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MTH tooling? That's not N scale. Bummer
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The boxcabs were dead in tow. There was not enough power to run two joes and a boxcab set on the same section.The first picture the joes are back to back and the diesels are controlled by a separate MU system. (It involved a second control stand, they came up with it in the early 1960s there are many articles about it)As far as the subject line goes, as a milwaukee fan I was a little surprised this wasn't common knowledge.My favorite little trivia related to that is when they first MUed the Joe's with diesels it was with a single gp9 because the geep was better at starting from a stop.The gp9s were nicknamed sputniks!
I don’t think the boxcabs are dead in tow, the pantograph is up . I assume there are two engine crews.
Milwaukee Road "Little Joes" and boxcabs have a steel gang train near Newcomb, Montana (just outside of Butte) during July of 1973. Bob Wilt photo