to bolster . Sliding a blade the length of the shell is risky to the body paint should the blade or toothpick slip out .

[Nato]

  The Tail Car on this train and other early UP "Earthworm Streamliners" was a coach bufett car with a small galley in the sloped rear end. The ad on cars are sleeping cars, the old (reproduced )Railroad PR diagram in the train set shows the sleeper ahead of the coaches ,at the fair it seems to be on display with the sleeper next to the last in consist. The order doesn't matter anyway as the train ran in regular revenue service as the "City Of Salina" with the original two car and power car configuration. The next train M10001 "City Of Portland " had sleepers,but the power car was different,and after a transcontinental record brealing run was leingthened to have a larger diesel engine. So we can run this train any way we like if we add the extra cars. Nate Goodman (Nato).Salt Lake,Utah.

[up1950s]

I plan to run mine in the box . Pullmans are common to be in the later portion of a train , my guess is less noise and smoke/fumes . I boggles the bump on the top of my neck that Con-Cot got the assembly photo sdrawkcab ssa .